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Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert
Aug 25^th, 2008 at 7:48pm

I have now seen both and I'd like to know how Rocks Off feels about the difference. Which one you feel now puts on a better show. The difference in the amount of songs played and the overall quality of the performance. Which is more of an event.
I'm not tryin to start a fight here, just wanted to know some of your opinions. I'm torn, I was thrilled to get a chance to see The Stones, I believe to be the Greatest Rock N Roll Band Ever. Kiss my undercover ass

BUT having just seen the Boss, as he played like 30 songs and 3 hours, played the audience, with no front act, Interacted with his fans, I got say He Rocked the house. Blank Frigging Stare

Let the tar and feathering begin.

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steeldrivinghammer Ex Member	Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert Reply #2 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 8:02pm Lets see if Bruce plays for 3 hours when he's 65. Hard to believe that a Rolling Stones message board has a Bruce Springsteen topic post w/ the most views and most replies.
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robpop Rocks Off Regular Offline My name is called disturbance! Posts: 1,881 City of Champions Gender:	Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert Reply #3 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 8:05pm Quote: Lets see if Bruce plays for 3 hours when he's 65. Hard to believe that a Rolling Stones message board has a Bruce Springsteen topic post w/ the most views and most replies. Bruce is 60 now, and his shows have been better since I could remember.
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Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert
Reply #4 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 8:38pm

As much as I love The Stones, and they're my favorite band, you just can't deny that Bruce and E Street Band is a better live act.. His '78 and '80/'81 tours are legendary, and he knows like noone else how to work the crowd

Plus let's face it... Mick Jagger, nowadays doesn't even look down at the crowd. Bruce on the other hand is a simple person and interacts with the crowd

This clip exemplyfies this very well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7oIThTv7Qk

"Lets see if Bruce plays for 3 hours when he's 65.

Hard to believe that a Rolling Stones message board has a Bruce Springsteen topic post w/ the most views and most replies."

Bruce is/was doing a tour has been blowin' people away night after night for the past year.. The Stones realeased a movie and that was it.... Kinda explains why there's been little Stones discussion

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Pdog Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 6,123 aTx Gender:	Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert Reply #5 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 8:56pm Bruce is great, but his shows, I've been to two, aren't the same as Stones shows. I even passed on seeing him in Oakland, I wouldn't pass on a Stones show, no matter how much I bitch about them.
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glencar Ex Member	Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert Reply #6 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 8:58pm Stunning fucking thread. ABSOLUTELY THE STONES ARE BETTER, DAY IN DAY OUT. LET"S NOT EVEN PRETEND THIS IS LEGIT QUESTION. I MEAN, WHAT THE FUC!
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robpop Rocks Off Regular Offline My name is called disturbance! Posts: 1,881 City of Champions Gender:	Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert Reply #7 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:11pm VERY LEGIT QUESTION. OK. WTF? I HAVE SEEN THEN BOTH SEVERAL TIMES IN THE LAST 25 YEARS. ALTHOUGH THE STONES ARE MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIMES, BRUCE DOES PUT ON A BETTER SHOW. Ok, I done with the caps.
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Reply #8 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:13pm

Let's not make this one of the worst threads in the History of RO.

It's the Stones for me....anytime, anyday, any age, any weather condition, any venue.....

Bruce and the ESB have been phenomenal. Those that love them should be so proud. I was lucky enough to catch a show and thought it was great!! An excellent dose of much needed raw Rock n Roll. outstanding setlists and show times. Oh how I wish I could see the "boys" do a 3 hour show and take requests via sign from the crowd. But that ain't happenin'.

Apples and Oranges.

But NO BAND will EVER provide me the 'Tingle" of the Rolling Stones. That's just me. Longtime regular of a great Rolling Stones Board, Rocks Off!!!!

LJ.

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Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert
Reply #10 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:16pm

LadyJane wrote on Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:13pm:

Let's not make this one of the worst threads in the History of RO.

It's the Stones for me....anytime, anyday, any age, any weather condition, any venue.....

Bruce and the ESB have been phenomenal. Those that love them should be so proud. I was lucky enough to catch a show and thought it was great!! An excellent dose of much needed raw Rock n Roll. outstanding setlists and show times. Oh how I wish I could see the "boys" do a 3 hour show and take requests via sign from the crowd. But that ain't happenin'.

