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The Mike Saunders Report 2001
ASBURYJUKES.NET – BY MIKE SAUNDERS – JULY 2001
I promised to post a lengthy tour report when I got the chance. Well, it’s better late than never! I’ve had severe problems floating slowly down from Cloud Nine, hence the delay. I’m still not quite sure what day it is or which country I’m in. As regular readers of the Digest will know, my pre-tour posts announced the fact that I was going to attend all nine full-length club shows on the Jukes European tour.
Concerns were expressed at the time that the UK dates weren’t going to sell out. Bill Durborow was pulling his hair out on the website. The future of civilisation hung in the balance…well, folks, worry no more. It was cool. We did ‘em proud. Sad as I am to report that it’s all over now, the UK tour was virtually sold out and a ball was had by all, y’all! As SJ predicted in his last Jive, the Jukes replicated the Viking invasion of the UK and pulled all the stops out. Rape and pillage were kept to a minimum, while the UK basked in the glow of New Jersey’s finest doing what they do best.
Secret History of the Miami Horns
BACKSTREETS MAGAZINE – BY MIKE SAUNDERS – 1998
A question by Ulf Ellestrom on Lucky Town Digest regarding the 1976/1977 Miami Horns attracted my attention. I regularly write about Bruce and Southside for the UK fanzine The Ties That Bind and for the past 12 years I’ve researched the history of the Asbury Jukes to exhaustion, particularly the 1975-1978 period and the links to Bruce, Miami Steve and the E Streeters.
I’ve been lucky enough to interview Southside at length on a couple of occasions and have put together a highly detailed Jukes Family Tree, listing just about everybody who has ever played with the band from 1975 to the present day, including, of course, a million horn players. I’d now like to contribute my interpretation of events, which I believe to be the most accurate. For the record, YES there were two sets of Miami Horns operating during the period in question (one with Bruce, the other with Southside), and NO they weren’t the players listed in the Backstreets book.
Nobody's gonna stop me!
Posted on ASBURYJUKES.NET by Mike Saunders at 18:31 – 28 Nov 1998 FOR TRUE ROCKER’S ONLY – BY MIKE SAUNDERS – 1991
Like many others, I first became aware of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes through my interest in Bruce Springsteen, but it was Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul who finally persuaded me to check out Southside’s music. In May 1983, I saw them play in London during the Men Without Women tour and was very impressed with the power of the old Jukes horn section and the songs Steven wrote for Southside, such as I Don’t Want To Go Home, This Time It’s For Real, Take It Inside and I Played The Fool. Later that year, I bought the I Don’t Want To Go Home album and never looked back.
Not satisfied with merely listening to the music of any band I’m interested in, I also like to discover as much as I can about the individual members and their shared history, to understand the personalities behind the music and the circumstances in which it was made. Before long, I’d snapped up the Jukes’ back catalogue and begun an open-ended, in-depth study of the life and times of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. In 1986, I wrote my first article, a brief history of the band for the Little Steven fanzine Voice Of America, which accompanied a review of At Least We Got Shoes. At the time, I was writing and researching for my own entertainment. I had no idea that just five years down the road, my work would bring about an interview with Southside himself. This is the story of how it all came together.
