The Light Of Day Foundation and its partners have announced the 6th Annual Light Of Day Concerts To Benefit The Parkinson's Disease Foundation (PDF) and the ALS Association, Greater Philadelphia Chapter to fund patient support programs. This year?s event will celebrate the life of Joan Dancy. Joan is the late fianc? of Terry Magovern, who has worked with Bruce Springsteen for more than 15 years. Joan passed away in July from ALS. The concerts will be held on Friday, November 4th, 2005 at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ and on Saturday, November 5th and Sunday, November 6th at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ. The Sunday concert will be a special Light Of Day / Writers In The Raw event, featuring well known singer/songwriters talking about and performing their songs acoustically. Bruce Springsteen has showed up all the other years, but of course, that doesn't mean he'll do it this year. Tickets are still available from TicketMaster. Read more

   

Time to get excited. At the recent Bruce symposium in New Jersey, the attendees were treated to a first showcase of a DVD that will be included with the 30th Anniversary edition of Born to Run. The DVD contains no less than the complete show at Hammersmith Odean in London from November 18, 1975, Bruce's first ever show in Europe. According to the first fan reactions, this we're in for a major treat. Work on the DVD has been going on for the last year with bits and ieces of old 16 mm film having edited together to a two-hour concert movie of allegedly exceptional quality. And when is this treasure going to be released? No date has been set yet, but the goal is to make it available for the Christmas shoppers. Read more

   

A few years ago there were plans of a musical based on Springsteen songs. Now choreographer Bob Boross from California has presented a dance theater piece based on The Rising. The show is called Empty Sky . . . The Rising, A 9/11 Dance/Theater Experience and has been showing at the Two River Theatre in Red Bank this weekend. Last chance for now to see it is tonight, Sunday, but hopefully more people will get the chance. Read about it all in Asbury Park Press. Read more

   

Just like last year and the year before that and for as long as we can remember some crazy Italian Bruce fans have organized perhaps the biggest Bruce party in Europe. For two days the antendants, who come from several European countries, will celebrate Bruce with lots of live music, live videos, memorabilia and much more. See how you can be part of this event on www.glorydaysinrimini.net. Read more

   

The Born in the USA era has been both hailed and cursed by Springsteen fans. Now you can get the background for this magnificent, overblown, rocking, sell-out, wonderful album that created all the commotion. In a new book in the 33 1/3 series author Geoffrey Himes takes a look at the creation of Born in the USA and makes the case that it's Bruce's strongest. Be confirmed in this belief or see if he can convince you by getting the book. You can order it from Continuum Books when it's published later this month. Read more

   

Just like Boston Trenton in New Jersey has had a second show added. The date is November 22 and tickets are on sale now through TicketMaster. As of now this new show will be the last of the tour, but you never know if more will be added later. Read more

   

Starting today the readers of Greasy Lake can now submit their own news stories to the site. If you think we're too slow or just have a piece of information you want to share with your fellow Bruce fans, this is your chance to do something about it. The idea was inspired by places on the internet such as Wikinews and Wikipedia where regular people collaborate on creating competitive news sources and encyclopedias. This isn't quite as open as those sites since we will be approving stories before publication, but hopefully it will ensure that Greasy Lake is always up-to-date and first with the latest. Read more and start writing. Read more

   

As tickets were selling out for the first Boston show, another one was added to the tour schedule. The date is October 30 and tickets are on sale now. Read more

   

Several initiatives to help the hurricane victims in New Orleans and Mississippi have been launched in the online Springsteen communities. One of the more ambitious initiatives comes from Lee Miller of the rec.music.artists.springsteen newsgroup. In a collaboration with The Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans, he and his group will collect money and useful items among Springsteen fans and later travel to New Orleans to work in the local food kitchens. You can support the initiative by donating via Paypal to lee.mille@verizon.net. Lee Miller has previously been involved in raising money for the Kristin Ann Carr Fund and the Light of Day organization. Read more about his project. Read more

   

Today Shorefire Media published the press release that a lot of people in the US have been waiting for: it announced the third North American leg of the Devils & Dust Tour. The list is identical to the rumored one we published yesterday (as far as we can see), but if you want it from the horse's own mouth, here's the official press release. Read more