- Springsteen live at RAH 3 - by ~SleekBlack
©2005-2010 ~SleekBlack

Bruce Springsteen
Live @ Royal Albert Hall
London, UK
May 28th, 2005

My first concert, a long line outside a department store... tents and stuff... I love "Tunnel of Love"

....people

 Bosami wrote: 

You funny.

Bruce has tons of great, rarely-heard material to choose from (so why play this over-ripe cheese?).

 sirdroseph wrote: 

Oh go blow. Springsteen could cough into the mic and it would still be better than anything on mainstream radio. Amos and Bjork too. Get your parameters straight.

2 - only cause it is not as bad as Tori Amos or Bjork or something like that.  Straight up, this shit shouldn't be played here.

 crockydile wrote: 
Good one! I would consider myself a Springsteen fan but I can't stand this song.

 xtalman wrote: 
Eh, it's good for what it is.  If you like fists-pumping in the air, sing-along Springsteen, it's probably a perfect 10.

For my tastes, it's only a 5 or maybe a 6.

 musikalia wrote: 

Actually, I think that's kinda the point of the song, no? Pointing out how sad it must be for someone to feel that their best year's are wayyy behind them.

 keller1 wrote: 
Most have a love/hate thing going with Bruce same as with Dylan, Neil etc.. Personally I am not much of a fan but I suspect even his fans would say this is one of his weaker efforts.

Glory Days back when none of your friends had that fat married look. This song is depressing. 

 keller1 wrote: 

no, we just don't want to hear music in heavy rotation on every classic rock station in the US played on RP

Please spare me this dribble!

One of the songs on Hell's Top 10.

 musikalia wrote: 

My best friend's mother used to tell us to enjoy high school, that it was the best days of our lives.  We were horrified.

5 point frickin 8?

You guys are a bunch of snobs.

 musikalia wrote: 
Well, in the aftermath. Maybe it was not so bad after all. For most of us. At least I didn't suffer, that much can be said. Things get better in reminescence, IMO.
OTOH, this song was on the first cassette I ever got for a birthday, so what can be worng about it???

Wait a minute, is this song actually about how high school was the best time in one's life?? Are you serious? Can anyone actually say that, and if so what kind of a person would that be? Just curious.

....and let the hatin' begin....
Bill's rule: If he likes it—he'll play it. Das it.

Funny, I've never actually owned this album, but I know every note and nuance from every song thanks to the below mentioned commercial radio exposure they all received.

I did, however, buy a ticket to the show he played in support of that album at the Pacific Coliseum here in Vancouver. I spent most of it standing on a chair in the very back row unable to see much of anything. It didn't matter, though. It was the best sounding concert I had been to, certainly at that venue. This song probably closed it, or was one of the numerous encores he did.

He definitely comes by his reputation as a great live performer honestly. A few examples of this have been released over the years, but most are from more recent shows. The only concert film I know of from his "glory days" is the Hammersmith Odeon London '75 DVD that came with the 30th Anniversary release of Born to Run.

On the accompanying doc, they talk about how the record company had put a copy of the album on every seat, so the fans would take it home and play it for their firends, who might be inspired to go out and buy it. When Sprinsteen arrived at the Odean and saw all that free merch, he went nuts, ordered them removed. Ya gotta pay yer nickel with him, but he is entitled to that if it's what he wants.

I've read stories of him going in to record stores in the seventies and destroying any bootlegs of his live performances he found for sale. Same thing. Sadly, we've probably lost a lot of examples great live performances he gave due to his understandable, but imo short sighted, destruction policy. He'll be like Jack Paar. There will be historical references to legendary shows but future generations won't be able to see what all the fuss was about.

 Nicman612 wrote: 

It used to be called Free Form radio.  A tyipcal three song set might go something like this: Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush/Lake/Alan Parsons Project.
Pittsburgh had one the best, WYDD, which changed formats into commercial rock  my senior year at Clarion.

The Uncle Rico song on RP?!?

This album pissed off all the old Springsteen fans because of the flood of new fans afterward. He wasn't just theirs anymore.

I don't blame Bruce. He probably didn't intend what happened.

Not the best Bruce song, but it does have a niche because it nails the subject matter totally.

 boober wrote: 

And a certain guitar player in the band recently wouldn't confirm or deny that the band lip-synced the entire half time show.

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
Did I see the same show....what a sellout.

I am NOT a Springsteen fan, but this song gets the nostalgic vote (of a "6") from me because I know my Dad likes it, and it reminds me of him.

This song was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO played out on Commercial radio in the 80's. It's still overplayed in Sports bars, but somehow, it's not nearly as bad sandwiched between something two more obscure tracks.

Radio Paradise is radio like it should be; like it used to be. I like the no format, format. Excluding a song just because it was popular or mainstream would just spoil the programming.

Rock on Bill,

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
That was a great performance at the Superbowl. The E Street band are such pros.

Uggg

You know Bruce is ok like maybe once a year and I would rather here something different than Glory Days.