“Is Bruce Springsteen about to follow the example of his good pal Bono and get his own Special Edition iPod?” Red Herring asks. “Even, as he once joked, he wouldn’t take the money.”
“Dunno. The ones who would know, of course, are Springsteen; Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Jon Landau, Springsteen’s longtime manager and record producer. And they’re not talking,” Red Herring reports. “Still, we find it revealing that Springsteen, Jobs and Landau were in the same place at the same time Saturday night in downtown San Jose.”
Red Herring reports, “The occasion was Springsteen’s two-and-a-half hour, Ramrod-rockin’ performance at HP Pavilion. (Bruce actually didn’t play ‘Ramrod,’ but he made up for it by including ‘Boss Time’ in a rousing ‘Glory Days’). Jobs and his wife, Laurene Powell, were spotted in the crowd below the right side of the stage, near E-Street band members ‘Professor’ Roy Bittan and ‘Sister’ Soozie Tyrell. A well-placed source said she also saw Landau, who does not attend many of Springsteen’s concerts, rockin’out nearby.”
Red Herring wonders, “Did the men discuss some business backstage before the show? Or were they there just to enjoy the ‘Magic’ of the night?”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
wow, that’s some ridiculous speculation.
how about a broken social scene special edition ipod. would be more popular in the demografic of the under 50 years old …
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Maybe and iPod “Human” Touch?
this can be filed in the trash next to the Madonna and yellow submarine iPods.
Jobs was seen near a bus driver last week . . .
Special Edition Public Transportation iPod
Jobs was spotted exiting his podiatrist’s office earlier this month . . .
Special Edition Foot Fetish iPod
Jobs was observed shopping for tofu at his favorite market yesterday . . .
Special Edition iPod with Songs about Famous Pescetarians, Organic Produce and Things that Begin with the Letter T.
I have absolutely no use for The Boss, but hey, why not? What would U2 be today without their own iPod? Worthless bums, that’s what.
let me guess, the Springsteen iPod comes with 2 or 3 good songs, but slowly, the more you listen to it, the more pathetic and derivative it gets until finally it is totally irrelevant and forgotten.
Holy crap! If this is true they had better make one for every single person in New Jersey and Philly because they LOVE him around here!
@ shen
lolz.
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@ Cubert
Didn’t they already buy the Journey iPods?
C1,
HAHAHAHA!
“Didn’t they already buy the Journey iPods?”
Yes, and all the G. Love and the Special Sauce models, too.
Springsteen’s record contract is a huge point of contention within SonyBMG. The last head of that music group lost his job in large part because of his personal involvement in getting Springsteen his $150mm deal. The company sees no way of recouping most of that money, nevermind making any profit. Springsteen doesn’t generate the massive record sales his contract necessitates and SonyBMG doesn’t get a cut from the singer’s touring income.
It would not surprise me if a Boss iPod is a way for the label to make some money off of the Springsteen catalog.
His music is mediocre, but he’s a good performer. The guy sold lots of records.
Big effin’ deal.
Maybe a BossPod will come with gen-U-ine New Jersey chemical plant fumes… just like we smell in Manhattan on certain windy days.
How about a Herbert von Karajan iPod? Or an Esa-Pekka Salonen Pod? He’s so much cooler than Springsteen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa-Pekka_Salonen
If the Apple deal falls through, and Sony/BMG ever hooks up with Micro$oft to do a ‘Bozz-Zune’, the only song they’d need on it is “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)”
Though I don’t listen to children’s music any more, I do have a lot of respect for “The Boss”. I think he’s a class act. His respect for all forms of well crafted music is well documented and appreciated.
I can just see it. The Boss iPod with E-Street shuffles.
Just my $0.02
“Live In Dublin” kicks ass. An incredible group of musicians, variations on a few of his songs, and covers of classic folk and blues. It was the first new Boss album I had bought since “Tunnel of Love”.
Hey shen…
You just NAILED the ENTIRE pop music formula.
ROFLMFAO!
Bravo!
Don’t most of his fans still listen to 8 tracks?
Shen:
If Springsteen is so irrelevant and forgotten why did I go to his concert? And use my connections to get into the pit, no less.
He’s worthy of a Special Edition Zune.
The comments here are a bit confusing. Are you saying he never was good, or that he is irrelevant now? If now, then I agree…he’s just a shadow of what he used to be. However, the guy could have quit in 1980 and would still be revered as one of the greats. Just go to youtube and look for a live version of “Prove it all night” from the late seventies. Holy moly! Perhaps the greatest rocker of all time, at least in that period. Also look for the live Hammersmith Odeon videos from 1975. WOW.
kerry Hale
I guess you weren’t at the shows in Anaheim.
most of you are morons. bruce pringsteen ipod… stupid. any musician ipod… stupid. bruce is one of the greatest lyrical song writers of all time , only taking a back seat to dylan and lennon. you don’t have to love his music but you have to respect him. his latest album magic has a heavy amount of talk about the war in iraq. a band like panic at the disco is writing the typical pop song. what does “relevance” mean to you?
Tom Morello,
I was trying to stick up for the guy, but oh well…
Has he rebounded a bit, of late? I saw some footage from a few shows from a couple of years ago, and it was a bit ho-hum. It seemed like the songs were actually SLOWER than the album versions. Everybody in the band looked like they were constipated, and couldn’t wait to finish.
If he’s rocking like the old days, that’s awesome.
Make it a yellow iPod. That is what this coward lib POS is .. a yellow belly not for hire.
Kerry Hale
The show in Anaheim on Monday was better than shows I saw over twenty years ago during the Born in the USA tour. If songs were slower than album versions on some video you saw that’s probably because Bruce tweaks his songs all the time. He doesn’t play the same version year after year. I can say I’ve probably heard five different versions of Thunder Road and all of them are good.
BTW, Tom Morello is the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine who came and played on an Electric Version of “The Ghost of Tom Joad” that was amazing. There is a video of it on YouTube but the audio and the picture are crap (it’s YouTube, so what else is new?) but it was a very cool moment during a great show.
Note to stryfe137– I don’t think Springsteen would be ranked behind Lennon as far as songwriters go. I can think of tons of Springsteen songs that lyrically obliterate anything Lennon penned.
Hope it’s a “touch”
Hey, maybe Steve will do a Kenny G Special Edition iPod. Woohoo!
The messages from the kids on here are funny – an interesting combination of uneducated, misinformed, and pompous. I LOVE MACS!