SKeveryday

Writer. Reader. Music lover. I have opinions.

[SKeveryday @ChangeOfHabits]

Psssst. Your racism is showing, Mike.

[Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett]

(AP) House Speaker Mike Johnson denies request for Rev. Jesse Jackson to lie in honor in US Capitol

[SKeveryday @ChangeOfHabits]

@JVMonte2 Matchbox 20 at Schuba’s.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

How fucking short do these people think our memory’s are? My GOD.

[Spring-Nuts @SpringNuts_]

Great Review at the @springsteen Born To Run Symposium today by @Stan_Goldstein @BruceArchives

Wow! It was an embarrassment of riches!!!! This was a once-in-a-lifetime event and a privilege to witness it.

Capped off by a performance by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing “Thunder Road” and “Born to Run” at the “Born to Run 50th Anniversary Symposium” at the Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University today.

This is going to be very, very long because there is so much to write about.

After lunch, our phones were locked up so there are no pictures or videos of the panels Bruce was on or the performance. However, it was professionally filmed and hopefully it will be able to be seen when the archives opens next year.

I'm not even sure where to start. I'll start with the end, which was Bruce Springsteen backed by Little Steven, Garry Tallent, Roy Bittan, Max Weinberg, David Sancious, Ernest "Boom" Carter and Ed Manion closing the eight-hour-plus event with awesome performances of "Thunder Road" and "Born to Run" in a 700-seat theater!

“I always wanted to say this — Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band!” said Bob Santelli, executive director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music, before Bruce and the band played.

I will look it up, but I believe it's the first time Boom Carter has performed with the E Street Band in 51 years. The stage setup was from left, looking at the stage, upfront Ed Manion (on sax), Garry Tallent, Bruce and Steve. In the back was David Sancious on the left, the two drummers and Roy on the right.

Then you had the panels. Bruce was on three of them.

His first one was Writing "Born to Run," the Song.

Bruce came out to a rousing ovation and joked "I'm glad I missed the last panel," that had some funny and strange moments. He was interviewed by Bob Santelli.

Bruce talked about living at 7 1/2 West End Court in Long Branch. He said when he heard "Greetings" had sold 23,000 copies, "I thought that was great! Where are all these people?" But the record company didn't think so.

About writing the song "Born to Run" he said, "I knew if this one doesn't click, I'm back in Asbury Park." He said he was sitting on the edge of his bed and he's still not sure "Where I got the Born to Run name from."

He said he listened to a lot of Roy Orbison and used to buy 45s of songs he liked at a store in the New York City subway.

He got the "Born to Run" rift from Duane Eddy and "I liked the Phil Spector sound, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry and I wrote about cars and girls. Something that spoke to me at the time. I needed to speak to the times, we had just gotten past Vietnam. There was a lot of innocence and I got to put them in the car."

Bruce admitted the start of "Born to Run" is the same riff as Little Eva's "Locomotion."

"There was a lot of dread," he continued. "The writing at first was totally a B movie. I went line by line. It took me six months to write it. I had to invest myself into what I was writing. I was tagged with the new Bob Dylan thing and I was really trying to get away from it."

He said when he first signed with Columbia Records, he was a solo act and even Mike Appel was surprised when he showed up with a band. He then imitated Appel's voice saying, "You really know what you are doing!"

Bruce talked about when he was growing up, you would see movies every weekend, just to go to the movies, not even worrying about what you were going to see. "It was $1 to get in when you were 13 and 35 cents when you were 12, so my mother would have me say I was 12 to get that discount."

"With 'Born to Run" I started to write in a cinematographic way."

Touring back then was a lot of time on the road, "you were playing and driving," he said.

He talked about the piano he composed "Born the Run" the song and the album on was a spinet piano that was his Aunt Dora's and that's how he learned to play piano originally.

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[SKeveryday @ChangeOfHabits]

@azsweetheart013 Oh Amy (and @nilslofgren, too) - so very sorry for your loss. You gave him a wonderful life while he was enriching yours. 💔

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

A friend sent me this. Heartbreaking.

[SKeveryday @ChangeOfHabits]

Good Lord.

[The Recount @therecount]

Benny Johnson: “Given the heroic actions … will [Trump] consider giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to ‘Big Balls’?”

Karoline Leavitt: “I haven’t spoken to him about that, but perhaps it’s something he would consider.”

[SKeveryday @ChangeOfHabits]

Chief propagandist for sure. Will she be held accountable when the blue tsunami lands in the midterms?

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is ⁦@PressSec⁩. A liar. What a disgusting moment.

[SKeveryday @ChangeOfHabits]

@Chicago_History Corrupt

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

this is where Noem gets her stuff

[Alex Padilla @AlexPadilla4CA]

You know my name, @JDVance.

If you want to talk about political theater, let’s start with the thousands of troops that your administration is using as props in Los Angeles.

[SKeveryday @ChangeOfHabits]

Woo hoo! Go, David, go!

[Laura Jolly @laurajollyfl]

Florida Believin’!!!

The first poll is out by a republican pollster and we’re already within single digits.

Let’s Go!

#Believe #JollyforGovernor

[Brian Wallach @bsw5020]

I want to thank everyone who helped me along my journey.

Good night moon.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every single one of these motherfuckers lied about what was discussed in that Signal chat, including the fucking director of the CIA. They all lied.
And we now have the proof.

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

If that email is legit, as Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to believe, then Matthew Livelsberger is saying that the Trump administration committed and covered up war crimes in Afghanistan.

Livelsberger is the driver of the Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump’s Las Vegas hotel.

[SKeveryday @ChangeOfHabits]

@TrueFactsStated Kennedy by a landslide because he’s a smart guy who plays dumb to appeal to the lowest common denominator (and most racist) in his state. You have to wonder about a guy who emulates Foghorn Leghorn, a cartoon character, to get TV time.

[haley talbot @haleydtalbot]

On fox and friends Rep Spartz sounds like a no on Speaker Johnson

Definitely BIG MAD

[Shelby Talcott @ShelbyTalcott]

Some in Trump’s orbit note his endorsement of Mike Johnson is strategic, partially stemming from Trump’s interest in ensuring there are no delays to the election certification.

“He can bury [Johnson] whenever he wants,” one person close to Trump told me:
https://t.co/Adp0YfQDGO

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: “Trump is going to once again cut taxes largely for wealthy people and corporations.”

@MichaelSLinden reminds us who benefitted last time, and who will again as Trump ⬆️ ⬆️ the deficit to enrich himself and his donors. (As they look to cut Medicare, Medicaid, SS, etc)

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

There are no words strong enough to describe these hypocritical motherfuckers. None.