Photos III

[GEEBOSS]

not sure if this will work, if not click on the link

http://www.degu.net/music/song-male/bruce/bruce3.jpg


http://www.degu.net/music/song-male/bruce/bruce3.jpg

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http://www.thunder-road.freeserve.co.uk/Bruce46L.jpg

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http://www.sptimes.com/News/122500/photos/state-clemons.jpg

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http://www.stoneponyonline.com/photos/lofgren/03.jpg

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http://www.springstomania.com/media/wt92-8.jpg

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http://www.jsonline.com/enter/music/nov99/springsteen/photos/images/lofgrenbig110999.jpg

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don't know if this will work.... here is the link

http://www.ofoto.com/PhotoView.jsp?UV=88479399150_98656544203&US=0&collid=11713885103&photoid=55433885103

http://www.ofoto.com/PhotoView.jsp?UV=88479399150_98656544203&US=0&collid=11713885103&photoid=55433885103

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http://asburypark.net/news/2001/08/clearwater10.jpg

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http://www.stoneponyonline.com/photos/lofgren/05.jpg

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http://www.stoneponyonline.com/photos/ssj/21.jpg

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http://www.springstomania.com/media/stage6.jpg http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=76419&a=6949941&p=23673091&Sequence=0&res=high

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http://www.jsonline.com/enter/music/nov99/springsteen/photos/images/19991102.jpg

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another maybe here's the link in case it won't post
http://www.icrafters.com/bruce/assets/images/bruce17s.jpg



http://www.icrafters.com/bruce/assets/images/bruce17s.jpg

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http://www.helsinki.fi/~tsmalmbe/bruce_springsteen/pictures/bruce5.jpg

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http://www.helsinki.fi/~tsmalmbe/bruce_springsteen/pictures/bruce3.jpg

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http://www.canoe.ca/Dec18/jam.jpg

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http://www.icrafters.com/bruce/assets/images/bruce19s.jpg

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I like that one over there!!!!

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=76419&a=6949941&p=24915181&Sequence=0&res=high http://www.kweevak.com/rd_images/springsteen_xmas_02.jpg

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http://www.nj.com/springsteen/gallery/photos/photo02.jpg

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http://enquirer.com/editions/2000/05/01/springsteenclose1024.jpg

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You all are too kind ..... ya know I always do my best to brighten up the board when ever I have time too!


http://www.helsinki.fi/~tsmalmbe/bruce_springsteen/pictures/bruce1.jpg

[mjmfarms]

http://members.aol.com/njdvlsrule/patti/patti.html

Try these...if you haven't alrady seen them

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http://www.thunder-road.freeserve.co.uk/Bruce14L.jpg

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http://www.thunder-road.freeserve.co.uk/Bruce23L.jpg

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http://www.thunder-road.freeserve.co.uk/Bruce25L.jpg

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Here LJK, let me contribute one to start the thread


http://www.springstomania.com/media/unoff_04.jpg

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http://www.jsonline.com/enter/music/nov99/springsteen/photos/images/SPRING05P7.jpg

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http://www.jsonline.com/enter/music/nov99/springsteen/photos/images/BRUCE6.jpg

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http://home.hetnet.nl/~betrue/heroes2.jpg

[Jungleland Jodie]

Besides writing the greatest song ever written, he also looks pretty dam*ed awesome:

http://www.springstomania.com/media/unoff_06.jpg

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1423977&a=10660278&p=55237761&Sequence=0&res=high

[pattifan]

thanks for the help. my first try to post at a least the link to my yet primitive collection of (3) bruce photos


http://hometown.aol.com/gahlmk/index.html

[nish01]

here's Bruce's speech..

Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame 1999
The 14th Annual induction dinner


Remember: You always want an Irishman to give your induction speech ...

I knew I always liked you, Bono. You were scaring me a little bit there --- I wasn't that good -- but I like the part about my good looks.

Anyway, let me warn you. The records took two years, the show's three hours, so the speech may take a little while.

I stood on this stage and I inducted Roy Orbison, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Bob Dylan -- artists whose music was a critical part of my own like -- and tonight I hope that my music served my audience half as well. And if I've succeeded in doing that, it's been with the help of many, many kindred spirits along the way.

I'd like to thank my mother, Adele, for that slushy Christmas Eve ... for that Christmas Eve and night like the one outside, when we stood outside the music store and I pointed to that Sunburst guitar and she had that 60 bucks and I said, "I need that one, Ma." She got me -- she got me what I needed, and she protected me and provided for me on a thousand other days and nights. So ... As importantly, she gave me a sense of work as something that was joyous and that filled you with pride and self-regard, and that committed you to your world. Thanks Mom. This is yours tonight. Take is home as a small return on the investment you made in your son. Momma ... The Italian side of the family ... Momma ...

