Showing posts with label springsteen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label springsteen. Show all posts
Friday, May 05, 2023
Tuesday, April 04, 2023
New York Comeback by Lucinda Williams
“New York Comeback” (Feat. Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa)
Gregg Chadwick
New York Minute
74"x44" oil on linen 2013
Private Collection, Orinda, California
74"x44" oil on linen 2013
Private Collection, Orinda, California
Monday, June 06, 2022
Coldplay & Bruce Springsteen (Dancing In The Dark) - MetLife Stadium 6/5
Full video of Bruce Springsteen performing "Working On A Dream" and "Dancing in the Dark" with Coldplay/Chris Martin at #ColdplayNJ - June 5 | via @buckIands pic.twitter.com/c9ocxRgahU
— CPing Media (@CPingMedia) June 6, 2022
Impossible to capture the magic of tonight’s show in one photo but this one captures how I feel. Thank you New York and New Jersey. PH pic.twitter.com/bxxPyvhcJR
— Coldplay (@coldplay) June 6, 2022
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Western Stars
by Gregg Chadwick
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| Gregg Chadwick Rio Grande 30"x40" oil on linen 2015 |
Under blue skies on a California Spring day, I am listening to Bruce Springsteen's new song Hello Sunshine from his forthcoming album Western Stars. It is a country tinged song reminiscent of Harry Nilsson's Everybody's Talkin' from the movie, Midnight Cowboy.
Over the years I have driven thousands of miles under wide open skies across the American west. Scanning the radio dial as I drove, I was searching for the sound of the western road. Today I found that cinematic sound in Springsteen's new song. A rhythmic wash like a distant train running in the distance underlies Hello Sunshine. Pedal steel brings us into the west and the strings add a wide open sonic vista. Bruce's vocals are world weary but not defeated.
Last September I ventured solo from Southern California to Chicago for a show of my artwork at The Other Art Fair in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. The 2,000 mile drive took me across the western desert scapes of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Western Colorado. The espresso fueled hours brought back memories of cross country trips with my family when I was a kid. At night under western stars, my dad drove with the window open to keep him alert. My brother and I would scan the license plates on the trucks and autos around us, hoping to get all 50. The rushing sounds of wind and tires on the road muted my parent's conversation to a sort of road trip lullaby. I looked out the window as if I was in a movie. Each passing place, every passing car played a role in our family film. We drove from coast to coast - California to New Jersey and back. The last miles were always the most exciting. Driving up the New Jersey turnpike we could feel the power of Manhattan reaching out across the Hudson river. And on the return journey to California, we could see the glow of L.A. on the horizon as we grew close to home.
Years later when I got out of college, the wanderlust remained. On nights when I didn't have to work the next day, I would take my car out on the road and drive hundreds of miles into the desert and back. As the pink light of sunrise glowed around me I would pull my car in back home. With the engine off, the car would lightly rumble like a horse after a run. I would pick up the morning paper from the driveway. I could taste fresh coffee already.
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| Gregg Chadwick Road Movie 48"x48" oil on linen 2013 |
Monday, October 09, 2017
Friday, August 24, 2012
Born in the USA
The President Responds via Twitter to Romney's Ill Advised Birther Joke:
Song of the day: Born in the U.S.A. http://OFA.BO/irL3ZV
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Must See Video of Springsteen and the E Street Band Live in Madrid
Bruce Springsteen dedica 'The River' a #vaportiNacho
Emocionó a las 60.000 personas que abarrotaron el Santiago Bernabéu
Song by Song Reviews of Wrecking Ball on Speed of Life:
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Neil Young (Jimmy Fallon) and Bruce Springsteen Cover Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair"
Late Night Ridiculousness on the Day that Springsteen Releases " The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story"
Enjoy!
