I know it's a Springsteen tune, but I loved it as a Hollies tune first (please excuse the HORRIBLE jump suits)....
Hmmm, how do you feel about Bobby Keys sax work with the Stones? I loved most of it. And I loved the old King Curtis stuff, which was Clarence's primary influence? You just can't listen to it with jazz ears - it was never meant to do the same thing. I had some jazz sax playing friends who always dissed Clarence, but I think they were missing the point. No, he was never Coltrane or Bird, but he was never trying to be. In any case, I like Bruce's early stuff better than his later stuff (the first four albums, through Darkness, where he really started turning dark, are all classics to me), but I pretty much like it all. But then I came up with that early stuff. I was a little young when the great 60's bands were at their early '70's peaks, but Bruce, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Tom Petty, early Talking Heads (saw them in a tiny bar in Tucson in '77 when their first album was just out - had no idea who they were) were all making some of their best music when I was coming of age (the Stones were still really high on my list too, but this was after their '68-'72 output that I don't think anyone will ever top) and was a decent transition between the great '60s stuff and the punk / new wave stuff that followed. So early Bruce was kind of my TIME. Which matters a lot in how we form our tastes.Ray, this era of the Hollies makes me a little nauseous too. But I ran out of great 60s Hollies LPs to buy. When Graham Nash left, the Hollies turned into this (gag), but I am just now starting to appreciate Springsteen. I still can't get really enjoy any song with Clarence on it (rock saxophone is almost always an affront to nature), but I appreciate his song craft and his modern day records are mainly truly great.
Hmmm, how do you feel about Bobby Keys sax work with the Stones? I loved most of it. And I loved the old King Curtis stuff, which was Clarence's primary influence? You just can't listen to it with jazz ears - it was never meant to do the same thing. I had some jazz sax playing friends who always dissed Clarence, but I think they were missing the point. No, he was never Coltrane or Bird, but he was never trying to be. In any case, I like Bruce's early stuff better than his later stuff (the first four albums, through Darkness, where he really started turning dark, are all classics to me), but I pretty much like it all. But then I came up with that early stuff. I was a little young when the great 60's bands were at their early '70's peaks, but Bruce, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Tom Petty, early Talking Heads (saw them in a tiny bar in Tucson in '77 when their first album was just out - had no idea who they were) were all making some of their best music when I was coming of age (the Stones were still really high on my list too, but this was after their '68-'72 output that I don't think anyone will ever top) and was a decent transition between the great '60s stuff and the punk / new wave stuff that followed. So early Bruce was kind of my TIME. Which matters a lot in how we form our tastes.
I feel for folks on the sea-ward side of Jersey - I think they're just getting pounded by this storm. We should be OK this far inland after whatever level of inconvenience, but it could get really dangerous out there...
-Ray
... This is a wonderful song - my first serious girlfriend's name was Sandy and I got serious about her and Bruce at about the same time in the mid-70s. She didn't last - he did... -Ray
Wind is gusting here in Boston, but not too much. However, it looks like it is picking up from the last hour. (Goodbye to the little fall foliage remaining. )
My company was kind enough to let us work from home.
Mine too but I came in anyway. Work is less than 2 miles from home and I bike it, so with rain gear it's easy and fun. Gusts up to 50 now, so maybe I'll go home after lunch.
The tree almost beat you to it.