Now my dad, he passed away this year, but I've gotta thank him because --- what would I conceivably have written about without him? I mean, you can imagine that if everything had gone great between us, we would have had disaster. I would have written just happy songs -- and I tried it in the early '90s and it didn't work; the public didn't like it. He never said much about my music, except that his favorite songs were the ones about him. And that was enough, you know? Anyway, I put on his work clothes and I went to work. It was the way that I honored him. My parents' experience forged my own. They shaped my politics, and they alerted me to what is at stake when you're born in the U.S.A. I miss you Dad.

A lot of other people: Marion and Tex Vinyard. They took me under their wing when I was 15. They opened up their home to a bunch of rock and roll misfits and let us make a lot of noise and practice all night long. Thanks Marion. Carl "Tinker" West, another one of my early managers, whose support I couldn't have done without. He introduced me to Mike Appel, and Mike kicked the doors down when they needed kicking. And I consider him my friend; I want to say Mike, thanks for everything -- mostly everything --- and thanks for being my guest here tonight. I'm glad you're here with me. Mike introduced me to the world of Columbia Records, which has been my home for the past 25 years -- from the early days of John Hammond and Clive Davis to the high-rollin' years of Walter Yetnikoff and Al Teller, to the present with my friends Tommy Mottola and Donny Ienner. They created a conduit for a lifetime of thoughts and ideas, a place where I was ... I felt safe and supported and encouraged to do my best and my truest work. And I've heard enough record company horror stories right from this stage to realize, to appreciate the fact that I don't have one. And for that I've gotta thank all the men and women at Columbia Records around the world, past and present. Thank you very much for your efforts.

I've gotta thank my co-producer, Chuck Plotkin, (and) engineer Toby Scott for their sustained contributors to my recorded work. They remained in the saddle as often years went by, wondering if we'd ever get the music or if they'd ever get a royalty check. They kept their cool and their creativity ... of course they're basket cases now ... but we remain friends and great working partners. And no mention of my records would be complete without Bob Clearmountain, a great mixer who helped me bring my music to a wider audience. I want to thank my tour director, George Travis, and the great crews he's assembled on the road over the years. Thank you George. I want to thank my agents, Barry Bell and Frank Barsalona, for a great job. All right ... Thank you ...

Now the lawyers -- gotta thank them. Peter Parcher and Steve Hayes. They protected me and my music for 22 years. I appreciate it. This next one's a little tough. Allen Grubman and Artie Indursky, names familiar to many in this room. They're the money men. How can I put this? These are great and complicated and misunderstood Americans ... They're men that are entrusted with a very, very important task. For the folks that don't know, the money man goes to the record company, and he's in charge of bringing back the pink Cadillac. Well, when Allen and Artie go, they bring back the pink Cadillac ... and the blue Cadillac ... and the yellow Cadillac ... and the red Cadillac ... and the pink Cadillac with the whitewalls ... but then they take the blue Cadillac ... and they take the hubcaps off the yellow Cadillac ... but that still leaves you with a few Cadillacs. And they make sure that neither you nor themselves, of course, are gonna be broke when you're riding in the black Cadillac. So ... they do that well.

I've gotta thank Barbara Carr for her love and loyalty and dedication. Couldn't get along without you Barb. My friend Dave Marsh: Thank you so much.

And oh, the next guy. Yeah. This is ... Jon Landau, or as I sometimes call him, Jon "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" Landau. I've seen the future of rock 'n' roll management, and its name is Jon Landau ... I had to return the favor there. But that was -- that quote was managing, it was a mite burdensome for me. But as he often said, "That's your job." But Jon's given me something beyond friendship and beyond guidance: his intelligence, his sense of the truth, his recognition of my intelligence. His creative ability as a producer and editor -- speechwriter earlier this evening -- his ability to see through to the heart of matters, both professional and personal, and the love that he's given me has altered my life forever. What I hope to give to my fans with my music -- a greater sense of themselves and and greater freedom -- he with his talents and his abilities has done that for me. There's no thank you tonight that's gonna do the job, and it's a debt that I can't repay -- and one I treasure always. Thank you Jon. I love you. I also want to thank Barbara Landau, and Kate and Charlie, for sharing Jon with me over the years. I know it hasn't been easy.

