A Songwriter Greg should Study

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DM60 said:
If this board gives you the ability to see where people come from with IP addresses (and I'm sure it does), you can trace it that way. There should be some kind of way to determine IDs and IPs.
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Yes, I have access to IP's, but his were different between his aliases.

Greg_L said:
They all post the exact same way. Exact same.
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Guess I wasn't looking to keenly at his posts. :)
 
Chili said:
He is out temporarily; a few weeks or a month.

BTW; how did you know he was Hates Recording and Turtle Michael?
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The attitude, master songwriter rants, and Springsteen links are a running theme, but beyond that his posts all look similar on a structural/syntax/grammar level... I don't want to get more specific in case he's reading this, but he's got his fingerprints...like Robbie and his question marks.
 
It's like when the circus comes to town once a year.
No matter what it's called, you know what all the rides will be like, the arcade games are the same, and there's the freakshow with it's two-headed cow...but you go anyway, just for the silly amusement of it all.

This time around, I finally did the Fun House ride myslef, just to see if it was any good. :laughings:
 
Greg_L said:
Yup, those are dead giveaways. No one actually fucking likes Springsteen. :laughings:
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I liked Bruce for a very brief period...very brief.
Before that, I didn't care for him, and after that period I just can't listen to him any more at all.
I was living in NJ in the mid/late '70s...and that's ALL they played OVER and OVER.
There's a few songs of his I like on "Greetings from Asbury Park"...and maybe a couple more songs on albums right after that, but the rest I couldn't even begin to tell you what he's done....I deliberately stopped listening to him.

I still recall when Lennon got shot....in NJ people were posting graffiti that said "God, please take Springsteen instead and give us back Lennon".....so in NJ there was a clear division of Bruce lovers and haters, much if it due to the absolutely insane saturation of Springsteen music that you had to listen to in NJ from the mid-70s to mid-80s....and after that I moved to NY, and no more Springsteen at all......thank you. :)

Now days he just annoys me with his music-for-politics crap.
 
Born to Run is a fantastic american rock and roll song. Everything else he's done is shit.
 
Greg_L said:
Born to Run is a fantastic american rock and roll song. Everything else he's done is shit.
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I remember the first time I heard that....like it was yesterday.
It was 1975 I believe, and I was on my lunch break, I went to KFC and was sitting out in my car chewing on a drumstick and listening to the radio, since it was a nice sunny day (I think it was late-spring/early summer).
Then "Born to Run" came on the radio....and I stopped eating, and was taken by the whole thing...that almost-symphonic arrangement and performance was unlike anything else playing on the radio.

That was the one and only Springsteen song we ever did in my band. The long downward transition always fucked us up...and we had no sax player...so eventually we let it go.
Never did another Springsteen tune after that.
 
I grew up very close to where Springsteen grew up and saw him many times before he was Bruce. Used to have a band called Steel Mill, horns, black chicks doing backups etc. Did a bunch of Motown, Heat Wave, Dancing in the Streets, etc.
 
Griffin_ said:
wow I respectfully disagree. I think his best album was Darkness On The Edge of Town, thats where he started shaking his influences and found his own sound. Born to Run was great, but he has so many songs, and so many different styles, covered by such varied artists, it's really a mistake to not take notice. He is one of my favorite writers, because great writers are hard to find in rock music. He has penned songs for Patty Smith, The Ramones, they asked him to write them a song citing his brilliance, he wrote them Hungry Heart, but his manager insisted he keep it for his new album, which it them became a big hit. But he's mostly a consistent album writer, not a hit song writer. M0ost of his hits were hits for other artists, he wasnt interested in being a hit songwriter.
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barry. :facepalm:
 
Griffin_ said:
wow I respectfully disagree. I think his best album was Darkness On The Edge of Town, thats where he started shaking his influences and found his own sound. Born to Run was great, but he has so many songs, and so many different styles, covered by such varied artists, it's really a mistake to not take notice. He is one of my favorite writers, because great writers are hard to find in rock music. He has penned songs for Patty Smith, The Ramones, they asked him to write them a song citing his brilliance, he wrote them Hungry Heart, but his manager insisted he keep it for his new album, which it them became a big hit. But he's mostly a consistent album writer, not a hit song writer. M0ost of his hits were hits for other artists, he wasnt interested in being a hit songwriter.
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Springsteen. :facepalm:
 
miroslav said:
I don't ever try to sound like anyone specifc when I write or record


originality in that.
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I do...
I try to get a tiny Tim vibe going. Tiny tim was a major influence on my music. "tiptoe through the tulips" has to be his definitive tune and I'm striving to achieve that type of groove.
I haven't refined the vibrato in my falsetto voice to that level yet...but i'm getting there.
 
jimistone said:
I do...
I try to get a tiny Tim vibe going. Tiny tim was a major influence on my music. "tiptoe through the tulips" has to be his definitive tune and I'm striving to achieve that type of groove.
I haven't refined the vibrato in my falsetto voice to that level yet...but i'm getting there.
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On the old front porch is my favourite.
 
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