Happy B-Day Bruce

[Informed Info]

I went to a Bruce concert at Veterans Stadium when I was 16.

I loved Bruce.

At the time.

The concert was more than disappointing.

Dude can't sing to save his life.

[Informed Info]

Originally Posted by Retriever

Like you, I've only been to one of his concerts, circa 1978 at the old Academy of Music on 14th Street.
He and his band were truly fantastic. That venue, however, was drug-infested pit.

So was the inside and outside of Veterans Stadium circa 1986.

Bruce was a huge disappointment and I was a wide-eyed teen who thought he was the best...

Band was great.

[Hannah5555]

You people were expecting Tony Bennett? This was rock and roll at its finest. smh.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Hannah5555

You people were expecting Tony Bennett? This was rock and roll at its finest. smh.

^ HAHAHA, couldn't rep you again.

[Hannah5555]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

^ HAHAHA, couldn't rep you again.

Thanks !

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Hannah5555

You people were expecting Tony Bennett? This was rock and roll at its finest. smh.

Maybe Frank Sinatra. He had a better voice than Tom Waits.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Gerania

Maybe Frank Sinatra. He had a better voice than Tom Waits.

I was never impressed with Old Blue Eyes at all.

I think of him when I remember the day of the big blackout when the grid went out (2003?) I was in a meeting in Manhattan when we lost power and had to walk down 11 flights. Most of us in the room were people who had gotten out of the WTC on 9/11, and the meeting had just been a presentation by a proposer for security at the NJ ports, so we were talking about potential ways to track terrorists and/or bombs in shipping containers, and then the lights went out. I remember feeling a little squitschy at first.

Anyway, made my way to the river AGAIN, and got a ferry that took me to the northern end of Hoboken. By then it was dark, and it was very hot, and I had to walk through the streets of Hoboken to go south to Hoboken Terminal, and I remember somebody playing VERY LOUD Sinatra tunes as I made my way through the streets.

Give me that other Jersey son, Count Basie.

[Gerania]

Frank, among others, remind me of my parents. Dad and I used to watch old movies together. I heard a lot of old music there.

Take Me to the River? Hot, tired, and Sinatra isn't a good mix.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Gerania

Frank, among others, remind me of my parents. Dad and I used to watch old movies together. I heard a lot of old music there.

Take Me to the River? Hot, tired, and Sinatra isn't a good mix.

Ah, just like I remember "Sing along with Mitch (Miller)". My mother used to play that record.

Nice to have musical connections to good memories.

[G1..]

Bruce at his best...............


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4pSt4kie8