Now, last but not least, the men and women -- the mighty men and women --- of the E Street Band. Oh Lord ... Oh Lord ... who I have reeducated and rededicated, reanimated, resuscitated and reinvigorated with the power, the magic, the mystery, the ministry of rock 'n' roll. Vini Lopez, Boom Carter -- early drummers of the band. Davey Sancious.
Nils Lofgren, the most overqualified second guitarist in show business. He plays 10 times better than me and he still wanders over to hear my solos when I play. I guess he's checking to see if I'm getting any better.
Danny Federici, the most instinctive and natural musician I ever met and the only member of the band who can reduce me to a shouting mess. I love you Danny. Your organ and accordion playing brought the boardwalks of Central and South Jersey alive in my music. Thank you.
Garry Tallent. Southern man, my lovely friend, bass player, rock 'n' roll aficionado, whose quiet and dignity graced my band and my life. Thank you Garry.
Roy Bittan. Roy's playing formed the signature sound of some of my greatest records. He can play anything. He's always there for me. His emotional generosity and his deep personal support mean a great, great deal to me. Thank you Roy.
Max Weinberg -- Mighty Max. Star of the Conan O'Brien show. Conan ain't too bad either ... Max found a place where Bernard Purdie, Buddy Rich and Keith Moon intersected and he made it his own. I ask and he delivers for me night after night. Thank you Max.
Stevie Van Zandt. For those of you who have seen "The Sopranos" and are worried that that's what Steve is like ... that's what he's like. He's a lifetime rock 'n' roll friendship. We did it all, you know. Great songwriter, producer, great guitarist. We haven't played together in 15 years, and if it's up to me, that won't ever happen again. I love you Steve.
Patti Scialfa. She busted the boys' club, big time. Oh ... It went like this: "Okay fellas. There's gonna be a woman in the band. We need someone to sing all the high parts. How complicated can it get?" Well, a nice paparazzi photo of me in my Jockey shorts on a balcony in Rome ... 10 of the best years of my life ... Evan, Jessie and Sam, three children genealogically linked to the E Street Band ... tell the rest of the story. Everybody ... everybody wants to know how I feel about the band. Hell, I married one of 'em. Thank you baby. You hit all the high notes. You're tougher than the rest.
Oh now ... last but not least, Clarence Clemons. That's right. You want to be like him but you can't, you know. The night I met Clarence, he got up on stage (and) a sound came out of his horn that seemed to rattle the glasses behind the bar, and threatened to blow out the back wall. The door literally blew off the club in a storm that night, and I knew I'd found my sax player. But there was something else, something -- something happened when we stood side by side. Some ... some ... some energy, some unspoken story. For 15 years Clarence has been a source of myth and light and enormous strength for me on stage. He has filled my heart so many night -- so many nights -- and I love it when he wraps me in those arms at the end of the night. That night we first stood together, I looked over at C and it looked like his head reached into the clouds. And I felt like a mere mortal scurrying upon the earth, you know. But he always lifted me up. Way, way, way up. Together we told a story of the possibilities of friendship, a story older than the ones that I was writing and a story I could never have told without him at my side. I want to thank you, Big Man, and I love you so much.

So, as Stevie Van Zandt says: "Rock 'n' roll, it's a band thing." And that includes you, the audience. Thank you for giving me access and entrance into your lives, and I hope that I've been a good companion. But right now, my wife, my great friends, my great collaborators, my great band: Your presence tonight honors me, and I wouldn't be standing up here tonight without you, and I can't stand up here tonight with you. Please join me. Oh Jonnny ... you too.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dvroegop/springsteen/images/bruce/hofspeech_large.jpg

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From my vantage point we should all be in NJ soon!


http://www.nj.com/springsteen/live/pics/images/stage2.JPG

[LJK]

:)

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http://www.springsteen.nl/jpg/Holiday%20011_8.jpg

[LJK]

I can't believe it took me this long to remember to post this!

Happy birthday to Little Steven!

[Marsha]

http://www.wrti.com/wrti/citypaper-sciaky/sciaky-bruce.gif
Boss Jock: Bruce Springsteen plays DJ at WMMR in the the '70s.

Glory Days

Radio pioneers like Ed Sciaky helped make music history. Can anyone revive the lost art of the rock dj?

by Margit Detweiler


Hobnobbing after her show at the North Star Bar, Mary Cutrufello stumbles into a particularly compelling conversation. The dreadlocked rock and roller, touted as "The Next Bruce Springsteen," should be working the room, but Cutrufello can't tear herself away from DJ Ed Sciaky and his old buddy Danny Federici as they ramble on about the good old days.

"Remember when Bruce played the Trenton War Memorial?" says Sciaky.

"Yeah, I was late for that gig," laughs Federici, Springsteen's longtime keyboardist, now in Cutrufello's band.

"It never got better than that," says Sciaky, shaking his head with a smile.

Cutrufello, 27, gazes up at the tall, gray-haired DJ. "Oh surely it did!"

Sciaky insists: "You were seeing 'Jungle Land' before the record came out!"

