Light Of Day 2012, Asbury Park, NJ (3Videos)
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In the Honor Of Kevin & The Big Man: The Fever (1978)
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes featuring Bruce Springsteen & Clarence Clemons – Agora, Cleveland, 1978
A magical night…
UPDATED: Nicky Addeo & Friends at the Wonder Bar, Asbury Park (4 Videos)
Stand By Me – Southside Johnny, Nicky Addeo, Bruce Springsteen, Ed Manion, Vini Lopez & Friends
The Westside Sounds Of Asbury Park – Panel Discussion at the Atonement Lutheran Church in Asbury Park (8 Videos)
Panel Discussion on the history of race and music in Asbury Park, NJ. Nicky Addeo, moderator Daniel Wolff, Bobby Thomas, Southside Johnny Lyon and Bruce Springsteen (Note: The video sounds are a little low) Video by: stzapper
Reported by Stan Goldstein of The Star-Ledger: Bruce Springsteen was a surprise special guest at a panel discussion on Saturday afternoon at the Atonement Lutheran Church in Asbury Park. The roundtable talk was on soul, rhythm & blues and the history of race and music in Asbury Park. It featured author Daniel Wolff (4th of July Asbury Park) who was the moderator with guests: Southside Johnny Lyon, Bobby Thomas, Nickey Addeo and Springsteen who was not advertised as part of the panel. Continue reading
Little Steven: From E-Street to Easy Street
Little Steven got interviewed by the EVENING HERALD, an Irish newspaper published in Dublin. While the motivation for the writeup has been the syndication of Steven’s UNDERGROUND GARAGE radio program on a Dublin station, he does give some reflections about his musical career pre-1999 and promotes his latest campaign.
The success of the show has prompted Steve to lobby for rock’n'roll to be accepted as a bone fide college degree course. To that end he’s fundraising for his High School Foundation project.
“We’ve been endorsed from inside the academic community which hasn’t happened before,” he reveals. “Rock’n'roll is still the last outcast. You can get curriculums on movie making or jazz but rock’n'roll has been late to the game. Bruce Springsteen, Martin Scorsese and Bono are my first three board members so it’s going to be extremely exciting.”
Although the interview doesn’t really focus on Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Steve does give some insight into his – an that’s been probably more than true for Southside as well – personal situation in the 1990s…
“I had walked away from music,” he tells me. “I couldn’t relate any more. Grunge was happening. There was a good band or two there, Pearl Jam, Kurt Cobain. But I’m strictly a rootsy guy. If I don’t hear the roots in contemporary rock’n'roll it’s irrelevant to me. In the early ’90s, I’d produced four albums in a row including a Southside Johnny reunion record. There was no reason to make a great record anymore.
Back at the Basie
BACK AT THE BASIE WITH BANDIERA, BONDS, BON JOVI, & MR. GRINCH – DEC. 22. 2008: Springsteen drops in to wish Red Bank crowd a Merry Christmas, Baby!
It’s all cold down along the beach… the wind’s whipping down the boardwalk… and it’s freezing in Red Bank, where Bruce showed up tonight to bring some extra warmth to the newly renovated Count Basie Theatre. Just as in 2006, with no area holiday shows of his own, Springsteen chose to join in the festivities at Bobby Bandiera’s Hope Concert.
On the bill with Bandiera’s Jersey Shore Rock-N-Soul Revue were Tim McLoone and the Shirleys, Brian Fallon, Nicole Atkins, Gary U.S. Bonds, Southside Johnny, and Jon Bon Jovi; Springsteen’s surprise appearance came at the end of the night, as he joined the house band and a few of the bill-toppers for a few Christmas songs, two classic covers, and one of his own.
The night’s format had crossover between artist’s sets: Gary U.S. Bonds (after notably performing Bruce’s “Action in the Street”) was joined by Southside Johnny for “This Little Girl” to segue into Southside’s set; Johnny was joined on his last song by Jon Bon Jovi for “This Time It’s For Real.” When it came to Bon Jovi’s last song, out came Springsteen to back him up on “Run Run Rudolph,” playing lead guitar and hollering backup on the final chorus.
