#Roy Bittan

[tryinginvaintobreathethefire]

pictures of the e street band that make them look like an intricately tangled polycule

[zeroaddzero]

Lawsuit tour, Boston Music Hall, 1977

[brucequeensteen]

It's Hard to Be a Saint In the City — Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, November 18 1975

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round Two

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 

Defeated opponents: Prince and The Revolution

Formed in: 1972

Genres: Rock, rock and roll 

Lineup: Bruce Springsteen – lead vocals, guitars, harmonica, keyboards

Clarence Clemons – backing vocals; tenor, baritone, and soprano saxophones; percussion

Garry Tallent – backing vocals, bass

Roy Bittan – piano, accordion, keyboards

Danny Federici – backing vocals, organ, accordion, electronic glockenspiel

Max Weinberg – drums, percussion

Nils Lofgren – backing vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, accordion

Patti Scialfa – harmony and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizers

Albums from the 80s: 

The River (1980)

Born in the U.S.A. (1984)

Live 1975/85 (1986)

Tunnel of Love (1987)

Propaganda: When you think of American rock in the 80s, you think of Bruce. And Bruce made the majority of his best music with the E Street Band.

Depeche Mode 

Defeated opponents: Anthrax

Formed in: 1980

Genres: Synth-pop, electronic rock, new wave, dark wave, alternative rock

Lineup: Dave Gahan - vocals

Martin Gore - guitar and keyboard

Alan Wilder - drums and keyboard

Andy Fletcher - bass

Albums from the 80s: 

Speak & Spell (1981)

 A Broken Frame (1982)

Construction Time Again (1983)

Some Great Reward (1984)

Black Celebration (1986)

Music for the Masses (1987)

Propaganda: The music. The LOOKS. The voice. (The sexual tension?) And they’re still going strong. My colleague saw them in the UK when they were only starting out and said they were so nervous. I find the juxtaposition of the confidence of their sound (not to mention the black leather) and that anecdote really endearing.

Visual propaganda for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band:

Visual propaganda for Depeche Mode:

[nadja-antipaxos]

Bruce falling off the speakers and no one panics during “Rosalita”, The River Tour, Tempe, 1980.

[tambourineophelia]

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

by Frank Stefanko, 1978

[seethesound]

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 1988

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

[mychameleondays]

Bruce Springsteen: Born In The USA

CBS 86304, 1985

Originally released: June 4, 1984

[magicalonsomanydances]

"You're born with nothing

And better off that way

As soon as you got something

They send someone to take it away"

[nervoussystemmusicreverence]

Peter Gabriel - White Shadow

Music

Music Video

Artist

Peter Gabriel

Composer

Peter Gabriel

Lyricist

Peter Gabriel

Produced

Robert Fripp

Credit

Peter Gabriel – Vocals, synthesizer Robert Fripp – Electric guitar, acoustic guitar Tony Levin – Bass guitar Roy Bittan – Keyboards Larry Fast – Synthesizer, treatments Jerry Marotta – Drums Sid McGinnis – Steel guitar

Released

June 2 1978

Streaming

[mitjalovse]

Some missed music opportunities are present in the most obvious form possible, if you catch my drift. For instance, you heard the cases of some songs being meant for someone and because the latter rejected them, they became hits for someone else. Some of these situations eventually turn nasty, though this was not the case with Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith. The story goes that Bruce struggled with the tune on the link, so he gave the piece to Patti Smith who transformed the song into one of the most anthemic expressions of love, so even Mr. Springsteen covered his own composition with her lyrics later on as an admission of Smith's greatness. To be honest, I still think Smith made a better version of his ditty, she locates a certain ferociousness Springsteen only hints at.

[the-crack-in-the-bell]

the e street band are like the aristocats to me. no i will not elaborate

[julio-viernes]

Buenas noticias para los seguidores del rock clásico. Ian Hunter, ex líder de Mott The Hoople y una de las mayores leyendas que quedan vivas en el rock, ha anunciado la reedición ampliada de dos de sus primeros discos, “You’re Never Alone With a Schizophrenic”  de 1979, uno de sus trabajos más brillantes, y “Short Back n’ Sides” de 1981, los dos en octubre. A sus 85 años, Hunter es uno de los grandes supervivientes del gran rock. Sigue publicando buenos discos y haciendo grandes conciertos, como el que tuvimos la suerte de ver en 2017 en Madrid.

“Schizophrenic”, fue su cuarto álbum en solitario, incluyó los sencillos “Just Another Night” y “Cleveland Rocks”, y ahora va a salir en doble CD y en doble vinilo verde con rarezas, etc. Acompañaron a Hunter en este disco Mick Ronson, John Cale, Roy Bittan, Max Weinberg y Garry Tallent.

No le salió tan bien la cosa en su quinto LP “Short Back ´N Sides”, pero fue el disco de “Central Park ‘n’ West” y la grandiosa “Old Records Never Die”, un trabajo de tendencia más new wave con singles pop como “Lisa Likes Rock and Roll”. Esta vez le apoyaron Ronson de nuevo, parte de los Clash, Mick Jones, Topper Headon, su colega Tymon Dogg y la novia de Jones por entonces, Ellen Foley, la mujer que cantó en “Bat Out Of Hell” de Meat Loaf.

[nadja-antipaxos]

Look at this slut (affectionate).

[krispyweiss]

Sound Bites’ Calculations Say Roy Bittan, Professor of E Street, Turns 75 Today

If Sound Bites’ math is correct, the E Street Band’s resident Professor, Roy Bittan, turns 75 today.

Born July 2, 1949, the keyboardist has been a mainstay of Bruce Springsteen’s band(s) since 1974; the parenthetical plural referring to the fact Professor Bittan was the only E Streeter to remain with the Boss while the main band was on hiatus.

Bittan also played on Meat Loaf’s Bat out of Hell, but whether his presence contributed to producer Todd Rundgren’s impression that the album was a Springsteen parody is unknown.

Though E Street is his home, Bittan has worked as a visiting Professor for such acts as David Bowie, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Bob Seger and others.

But the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, love-making, earth-quaking, Viagra-taking, justifying, death-defying, legendary E Street Band is Bittan’s home.

7/2/24