bruce in europe

[Ken Gargett]

interesting article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/opinion/brooks-the-power-of-the-particular.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

we see a fair bit of david brooks down here via the newshour on sbs. had no idea he was a boss fan.

worth adding that the period after 'born to run', was about three years involved in legal wranglings as well.

[mbmacri]

Very interesting article. Thanks for posting it. Proves again why Springsteen is "The Boss".

[Ken Gargett]

i doubt we'll see him for aq while. the last one - back in 2003 - had concerts in melbourne, sydney and two in brizzy. saw the opening which was melbourne. the day the states invaded iraq so he was in a fairly pissed off/serious mood but great concert. saw the first of the two in brizzy. amazing. played jungleland (aside from a few small concerts a few years earlier, first time in about 20 years - crowd went nuts. i had shivers for a month. next night, he replaced it with 'my hometown'. i know which i'd rather hear).

apparently, major problems with the stage and electrics and sound in sydney. lot of people very pissed off. not bruce's fault. it cost the promoter a bomb, i believe. he then turned round to bruce and said, well, perhaps we should share the losses, notwithstanding a contract to the contrary. bruce said no. not sure whether bruce ever got paid. think he might have been and the promoter copped the loss, as he should - you can imagine the bloke going to bruce and saying i made a heap of dosh, you have more than we agreed, if the reserve.

there was unpleasantness and threats. not sure of the chances of bruce returning.

[Ken Gargett]

As you see in the link he's apparently offered promoters a slot for March but his price has so far been deemed too high.

see the link. great news if it pans out but as i detailed, not hopeful.