The business is still refreshingly random, Lyon joked. I did it once and went on stage and my voice dried out. We never made any money. Toronto Star articles, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com, Conversations are opinions of our readers and are subject to the, 211 Pritchard Road, Unit 4, Hamilton ON L8J 0G5. At the end of the show, they ran through Its Been a Long Time several times for the cameras, with the result patched together by the director. Southside Johnny & the Jukes play at 8 p.m. tonight and Wednesday at the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano. The album is on Cypress Records, the independent label whose roster leans toward such mellow folk-pop artists as Jennifer Warnes, Leonard Cohen and Jesse Colin Young. '", In 1993, Scialfa finally released her first solo album, "Rumble Doll." She worked along with my father. I've always respected women. My mother worked, and would say it was OK to stay home as long as I cleaned the house. If you're in a bad mood about having a fight with your old lady, you can talk to her about it.". SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yeah, I love The Birchmere. Find out what you can do. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes play the SugarHouse Casino on Saturday May 11. I wish I could have gone out and played live after it came out. She agreed and joined the tour three days before its start. A. Lyon couldnt be faulted for some frustrated yearning over his own career: After all, Huey Lewis & the News is an R&B-based; bar band in the same mold as the Southside Johnny & the Jukes. Their son, Evan James Springsteen, was born on July 25, 1990. There's not just one thing, and I think that's reflected in all of our music. I didnt want to be on stage anymore. Bruce, we all thought was really going to be something, though we didnt expect him to get as huge as he got. Is Virginia ready for mandated electric vehicles? It was a great education for all of us. A. I went to Monmouth College for two and a half years and majored in English literature. In one of your interviews, you described this age as the golden age for musicians. Notifications from this discussion will be disabled. His name, of course, was Bruce Springsteen, though at the time he was just another up and coming nobody trying to get a break. By 1967, the center of the Jersey Shore rock scene had become an Asbury Park nightspot called the Upstage Club, a booze-free venue that allowed local musicians to play original music and teenagers to hang out until the wee hours of the morning. Relations (People / Bands) General Wikidot.com documentation and help section. Growing up in a small town in New Jersey, when the winter kicks in and its around February and you start thinking about places youd rather be, Southern California has always been one of them. View and manage file attachments for this page. My life has been an adventure; I want to keep it that way. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. One of the seminal figures on the New Jersey rock scene and a gifted, charismatic singer steeped in soul, blues, and R&B. I always knew that I could never do the same job over and over again and punch a clock. "I'd seen James Brown and Ray Charles,'' Southside Johnny, a.k.a. or anything. He is an actor, known for Home Alone (1990), Adventures in Babysitting (1987) and The Karate Kid Part II (1986). Lyon, sounding upbeat and relaxed, said his break from the road and the musical detour he took on Slow Dance have given him renewed enthusiasm for his old calling as a touring bar rocker. The album included references to everyone from writer Sylvia Plath to racecar driver Shirley Muldowney to '60s girl groups like the Chiffons. Scialfa was happy to oblige, contributing two new songs; Roth also used two songs from "Rumble Doll." racist or sexually-oriented language. The fact that young people were starting to make their own music and there was audience for that. Soundtrack: Home Alone. When New Jerseys Asbury Park music scene rose up in the 1970s, there were three bright lights on its rock-and-soul triangle. Has Southside Johnny become Surfside Johnny? Southside teamed up with Van Zandt, sometimes performing as a duo called Southside Johnny & the Kid, and after Southside worked his way into a combo called the Blackberry Booze Band, he took control of the group and brought in several local players he liked, including Van Zandt. King play his guitar through the cracked window. They have recorded or performed several Springsteen songs, including "The Fever" and "Fade Away". Baton twirlers. Besides you, there aren't any original members of the band left. I'm interested in combining things, like the sounds of the old vocal groups, the blues, even something as foreign sounding as the violin. I gave out money each day, and the song (Little Calcutta) just got wrenched out of me by the experience.. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I think just the dedication to it, kicking ass every night even if there's only 20 people in the audienceYou go out and do your two hours and you play as hard as you can, and it really doesn't matter. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, "Having a Party" Stone Pony show from September 26, 1991, in support of Southside's Better Days album, which was produce. No. Tickets: $19.50. We had cheerleaders. Its not my natural bent to write a socially committed song, Lyon said. There are some great songs on it, thanks to Little Steven and Bruce. A. I don't know if I have one strategy. Bruce Springsteen was the breakout star. 1982-08-10 Southside Johnny Wedding Reception, Asbury Park, NJ, {"module":"wiki\/image\/FlickrGalleryModule","params":{"userName":"brucebase wiki","sort":"date-posted-desc","tagMode":"all","perPage":"50","tags":"august,10,1982"}}, Unless otherwise stated, the content of this page is licensed under. B. I suspect he was just one of the singers in the club and it wasn't a terribly important scene, but too bad for Southside! Thats right. In a 2004 interview with Acoustic Storm, Scialfa said of her first record, "It was a very honest record for me and I was very happy with it because I can put that record on and it really expresses a very specific time in my life honestly and creatively. When asked about Scialfa's new prominence on stage, Springsteen credited the songs' subject matter, noting, "The album is about men and women, you know." Maybe you could make a go out of it. Help Us | Upload. Some people thought its success would give both you and the Jukes increased exposure, particularly with younger audiences. It is a unique moment in time. You can put it up on the internet. Youve got to work hard to prove that you belong there, and once you do that, they're on your side. