#roybittan

[lordthorgorath]

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#brucespringsteen - #bornintheusa #karaoke #cover #livemusic #brucespringsteenandtheestreetband #heartlandrock #blues #garrytallent #thrashmetal #blackmetal #grindcore #heavymetal #hardcorepunk #punkrock #extrememetal #roybittan #maxweinberg #hippie #music #pattisciafa #counterculture #420 #rocknroll #hardrock #speedmetal #metal #rockmusic #bornintheusaalbum #bornintheusa🇺🇸 (at Happy Hours) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPKW0tsJp-o/?utm_medium=tumblr

[longtimegoneart]

Happy birthday to Bruce Springsteen, born 23 September 1949. #brucespringsteen #theriver #roybittan #clarenceclemons #dannyfederici #garrytallent #stevevanzandt #maxweinberg #floandeddie #80smusic #80srock #heartlandrock #onthisdayinmusic #albumart #albumcovers #vinyl #artonpaper #brushpen #watercolour (at Power Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUI4wW4MLWS/?utm_medium=tumblr

[pointer8708]

#petergabriel2 #scratch #petergabriel #robertfripp #tonylevin #roybittan #larryfast #jerrymarotta #sidmcginnis #bayeté #toddcochran #timcappello #georgemarge #johntims #tonycousins #realworld Any Peter Gabriel is amazing and any fan of Peter knows it so. This beautifully produced album by #kingcrimson ‘s Robert Fripp, with his great guitar playing makes this record so unique and edgy. #diy is my jam in every way. He has, what I believe is Bruce Springsteen’s piano player , Roy Bittan’s finest work on #motherofviolence . Peter’s quiet side shines through on #indigo . Peter is blistering blissful live, as he is the one artist who can lay on his audience and be carried on top of the crowd in this mesmerizing trance . Yeah he’s that good live! Like how cleverly this art sound …that good Enjoy (at Hollywood Hills) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQh9x1tnJxd/?utm_medium=tumblr

[heavypedia]

Bat Out of Hell, é o álbum de estréia de Meat Loaf e foi lançado no dia 21 de Outubro de 1977. . . . . . . . . {Tags: #MeatLoaf #BatOutOfHell #ToddRundgren #KasimSulton #RoyBittan #JimSteinman #RogerPowell #EdgarWinter #MaxWeinberg #JohnWilcox #UKAlbumsChart #Billboard200 #Rock #HardRock #BluesRock #GlamRock #ProgressiveRock #PowerPop #Metal #HeavyMetal #1970s #70s #1970sMusic #1970sRock #70sMusic #70sRock #WilliamWayne #Heavypédia #Heavypedia #NaçãoRoqueira} https://www.instagram.com/p/CGnAFAsAOr8/?igshid=dsg6xc0deh3b

[minstrel75itg]

“It’s not the side effects of the cocaine. I’m thinking that it must be love. It’s ‘too late’ to be grateful. It’s ‘too late,’ to be late again!” #davidbowie #stationtostation #carlosalomar #roybittan #theseventies #emirecords #virgincd https://www.instagram.com/p/CF0cK3klytv/?igshid=18gdogf9ovjwy

[nasu-no-hana]

David Bowie / Station to Station (1976) 3CD Box set : cd1 Original Album cd2 and cd3 LiveNassauColiseum'76 (2010) #DavidBowie – vocals, guitar, tenor and alto saxophone, Minimoog, Mellotron #CarlosAlomar – guitar #RoyBittan – piano, organ #DennisDavis – drums #GeorgeMurray – bass guitar #WarrenPeace – backing vocals #EarlSlick – guitar #HarryMaslin – melodica, synthesizer, vibraphone produced by David Bowie and Harry Maslin #cdcollection #coverart #albumart #album #nowplaying #nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcollection #musiccollection #lp #rock #artrock #glamrock #funk #soul #EMIRecords #1976 #宮古島 #coffee #コーヒー #cat #猫 (宮古島) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_EsQXrJvfl/?igshid=14tseer4q26yt

[gerosarecords]

Happy Birthday Roy Bittan #gerosarecords #recordshop #recordstore #cratedigger #recordshopping #vinyl #vinyrecords #instavinyl #vinylcommunity #LP #vinyljunkie #recordcollector #vinylcollector #roybittan (at Gerosa Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzbLq4-pe0w/?igshid=1es5u2uj4j8z2

[record-reserve]

Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna (1981 Modern) #stevienicks #daveyjohnstone #benmonttench #mikecampbell #waddywachtel #roybittan #loriperry #sharoncelani #jimmyiovine #record #vinyl #donaldduckdunn #tompetty #stanlynch #donhenley #donfelder (at Northport, New York) https://www.instagram.com/recordreserve/p/BxVnn9uH78x/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yq2cpyoc75e1

[rockstargallery]

Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run Hand signed by Bruce Springsteen, Clarence Clemons, “Miami” Steven Van Zandt, Danny Federici, Max Weinberg, Garry W. Tallant, Roy Bittan. https://rockstargallery.net/framed-signed-album/bruce-springsteen/bruce-springsteen-born-run-2/ #BruceSpringsteen #ClarenceClemons #StevenVanZandt #DannyFederici #MaxWeinberg #GarryTallant #RoyBittan #borntorun #signedalbums #rockstargallery https://www.instagram.com/p/BvMaazLlKjw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l7qeov9euk3y

[thescreendoormusic]

The soundtrack for my afternoon errands on this snowy Friday. The final show of the reunion tour with the E Street Band that somehow I managed to get a ticket to. At Madison Square Garden. In New York City. Me. Alone. It was magical and stood as the best Bruce show I ever saw until St. Louis 2008. It's still one of the 25 best shows I've ever seen by anyone. Somehow they've released two official bootlegs of shows that I have attended. I pinch myself when I think about it. A large portion of this show was released in 2001 as LIVE IN NEW YORK city on cd and DVD. This is the full unedited show. #brucespringsteen #brucespringsteenandtheestreetband #estreetband #springsteen #newyorkcity #madisonsquaregarden #stevevanzandt #pattiscialfa #dannyfederici #roybittan #maxweinberg #clarenceclemons #nilslofgren #bloodbrothers

[pauls4thoughts]

Film Review: ‘Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock ‘N Roll’

The coastal New Jersey enclave of Asbury Park was pinned firmly to the pop-cultural map upon the release of Bruce Springsteen’s debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ, in 1973. 

Frontloaded with testimony from Springsteen himself, in his role as rock’s plain-spoken elder statesman, ‘Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock 'N' Roll' is a documentary from director Tom Jones. who does a haphazard job of digging around the region in a bid to uncover how his sound – and a wider Asbury scene – emerged. 

Trailing some distance behind Bruce's 2016 autobiography Born to Run and the stage show Springsteen on Broadway, there’s little doubt that what much of the audience will be hoping for from this documentary is Bruce, the whole Bruce and nothing but the Bruce. 

The film satisfies a good portion of that craving with its illumination of the club scene that formed the star’s early musical life, but Springsteen gradually becomes less of the focus in a doc that nobly aims to tell the story of a New Jersey seaside town’s rise, instant fall and very gradual comeback through the prism of music.

The middle portion of the film could be subtitled “Born to Be Run Down,” or maybe “Blinded by the Blight.” Ironically enough, Asbury Park’s trajectory became pretty much the exact opposite of Springsteen’s, right about the time he made both of them jointly famous. 

The film’s most useful feature is its opening history of an area that served as a genuine East Coast melting pot: the only spot along the Jersey shore where African Americans could bathe in public – partly, it transpires, as the sea met the county’s sewage output there. 

That laissez-faire party-town air has traditionally accounted for the utopian mix of white and black musicians within Springsteen’s E Street Band, yet, as many of those performers testify here, their early recordings were born out of the July 1970 unrest that turned neighbours against one another, and were aimed at restoring unity to a divided community. 

I left “Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock ‘N Roll” wishing there was just a bit more of Springsteen’s own latter-day relationship with the area incorporated into the film. 

But you’ve got to admit that, as story arcs go, between Bruce and Asbury Park, the town has the more dramatic one.Springsteen once had an instrumental track called “Paradise by the C,” and whether or not he had Asbury Park in mind when he came up with it, the city certainly is made to sound paradisiacal for much of its existence, at least for anyone with a fondness for the intermingling of black and white music forms. 

Asbury Park literally had a right and wrong side of the railroad tracks, with the end of town closer to its seaside attractions being the privileged one. Yet, as Springsteen and several past and present members of the E Street Band tell it on camera, white kids felt fine going to see jazz greats like Kenny Burrell and Grant Green at the Orchid Lounge on the predominantly black west side in the ’60s, and black kids went east to join the rock bands playing original music in the all-ages Upstage club. 

Director Tom Jones has done such a good job of painting Asbury Park as a rock-meets-soul heaven on earth that it comes as perhaps more of a jolt than it should when the film gets to Asbury Park’s nationally news-making riots in 1970. 

