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Dude,
You so deserved to be tossed.
Only joking!
Wasn’t there, so it’s hard to understand the reaction. Maybe some DNC big shot was in the audience before the Democratic convention and the tour manager thought you were a plant from the McCAIN camp!
Did you mistakenly offer the GOP secret handshake and unknowingly use their code word: “rutabega” — ? That’s all it would take, my friend.Hope you have better luck in Boulder tonight, Brett. I’ll look for you in your green shirt with the British Petroleum logo and commiserate with you!
Vic
David Day wrote:Speaking of “journals” and “micro brews”, I’ve been keeping a journal of “micro brews” along the “Bruce Trail”. The best so far is Knoxville! Home of the “big orange”! 😆 In the #2 spot is Chattanooga, home of the Tivoli show! (Maybe, just maybe, I’ll finally get a response from Vic on that one!)David, as nice as the Downtown Brewery in Knoxville and the Big River Grill in Chattanooga are, I’m enjoying Phantom Canyon in downtown Colorado Springs, and I’m sure I’ll treat myself to a Fat Tire from New Belgium Brewery in Ft. Collins before I see Bruce and the Noisemakers in Boulder in a couple of weeks!
Thus ends my moratorium on posting in the Bruuuce forums! Maybe Si will now come out of “retirement” as well!
You guys have fun at Hampton Bay Days … I’m jealous that I’ll miss it!
Vic
What comes with being elected to the Hall of Fame, anyway, David? 😈
A lifetime supply of Rice-A-Roni?
Give us the Road Scholar, you tease! 😯
Mr. Hall of Fame really knows how to milk it, don’t he?
Out with it, Hall Boy!
Thus spaketh a Global mod.
I wonder if it would be possible for Bruce to do a Blackberry Blossom>Stacked Mary Possum medley? I guess it would be fairly easy, since one came from the other, but would the two styles mesh together? How would that go, David “Mr. Hall of Fame” Day?
I’m so happy to see that my nominee, Carey, made it into the Hall! Congratulations!!!
But I’m having a hard time understanding how that Southern scoundrel, that David Day guy, weaseled his way onto the ballot! Somebody must have said “Hall of Shame,” and Si thought they said “Fame”! 😆 The esteemed Hall just became a little bit rowdier….. 😯
Congrats as well to you, Mr. Day. Well-deserved!
Funny, Rich! I missed that music, but I remember back in the day, “Swan Song” was used more than once in similar feature stories.
A British sports show kinda gave “The Way It Is” its very first prominent playing, didn’t it?
Bruce’s sports-related fans keep coming through all these years later.
Bruce’s solo version of “Love Me Still” is song 18 on disc 2 of the Intersections box set.
Good luck and best wishes!
Vic
Re: Road Scholar of the Year 2007!
Alas, only Boone for me. I didn’t make it to Jamestown, Raleigh, Greensboro or Asheville. Crazy year. I’ll try to do better in the future!
EDIT: Oops, I forgot: the CMT Crossroads taping in Nashville was in January. Makes me feel better that I made it to two shows, at least.
Mr. David Day,
As long as you’re feeling generous, my old RCA television doesn’t display “Three Nights on the Town” nearly as well as a 60-inch plasma screen would!
😆I knew I could count on you to put the “HO” in the holidays, Lola! 😯
Thanks for the links! Have a Merry Chrismas and keep working on that Top 10 list!!!
Vic
OK, cooleveningdancer, here was my first impression of “The Chill”:
I thought the lyrics described a spouse arriving home to find a husband or wife in the midst of an affair:
“I’ve seen the signs and heard the rumors.” “I know I’ve had my fill, been run through the mill. Try to smile, but I feel it still.”
That person perhaps sees a strange car in the driveway and movement inside the house, then is filled with a cold rage:
“Imagination hold on tight. I’m sure there’s someone in there. I saw those curtains move there.” “Look at me with my eyes all a glistening.”
The spouse may be so upset that it brings tear, standing outside and feeling “The Chill.”
There you go; that’s what I thought! Feedback?
Rich,
Just wanted to add that I have many of these moments, and though I can’t really point to any, “Better Days” is as good an example as any!
Vic
Happy Thanksgiving, Allisa. Where have you been keeping yourself? I called you out in my Top 10 thread…
Squash is pretty good lightly steamed with a dash of salt, by the way. Or in a cheesy casserole.
cooleveningdancer wrote:This is easy . . . I only like nine of Bruce’s songs, so here goes … Victor: so, let’s hear your interpretation of “The Chill” (I’ve been wondering)CED: I was actually wondering if anyone would ask. But you’ll have to come up with one more Bruce song that you like before I spill the beans. People might overanalyze me too much afterwards… 😮
Two more good lists with an interesting mix of old and new. I’m surprised Rich is the first to list “Fortunate Son”!
Ellen — Somehow I knew you were out there keeping tabs. Happy to see our mutual admiration for “Another Day.”
Think of keeping the list to only 10 as an exercise in self-discipline.
Who else keeping a low profile out there is brave enough to try?Si, we’d all like to know your Top 10 list!
Ditto David — good to see Molomolomolo is taking time away from the baby powder and diaper pail to visit the forum!
May I just say here that I listened to Spirit Trail on the road this weekend and I don’t think there’s a better three-song stretch on any album than the Great Divide > Line In The Dust > See The Same Way trio on that double album. Thematically, they’re similar, and, lyrically, they have some great turns. The music’s not bad, either. 😆
I don’t think there’s a better double album — period — anywhere. It’s so absolutely solid from top to bottom! I love ST, and Bruce could do much worse than framing his new album in a similar fashion. Just my pair o’ pennies.
Vic
“Head-banger” David: the “Shadows Hands” redeem you!
Jackie: I’m surprised you’re the first to put “The Way It Is” at the top of your list! “So Out” is a nice addition, and “Carry the Water” is unique. Thanks for playing!
Interesting that so many of us have “Pastures of Plenty” near the top. Seems to be underplayed in concert! Also — I had threeor four big “radio hits” on my list, which is the most by far. Some of Bruce’s best stuff has never been largely heard (though Intersections is helping with that problem).
Still waiting for BabyTweety and Allisa to play the game! MVF? Lola? Ellen? Carey??? How about you, Rich???
David: I conclude that we both have good taste in our own ways. But c’mon, not ONE ballad in your top 10? Have a heart, man!
Trent: Nice list. I agree with you on Shadowland … I just don’t know if I can make it fit in my Top 25. Am I the only person who read more into “The Chill” lyrics than Bruce suggests? “Pastures” is also high on my list.
Baby: I believe the official title of the Trump song is “The Don of Dons.” It and “Low Country” are two songs Bruce has written for a Broadway play. You can find a live solo recording of it from Bend, Oregon, on 2/5/07 at BruceHornsbyLive.com. Give a Top 10 list a try!
I’d like to see some Top 10s from the female perspective. Where has Allisa been, anyway?
Those who were in Knoxville remember a great Darlin’ Corey > Place Under the Sun to open the show. I take credit for that because they were both requests of mine!
trent wrote:One of the new tunes is called “The Black Rats of London,” which Hornsby says sounds like a hybrid of Randy Newman and the punky Irish trad band The Pogues.Holy shiz-nit! Is such a hybrid even possible? What’s our fearless leader up to now?!?
Would that one be for the Broadway show or the “rock-oriented album”?Vic
Home of the “big orange”! 😆 In the #2 spot is Chattanooga, home of the Tivoli show! 
