The tickets for Munich are hanging on the fridge, difficult to come by and VERY expensive. If I knew anyone who wanted them, I'd sell them at half-price. I can hardly believe I'd come to this, but I just don't care anymore about Bruce - (at least not a lot).
I looked if he had commented on the death of Jeff Beck and David Crosby and couldn't find anything. Really? Or did I overlook it? With all the interviews he's given these last months, he seems to be firmly on the road to self-glorification.
I’d like to go to Munich again, but only to practice my German - I’ve been attending an evening course - but sorry, no way I’d be doing £££££ to see Bruce. 😕
If I was a good student I’d have tried that in Deutsch!
If I coud, I'd swap one set of tickets for Taylor Swift. I never imagined I'd say this, but apparently I am going trough a midlife crisis, so I beg your pardon.... It will pass, I've been told...
I've been trying to gather the courage to come here to say exactly this. I have seen both Jason Isbell and Lucinda Williams recently and I was blown away by their music and them. Their honesty, their love for the music are inspiring and a reminder of what first led me to Bruce.
Bruce's last 10 years, apart from the wonderful Western Stars, have been one big disappointment for me. But the worst part isn't the bad music or the self mythologising bullshit, it's how he just doesn't seem to care anymore.
I found myself thinking about Spare Parts the other day. How that woman was still holding on to an idealised memory of a fiancé that was never really coming back because the son of a bitch left her when things got hard. The way that song ends, with the woman going to the pawn shop with her wedding dress and engagement ringing and walking out with some "good cold cash" that she could, I imagine, spend on things to give her child comfort, is inspiring.
I am selling my Edinburgh tickets. I once drove for 14 straight hours to go see him and now he's playing 10 minutes away from me, I've got tickets, and I don't want to go.
I can only hope I will again be able to enjoy the music that once meant so much to me.
I think I am guilty of not thinking too hard about him any more as I want to still enjoy his music and his shows, but I have this niggling anxiety that by the end of July I might be regretting the money I have spent and be saying no more.
I can't imagine I will ever find another artist who means as much to me as Bruce and this maybe why I am hanging on in there.
To put me in a better frame of mind, I played LTY yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it, so there's still hope!
Seen both Isbell & Williams on their most recent tours too. As I said elsewhere on here, I doubt I’ll see a better band than Buick 6 + Doug backing up Lu this year.
I’ll go further.
On any given night you put a Springsteen pit ticket and either an Isbell or Williams ticket in front of me and I’d have to think hard about passing up on Isbell. The Williams option would be a no brainer, not a shadow of a doubt.
The ‘self-mythologising bullshit’ phrase fits the recently released toast to the band video to a tee. So lucky the spontaneity was captured from multiple angles, huh?
Personally, if the Edinburgh ticket was the only one I had I’d be going along. However, I’m in the very privileged position of having tix for 8 shows, but got caught up in the Festickets collapse as I purchased Hyde Park night 1 thru them. Tbf BST have been pretty good about it, making available like-for-like replacement tickets for purchase, and Amex gave me a full reimbursement. If it wasn’t for the fact there are 3 of us going and my mates are still up for it, rather than just myself, I’d be letting it pass and pocketing the refund.……
Haven’t listened to a record all the way thru for a long time. Months. Never did get to the end of the soul thing. I really tried, honest.
I’m keeping everything crossed when they walk out onto that stage all the shit of the $$$$ and a couple of indifferent records will fall away and the shows will be redemptive. Else I’m going to regret going big on this tour.
I've always gone through periods where I don't listen to Bruce.
I've also gone through periods wondering what will bring me back... especially waiting for new albums, wondering if this will finally be the album that does nothing for me. And yet, by some miracle, the dude always produces at least one track that within one or two listens I know I can't live without.
I'd insert a clip of Stevie's classic '...they drag me back in' schtick from the Sopranos here if I wasn't too wobbly to do so.
I never fall out of love with Bruce, never will. My obsessive fandom is just hibernating from time to time....
I felt the urge to listen to the Belfast Joad tour this morning, and the musuc overwhelmed me once again....
He is like a Dad to me. Mistakes and bad decisions are a part of life. Acceptance is the word I'm trying to get across.
The tickets for Munich are hanging on the fridge, difficult to come by and VERY expensive. If I knew anyone who wanted them, I'd sell them at half-price. I can hardly believe I'd come to this, but I just don't care anymore about Bruce - (at least not a lot).
I looked if he had commented on the death of Jeff Beck and David Crosby and couldn't find anything. Really? Or did I overlook it? With all the interviews he's given these last months, he seems to be firmly on the road to self-glorification.
Well, it was good while it lasted... 😓
If I coud, I'd swap one set of tickets for Taylor Swift. I never imagined I'd say this, but apparently I am going trough a midlife crisis, so I beg your pardon.... It will pass, I've been told...
I've been trying to gather the courage to come here to say exactly this. I have seen both Jason Isbell and Lucinda Williams recently and I was blown away by their music and them. Their honesty, their love for the music are inspiring and a reminder of what first led me to Bruce.
Bruce's last 10 years, apart from the wonderful Western Stars, have been one big disappointment for me. But the worst part isn't the bad music or the self mythologising bullshit, it's how he just doesn't seem to care anymore.
I found myself thinking about Spare Parts the other day. How that woman was still holding on to an idealised memory of a fiancé that was never really coming back because the son of a bitch left her when things got hard. The way that song ends, with the woman going to the pawn shop with her wedding dress and engagement ringing and walking out with some "good cold cash" that she could, I imagine, spend on things to give her child comfort, is inspiring.
I am selling my Edinburgh tickets. I once drove for 14 straight hours to go see him and now he's playing 10 minutes away from me, I've got tickets, and I don't want to go.
I can only hope I will again be able to enjoy the music that once meant so much to me.
Haven’t listened to a record all the way thru for a long time. Months. Never did get to the end of the soul thing. I really tried, honest.
I’m keeping everything crossed when they walk out onto that stage all the shit of the $$$$ and a couple of indifferent records will fall away and the shows will be redemptive. Else I’m going to regret going big on this tour.
I've always gone through periods where I don't listen to Bruce.
I've also gone through periods wondering what will bring me back... especially waiting for new albums, wondering if this will finally be the album that does nothing for me. And yet, by some miracle, the dude always produces at least one track that within one or two listens I know I can't live without.
I'd insert a clip of Stevie's classic '...they drag me back in' schtick from the Sopranos here if I wasn't too wobbly to do so.