The famous Boss Club in Los Angeles is preparing a big party to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The party will take place on November 6 at Club Aura on 12215 Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, Los Angeles. Aside from lots of Bruce music on the speakers, the guests will get exclusive performances by John Eddie and the amazing cover band Bruce in the USA. The Boss Club started in Los Angeles 20 years ago (duh!) during the Born in the USA heydays with weekly parties for Bruce fans on the West Coast. It reemerged during the Reunion Tour and has since organized Bruce parties at irregular intervals. This 20th anniversary party promises to be one to remember. Email BossClubSM@aol.com for more information. Read more

   

Two weeks after the kick-off the Vote For Change Tour ended last night at the Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey. The lineup was different than earlier. Gone were Bright Eyes and REM. Instead Patti Scialfa and her band opened the show followed by Jackson Browne. Bruce guested with both of them before taking center-stage himself. That didn't go down quietly. The show was only 15 minutes old when Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam joined the fun and sang on "No Surrender", "Darkness" and the Pearl Jam song "Better Man". Jackson Browne helped out on the tour debut "Racing in the Street", and everybody were together on stage for the final encores.

From a musical point of view the fans have received the tour extremely well. Bruce and the band are still powerful as ever, and Bruce has apparently been overjoyed performing with the likes of John Fogerty, Michael Stipe and Eddie Vedder. Only concern has been Clarence Clemons who has been visibly hampered by a bad hip. Question is if this is a temporary condition or if his days on the road with the band are about numbered.

The political impact of the shows of course remains to be seen. The tour has received lots of press, not only in the cities and states where the shows took place, but nationally and internationally as well. And as the world waits for the result on November 2, fans of Bruce are already anxiously waiting for what he will be up to next. Read more

   

The upcoming re-release of the MTV Plugged show on DVD will include "Roll of the Dice". The song was neither available on the regular VHS release from 1992 nor on the CD. Only the Japanese laserdisc version has included this song. At least officially. The DVD is slated for release on November 9 and it can be pre-ordered from Amazon now. Read more

   

Not only will parts of the October 11 Vote For Change show in Washington DC be shown on television. The entire thing will be broadcast on several radio stations and as a video live stream on the Internet. More info on how to get in on this can be found on MoveON PAC's website. Read more

   

Earlier today it was confirmed that Bruce will wrap up the Vote For Change tour with a show at the Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey. The show will take place at October 13 with tickets going on sale this Wednesday October 6. REM and Bright Eyes will be replaced by Jackson Browne and Patti Scialfa as the "warm up" artists. John Fogerty will also be present and accounted for. Read the press release. Read more

   

Bruce and the E Street Band kicked off their contribution to the Vote For Change tour with a blistering two-hour performance last night at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia. First Bruce joined Michael Stipe and REM for a duet on "Man on the Moon". After REM's set Bruce came on stage again and played a Jimi Hendrix style "Star Spangled Banner" on acoustic 12-string before the whole E Street Band entered and kicked into "Born in the USA". "Badlands", "No Surrender", "Lost in the Flood", full-band "Youngstown" and many other classics followed. John Fogerty joined Bruce for three of his own songs plus a duet on "The Promised Land". The show ended with all the artists on stage together for a version of Patti Smith's "People Have the Power". View the complete setlist. Read more

   

Rumors that Bruce will wrap up the Vote For Change tour with a show in New Jersey on October 13 at the Continental Airlines Arena are now widespread. The show will allegedly be announced on Monday with tickets going on sale Wednesday morning at 9 AM. No word on whether this will be just Bruce or if REM, Bright Eyes, and John Fogerty will be there too. And bear in mind, this is a rumor. Nothing is confirmed and may never be confirmed. Read more

   

As fans start to gather outside the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia for the first show of the Vote For Change Tour, speculations over what these shows will be like and what Bruce will play are going into overdrive. The last few days' rehearsals in Asbury Park did give us a clue that the performances will probably lean heavily on old war-horses like "Badlands" and "The Promised Land", but rarities such as "Lost in the Flood" and "Held Up Without a Gun" were also rehearsed. Not to mention a brand new song allegedly called "Trying to Survive". Needless to say the band also took several shots at various John Fogerty compositions as they will be backing the former Creedence lead-singer for his appearance. Greasy Lake will cover the shows to the best of our ability, but we rely on you to submit your eyewitness accounts, photos, etc. Don't forget you now submit and eyewitness account by going to the Magic in the Night section, finding the show you want to comment on, and opening the eyewitness account fill-out form. Read more

   

Rehearsals for the Vote For Change tour are about to commence at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park. In the last few days trucks have unloaded tons of equipment at the old concert hall. It is expected that Bruce and the E Streeters will spend the next four days rehearsing before the first show kicks off next Friday, October 1. Read more

   

No, this wasn't a repeat of his legendary Roxy show from 1978. It was just Bruce who once again joined his Patti for her show. Again he came on stage for the encores joining in on "As Long As I (Can Be With You)" and "Love (Stand Up". Earlier in the evening Patti had also been joined by Sheryl Crow to the crowd's delight. Read more