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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:06 pm 
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Springsteen was here in Austin last night. I went for fun and had a blast. Our music critic went and reviewed it and is now getting torn to shreds by "BROOOOOCE!" fans in the comments section for not basically writing; "OMG! Best show EVAR!"

None of us here really give two craps about the fanboys, but give it a gander and let loose with any thoughts.

http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/ ... at_th.html

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:22 pm 
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the comments are pretty funny because it's not even a negative review.

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jewels santana Wrote:
the comments are pretty funny because it's not even a negative review.


The overall tone is implicitly negative.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:32 pm 
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Sounds like:

1 - he holds bruce to a higher standard

2 - he holds himself to a higher/different standard (separates himself from both the "nerds" and the "we only know the hits" crowd. points out that he understands song/lyrical content that the audience missed).

re: the fanboys - i'll start a new thread.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:34 pm 
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DumpJack Wrote:
jewels santana Wrote:
the comments are pretty funny because it's not even a negative review.


The overall tone is implicitly negative.


While I might not have been as sharp with my pen (so to speak) I can totally see all the points he made. I dunno. You see hundreds of shows, it gets to be that you're looking behind the curtain a lot of the time and in so doing you can miss out on some of the fun and spectacle that's being projected.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:54 pm 
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Bruce is cool.
Jungleland is not stew.


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jewels santana Wrote:
the comments are pretty funny because it's not even a negative review.


Yeah, only that last paragraph is negative...but it is a doozy. Jungleland is a "colossally pretentious and baffling stew of prog-rock rambling" REALLY?


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:39 am 
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1. my favorite comment:
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April 6, 2009 8:12 AM | Link to this

Bruce played for nearly 3 hours and you only posted 7 photos? Very lame.

hilarious. complaining about the # of photos posted when half the times i see a review, there's 1, maybe 2 at best.

2. errin worked the load-in/out for this show, and as a result a) she got a smile from the boss and b) i got a pair of max's sticks that were left on stage.

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My friend and I had shitty seats, but this was a pretty good show. My only issue was the acoustics...I could barely discern a snare drum sound a lot of the time. That might have had something to do with me sitting behind the band in the upper part of the arena, I don't know... Glad I got to see him. I didn't always like him much, but I came around 2 or so years ago.


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:05 pm 
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1. my favorite comment:
By Caroleen

April 6, 2009 8:12 AM | Link to this

Bruce played for nearly 3 hours and you only posted 7 photos? Very lame.

hilarious. complaining about the # of photos posted when half the times i see a review, there's 1, maybe 2 at best.

i had a similar issue for a show i reviewed. thing is, press photographers are only allowed in the pit for the first 3 songs. (i think that's pretty standard.) so they just snap away for 10-15 minutes and hope to have a bunch that're usable. sometimes you get lucky. sometimes you don't.


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