A lot of the city’s residents who hadn’t taken up instruments apparently never got the all-is-harmonious memo, and fostering resentments resulted in burning businesses, with the poorer west side being hit hardest — the film says 75 percent of the retail space on Springwood Ave. burned or closed down and never came back. 

The movie isn’t quite sure how to treat this imbalance of fates. However, it can’t just be false hopes fueling a sound as warm as the E Street Band’s or Joe Grushecky’s or “I Don’t Wanna Go Home,” the Steven Van Zandt-written, Southside Johnny-performed anthem that inevitably plays out in full over the closing credits.

Without any footage of Bruce's original band Steel Mill to work with, director Jones intercuts all these expert witnesses in a way that does a surprisingly effective job of making you get the gist anyway. 

And it doesn’t hurt that Springsteen is being interviewed in the dilapidated remnants of the Upstage, vacant for 48 years now. The movie’s last post-credits shot is a poignant one of the star coming down the creaky stairs, saying, “Last man out. … Time for something new.”

[lordthorgorath]

#brucespringsteen - #bornintheusa #karaoke #cover #livemusic #brucespringsteenandtheestreetband #heartlandrock #blues #garrytallent #thrashmetal #blackmetal #grindcore #heavymetal #hardcorepunk #punkrock #extrememetal #roybittan #maxweinberg #hippie #music #pattisciafa #counterculture #420 #rocknroll #hardrock #speedmetal #metal #rockmusic #bornintheusaalbum #bornintheusa🇺🇸 (at Happy Hours) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPKWbB_JqVu/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Born In The U.S.A 2013 @springsteen @columbiarecords #brucespringsteen #brucespringsteenfans #brucespringsteenandtheestreetband #bornintheusa #houtanuk_musicandlife #liveinlondon #queenelizabetholympicpark #hardrockcalling2013 #hardrockcallingfestival #london #england #unitedkingdom #rockmusic #columbiarecords #roybittan #charlesgiordano #nilslofgren #garrytallent #soozietyrell #stevenvanzandt #maxweinberg #theestreethorns #theestreetchoir #adelespringsteen #pamelaspringsteen #legend #musician #telecaster #americanmusician #2013 (at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-jVEqpjqnR/?igshid=1vuhsxtstrdrl

[hookist]

Yup. @Regrann from @lucinda_williams - #Repost @ronny_vegas ・・・ Celebrating 20 years of #carwheelsonagravelroad. I remember this album, along with #worldwithouttears, as the only things I listened to for a year when I got hooked on #lucindawilliams. Tonight she brought out with her the co-producers of this album, #roybittan from the #estreetband, and #steveearle, who both played alongside her band #buick6. Loved hearing this album played in order in its entirety. @lucinda_williams has such a way with lyrics and phrasing, no one else sounds like her, really special night. #countrymusic #altcountry #outlawcountry #folkmusic #rockmusic #songwriter #americanamusic #concertpotography #livemusic #nycmusic #drunkenangel (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp6_j1mA_Gy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6ab60jmlrhvf

[heavypedia]

The River, é o 5° álbum de estúdio de Bruce Springsteen e foi lançado no dia 17 de Outubro de 1980. . . . . . . . . {Tags: #BruceSpringsteen #TheRiver #TheEStreetBand #EStreetBand #ClarenceClemons #RoyBittan #DannyFederici #GarryTallent #SteveVanZandt #MaxWeinberg #FloAndEddie #HowardKaylan #MarkVolman #UKAlbumsChart #Billboard200 #Rock #RockNRoll #RockAndRoll #1980s #80s #1980sMusic #1980sRock #80sMusic #80sRock #WilliamWayne #Heavypédia #Heavypedia #NaçãoRoqueira} https://www.instagram.com/p/CGdIZHWgobr/?igshid=1k1a48nbkyunx

[minstrel75itg]

Darkness on the Edge of Town is the fourth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released on June 2, 1978. The album marked the end of a three-year gap between albums brought on by contractual obligations and legal battling with former manager Mike Appel. It remains one of Springsteen's most highly regarded records by both fans and critics. My copy is on Columbia Records/CBS - JC 35318. #rockandroll #70s #brucespringsteen #clarenceclemons #dannyfederici #roybittan #garytallent #stevevanzandt #maxweinberg #theseventies https://www.instagram.com/p/CCRCcLDlT6D/?igshid=l32md24zsqeb