Apples and Oranges.

But NO BAND will EVER provide me the 'Tingle" of the Rolling Stones. That's just me. Longtime regular of a great Rolling Stones Board, Rocks Off!!!!

LJ.

I'm sorry....I can be an ass sometimes,ok a lot of times.

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Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert
Reply #11 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:21pm

LadyJane wrote on Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:13pm:

Let's not make this one of the worst threads in the History of RO.

It's the Stones for me....anytime, anyday, any age, any weather condition, any venue.....

Bruce and the ESB have been phenomenal. Those that love them should be so proud. I was lucky enough to catch a show and thought it was great!! An excellent dose of much needed raw Rock n Roll. outstanding setlists and show times. Oh how I wish I could see the "boys" do a 3 hour show and take requests via sign from the crowd. But that ain't happenin'.

Apples and Oranges.

But NO BAND will EVER provide me the 'Tingle" of the Rolling Stones. That's just me. Longtime regular of a great Rolling Stones Board, Rocks Off!!!!

LJ.

Those moronic speeches "the Boss" gives don't add to his luster. And I've had Mick & Keith pose for me & my crappy disposable cameras. The last time was in Atlantic City. The crowd to see Brucie was actually older than any Stones crowd I've seen. Yes, it was a good show but no, it wasn't better than the Stones. Ri-goddam-DICKulous.

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robpop Rocks Off Regular Offline My name is called disturbance! Posts: 1,881 City of Champions Gender:	Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert Reply #12 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:28pm End of Story. Its all political. By the way....i'm going on out on a limb here, not much of one, but the R S (if able to vote in the US) would vote for BO.
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Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert
Reply #13 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:47pm

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[quote author=LadyJane link=1219711731/0#8 date=1219716833]Let's not make this one of the worst threads in the History of RO.

It's the Stones for me....anytime, anyday, any age, any weather condition, any venue.....

Bruce and the ESB have been phenomenal. Those that love them should be so proud. I was lucky enough to catch a show and thought it was great!! An excellent dose of much needed raw Rock n Roll. outstanding setlists and show times. Oh how I wish I could see the "boys" do a 3 hour show and take requests via sign from the crowd. But that ain't happenin'.

Apples and Oranges.

But NO BAND will EVER provide me the 'Tingle" of the Rolling Stones. That's just me. Longtime regular of a great Rolling Stones Board, Rocks Off!!!!

LJ.

Those moronic speeches "the Boss" gives don't add to his luster.

What moronic speeches? 2 days before the DNC,on the day when Obama announced his running mate and on a nite when Living in the Future was back in the setlist. He didn't say 1 word about politics. Not even the usual 30 second speil he used to do before Living In The Future.

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Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert
Reply #15 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 11:07pm

Eduardo BM Paiva wrote on Aug 25^th, 2008 at 8:38pm:

As much as I love The Stones, and they're my favorite band, you just can't deny that Bruce and E Street Band is a better live act.. His '78 and '80/'81 tours are legendary, and he knows like noone else how to work the crowd

Plus let's face it... Mick Jagger, nowadays doesn't even look down at the crowd. Bruce on the other hand is a simple person and interacts with the crowd

This clip exemplyfies this very well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7oIThTv7Qk

"Lets see if Bruce plays for 3 hours when he's 65.

Hard to believe that a Rolling Stones message board has a Bruce Springsteen topic post w/ the most views and most replies."

Bruce is/was doing a tour has been blowin' people away night after night for the past year.. The Stones realeased a movie and that was it.... Kinda explains why there's been little Stones discussion

that's a nice clip...but y'all should see feej work the crowd. it is goddamned something to be reckoned with.

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Pdog Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 6,123 aTx Gender:	Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert Reply #16 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 11:12pm robpop wrote on Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:28pm: End of Story. Its all political. By the way....i'm going on out on a limb here, not much of one, but the R S (if able to vote in the US) would vote for BO. a very high percentage of artists would vote for him... no question, no doubt.
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marko Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 512 Finland Gender:	Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert Reply #17 - Aug 26^th, 2008 at 12:30am Wasn´t it keith,who said that good rock n roll act.lasts only 20minutes!Let alone 3 hours? Does bruce still keep his preaching?He should stop that...not very rock n roll.
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Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert
Reply #18 - Aug 26^th, 2008 at 2:46am

