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Si,
I’m loving the new dose format! One of the things that struck me was that, between the 2002 Syracuse and Charleston shows (or aroundabout that time) was when Bruce worked-up the solo version of “Sticks & Stones” that was recently featured on the Intersections boxed set.
To hear him reproduce that song virtually note-for-note from the album and then, a month later, to listen to it reinvented as a solo piano tune is a great example of why I’m such a fan.
Keep on keepin’ on,
VicSi,
I was going to suggest you put up The Tide from Williamsburg, but I see a ruling has come down that prohibits them from streaming their signal onto the interweb. I’m way out of the loop on such things. Oh well, Enjoying the new features now that I’ve taken time in the new year to check them out!
Continue the good work!
Vic
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/06/18/b … -greatest/
by Eugene Novikov / Jun 18th 2008
“Okay: Bobcat Goldthwait + Robin Williams + a title like World’s Greatest Dad = run for the hills. Right? I mean, I had to suppress a shriek upon reading that headline. But then I read further and … this looks kind of awesome. I’m not joking.
Here’s the pitch: Williams plays a high school poetry teacher and failed writer whose son dies in a freak masturbation accident. Stay with me here, folks. Not wanting to expose his family to the embarrassing publicity of a freak masturbation accident resulting in death, Williams’ character decides to cover it up by writing a fake suicide note and claiming that his son took his own life.
When the story — including the suicide note — becomes a sensation, he decides to revive his writing career by fabricating an entire journal supposedly written by his son before his death. I get the sense that they mean ‘World’s Greatest Dad’ ironically.”
hehehehehehehehe …
VicI appear to be residing northeast of Barcelona.
Someone will have to explain to me how I crossed the Atlantic without my knowledge! 😆
Vic
Is 2011 the next HoF induction then? I’d SO love to see Bruce make the cut! Very well-deserved! Good thinking, Rich!!!
Vic
Before we hand the good Dr. Day his doctorate, the grammarian in me must point out that Mr. Day misspelled his topic header. He should have used the “subjunctive” case: “If Bruuuce WERE elected president, then …”
We use subjunctives mainly when talking about events that are not certain to happen, as in, “I wish I were an Oscar Mayer weiner.”
David, take care; I’m just playin’. I’m sorry the Dawgs imploded at Florida. Know of any good coaches out there?
Vic
David, I only voted once. I don’t know how politickin’ gets done in Georgia, but we Tennessee boys are straight arrows!
Vic
Hey, Mr. David Day! I’ll never forget my Tennessee roots, no matter how badly the Dawgs and Tide beat-up the Vols on the football field!
Vic
Since Elton John is foreign-born and unable to hold the position, I’d say it would have to be VP Keith Jarrett or Leon Russell, right?!?!?!?
I think I heard that McCain said “My friends…” 28 times in that 90-minute debate.
Definitely qualifies as a drinking game, not to mention Bingo!
Vic
Here’s a belated clipping from the local press with a mention of Ricky and Bruce–
FEST DIGS BACK TO TRADITIONAL ROOTS
The Gazette, Colorado Springs
June 24, 2008
By WARREN EPSTEINTELLURIDE — After four days of nonstop concerts and allnight jams, thousands of festivalgoers packed their tents on Monday and headed out of this box canyon.
Many took home mudstained, sunburned skin, hangovers for the ages, and memories of the best music festival in years.
The 35th Telluride Bluegrass Festival sold out, with 10,000 tickets sold for each day, Thursday through Sunday, maintaining Telluride’s title as the most popular regular musical event in the Rockies.
This year’s festival may be remembered for its uncharacteristic emphasis on traditional bluegrass. After all, Telluride has built its reputation as the vanguard of the bluegrass movement, over the years featuring such nonbluegrass headliners as Jewel, James Taylor and Counting Crows.
This year’s lineup relied on the country’s top pickers, fiddlers and high-lonesome harmonizers — Del McCoury, Yonder Mountain String Band, Ricky Skaggs’ Kentucky Thunder, Spring Creek and Hot Rize, among others.
Even some nontraditional songsters reinvented themselves as bluegrassers. The most surprising?
John (where has he been for 30 years?) Oates of Hall and Oates fame. The 1970s pop star joined the Sam Bush Band for a set mixed with old bluegrass tunes and transformed Hall and Oates hits. (Among the most fun was “Man Eater,” done in a bluegrass/reggae style that had the audience alternately cheering, singing along and laughing.)
