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GIVING
The generosity of donors, volunteers and auxiliaries has made the MUHC what it is today…these precious funds are used for the benefit of current and future patients at the MGH. We are collecting funds to benefit two MGH departments, the Emergency/Trauma, and the Colorectal Department.
To help raise funds we are raffling off a brand new signed copy (by the publisher) of For You: Original Stories and Photographs by Bruce Springsteen's Legendary Fans.
If you missed your chance to purchase a copy of this limited-edition book, or even if you just want a second copy to keep as a collector’s item, now is your opportunity. First edition copies of “For You” often sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay, when you can find a copy.
Each $10 ticket you purchase gives you one chance to win and a $15 ticket gives you three chances to win the book. The contest is open to everyone and tickets can be bought from March 21 - April 7, 2013. Tickets can be purchased at theLightinDarkness.com and Foryoubruce.com, where the winner will be announced April 11, 2013.
Participants can enter the contest as many times as they wish and all proceeds go to the Montreal General Hospital. The book, autographed by the publisher, will be shipped to the winner free of charge anywhere in the world, so everyone is encouraged to enter.
You can help the fund raising efforts for the 2013 campaign by participating in the raffle for a copy of For You. All monies collected will be donated to the Montreal General Hospital.
The Montreal General Hospital, founded in 1821, enjoys a distinguished world reputation, as well as an impressive history of community service. The Montreal General Hospital, a pioneer hospital in North America, introduced teaching at the bedside and founded the first medical school in Canada — the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University.
The hospital has remained allied as a teaching hospital for the century and a half of the Faculty’s existence. The Montreal General Hospital is dedicated to patient care through diagnosis, treatment, research and teaching.
"Through the years, I've read almost every book written about Springsteen. Some are great and many are not. Over time, I've even become cynical when I hear about new books. In the last few years, there have been a plethora of coffee table book releases in the Springsteen world. Each one in itself is a gorgeous work of art that will glisten on your polished coffee table. However, chances are you are still missing the ultimate Bruce Springsteen keepsake: For You. When I heard about this book a year ago, I dismissed it thinking I didn't really need yet another glorified coffee table book. I was wrong, dead wrong. For You takes the reader on a magical, mystical and poignant journey through forty years of Bruce Springsteen's life. It's a time machine to the past where tickets were once $7, the E Street Band was a boy's only club, Steve Van Zandt looked like a member of Jimmy Buffet's band and most of the members of the E Street Band could have begun their own television show - 'Stashin.' I wasn't impressed with the book, I was bowled over.
Anthony Kuzminski
antimusic.com
"In reading For You, at first it's hard to believe that one performer could possibly have touched this many people this deeply - lifted them from depression, kept them from suicide, helped them through divorce or the death of a parent, or worse, a child. But story after story reveals just how much Springsteen's music and his almost superhuman presence on the concert stage have penetrated people's lives and, in as much as it is possible for music to do so, made them whole.
In fact, there's a running theme of these reminiscences, one that is sure to warm any Bruce fan's heart: that you are not crazy. Not crazy for seeing dozens or even hundreds of concerts; not crazy for feeling that Springsteen's songs and lyrics have actually helped carry you through some of life's toughest moments; not crazy to think that this man whom you've never met has and continues to fill some kind of void in your life."
Peter Chianca
Excerpt from Blogness on the Edge of Town
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Tickets can be purchased at theLightinDarkness.com and Foryoubruce.com, where the winner will be announced April 11, 2013.
I was 16 in 1973 when Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ album came out on January 5th. 16 at a time when rock music ruled the school yard, and rock radio dominated the airwaves. At least in my little part of the world anyway.
My little world was suburban Trenton, NJ (capital city & Garden Spot of the Garden State), in lovely Hamilton. David Bowie’s Ziggy…album was our musical highlight of the previous year. My favorites were always Bob Dylan and Van Morrison and the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye and the Supremes and too numerous to mention insane Philly Soul sides as spun by the great Jerry Blavet. We also loved what Lou Reed was doing (even more so fueled by Bowie), Neil Young, and the Allmans Eat A Peach. I loved The Band and Joni and Stevie and Curtis Mayfield’s amazing Superfly and some new guy named Jackson Browne. Yes was a big deal and we greeted Mott The Hoople (hello again, Mr. Bowie) with open ears and arms. The Rolling Stones, Elton John and Rod Stewart always were a part of the landscape. The Beatles and their now various new incarnations always demanded attention.
