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🎸Spreading the word of Bruce, because the world needs it now more than ever.

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#Springsteen tidbits…

Bruce was the likely inspiration for the chilling scene in Taxi Driver where Robert DeNiro looks in the mirror and repeatedly asks the question, “You looking at me?” DeNiro had watched Bruce do this bit on stage just a few days before he ad-libbed this scene. #filmsky
December 11, 2024 at 3:17 AM
#Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere begins filming in Asbury Park. Very cool to see a ferris wheel return to Asbury and Cats on a Smooth Surface (house band featuring Patti Scialfa) on the marquee at the Stone Pony! And Bruce himself visited the set at Frank’s Deli.
December 10, 2024 at 6:51 PM
In 2008, @rollingstone.com.web.brid.gy surveyed a bunch of current musicians for their choices of the best singers in history. Below are Bruce’s choices. Unlike people such as Courtney Love (who put herself #1) and Ozzie Osborne, Bruce did not put himself on the list.

FWIW, Bruce came in at 36
December 9, 2024 at 9:17 PM
After driving all night, Bruce slid down the open driver’s side door in utter exhaustion. She hopped in the front seat and cheerily exclaimed, “Come on, let’s go shopping, you can buy me some shoes!” A weary Bruce just smiled, wondering to himself, “was it all worth it?”

#springsteen
December 8, 2024 at 5:53 PM
🎷30 Day Song Challenge 🎸

Day 5: A song that needs to be played LOUD

I’ll give two on this one…

1. Murder Inc.
2. Burnin’ Train

#springsteen
December 6, 2024 at 4:19 PM
🎶 30 Day Song Challenge 🎶

Day 4: A song that reminds you of someone you’d rather forget

Bruce: Death to My Hometown

Non-Bruce: YMCA 🥴

Send the robber barons straight to hell
The greedy thieves who came around
And ate the flesh of everything they found
Whose crimes have gone unpunished now
December 4, 2024 at 4:51 PM
40 years ago this week, Billboard’s Top Rock Tracks. Some great songs on here. Two Jersey boys at 10 and 11. #springsteen #80s #musicsky
December 1, 2024 at 10:14 PM
30 Day Song Challenge

Day 1. A song you like with a color in the title

Tangled Up in Blue - Bob #Dylan
December 1, 2024 at 7:17 PM
“What I’ve gotten good at is being able to take a big story and tell it in three minutes.”

- Chuck Plotkin quoting Bruce #Springsteen as told to @hiattb.bsky.social. As Brian writes about Highway Patrolman, Bruce crams “a novel’s worth of narrative into five minutes and thirty-six seconds.”
December 1, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Thirty seven years ago, Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love surpasses Cherry Bomb by John Mellencamp to take over the top spot on Billboard’s top Album Rock Tracks chart.

#springsteen #bruce
November 28, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Bruce Springsteen visits the set of Deliver Me From Nowhere, the new film based on the book of the same name by Warren Zanes. The book and movie center around the period of time when Bruce is writing and recording the legendary album Nebraska.

#springsteen #bruce
November 27, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Bruce Springsteen visits Jeremy Allen White on the set of Deliver Me From Nowhere in Bayonne, NJ.

#springsteen

Photos by @justjared.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:53 PM
“And when the wind would blow, I had this phone booth that I used to stand in. And I used to call my girl, like for hours at a time, just talking to her all night long.”

#springsteen
November 27, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Bruce Springsteen pic of the day! I love this one of Bruce and the band in 2003 at the end of the Rising Tour at Shea Stadium (I was there!).

#springsteen
#estreetband
@leftylofgren.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 6:22 PM
The two GOATS of their respective professions.
November 22, 2024 at 7:27 PM
On this date in Bruce Springsteen history, Bruce is awarded our nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by @barackobama44th.bsky.social in a ceremony at the White House.

“I am the President, but he is The Boss.”

#springsteen #brucespringsteen
November 22, 2024 at 7:27 PM
On this date in 1974, Bruce plays at Camden County College in Blackwood, NJ. Not crazy about the depiction of Bruce here and I don’t know why there appear to be birds flying around his head, but an interesting poster nonetheless.
November 21, 2024 at 7:21 PM
November 21, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Ted Williams with the Senators
November 21, 2024 at 12:04 AM
On this date in 1978, Bruce and the band play the University of Illinois at Champaign as part of the Darkness tour.

Here’s a rave review in the local paper plus a letter to the editor from a rather humorless fellow who objected to Bruce being compared to Superman/God.

#springsteen
November 20, 2024 at 8:35 PM
The first ten songs at the Springsteen show tonight in Edmonton. An amazing first five songs out of the gate with the surprise opener being Spirit in the Night.
November 20, 2024 at 3:42 AM
On this date in Springsteen history….this very night, 53 years ago, Bruce performs at the Student Prince in Asbury Park, 11/19/1971. Wouldn’t you love to be transported back there for one night to see this show? I would.
November 19, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Bruce Springsteen on his 1992 custom chopped Harley Davidson. Photo by Annie Leibovitz.
November 19, 2024 at 5:59 PM
On this date in 1984, Bruce brings his Born in the USA tour to Lincoln, Nebraska - the first time he played the state since releasing the acclaimed album Nebraska in 1982. Bruce plays several songs from the album including the title track. Here’s a review of the show in the local paper.
November 19, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Amazing set list in Calgary last night beginning with an absolutely classic trio of songs
November 17, 2024 at 9:18 PM