Bruce Hornsby also joined the parade of reinvented pop stars, playing and singing with Skaggs and crew. It’s amazing how fresh “The Way It Is” sounds as a bluegrass tune.
Other highlights of the fest included:
Two amazing festival discoveries: North Carolina singer- songwriter Tift Merritt, who charmed the crowd with her sweet voice and introspective lyrics; and the duo of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who, belting “Falling Slowly” into one mike, re-created the romantic scene that earned them an Oscar for the movie “Once.”
Leftover Salmon’s energetic rendition of its early hit “Euphoria.”
The all-girl old-time- music group Uncle Earl (providing gender balance to an always testosterone-dominated festival) underscored a tune with a complicated game of patty cake. (Banjo wizard Bla Fleck sat next to me in the audience. I asked him if a boy group could get away with that. He shook his head.)
Both the Sam Bush Band and The Duhks, on separate nights, performed lively cover versions of Led Zeppelin’s “A Whole Lotta Love.”
–Vic
Thanks again Bryan!
Finally, after laboring over all those request lists, one of my more smarmy ones makes the cut! 😆 😆
Vic
Bruce mentioned this in Boulder — thanks for the update! It should be an interesting ceremony considering the recent events and current state of affairs in Russia.
Vic
I’d have made up a complaint a long time ago if I’d known it would get me a personal call from Bruce!
David Day: Spoken like a guy who knows what it’s like to almost get thrown out of a Bruce show! 😯 😉
Vic
Set List – Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, CO
8/20/08I Truly Understand > A Night on the Town > I Truly Understand*
Country Doctor
Talk of the Town > Charlie, Woody and You > Talk of the Town
The Entertainer tease
Down the Road Tonight
See the Same Way
Go Back to Your Woods tease
Crown of Jewels
End of the Innocence
Black Rats of London
Fortunte Son > Comfortably Numb > Fortunate Son
The Way It Is
Spider Fingers
Valley Road
Little Sadie > White Wheeled Limousine > Man Who Shot Liberty Valance > WWL
Encore: Gonna Be Some Changes Made > Mandolin Rain > Halcyon Days
* = soloA great show at a nice, barn-like, semi-outdoor amphitheatre/auditorium on a historic Chatauqua mission/park site. I wish I’d thought about bringing a pre-show picnic and lounged on the ample greenspace before the show like so many others. Bruce started at about 8:05 and played until after 10:30 in one whirlwind set that featured most every live favorite you could think of. Not many slow moments for ballad-lovers, but some great riffs strewn throughout — too many for me to recognise or remember them all.
I’d never heard the opener, I Truly Understand, before — probably a number he played with Ricky Skaggs? — but I really enjoyed it. Bruce mentioned he’d been coming to Boulder for years and seemed to be the only band member who recalled playing The Rainbow Room, saying back then they only knew about eight songs. So the set list looked the same every night, but the Dead Heads were satiated with a few covers. Wondering what else he might have played back then, Bruce launched into a few bars of The Entertainer.
Speaking of bars, the new tune, Black Rats of London, sounds to me like a rousing, old Irish pub song. It’s really fun; Bruce played accordion, and Bobby made the EWI sound sorta flute-like as the ladies were called up to dance on stage. My girlfriend, at her first show with the Noisemakers, enjoyed Bruce’s Comfortably Numb “because you can actually understand all the words.”
It was good to hear Down the Road Tonight and See the Same Way again, and the Go Back to Your Woods tease was a nod to my request. However, Bruce wasn’t up for the “Tribute to Le Petomane” that I suggested would go well with Camp Meeting.
Maybe he can work that up by the time he plays for Gorbachev in Philadelphia, a gig he mentioned is upcoming.We got an extra-long encore because Bruce had Mandolin Rain in mind, but he teased Changes Made after somebody gave a shout-out for it; however, JT or whoever cranked up the Changes beat-box thingy, so Bruce completed the whole song.
I’d hoped for a two-setter with a couple more ballads thrown in, but the one set gave it a nonstop, high-energy feel. A great night. Let me know if I missed anything.
Brett,
Bruce really called you out last night!
Bruce laughed about JV receiving e-mails from disgruntled fans.
But I saw you there in your BP shirt after all … looked like you had plenty of leeway to dance as much as you liked off to stage right. It was a fun night; sorry I didn’t get a chance to introduce myself!Vic
