29/06/2009 by Russell.

28th June, on stage at Hard Rock Calling, Bruce Springsteen put in another energetic show for his audience.  Falling up the stairs twice in getting back to his mike, he made the above pronouncement.

Age has no boundaries for this man, even coaxing a song out of a boy at the front of the audience ‘Waiting on a Sunny Day’ the boy sang into Bruce’s microphone.  Very much reminding me of taking Kirsten to see bruce in Manchester in 1999ish when she was 10, we weere on the second row and she made a connection with Bruce that evening. Brilliant.  He makes everyone welcome.

He opened the show with the Clash’s ’London Calling’ anthem, great start, and he rocked us all night from there.  There were the customary hand made signs of requests. The highlights among these were ‘Greetings from Hyde Park’, ‘I love you Steve’ banner and the requests were so many but he responded to Bobby Jean and Jungleland in the set.

He had a duet with Gaslight Anthem vocalist Brian Fallon on No Surrender.  What will happen when he announces a retirement tour, God only knows, hopefully it will be a one great catalogue of requests.  How many artists can do that these days? such sponteneity is one of the great things about Bruce, you never know where the journey may take you. He is undoubtedly the master performer at a live show.  I just hope Clarence Clemons’ legs/hips keep going, he is a big man tottering around on stage, but the ‘hearstoppping,  record breaking E Street Band’ wouldn’t be the same without him.

‘Glory Days’ indeed……over to you Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce

 Glasgow anybody?

Pic from BBC.

June 28, 2009
London, England
Hard Rock CallingLondon Calling
Badlands
Night
She’s The One
Outlaw Pete
Out In The Street
Working On A Dream
Seeds
Johnny 99
Youngstown
Good Lovin’
Bobby Jean
Trapped
No Surrender (duet)
Waiting On A Sunny Day
Promised Land
Racing In The Street
Radio Nowhere
Lonesome Day
The Rising
Born To Run

Rosalita
Hard Times
Jungleland
American Land
Glory Days
Dancing In The Dark

Posted in Springsteen, Kirsten | Print | No Comments »

14/06/2009 by Russell.

Emily’s too expensive for you, but if you can offer that kind of money, well Emily’s worth even more than that!

Posted in Emily, Greg | Print | No Comments »

09/06/2009 by Russell.

Thanks to Barry I have, he’s rekindled my thoughts of photography.  I used to have filters, tripods and stuff for my olf SLR, now with the advent of digital SLR, there is every opportunity to develop even a better crop of pics.  I have downloaded Elements 7 for a 30 day trial and here are a few of my early fiddlings, more vivid, more colour, more sharpness, and more realism to the shots.  In Vegas and the Grand Canyon, the light is very bright, so have increased the contrast to remove the glare.

Just click on each pic to see full size

For this photo, have added a blue Sky and toned down the glare from the Sphinx, it was far too washed out before…

.

Joshua tree cropped and green ehanced and given greater definition

Tint of sunset enhanced whilst reducing the spikey Joshua tree washed out from the flash photography

Increased contrast and deepened the contrast of the rock formatio in the foreground.  The greenery against the river enhanced

The sky has been increased in its hue. Looking over a sunset on Lake Mead, Nr Las Vegas.

Posted in USA, Photoshop, Barry, Emily, Greg | Print | No Comments »