Zito's Song of the Day

This and Shut Out the Light are the two most notable cases of Bruce self-editing verses. Think Stolen Car had an extra verse, also.

[video=youtube;Lrsfyj5khYI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrsfyj5khYI&feature=player_detailpage#t=1[/video]
 
Here's an Easter treat in keeping with the Bruce-friendly theme. This song opened the Charlotte show Saturday, the FIRST time it had ever been performed by E Street Band live. This is the Saturday version! (Ain't YouTube amazing?)

[video=youtube;g-6vB3DqvgU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-6vB3DqvgU&feature=player_detailpage#t=1[/video]
 
Amazing song, Bruce at his evangelical best from 2004 Sundance special. Any wonder why he was asked to play at Obama's inauguration?

For the unintiated,"Mary's Place" is a story of how you might handle it if a beloved friend simply disappeared on 9/11.

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I just discovered this gorgeous outtake of Racing in the Street: Roy on solo piano on what might be Bruce's most beautiful, and saddest, songs. Two lyric changes caught my ear -- the model of the car in the first verse, and a shocking lyric change at the end. Darkness on the Edge of Town, indeed.

[video=youtube;iRA7hyYbTf0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iRA7hyYbTf0#t=1[/video]
 
Not a huge bruce fan, just the hits please. Not a great voice, but a great performer. My step brother is a huge fan and his wife got them tickets to a show, he was one of the lucky ones a Springsteen rep found and moved up from the back of the venue to the very front. Apparently he does this for the people that bought the nosebleeds sometimes.
 
The hits are out there, even though he plays relatively few of them in any one concert. First, let me put this challenge to you: here is a song Bruce wrote, but his version has never surfaced and he's never played it with E Street. But his version exists, because Rockabilly legend Sonny Burgess heard it and asked Bruce if he could record it. He did, and here's Bruce joining him in concert. What I'm asking is this: doesn't this song sound like a hit in some genre? Springsteen's trash are other people's treasures.

[video=youtube;zPY4nX3nWLY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPY4nX3nWLY&feature=player_detailpage&list=RDzPY4nX3nWLY#t=4[/video]
 
Still writing and talking about this in Australia two months later...

[video]http://brucespringsteen.net/news/2014/more-highlights-from-australia[/video]
 
Stone Temple Pilots were SO-O-O-O close to being great, it's a damn shame. Just hope Weiland can stay clean so he doesn't wind up like Layne Staley.
 
Weiland has more than outlived Staley so he has that going for him. His problem is his ego. He's got a massive one. The reason Velvet Revolver split up was him wanting more money. STP was a weird ugly breakup.
 
I don't recall when I first heard that cover. But to me it's one of those covers that spoils anyone else's shot of covering a song and overshadows the original in the eyes of pretty much everyone. Such as All Along the Watchtower covered by Hendrix, I Fought the Law covered by the Clash, Jersey Girl covered by the Boss, Black Magic Woman by Santana, or Hurt by Cash. I know Hallelujah is like the most covered songs and others have released versions afterwards (with Rufus Wainwright's being the most notable) but JMO BUckley's version eclipses the others in so many ways.
 
Here's a Springsteen hit, but ... This was the first song on the first performance Bruce and E Street ever did overseas (London). Bruce recalls that the band arrangement wasn't there yet, so it was just he, Roy and Danny on stage. To me, this version is the one that captures the song in all its epic glory, before it became a sing-a-long and/or a cliche. Year was 1975, same year I graduated from high school, but I didn't hear this until a version came out on the Live CD.

[video=youtube;ypL7b6B0ZTE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypL7b6B0ZTE&feature=player_detailpage#t=4[/video]
 
Wanted so badly to go to Springsteen show in ATL Saturday night. Ended with Highway to Hell, but since we posted his first time playing it, we won't be redundant. Haven't found any great video from show yet, so instead here is video for new EP American Beauty, the title cut. He recorded this in Charlotte on the 19th before the show. Video seems to confirm Morello is an E Streeter in good standing, but this marginal song, given the full E Street treatment here, still rocks. Love Nils doing the slide guitar.

[video=youtube;JYMc4FkSObM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYMc4FkSObM&feature=player_detailpage#t=1[/video]
 
The Heartbreakers are the other bookend to my current music library. Don't know if this is TP's best song, but it never fails to get me movin'. Can't wait for their new album later this year; the last one was so damn good. Tried to upload the Soundstage version, but the copyright police have gotten involved.

[video=youtube;e25p0Y3Vd38]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e25p0Y3Vd38&feature=player_detailpage#t=3[/video]
 
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