#Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band

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The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts

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june 4, 1984

Bruce Springsteen releases the album Born In The U.S.A. The cover photo, showing Bruce posed in front of the American flag, gives many the wrong idea about the title track, which is about the struggles of a veteran returning home from the Vietnam War.

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Bruce Springsteen, in his smash hit single “Hungry Hearts”

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band || Amsterdam || May 27, 2023

Photographer: Rob DeMartin

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So while Al Pacino's right hip is his sassy gay side in the case of Bruce Springsteen it is his left side thus proving that these two are mirror twins separated at birth with one being raised in New York and the other in New Jersey in this essay I will...

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Garry Tallent Turns 75

A lot of talent has crossed E Street over the past five decades. But only one Tallent has been there since the beginning.

Born Oct. 27, 1949, E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent turns 75 today. And, as the only remaining original member besides Boss Bruce, he’s known as “the foundation of the E Street Nation.”

In fact, Tallent’s played only one less E Street gig than Springsteen, having skipped the Band’s 2020 “Saturday Night Live” appearance owing to his concerns about COVID-19 and travel.

Tallent’s recorded with Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle and the Highwaymen and produced such artists as Southside Johnny, Marshall Crenshaw, Steve Forbert and Gary U.S. Bonds.

So he can find other work. But it seems safe to say E Street will be home to Garry Tallent - extra consonants and all - until the end.

10/27/24

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 1988

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This Week On The Charts 11/29/1986: ‘Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band Live / 1975-85’ starts a 7 week run at No.1 on the album chart.

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Virginia Chamlee

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... listen to music ..

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Lost In the Flood (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London '75)

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august 13, 1975

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play the first of five sold-out shows at The Bottom Line in New York City. The shows help establish Springsteen as a great live performer and draw national attention.

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The funniest part about reading Bruce Springsteen‘s autobiography is that, despite, three full albums in at this point, several of which talking about cars, racing cars, wanting to fuck a car, my dude still does not have a license, can’t drive, and in fact, it’s a passenger princess.

Like, my dude is not driving at all and a few times he’s been forced to. He’s panicking the entire time lol.

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"CAN YOU FEEL THE SPIIIIIIIIRIT?"

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band playing "Spirit In the Night" at the Sea Hear Now Festival 2024.

Wonderfully, the almost 75 year old howls at the moon. Love him.

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Seventy-five Candles on E Street as Bruce Springsteen Hits Milestone Birthday

E Street is lit up as Bruce Springsteen turns 75 today.

Born Sept. 23, 1949, in the New Jersey that figures in so many of his albums and songs, Springsteen has showed his mortality the last couple of years with stomach and voice problems that led to canceled shows. But he came back and - as he did in his 50s and 60s - put on rock ‘n’ roll concerts that belie a man of his age despite the E Street Band having the phrase Viagra-takin’ added to its late-show honorific in recent years.

What’s there to say about the man known to the world as the Boss? Yes, he’s made some weak studio recordings, but he is nothing but strong on stage - one of the greatest performers rock music has yet produced.

Always a fan - though one who cooled after Born in the USA arrived - Sound Bites first saw the Boss and the Band at the 1995 Concert for the Hall of Fame in Cleveland where they opened with “Shake, Rattle and Roll;” played with Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry; and offered the most-moving rendition of “Darkness on the Edge of Town” the blog has ever heard.

Since then, Springsteen gigs - ESB or otherwise - have been won’t-miss affairs. And though the 2024 show in Ohio had a last-time feel to it, Springsteen also seemed ageless at 74 and Sound Bites hopes to see him a few more times before time does what it does.

9/23/24