And my personal favorite:
Because the Night w/ Stevie, Roy, Bruce and the Roots
Jimmy Fallon and Bruce Springsteen on Late Night - Full Show
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Eddie Vedder Releases Live Version of "My City of Ruins" to Benefit Haiti
Eddie Vedder Haiti Relief Single
Eddie Vedder’s full audio performance of Bruce Springsteen’s “My City Of Ruins” from the recent Kennedy Center Honors is now available for purchase through Ten Club and iTunes for $.99. Proceeds from the sale of the track benefit Artists for Peace and Justice Haiti Relief.
Benefit Single is available here from: Pearl Jam's Ten Club
Also available on iTunes: "My City of Ruins" for Haiti
From Eddie about the song and the cause:
About Artists for Peace and Justice
Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ), established in early 2009, is a fundraising effort founded by Paul Haggis and friends that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty and enfranchisement in communities around the world. Over the past year, APJ has directed its efforts to raising enough funds to fully sponsor three schools in Haiti in support of the initiatives of Father Rick Frechette and his team. These schools aren’t just a place to learn but provide for a hot meal, clean water and a chance at the future to children who desperately need it. Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, APJ has focused its efforts on raising much needed dollars for emergency aid in the ravaged country that is only a few hours from our shores.
"My City Of Ruins" Credits
Performed by Eddie Vedder
Featuring The Joyce Garrett Singers - Artistic Director, Joyce Garrett
Words and Music by Bruce Springsteen
Performed December 6, 2009 at the "Kennedy Center Honors" Bruce Springsteen Tribute Performance
Produced by Michael Stevens
Executive Producer, George Stevens, Jr.
Music Direction and Choral Arrangement by Rob Mathes
Recorded and Mixed by Ed Greene
Assisted by John Burton
Recording courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC. (www.kennedy-center.org)
Special thanks to Michael Stevens, Joyce Garrett and especially Bruce Springsteen
Eddie Vedder performing "My City of Ruins" by Bruce Springsteen at the Kennedy Center Honors.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band @ Glastonbury June 27, 2009
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Blast Through Badlands Today (June 27, 2009) at the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK
"For the ones who had a notion
And a notion deep inside
It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive...."
Letter from the late great Joe Strummer extolling Springsteen's virtues
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Born to Run - Today (June 27, 2009) at the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK
(New Zealand flag at 2:15 - praying you're safe persiankiwi)
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band- Dancing in the Dark - Today (June 27, 2009) at the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band- Glory Days - Today (June 27, 2009) at the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK
(For those who care all videos are pro-shot.)
Thanks BBC!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
For My Brother ~ Something In the Night
Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band
Something In the Night
May 23, 2009, 50 Rte 120
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
As a Jersey boy, when life gets rough I tend to "turn the radio way up loud, so I don't have to think." And I tend to turn to my (slightly) older brother for his wisdom and comfort. Now it's my turn to offer a strong back and a shoulder to lean on.
Life can seem cruel, unfair and oh so brief. I deeply understand the pathos when Bruce sings, "As soon as you got something, they send someone to try and take it away." Kent, maybe because he was born in Virginia, rather than in the state that became known as much for its factories and boarded up cities, would reject the cynicism in that line. Kent having learned much from our Marine Corps dad, instead, finds hope no matter what life throws his way and Kent knows how to soldier on.
Luke Chadwick Gestures Against the Fading Light
Kent's son Luke received a double lung transplant a year ago and has a had a remarkable 12 months. Luke's courage and sweet good humor has carried him on incredible adventures. But, Luke has hit a rough spot and is in the ICU at UW in Seattle. Luke and Kent and Kent's wife Cathy and their daughter Ali need all the love and support they can get at this time.
Not Quite the Jersey Shore
Cassiel Chadwick, Cathy Chadwick, Kent Chadwick and Luke Chadwick
Kent is a masterful poet and has introduced to me and my son, a world of words and images. My brother, I love you and am in awe of your courage and patience, and in your rough hour I give you the words of a Jersey street poet and a Welsh writer - Springsteen and Dylan Thomas.
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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