Tag: bruce-springsteen

4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), by Bruce Springsteen.

OK, so, something is terrible about the sound in this new setup, tbqh, and I am not going to get to the bottom of it tonight. It is possible that my mic cable is kinked. It is possible that the windscreen pop filter thingie is deeply necessary. It is possible this webcam software doesn’t really do a good job with audio. And it is possible that I really do need to get a better stand/arm thingie (the first one was remarkably worthless) to hang it in front of my mouth, still picking up some guitar, instead of on the desk in front of the guitar, screaming along when I should be breathy and all that.

This song has been a wrong-lyric singalong for me in many cars over many years, but it was worth the wait to learn a little. Also, this would really benefit from a better approach with some little electric piano twiddles and maybe electric guitar in place of some calliope/accordion stuff.

Atlantic City, by Bruce Springsteen.

As noted previously, Nebraska is my favorite Springsteen record, and most everything on it is sacred to me in one way or another. This song probably made me weep when it came up after Superstorm Sandy (the dumbest and most Springsteenesque possible name for a thing that was a hurricane but also not a hurricane?) about the boardwalk getting all washed out and whatnot. Maudlin! Springsteen? Never! Always. Glorious.

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OK, the funniest part about the online chords for this is the 50+ deep comment thread arguing about what fret to put the capo on, because Bruce recorded Nebraska on like the 1970s equivalent of a voice memo, and it’s all just a little out of tune. And I don’t think these are quite the right chords, anyway. The online chords are easier to edit than Wikipedia, tbqh, but you have to log in to do it, and I think, just, no one does, but they do comment, so maybe? A fork of Mediawiki would probably do a much better job at negotiating this sort of thing, except you’d need the whole community and bots and all that dressing.

I’m On Fire, by Bruce Springsteen.

Anything off Born In The USA is potentially the first Springsteen song I really got into, but I truly remember getting into this song, although perhaps not all the possible implications of it?

Hungry Heart, by Bruce Springsteen.

From around the same period as Being With You, and again, perhaps because I was living a capo-free life with my old Blueridge acoustic that had incredibly high action, I learned to play this with bar chords higher up the neck, but it’s nice this way, too.

Whenever I sing the part about the bar in Kingstown, I am picturing a very specific place in Kingstown, New York. Or was it Saugerties? Or even Woodstock itself? Or is that a bar from a music video? My memory is a little fuzzy, but I can see the space, and the wood, and hear this song playing, and feel loss.

Highway Patrolman by Bruce Springsteen

When did I start listening to Nebraska? On vinyl from some garage sale or thrift shop around the turn of the century? Probably. I knew nothing about it except that it was supposed to be good and different and I’ve gone all these years loving it (uh when in the right mood and able to handle how down it is) without ever reading about how it was made. Until just recently.

Highway Patrolman was always my favorite, and I started playing this years ago, but now that I’m writing this down, I realize Hungry Heart is the song I really want to cover, so maybe I’ll have to do a second Springsteen.