I was 16 at a time when music was something more than a stolen computer file. I was 16 at a time when music mattered. You could debate the merits of any particular record with any of your friends for hours on end (with no resolution, of course) flip on the radio, hear something new and have the process begin again.
And needless to say, the radio was on constantly. My station of choice at the time was WMMR out of Philadelphia. Legend has it that that station’s then Program Director, Jerry Stevens, was tight with the folks who ran the old Main Point in Bryn Mawr and he put Greetings… into the new releases category to help expose this new artist from across the river to help out his Main Point pals who’d booked Bruce and the band to open for Travis Shook. The station’s DJs embraced Bruce and the album, and played it like crazy. The rest, as they say…
I was blown away. I can’t tell you which song I heard first, but I can tell you that the first song that blew my mind was “Spirit In The Night.” I was in with both feet and that was that. I loved the lyrical sophistication of “Blinded By The Light” (hey, I was 16). I loved everything about “Spirit In The Night.” I was afraid of “Mary Queen Of Arkansas” (hey, I was 16). And then there’s “Growin’ Up,” which was something that I was furiously trying to do at the time. I have, in fact, spent the past 40 years trying to find the answer to every impossible question/situation in the engine of some old parked car. My quest continues… To find out that the guy making this amazing music was from Jersey, and actually embraced it was almost too much to handle. Almost too good to be true. I bought the album and listened to it over and over. Savoring each little songwriting gem, and always the mind boggling sax parts on “Spirit In The Night,” the album spoke to me like nothing else had ever before.
So Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ turns 40. And as I listen to my 40 year old copy of said album on my stylish, retro record player, I do so with wonder. That album kept me in good stead when I left home for college the following year. It’s been with me in Ohio and California and felt especially comfortable at the Jersey Shore. My sister lives in the house that we grew up in, and I’ll often take a minute to look in on my old room. How blessed I am that so many of the dreams and schemes that were hatched in that room have come true.
Sunday, January 6 on the Bruce Brunch on 105.7 The Hawk, Bruce Springtseen’s first album will be touted and celebrated. I’ll play the entire album throughout the course of the show. And hit the vault for some cool early ’73 live songs. Garry Tallent will be calling in and Vini Lopez will be visiting in the studio. They both played on the album and it’ll be great to hear them reminisce.
40 years later, I thank Bruce Springsteen for standing up when they told him to sit down. 40 years burning down the road and the story continues. Here’s to a magical 2013.
Tom Cunningham
1057theHawk.com
Discover the limited edition Bruce Springsteen book, The Light in Darkness.
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A great companion piece to The Promise box set, it focuses on the 1978 Darkness on The Edge of Town album and tour.
Read about the iconic concerts from fans who were there – the Agora, Winterland, Roxy, MSG, Capitol Theatre, Boston Music Hall, The Spectrum and over seventy more!
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If you missed what is now considered a classic legendary Springsteen concert from years past and wondered what it would be like to have been there in person, well you are in luck…
Tramps Like Us, is the FIRST and ONLY band ever to re-create Springsteen concerts in their entirety, receiving high praise from fans and media outlets alike, as well as selling out venues across the tri-state area in the process. Currently with 7 historic concerts in their repertoire and more on the way, take a trip to the past with Tramps Like Us.
It was August 9, 1978, in Cleveland, Ohio…
The air was literally electric – muggy and rainy outside, with summer lightning crackling, and fans jamming the Agora entrance almost two hours before showtime. Because it was a general admission show, some had slept on the sidewalk the night before in hopes of landing a front row spot for the show.
They whistled, they clapped, and chanted in the background as Denny Sanders signed on the broadcast to welcome the radio listeners. Kid Leo did the on-stage introduction, “I have the duty and the pleasure of welcoming, ladies and gentlemen, the main event. Round for round, pound for pound, there ain’t no finer band around – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band!”
The show went on for twenty-one songs in two sets, and an encore ending in “Raise Your Hand.” “I’d like to thank Cleveland for supporting us,” Springsteen said. “When we came here, we got some respect.” The broadcast ended past midnight, after more than four hours. Leo read the credits but fully expected Springsteen would do one more encore. Springsteen, nearly spent, returned one more time for a surprise encore of “Twist and Shout” for the Agora crowd. It wasn’t carried live, though we broadcast it later.
