Cap’tain Bob
@BobTharin • 4,163 subscribers
Bruce Springsteen every day — live performances, rare footage and stories. 🎸 #Springsteen #EStreetBand #LiveMusic #ClassicRock
Videos
Bono was injured. U2 needed a frontman for one night in Times Square. Bruce Springsteen stepped in — and tore into “Where the Streets Have No Name” as if he’d been in the band for years. New York, 2014. One hell of a substitute. 🔥 #BruceSpringsteen #U2 #LiveMusic #RockMusic
Cap’tain Bob432,133 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
When Bruce Springsteen opens with Van Halen’s Jump, and Tom Morello steps in for Eddie’s solo… there’s only one option: turn it all the way up. 🎸🔥 Dallas, 2014 — the E Street Band at full throttle. #BruceSpringsteen #TomMorello #VanHalen #LiveMusic #ClassicRock
Cap’tain Bob124,018 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
On August 10, 1972, I was only a few months old. That same night, Bruce Springsteen was opening for Dave Van Ronk at Max’s Kansas City in New York — 22 years old, alone with his guitar, long before Born to Run, stadiums and the legend. Rare footage from those early Max’s Kansas City shows. #BruceSpringsteen #MaxsKansasCity #SpringsteenHistory #1972 #RareFootage #GrowinUp Born to Run. Made to Repost. 🔁
Cap’tain Bob83,155 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Bruce has just shared the news every Springsteen fan was hoping to hear. “Patti is now thankfully in remission.” During a heartfelt message for the Pan-Mass Challenge, Bruce thanks the doctors, nurses and researchers who never stop fighting cancer… before closing with a beautiful acoustic performance of Born to Run. ❤️🎸 #BruceSpringsteen #PattiScialfa #BornToRun #CancerResearch #PanMassChallenge #EStreetBand
Cap’tain Bob79,835 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Just two days after Prince’s death, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened their Brooklyn show with “Purple Rain.” The arena turned purple, and Nils Lofgren delivered a magnificent guitar solo worthy of the moment. A beautiful farewell from one legend to another. 💜 #BruceSpringsteen #Prince #PurpleRain #NilsLofgren #EStreetBand
Cap’tain Bob70,748 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Racing in the Street isn’t really a song about cars. It’s about fading dreams, a love falling apart, and those moments when you’re still searching for a reason to keep moving forward. In Sydney on February 19, 2014, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band delivered a deeply moving version. Nearly nine suspended minutes, carried by an intensely emotional finale.
Cap’tain Bob40,784 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
A historic passing of the torch in Gothenburg. On July 28, 2012, Jake Clemons played the Jungleland saxophone solo for the first time — the song’s first performance since Clarence’s death. A beautiful, emotional moment. The Big Man’s legacy was in safe hands. #BruceSpringsteen #Springsteen #EStreetBand
Cap’tain Bob32,703 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
To understand how Born to Run was made, Thunder Road is almost the perfect case study. At the beginning of 1975, the song already existed, but it was called Wings for Wheels. Bruce even played it at the Main Point in February. Much of its DNA was already there… but something still wasn’t working. What it really lacked was that huge final release. So Bruce kept searching. For weeks. The solution came from another song he had been working on since 1974: Walking in the Street. Instead of trying to save that song, Bruce basically took it apart and salvaged the best pieces: some lyrical ideas found their way into Wings for Wheels, and most importantly, its long instrumental coda became the beautiful, soaring ending we now know from Thunder Road. Even the title came late. Bruce borrowed it from a poster for the Robert Mitchum film Thunder Road — a movie he later said he hadn’t even seen. Then, in April 1975, Jon Landau officially joined the production, the sessions moved to the Record Plant with Jimmy Iovine, and Bruce kept recording and reshaping the song through the final overdubs and mixes that summer. That may be the best way to understand Born to Run: Bruce hardly threw anything away. He dismantled, recycled, rebuilt… until the song finally sounded like the one he had been hearing in his head. And out of several unfinished songs came one of his greatest. Thunder Road. #BruceSpringsteen #ThunderRoad #BornToRun #EStreetBand
Cap’tain Bob16,248 görüntüleme • 26 gün önce
June 14, 2019. Bruce Springsteen releases Western Stars: an album like a CinemaScope sunset stretching across a desert highway, where deserted motels drift past and loneliness lingers on the horizon. An inner western, gently haunted by the elegance of Roy Orbison.
Cap’tain Bob45,353 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Following this account may be more of a highway to heaven — but in Brisbane, with Eddie Vedder and Tom Morello beside him, Bruce chose the much steeper road. “Highway to Hell,” live in Brisbane, February 26, 2014. Four guitars, and absolutely no brakes. #BruceSpringsteen #EddieVedder #TomMorello #LiveMusic
Cap’tain Bob28,245 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