“Happy holidays!” said Bruce, otherwise a man of few words tonight. (Leave the quotables to Southside: “I’d wish you a merry Christmas, but it would be out of character” and “I get so sentimental, I have to drink myself into oblivion.”) Springsteen opened his own set with a doubleshot of his holiday B-sides, “Merry Christmas, Baby” followed by “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Southside — “Mr. Grinch” — joined in on the latter, and LaBamba came downstage to take Clarence’s part, “you better be good for goodness’ sake.” (LaBamba and Mark Pender brought the horn section headcount to eight for Bruce’s set.)
After Bruce went it alone on “634-5789,” Bon Jovi came back out to split the vocals on “Tenth Avenue.” And a final encore, as Springsteen was joined by Southside, singing lead, and Bonds for a rousing “Havin’ a Party.” Weather outside: frightful. Inside: plenty hot.
Source: BACKSTREETS.COM
Bonjovi and Bruce keep Hope alive
RED BANK – There already was star power a-plenty on the stage of Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank Monday night, and then Jon Bon Jovi introduced Bruce Springsteen.
BY KELLY JANE COTTER – Music Writer – December 23, 2008
“It ain’t Santa Claus,” Bon Jovi said, announcing a special guest. “We got something better.” Like his fellow rockers at Monday’s Hope Concert, Springsteen took the stage in a low-key manner, providing guitar solos and backing vocals to Bobby Bandiera’s lead on “Run Rudolph Run.”
Springsteen soon took center stage, with back-to-back performances of “Merry Christmas, Baby” and his definitive version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.” He directed the band and led the audience in cries of call-and-response. “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” soon followed, and all was merry and bright.
A finale of “Having a Party,” with Southside Johnny Lyon on lead, backed by Springsteen, Bandiera, Gary U.S. Bonds and the band, capped an evening that raised more than $250,000 for the Parker Family Health Center in Red Bank, as well as thousands of cans of donated food for the FoodBank of Monmouth/Ocean Counties.
This was the fourth Hope Concert, a tradition founded and organized by Bandiera, a longtime member of the local music scene who currently tours with Bon Jovi. Earlier in the night, Bon Jovi sang “Blue Christmas,” and then gave an optimistic wish for the new year and the new president, Barack Obama.
The IV. HOPE Benefit Concert (5 Videos)
Bobby Bandiera’s IV. HOPE Christmas Bash is over since just a few hours… and here’re already the first videos to come in via YouTube of what has been, as it seems like, another marvelous night at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ.
THIS TIME IT’S FOR REAL
Sharing a lot more than just the stage
THE BRICK TOWNSHIP BULLETIN – BY SANDI CARPELLO – MAY 07. 2003
Shore’s rock ’n’ rollers play to help out Brick resident’s son.
RED BANK — This time, they got together for a cause a lot closer to home. Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Southside Johnny Lyon, Bobby Bandiera, Gary U.S. Bonds, the Max Weinberg 7 and other local musicians contributed their time and talents last week to “The Hope Concert.” The benefit show raised over $300,000 to cover medical care for Bandiera’s son Robert Bandiera Jr., 21, of Brick, who suffers from an undiagnosed neurological disorder.
During a four-hour, sold-out show at the Count Basie Theatre on April 29, the quintessence of the Jersey Shore rock scene played to an appreciative audience well-versed in the music they came to hear.
The Big Three Backing Bobby Bandiera
THE NEW JERSEY STAR LEDGER – BY JAY LUSTIG – THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2003
The big three of Jersey Shore rock ‘n’ roll — Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and Southside Johnny — will perform in a benefit concert at Red Bank’s Count Basie Theatre on April 29. The beneficiary of the show, titled “The Hope Concert,” will be a musician who has backed them all many times in the past: Bobby Bandiera. The guitarist needs the money to cover medical expenses for his son, Robert Bandiera Jr.
Bobby Bandiera and Gary U.S. Bonds will also perform at the event, and Big Joe Henry of the Trenton-based radio station New Jersey 101.5 FM and Tim McLoone of the Shore-based charity band Holiday Express will co-host. Tickets, priced at $100, $250 and $300, go on sale tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. at the Count Basie box office, 99 Monmouth St., and through the box office’s phone line, (732) 842-9000. There will be a four-ticket limit per person.