I'm not sure if the stories and music are just that extra touch special on this release, or if something has changed in my life, but I can't get over how much I love this concert.
No, there's something in this. GOTJ has always been amongst my least listened to albums. (Aside from the studio version of Across The Border, which is utterly magnificent and still unequalled live IMHO). It's always been a very specific mood, and I guess I'm not often enough in the mood for it. I've always appreciated it more as a work of artistic expression, rather than something I am truly emotionally invested in (and it's the only Bruce album that strikes me that way).
But this show... I finally get it. I don't know what it is... the performances themselves, the way they are sequenced and framed by the back catalogue material. I don't know, there is something visceral going on here.
Having said that, you are a youngling. I envy you. Well, I envy anyone young to some degree, but I envy the fact that you will grow to love and appreciate various Bruce records at different stages in your life and hear things you never heard, understood, or felt from the music before. His ability to synthesise the human experience into song, and to do it in a way whereby he reflects his current lifetime experience at any point in his career, means you will discover depths in especially his latter music you could never truly feel or understand earlier.
Whenever Bruce talks about The Grapes of Wrath, he always references the John Ford film. It's a wonderful film, but I wonder if Bruce ever got around to reading the beautiful book.
I'm so fully onboard with Nugs releasing as many Joad shows as they can. Something has struck me listening to this one over the weekend that's made me crave more and more. The intimacy of the music, the tenderness of Bruce's stories. I love it and I want it all.
I don't listen to Joad much, and spend my time playing full band live shows. Listening to the rest of this now, sitting in awe, I'm thinking that's related to why I'm enjoying this experience more than Anaheim, Greenvale and Nassau. And oh did I enjoy them!
What I love about Joad album, but even more so about each show, is his humanity oozing from the music. The magic of Joad is that his brilliant meditations are both so sad and so beautiful at the same time. The themes are depressing, but I never feel sad listening. I feel nourished. Hard to explain...
I remember him in his high waisted work pants and then the slicked back hair. I stood that night outside the Wiltern hoping for tickets. It was hopeless, and then moments later it wasn't. May this be an example of god's will in the positive sense....
The show I saw, and then two weeks later this one, is dark, unrelenting, a hard truth of the demons that live inside our selves, and then the beast of the amerikkkan ecconomy. How this rich hard land extracts so much from the powerless, and the poor, enriching those who will forget our names when the time is right.
I'm not sure if the stories and music are just that extra touch special on this release, or if something has changed in my life, but I can't get over how much I love this concert.
Whenever Bruce talks about The Grapes of Wrath, he always references the John Ford film. It's a wonderful film, but I wonder if Bruce ever got around to reading the beautiful book.
I'm so fully onboard with Nugs releasing as many Joad shows as they can. Something has struck me listening to this one over the weekend that's made me crave more and more. The intimacy of the music, the tenderness of Bruce's stories. I love it and I want it all.
I always think it's gonna take days and days when I post something like that ^
Maybe someday I'll try that and see what the reaction is, haha
https://cantfindtickets.wordpress.com/2022/02/06/new-from-the-springsteen-archive-december-9th-1995-upper-darby-pa-tower-theatre/
Sorry if you've been waiting on the review, I'm going to need a little bit longer with this one. Hope to have it published soon.
Did he play Dead Man Walkin' on the Joad tour? I'm, sure he did, but can't recall.
I'm gonna need a show with that underrated beauty.
I don't listen to Joad much, and spend my time playing full band live shows. Listening to the rest of this now, sitting in awe, I'm thinking that's related to why I'm enjoying this experience more than Anaheim, Greenvale and Nassau. And oh did I enjoy them!
What I love about Joad album, but even more so about each show, is his humanity oozing from the music. The magic of Joad is that his brilliant meditations are both so sad and so beautiful at the same time. The themes are depressing, but I never feel sad listening. I feel nourished. Hard to explain...
I remember him in his high waisted work pants and then the slicked back hair. I stood that night outside the Wiltern hoping for tickets. It was hopeless, and then moments later it wasn't. May this be an example of god's will in the positive sense....
The show I saw, and then two weeks later this one, is dark, unrelenting, a hard truth of the demons that live inside our selves, and then the beast of the amerikkkan ecconomy. How this rich hard land extracts so much from the powerless, and the poor, enriching those who will forget our names when the time is right.
Great show. My god.
Only just hit play.
Fuck man, in this setting "The Ghost of Tom Joad" might his greatest song.