Bruce Springsteen Forum

http://www.vroegop.org/
unter der Adresse findet man alle Geschichten, die Springsteen bei seinen Konzerten erzählt hat, allerdings in englisch.

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Schade,dass bei der Auflistung die "Story" bzw. Einleitung zu " I'm a Coward" von 88-89 fehlt. Oder kann jemand den ungefähren Wortlaut berichten?

http://www.springsteen.org.uk/story.htm

BITTE AUF STORYTELLER LINK DER JEWEILIGEN SHOW KLICKEN

ich glaube hier steht all das was Bruce jemals auf der Bühne gesagt hat, dazu noch reichlich Infos zu sau vielen Konzerten. Und dann noch nach Jahreszahl und Konzert geordnet....
Diese Arbeit ist wirklich unglaublich, all das aus den Boots rauszuhören. Davor ziehe ich echt den Hut... !!!!

Meine Lieblingsgeschichte ist die "Backstreets 1977 Jacksonville"

´´This is for Chris, happy birthday to you....(?) license plate number L9, please move your car (chuckles) they´re about to tow it away (chuckles) this is for Chris, on her birthday....
(....) Just me and you, baby.....just me and you, girl....we were gonna steal away....we were gonna steal away.... we were gonna slip away....I remember we had it all figured out....you was gonna quit your job and I was gonna quit my job too....and I remember....I remember....it was on the weekends, we used to....this guy abandoned this old car in the middle of this field about two or three miles outside of town....and we used to hitchhike out there....it was about two or three hundred feet off the tracks....and I remember this night we were out there....riding, we were out there riding in back....oh, way down by the railroad tracks....oh, in the backseat....in the backseat....in the backseat of that old Cadillac, baby used to ride in the back....oh, darling, take me riding....oh, you take me back....(?)...I remember there was this farmhouse ´bout a mile up the road and these kids, they set, it was abandoned, these kids set fire to it that night and they had these machines down there, they had this fire down there....it was just burning out of control, I remember we was sitting in the back of the car and we´d see the fire shoot in the air, see the water shoot in the air....and I remember you promised you was never gonna go....surely you was never going anyplace without me.....I remember you promised....I remember how you swore to it....and I remember sitting on the hood of the car and watch it rushing towards us....watching the fire rushing towards us....watching the fire rushing towards us.... watching the fields (?)....and I remember standing on the corner....I was standing on the corner (?)....had my suitcase packed....oh, we were gonna make some tracks, make some tracks....(?)...I remember a cat asked me what I was waiting for....and I stood there....time went by, the night went by....and I was standing there three in the morning, I was just wishing....just wishing that God would send down some angels and blow this whole town into the sea....just wishing that God would send some angels and blow this whole town right into the sea....just wishing that God would send some angels and blow this whole town right into the sea....just wishing that God would send some angels and blow us all away and blow us all away and blow us all away and blow us all away because you promised, blow us all away because you promised, blow us all away because you promised, just blow it all away because you promised, just blow it all away because you promised....you promised....because you promised....and because YOU LIED !....YOU LIED!....”

... der CaSsi hat wie immer sowas von Recht ...
Bsp.: 12.07.88 FFM
´´Is there anybody alive out there tonight ? (cheers)....is there anybody that can feel the living, breathing spirit down in their souls tonight ? (cheers)....that´s good....because I have a question that I want to ask you....are there any rough, tough Frankfurt men in the audience tonight ? (cheers)....I mean do we have any macho men out there tonight ? (cheers) .... because I’ve known men that would swim rivers, climb mountains, wrestle with grizzly bears ....but there was one thing they was afraid of.....and I´m gonna tell you what that one thing was....what scared them to death was something called L....U...V, I’m talking about love, love, love scared them to death....when they got next to love, they ran home to their mommies like little babies....do we have any brave, heroic Frankfurt women out there tonight ? (cheers)....do we have any sweet, sexy, German girls out there tonight ? (cheers)....come on, let me hear you, girls (cheers)....one more time now (cheers)....because I’m talking to you too.... I’ve known women that when they got next to love, they ran home to their loneliness and their isolation.....now, I’m down here tonight....I´m not just trying to point a finger at you....I´m down here because I´ve got a confession I´ve got to make.....and what I want to say is I have sinned !....and I ain´t ashamed and Jimmy Swaggert and all those boys can kiss my ass, baby....because I´m a brave man, I´m a brave man if I don´t say so myself ....but what I´ve got to testify to is, what I´ve got to confess tonight to is, what I´ve got to testify to is....that I’m a coward when it comes to love......”

mFg
MG

Neben dem Klassiker von "The River", welcher im alten Forum von Ragman schon mal übersetzt wurde, ist das hier auch sehr interessant, im Hinblick auf seine (früheren) familiären Verhältnisse!

taken from: http://www.iai.csic.es/users/fseco/storiesdarkness.htm


Growin' Up (The Roxy Theater, Los Angeles, CA, July 7, 1978)

There I was one night as a normal guy and then there I was the next night goddamnit I was still just a normal guy.

Well I stood stone like at midnight...

I think, I ain't sure, but I think that my mother and father and my sister they here again tonight. Are you guys out there? You over there? For six years they been following me 'round California trying to get me to come back home. Hey ma! Give it up, ma! Gimme a break! They're still... [fan yells "Where are they?"] I don't know, they're over there somewhere. But they're still trying to get me to go back to college. Every time I come in the house, you know, "It's not too late, you could still go back to college" they told me. I said all right, all right.

But it's funny 'cos when I was growin' up there were two things that were impopular in my house. One was me and the other one was my guitar. And my father used to sit in the kitchen and we had this grate like the heat's supposed to come through except it wasn't hooked up to any, like, heating ducts... it was just open like straight down to the kitchen and there was a gas stove right underneath it. And when I used to start playing he used to turn on the gas jets to try to smoke me out of my room. I'd end up out on... out on the roof or something. And he used to always refer to this guitar, never the Fender guitar, the Gibson guitar, it was always the goddamned guitar. Whenever he stuck his head on my door that's all I hear "Turn down the goddamned guitar." He was trying to get me to be a lawyer and it was funny 'cos when I was in a motorcycle accident when I was seventeen and like, this cat, just, you know, ran head on into me and then got out and yelled at me for ruining his Cadillac, and we had like a suit, a legal suit, and my father took me down to this lawyer in town [his name was Billy ??? and he later became mayor, anyway, he looked at me] and he said "Oh man I gotta defend this?". I looked about just about exactly the same way that I look right now.

And I remember we were going to the court the day of the suit like I got, I'm like in the right, I just got hit and my legs messed up and I remember my lawyer telling me: "If I was the judge I'd find you guilty", you know? I don't know for what, just for being there I guess. But anyway my father always said "You know, you should be a lawyer, you know, you get a little something for yourself" and my mother and my sister said "No no no he should be, he should be an author, he should write books." You know, it's a good life if you can get a little something for yourself. But like they didn't understand was that I wanted everything. [fan: "you got it"]. And... so one of you guys want a lawyer and the other one want an author, well tonight you'se are both just gonna have to settle for rock'n'roll.


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Thommy