Bruce on Howard Stern

Might there be any possibility of any FOB [Fan of Bruuuce] recording this much anticipated exchange—Bruce on Howard’s show– and posting it for the rest of us without Sirius. I stayed at work until 8pm to catch Bruce on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” and they threw in a bonus, the Solo Bruce Concert @ The Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, April, 2006. It would be mighty entertaining to hear Bruce and Howard’s repartee, a veritable, verbal sparring match, to be sure.

Thanks to those who are technology-advanced, in advance,
Lola

Hey Will S…

You don’t know me from a can of paint, but if anyone were capable of performing this feat for the people, for the FOB [Fans of Bruuuuce], it would be you, my BIB [Brother-in-Bruuuce].

The question is – would you? Could you ?? Will you ??? This repartee will be very, very good or very, very bad; at the very least, memorable. Pretty, pretty PLEASE!!!

Thanks for entertaining the notion, your SIB [Sister-in-Bruuuce]
Lola

Sorry guys, I don’t have Sirius, but hopefully somebody does and will post it.

Bruce on Stern Show

Accidentally had a double post here, sorry. At the beginning of the show Stern said that Bruce was coming in to play a song he really likes, “The Way It Is”. He was saying there were going to be quite a few guests on the show, so i don’t know how long he’ll devote to Bruce.

Stern

Hey, MoMoMo,

Thanks for the info on the Stern show… where’s the rest of the rundown?

Also, check the Louisville thread …

Vic

Bruce on Stern

Sorry i didn’t get back to the show rundown guys. Things got hectic at work and i had to actually DO something. Here is a recap of his interview from another Web site that reports on Stern’s shows:

During the commercial break Howard ended up talking to Bruce Hornsby who was warming up on the piano they had in there. Bruce said the piano was okay but he’s used to huge, 9 foot grand pianos. Howard started interviewing him about how he got started in the business but he was in the middle of a commercial. Howard wrapped up the commercial and came back on a short time later to do the ‘official’ interview with Bruce.
Howard said that Bruce has a new CD box set out called ”Intersections 1985-2005.” He said that Bruce was going to perform ”That’s Just The Way It Is” for them. Bruce said ”Oh I am, am I?” like he wasn’t going to do it. Howard told him he was going to put him in the RoboSpanker if he didn’t play that song.

Bruce talked about how he sold a song to a commercial production company so he will get paid some good money for residuals on that commercial. He said that Lowes is the company using his song and it should bring him some good money.

Howard read that Bruce used to prank call Jerry Garcia years ago and he would have him convinced he was on the radio with a guy down in New Orleans. He would jerk him around with that but he’d eventually tell Jerry who it was and he’d call him a weasel.

Howard read that Bruce didn’t start playing piano until he was about 17 years old. Bruce was playing sports and doing other things in school before that. He said that he was in a high school that was almost split 50/50 black and white. he remembered playing a game one night when a couple of black guys threatened to cut him if he won the game that night so that has stuck with him since then.

Bruce said that he had a song he could sing for them about the first interracial relationship in his town but Howard told him to hold off on that. He was asking more questions about his influences and how he got into the piano thing. Bruce said he was self taught and picked up on that stuff pretty quick. He said he wrote some songs back when he was in high school but they weren’t all that great back then.

Bruce said he spent about 7 years in bars and stuff without a record contract. Then one of his worst quality demo tapes was discovered and he was signed by a record company. He said that his friend Huey Lewis had gotten screwed over in his record deal so he kind of knew what to expect. He thought about taking a $40,000 deal and if things didn’t work out he’d go back out on the road with Sheena Easton which is what he was doing back then. He said he was even in one of her music videos.

Howard asked Bruce if he ever watches porno. Bruce said he doesn’t go out of his way to avoid it if it’s playing on the tour bus. Howard got back to the story about the $40,000 deal he turned down. Bruce said that Huey called him and told him he wanted to record one of the songs that he was going to do. That’s when Bruce realized that he was going to sell his songs to other people like Huey.

Howard gave Bruce some plugs for his upcoming tour and his web site BruceHornsby.com where you can find out all of the details. He then had Bruce perform ”That’s Just The Way It Is.” Bruce sang and played piano by himself with no interruptions from Howard or Robin.

Howard asked Bruce if that’s fun for him still. Bruce said that’s him just winging it. He doesn’t like doing it the same way every time. Howard said he gets very sad when he hears the song. Bruce said it’s really not a sad song though. He said he wrote it back in 1985 in his garage.

Bruce told Howard that you really need to know how to write music in this business to keep your career going. you can find many great singers out there but if they can’t write songs it’s tough to sell albums.

Howard took a call from a guy who asked Bruce if he’s upset with Sean Hannity about using his song for his theme song. Bruce said he was never pissed, he never heard how he was using the song. Bruce said that he did an interview with a newspaper and made a very general statement about the use of his music and he got a lot of negative e-mail about that. He said he was never really pissed off at Hannity though.

Howard took another call from a guy who said he’s a super fan of his and has seen him about 18 times. He told Howard he should go see him because he really is great. He said watching him play is amazing and every time he performs a song it’s different. Artie said that he saw Bruce in concert with the Grateful Dead back in the 80s.

Gary said he went to see Bruce back in 1988 and hung out with him but he doesn’t remember a thing about it. Howard said he was going to wrap things up and play some of his new album as they ended the interview. Bruce said he had fun coming in to play for them. Howard asked him about this one song on the album he was going to play called ”Gonna Be Some Changes Made.” He played a little bit of the song and goofed on it a little bit while Bruce was still sitting in. They went to break a short time later.

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Howard also asked Bruce about Tupac covering his song and also they went into more detail about selling a song for a commercial and how much can be made. If you’ve never heard a Stern interview the two main threads are how much you’re getting paid and/or how much you’re getting laid. They also got into Bruce’s religious upbringing as a Christian Scientist which he said kind of kept him as the clean cut guy. He said if he were to advertise that he was going to get drunk at a party and charge admission that he could fill a room with thousands because his friends back then were always trying to be the one to get Bruce loaded.
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