I have never seen the Stones live since I got in to them WAY TO LATE... Let's just hope we get at least one more tour, as I say to my friends when I've seen the Stones my life will be complete...
Anyway I'v seen Bruce three time, two of them in Gothenburg, Ullevi, this summer and it was the best 6 hours of my life Wink

I just have to wait and see if the Stones can top that.... I think that I'm gonna have some problems to choose beacuse in my mind they sort of do different things... I rather see Bruce on a Stadium because it's very powerful at the same time as he's very close to the audience.... and if I got to choose were to see the Stones I would say in a theater because that's when it's just down to the music (Even though I would like to see the stones on all the different venues)....

Since we are talking Bruce and the way he ineracts with the audience.. I have to share my proudest moment from this summer Wink

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RA_SMTBHxJA

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Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert
Reply #20 - Aug 26^th, 2008 at 6:14am

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Lets see if Bruce plays for 3 hours when he's 65.

As opposed to the Stones playing for less than two?

Some of his band are already around that age. Clarence Clemons is older than all of the Stones except Charlie.

Bruce has always played longer shows than the Stones have done at his age. Often around 50% longer. So your answer makes no sense. He's the same age now that Jagger was on the Licks tour and is performing for over an hour longer.

Its an apples and oranges question anyway, but as someone who likes both acts equally (which gives me a different perspective than someone who only really likes one of them), the gulf unfortunately has never been greater although both put on excellent shows.

Personally, I'm grateful they're both still around and providing great entertainment.

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Hard to believe that a Rolling Stones message board has a Bruce Springsteen topic post w/ the most views and most replies.

Well its only one thread. Feel free to avoid it if it hurts or leave if you dont like it. Then again, I suppose - considering its a music related board - we could always use another tiresome thread on US politics.

The last Stones show was a year ago. Since then their activity has consisted of attending about three film premieres. Bruce has released an album and played something like 105 shows - hence the prolonged interest on the one thread relating to him thats on this board. If he hardly sold any records and few people went to see him would it bother you anywhere near as much? I dont see any complaints when there are threads on Dylan or anyone else.

The way round it might be to post a Stones related thread.

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Reply #21 - Aug 26^th, 2008 at 6:35am

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[Those moronic speeches "the Boss" gives don't add to his luster. .

I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds it ironic that there are people who think that the occasional 30-second 'speech' (usually done in a self deprecating manner) in a 3 hour concert is out of place yet they have no qualms about having endless heated debates on the same subject on a music forum.

That plus the fact that there are two songs on the last Rolling Stones album which are far more politically barbed and bitterly anti-Republican than any song or speech Springsteen has ever uttered.

Rock 'n' roll moved way beyond merely writing about relationships over 40 years ago. If music fans want artists to avoid writing about what's happening in the world around them, maybe we should all just be listening to Barry Manilow.

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Re: Bruce Springsteen Concert vs Stones Concert
Reply #23 - Aug 26^th, 2008 at 9:25am

Gazza wrote on Aug 26^th, 2008 at 6:35am:

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[Those moronic speeches "the Boss" gives don't add to his luster. .

I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds it ironic that there are people who think that the occasional 30-second 'speech' (usually done in a self deprecating manner) in a 3 hour concert is out of place yet they have no qualms about having endless heated debates on the same subject on a music forum.

That plus the fact that there are two songs on the last Rolling Stones album which are far more politically barbed and bitterly anti-Republican than any song or speech Springsteen has ever uttered.

Rock 'n' roll moved way beyond merely writing about relationships over 40 years ago. If music fans want artists to avoid writing about what's happening in the world around them, maybe we should all just be listening to Barry Manilow.

"......maybe we should all just be listening to Barry Manilow."

Well he does write the songs....
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Reply #24 - Aug 26^th, 2008 at 11:02am

I find Springsteen boring but I'm very much in the minority. I say the more good bands touring the better for everyone This thing about Stones having to be #1 in all things..well I kinda gave that up in high school.Music moods can change and the more variety thebetter.I saw Johnny Winter in Toronto in 1976 for instance and for that one night he was the Greatest Roc in Roll band in the World.So were the Dead and the Who few times for me anyway. Enjoy the Boss..U2..Zep...Who...Vedder..Winehouse...Lucinda etc..its all good!

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