“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.]
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!