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Down On The Boardwalk They're Gettin' Ready...

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  • 14-03-2009 12:16am
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    Dr. Nick
    Registered Users Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭


    'Live-ish' from Asbury park, NJ:

    Sorry for the late report today, the band didn't finish up til after 4 p.m. and then I had to go to work before I had a chance to get to a computer.

    Fun day in Asbury Park, a lot of great music and it was nice to see Patti Scialfa join the rehearsals.
    Today again was at the Paramount Theatre.

    Most of the E Streeters arrived after noon, everyone commented how great Soozie looked.
    Steve Van Zandt drove in and stopped and signed autographs and took pictures with the dozen or so fans waiting. Great job Stevie! Thank you. Steven also signed briefly on his way out today.
    Bruce and Patti arrived together at 12:50 p.m. They also had a dog with them today, a German Shepherd.
    As Bruce and Patti drove up the ramp, they both waved and smiled to the about 20 fans waiting, they did not stop though.

    The music started shortly after:

    1. Good Eye
    Bruce worked on the bullet mic and the harmonica parts a lot. At one point he even threw a line in there from "A Night with the Jersey Devil"
    "I was born 13th child, 'neath the 13th moon."
    He did not play any more of the Jersey Devil though.
    After about 20 minutes of tinkering about with it, they played it in full.

    2. Life Itself
    Real nice guitar work. They worked through different parts of the song a few times. I would assume that Bruce and Nils are the standouts on guitar here. Maybe Steven too.

    3. Kingdom of Days
    This was the "Wow!" song of the day. Some pedal steel at the start. You could hear Patti on the backup vocals.
    This is going to sound great live. At the end of the song, Bruce and Patti do a duet and as one fan today said "That was beautiful."
    They played it three times. This is my favorite song on the new album and it was great hearing it performed.

    4. Surprise, Surprise.
    They played it twice. Sounded pretty much like the album.

    They took a 20-minute or so break before coming back with

    5. Outlaw Pete
    Started up with a pedal-steel sounding instrument. Bruce worked on a few parts of it and then they played it twice.
    Sounded good. Will be powerful in concert.

    6. This Life
    They worked on the end "vocalizing" parts a few times. The parts I think sound like the Partridge Family. Others have said The Turtles.

    That was it for the day.
    Music ended around 4 p.m.

    Steven came out first and signed autographs for a few people.

    Bruce and Patti left together at about 4:25 p.m.
    They didn't stop to sign autographs but Bruce did drive slowly down the ramp and he waved and pointed to the about 30 fans waiting. A woman had two dogs on Patti's side of the car and she rolled down the window to see them.
    My friend Catherine was able to give Bruce a pendant she had for him and he rolled down his window a little bit and took it from her and said thank you.

    Jay Weinberg was there again today. So he could very well be Max's replacement when Max can't make it to shows.
    No Clarence today but he will be there next week.
    We believe Charlie Girodano was there, but no one saw him yesterday or today, unless someone saw him leave after I left today.

    About 30 fans around today. Security was great as usual.
    Cold day, the wind was strong at times down the boardwalk but listening to Bruce in Asbury Park make it all worth it.


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