The broadcast was flawless, which might explain why Columbia Records never released it as an album. The radio audience was estimated at three million, and the show was one of Springsteen’s most-recorded, most-bootlegged, and most downloaded.
E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg once called it the best show the E Street Band ever did.
Former WMMS program director John Gorman has a great remembrance of the show…”Though there were many WMMS Tenth Anniversary concerts and events, the one that will always be first and foremost is Bruce Springsteen’s live concert broadcast at the Agora on Wednesday, August 9, 1978. For many Springsteen aficionados that show stands as Bruce and the Band’s all-time best live performance. I concur.’
CLick here for tickets Now:Saturday December 22 Tramps Like Us at the Showcase Live in Boston
Looking For That Last Minute Christmas Gift for the Bruce Springsteen Fan on Your List?
Look no further!
Discover the limited edition Bruce Springsteen book, The Light in Darkness.
The Light In Darkness is a collector’s edition, we are almost sold out. Less than 200 copies remain.
A great companion piece to The Promise box set, it focuses on the 1978 Darkness on The Edge of Town album and tour.
Read about the iconic concerts from fans who were there – the Agora, Winterland, Roxy, MSG, Capitol Theatre, Boston Music Hall, The Spectrum and over seventy more!
A perfect gift for the holidays!
The Light In Darkness book can be purchased the night of the Showcase Live concert. Special signed copies by Lawrence Kirsch of this limited edition can be purchased on
December 22, 2012 during the Tramps Like Us concert at the Showcase Live in Boston.
MUSIC
Bruce Springsteen hasn’t released anything new since Wrecking Ball, so you may want to grab a copy of Long Distance Salvation, the Nebraska tribute album featuring acts like Joe Pug, Spirit Family Reunion, David Wax and Kingsley Flood. For 15 bucks you get the limited-edition colored vinyl, mp3 download and, since all proceeds benefit Project Bread, a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Five bucks will get you just the mp3, if vinyl isn’t your bag. And for another option, there’s also Nils Lofgren’s exquisite recent disc, Old School — which, given the title, would be appropriately purchased on vinyl.
BOOKS
No Springsteen fan worth his or her salt would be caught without Bruce, the much-heralded new bio from Peter Ames Carlin — that’s a no-brainer this holiday season for the Bruce Tramp on your list, if they don’t have it already. But there are plenty of other Bruce book options, including Marc Dolan’s Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock ‘n’ Roll (review here), which features some hearty analysis of the various phases of Springsteen’s career; Springsteen FAQ by John D. Luerssen, a veritable Springsteen encyclopedia that covers his life and career in short, digestable chunks (much like your Thanksgiving dinner); Streets of Fire, featuring stunning photos by Eric Meola circa 1977-1979; and The Light in Darkness, Lawrence Kirsch’s collection of fan tributes to the Darkness era, which only has a few copies left available in its limited run. And we of course recommend our very own Glory Days: Springsteen’s Greatest Albums — granted it’s hard to wrap because it’s an eBook, but you can always get it as a $2.99 treat yourself.
CLOTHING
Backstreets.com has an awesome collection of Springsteen concert T-shirts, but we’re especially fond of the travelogue T’s celebrating “Rosalita,” “Thunder Road,” “Racing” and “Spirit in the Night.” For something more upscale, get your favorite Bruce fan a Moncler jacket like the one Springsteen tends to don when the temperature drops — a mere $925 at Nordstrom.
FINE ART
You can’t go wrong with a Springsteen painting. Or maybe you can. But we prefer photographic imagery for our walls, and Wolfgang’s Vault is having a 25 percent off special this weekend only on fine art rock prints, including several Springsteen classics. If those prices are a bit steep for your pocketbook even with the discount, visit roccosphototavern.com, featuring some of the best Springsteen concert shots this side of the Mississippi.
As you know, Bruce Springsteen’s 2012 Wrecking Ball Tour is quickly coming to an end. Bruce has played more than 90 shows, in over 15 countries since the beginning of the tour on March 18, 2012. For those fans lucky enough to have witnessed one (or several) of his concerts this year, you know Bruce and the E Street Band are firing on all cylinders – it’s miraculous to consider the fact that this 63-year-old is probably at the height of his long concert career.
