Re: Gypsy Biker

"musicaner" <musicaner@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Oct 22, 10:23 am, "Burton Busk" <burton...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> "musicaner" <musica...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> > On Oct 22, 10:07 am, "Burton Busk" <burton...@comcast.net>
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>> >> "SMBalloon" <smball...@aol.com> wrote in message
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>> >> > On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:20:32 -0700, "Burton Busk"
>> >> > <burton...@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> >> >>> The lyrics are quite good.  But musically, I just find it
somewhat
>> >> >>> annoying in the way that I find "Real Man"
annoying, though not
>> >> >>> quite
>> >> >>> as bad.  And I absolutely love "Tenth Avenue
Freeze-out".  I think
>> >> >>> if
>> >> >>> you took a high school music class and gave them an
assignment to
>> >> >>> write a Springsteen song a la "Tenth", that
this is something they
>> >> >>> could have come up with.  It takes generic caricatured
pieces and
>> >> >>> attempts a paint-by-numbers approach to put a cumulative
musical
>> >> >>> piece
>> >> >>> together, but it doesn't add up to deliver anything
remotely close
>> >> >>> to
>> >> >>> what "Tenth Ave Freeze-out" delivered.  I think
it just sounds
>> >> >>> awkward
>> >> >>> and doesn't flow very well.
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>> >> >>Hmm, do you think possibly your problem could be comparing it
to
>> >> >>"Tenth"?
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>> >> > The problem I've been having is that I know it's supposed to be
>> >> > reminiscent of "Tenth", yet I've been hearing too much
"Real Man".
>> >> > So
>> >> > the problem hasn't been that I'm comparing it to
"Tenth", the
>> >> > problem
>> >> > has been that I can't help hearing a partial comparison to
"Real
>> >> > Man",
>> >> > a song which I think is about the worst song Springsteen has put
on
>> >> > an
>> >> > album.  Anyway, we were out on the road earlier this afternoon
>> >> > listening to the cd.  When "Livin' In The Future" came
on, I turned
>> >> > up
>> >> > the volume real high and tried to will myself to like it.  And I
>> >> > succeeded in thinking it was ok.  Until the end that is.
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>> >> The "Na-na-na-na-na" part? Yeah, I can see how that would
put some
>> >> people
>> >> off. I'm not sure how I interpret that. Maybe as a statement about
>> >> decadence
>> >> and taking things too lightly that should be serious matters.
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>> >> As for the comparison to "Real Man", it's been so long since
I've
>> >> heard
>> >> it,
>> >> I'll have to pull it out and play it to see what you're talking
>> >> about.-
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>> > the NANANANs are NICE i like and FAVOR EM!!! dont know whats WRONG
>> > with
>> > NANANANS, they are OK with me. what we caint have is BOINGO type
>> > sounds
>> > that EMMANATE(sp) from items such as BANJOS. and NO GO on the SEEGER
>> > DRUMMER, he comes in and he COMMENCES to bring in his BUDDIES the
>> > fellow with the FIDDLES and the FELLOW witht he GONGS and eventually
>> > we
>> > gonna have BANJOMAN CENETER STAGE addin his stylings to BADLANDS. and
>> > we gotta make SURE here that such a TRAVESTY dont occur.
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>> I've always had a bad case of "grass is greener" syndrome. Sure, Max
is a
>> big improvement over TSS drummer, but I'd sure love it if next time Bruce
>> got a more swingin' beat from a drummer like Rodney Holmes. If the
>> drummer's
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> as LONG AS MAX is the BRUCE DRUMMER there is NO DANGER of
> more FROGGY and SKILLET music. that makes MAX the PERENNIAL(sp) BRUCE
> DRUMMER for ALL TIMES!!

Yeah, but it seems as though it took Max almost a quarter of a century to
really nail the opening drum roll of "Born to Run."
There are times when I wonder how Springsteen might have progressed
musically (as a lyricist, I don't  think that aspect of him
is an issue for debate) if "Boom Boom" Carter and David Sancious had stayed
in the band.
I'm guessing we'd have gotten the best of both worlds a bit more...
I know Springsteen orchestrated a lot of what he heard in his head (for
example, the way he sings the sax solo part in "Jungleland" to
Clarence on the BTR documentary).  But that piano intro to "NYC
Serenade"...which has to be one of the loveliest things ever played
in a studio (and something Roy has really never been able to repeat)....I've
a feeling that had Sancious' fingerprints all over it...
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