Cutrufello gasps.

For a few hours longer Cutrufello and Sciaky swap stories - about Cutrufello's prized Bruce bootlegs (the ones where Sciaky introduces him at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr); the time Bruce was too shy to meet Elvis; the fact that he once slept on Sciaky's couch; and about the other Boss jocks who gave Springsteen his first airplay: Scott Muni in New York, Jim Ladd in L.A., Kid Leo in Cleveland. These were the DJs who ruled the radio at a time when Top 40 AM was dying out and "free-form" FM was slowly making its own waves.

"I grew up with WNEW, Ed's sister station in New York, and DJ Scott Muni," Cutrufello says in a later conversation. "Meeting Ed Sciaky was really kind of a thrill. But I actually wanted to talk about radio, not Bruce Springsteen sleeping on his couch."

Philadelphia has its own legendary rock jocks: besides Sciaky, there's Michael Tearson, John "Harvey in the Morning" Harvey, David Dye, T. Morgan and Helen Leicht, to name a few - DJs who spun records during a short period that Sciaky dubs "When the inmates took over the asylum and no one was looking."

"Progressive radio jocks could play album cuts, DJs could discover bands and listeners had some input as to what they wanted to hear," says Billy Joel, a few days after his recent five-night stint in Philly.

Because of the strong support, many of the jocks fostered personal relationships with the artists and have maintained those friendships to this day.

"Ed was the man in Philadelphia," says Joel about Sciaky, who became such a pal that he attended Joel's wedding to Christie Brinkley. "Ed was essentially this hippie guy who had a regular job on the radio, which we thought was pretty cool - there was a closeness there."

By 1971 Sciaky and Martorano had moved from WDAS to WMMR.
By this time WMMR had become very broad-based, playing the folkier artists like Crosby, Stills and Nash, and James Taylor, alongside harder music like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. The station became the first to play many bands, including Yes, Neil Young, David Bowie and Elton John. Tearson is also credited as one of the first to play Springsteen.

"Greetings from Asbury Park was not yet out and we got a [promo] version of it. I said whoa - check out this cat! Through the course of my show I played virtually every track. Jon Takiff, the DJ on after me [now a music critic at the Daily News]… it blew his head off, too." Tearson and the rest of the WMMR DJs went nightclubbing a lot - checking out The Fuggs or Mandrake Memorial at the psychedelic haunt Trauma; catching Cream or Pink Floyd at the more rockin' Electric Factory; or seeing some of the first concerts by Springsteen at the Main Point.

"We were paid to be the taste setters," says Tearson.

In April 1973, Columbia Records arranged for WMMR to tape Bruce Springsteen at the Main Point - it was then that the rest of the DJs got the fever.

Sciaky says, "Bruce was unknown. He couldn't get arrested, even in New York, which is really his home market."

The number of albums sold for a particular artist varied wildly. San Francisco, for example, could not have cared less about Springsteen. When The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle came out in 1974, it sold 50,000 records in Philadelphia. In San Francisco it sold 25.

"I dropped in on Bob McClay at KSAN and I forced him to play 'Rosalita' by Bruce Springsteen - he had never played it before, and he didn't care for it. Each station more or less developed its own identity, which isn't bad either, it was good. We were free to break any artist like Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, even when the other markets didn't care. And eventually they all broke nationally."

"If I did get payola," laughs Sciaky, "Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel should have made me rich. But I didn't. I just loved the music."

But it wasn't long ago that Billy Joel was just a Long Island piano man looking for a break. If you were in Philadelphia in the '70s and early '80s, you probably have Billy Joel's oeuvre stuck in your head. You don't know "Vienna," "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" or "The Entertainer" as well as you know "Piano Man"? Then you weren't listening to WMMR.

"Over the last 30 years of my career," Joel announced to 19,000 fans at First Union, "I want to thank one Philadelphian who's always played me, even if it didn't fit in the frickin' format of the station, and that's Mr. Ed Sciaky."

Sciaky became friendly with the singer, socializing with him when he came into town for concerts. Joel remembers one particularly star-studded night at, of all places, the Eagle II Diner on Broad Street. He'd just played the Academy of Music with Janis Ian, and wound up sharing a table with Sciaky, Bruce Springsteen and Barry Manilow.

"We're sitting around, late at night," laughs Joel, "and I didn't think I was that hungry, but I was hungrier than I thought I was, so I started to eat Barry's cold french fries, which totally grossed him out, and me and Bruce were looking at each other like what's his problem. They're just french fries - if you're not gonna eat 'em I'm gonna eat 'em. Ed got a kick out of that."

[Marsha]

Happy Birthday Steven!
Don't we miss this face!
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/grab43.jpg

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