Thank you for entering a new decade of my life with your live show, Bruce

“We are here to deliver the raw power and energy of rock and roll,” Bruce Springsteen declared to the amped crowd of 30,000 or so believers on an energetic weekday night in Syracuse, N.Y. “I am here to accept the raw power and energy of rock and roll,” I shouted back, down, down, downward the…

Blinded by the Light adds a little Mamma Mia! to its Springsteen foundation

As an unabashed member of the yeah, Springsteen’s music has spoken to me since the first listen club, I entered the theater to view Blinded by the Light With my dear wife Karen expecting to either love it or hate it. The inspired-by-true-life story of a Pakistani youth growing up in a London suburb is…

A road worth taking

So sometime in December I got a text from my dear wife Karen asking me which Bruce Springsteen song was my favorite. Thought so, she answered to my reply. At home, she told me she’d been talking about the Boss with co-workers. Cool. Then I opened holiday presents and unrolled this poster. She spotted it…

I’m with Bruce Springsteen at the grown up stage, yup

There are many things that Bruce Springsteen cops to up there on the Broadway stage. With great good humor and the confidence of man who at last has nothing to lose, the 69-year-old rocker tells maybe not all but loads on stage with just his voice, a guitar and a keyboard there at New York…

That ride to see Southside with KP and Bake stirred loose my Springsteen moment

So I’m riding in the back of Bake’s car winding through Chenango County’s backroads and the first time I ever hear the glorious voice of Bruce Springsteen flashes through my brain. High school. Spanish class. Miss Carroll in a chair with her students. Margie Knapp placing her already cherished new album from a balladeer from…

A Taste of the 20th year

A couple of weeks back, Rick from Syracuse radio station TK99 sent me a Facebook request for a few minutes of my time. Could he talk to me for a show he was putting together for the 20th anniversary of the Taste of Syracuse, please? Sure, I replied. Then, I thought: Has it been that…

If You Are a Quote Lover

So I interrupt this vacation in Cape Cod to take part in the latest BloggyVille tag game, If You Are a Quote Lover. Soumichatterjeenath of anunwrappedsoul nominated me yesterday. She and I are new followers of each other, and she’s always very polite in her comments. I wouldn’t dare not accept her challenge. Thank you,…

Talking Springsteen, ‘SNL’ and Syracuse with blogger Phil Prehn

I’ll always jump at the chance for a live chat with somebody whose blog I follow. So when Phil Prehn emailed during this bitter Syracuse winter to set up a coffee get-together at Cafe Kubal, up James Street from my dear wife Karen and I’s Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, I…

I dig sharing Cat Stevens and the E Street Band’s special night

Something I thought I’d lost forever: I watched Cat Stevens perform three of his songs that marked my introspective teens on stage with a big and great band to celebrate his induction into the Rock Hall of Fame. Yeah, I know, the event happened in April, in Brooklyn. But the four hours of acceptance speeches…