Read what journalist and blogger Peter Chianca had to say about Bruce and the tour:
The themes of this tour — loss, living with ghosts, bringing new faces into the fold, moving on while honoring the past, a refusal to go gentle into that good night — have made it one of the most moving and satisfying Springsteen tours ever. The depth and breadth of the material, the willingness to dive head first into uncharted waters and Springsteen’s amazing, seemingly indefatigable drive, energy and devotion to the audience never cease to amaze. By the end of the eight-song encore, with Springsteen feigning (?) exhaustion and his perennial sideman Steven Van Zandt prowling over him with a wet sponge to revive him for two more songs, band and crowd were one – a huge, sweaty, smiling mass of rock ’n’ roll redemption.
Peter Chianca Blogness on the Edge of Town
To help relive and capture the amazing memories of this year’s tour, we are offering a superb selection of six live concert photos from various cities on the tour schedule.
The images were taken by super-fan Dan Reiner and are beautiful, high-quality 8” x 10” colour photographs. Anyone who purchases a copy of the limited edition book The Light in Darkness will receive an original photograph* as a special bonus. We have only printed 5 of each image so they will probably not last very long.
Click here to order your copy of The Light in Darkness, and claim one of these collectible photos now.
* photo selection chosen at random for each book order processed
Many thanks for this great book review. You can read the whole review here: Legends of Springsteen
Part coffee table book and part rock ‘n’ roll history saga, “The Light in Darkness” contains a collection of personal essays and photos from the Darkness on the Edge of Town tour. Meticulously compiled by Lawrence Kirsch, the words and images paint a picture of the profound effect Darkness on the Edge of Town had – both on Springsteen’s career and the fans that connected with it.
In the wake of the lawsuit between Bruce and former manager Mike Appel that kept Bruce out of the recording studio for several years, Springsteen and The E Street Band released Darkness on the Edge of Town in 1978. The album’s reputation is quickly becoming cemented as Bruce’s most challenging but richest album. In addition to its own merit, Darkness’ status has been aided by compelling textual and visual supplements that have bolstered its reputation. If you weren’t sold on Darkness before, reading the first-hand accounts lovingly compiled in “The Light in Darkness” will certainly have you revisiting the album.
Celebrate the Holiday Season with Bruce Springsteen.
Discover the Limited Edition Bruce Springsteen book, The Light in Darkness.
The Light In Darkness is a collector’s edition, we are almost sold out. Less than 225 copies remain.
A great companion piece to The Promise box set, it focuses on the 1978 Darkness on The Edge of Town album and tour.
Read about the iconic concerts from fans who were there- the Agora, Winterland, Roxy, MSG, Capitol Theatre, Boston Music Hall, The Spectrum and over seventy more!
A perfect gift for the holidays.
Click Here to Order Now: The Light in Darkness
In support of the Marathon of Hope - The Terry Fox Run, September 16, Lawrence Kirsch, publisher of “For You, Original Stories and Photographs by Bruce Springsteen’s Legendary Fans” and “The Light in Darkness,” is holding a raffle with a chance to win a brand new signed copy of “For You,” which has been sold out since December 2008.
September 11-23
Click Here to Enter: For You
Good Luck!
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Zondag 16 september vindt de Marathon of Hope – The Terry Fox Run plaats. Dit is een evenement om geld in te zamelen voor en bekendheid te geven aan The Terry Fox Foundation, een stichting die zich inzet tegen kanker. Terry Fox was een Canadese liefdadigheidswerker, atleet en activist voor kankerbestrijding. Hij werd beroemd door zijn Marathon of Hope, een loop door heel Canada, om geld in te zamelen voor het onderzoek naar kanker. Hij had maar één been en liep de marathon met een prothese. Bron: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox.
Kirsch is een bewonderaar van deze in 1981 overleden Canadees. En daarom biedt hij een gesigneerde versie van het boek aan. Als je $10,- doneert (ca. € 7,60) heb je een kans om het boek te winnen. Doneer je $15,- (€ 11,40) dan heb je drie kansen om het boek te winnen. Je kunt nog meedoen tot 23 september 2012. Dat kan via thelightindarkness.com en foryoubruce.com. De winnaar wordt op 26 september 2012 bekend gemaakt. Lees meer informatie.
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