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: They have such confidence onstage and such delight, and I was always impressed by people like that, like James Brown and Jackie Wilson, Sam & Dave. If you are lazy going through the songs, you wont have an audience. Was it always your goal to be a singer and performer? He had a lot of confidence in me. permissions/licensing, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com. Join Songkick to track Southside Johnny and get concert alerts when they play near you. Even though his friends Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi achieved more fame, Southside Johnny's unmatched dedication will be remembered forever. "It's tough in the music business to stay close in the sense of seeing each other,'' says Southside of the enduring bond between him, Van Zandt, Springsteen and the rest of the Jersey crew. I think we knew it at the time. This Time It's for Real was the second album by New Jersey Rock / R&B band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, featuring three compositions by Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt, as well as an additional five by the latter.Like their first album, I Don't Want To Go Home, there are a number of guest artists and duets, a trend that would be dropped for their next album, Hearts of Stone. People come and go; that's part of the business. ''. Southside Johnny Lyon (John Lyon) was born on 4 December, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA, is a Soundtrack, Actor, Miscellaneous. We email each other and send pictures, and I have a number of women friends that I do that with. Q. The album "Tunnel of Love" contained lyrics that hinted at trouble in Springsteen's relationship with Phillips and the tour featured a more front and central role for Scialfa, who performed more duets with Springsteen than she had in the past. We were young and we wanted adventure and there was this music that promised that. All the facilities are there, but the internet makes it so that you can disseminate your music. To order The song, with lyrics by Lyon and music by Springsteen, was intended for Southside Johnnys 1978 album, Hearts of Stone, but hadnt surfaced until now. Some day I'll do a blues album. As the Asbury Jukes were becoming one of New Jersey's most popular acts, Bruce Springsteen grew out of his local following into a respected journeyman rock & roller after he landed a deal with Columbia Records in 1973, and his third album, 1975's Born to Run, transformed him into a legitimate star, a critical favorite who finally connected with a mass audience. Storyteller | Eyewitness Your last album, "Better Days," was perhaps the most critically acclaimed album you've done since "Hearts of Stone." All the activity has been spurred by the release of Better Days, the first Southside Johnny album in three years. After the 1988 release of Slow Dance, a solo album of ballads that he says was recorded for his wife, Lyon began playing the Los Angeles region in a band called Blues Deluxe and making plans for a blues album featuring material co-written by him and his guitarist, Bobby Bandiera. Things changed when Springsteen asked her to rejoin him on the road in 1987 for the "Tunnel of Love" tour, which delayed Scialfa recording her own record. each comment to let us know of abusive posts. In 2008, the British label Secret Records released a live album recorded during dates with the Asbury Jukes in the U.K., From Southside to Tyneside, while that same year, Southside released an ambitious solo album, Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits, in which he interpreted 12 songs from the gravel-voiced singer and songwriter while backed by a big band led by Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg, a longtime fixture in the Jukes' horn section. Guitarist Billy Rush became their main songwriter and band leader, and Southside and company cut two studio albums for Mercury, 1979's soulful The Jukes and 1980's harder edged Love Is a Sacrifice. accounts, the history behind an article. Can I ask you about your mother and your connection to her? Lewis has hits and plays in arenas, while the Jukes still ply the barrooms and roadhouses. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. Its not a case of feuding between old friends, he explained, but of being caught up in careers and personal lives that dont often intersect. This husband-and-wife-owned shop is full of punk, soul, jazz, reggae, and R&B. Pal to Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt, longtime veteran of late-night jams at such legendary Joizy clubs as the Upstage and the Stone Pony, possessor of a classic R&B; growl, Lyon even named his band the Asbury Jukes after Asbury Park, the decaying resort town and center of the states productive 70s musical scene. Per Acoustic Storm, Scialfa contrasted the record with the intimacy of her first one, saying, "There are some songs with the same theme of closeness; how to be close, love songs. I had to replace the horn section when they went out with Diana Ross. After years of singing backup for her husband, Springsteen contributed backing vocals to several "Rumble Doll" songs. You and the Jukes haven't released a new album in more than two years. See pages that link to and include this page. She once again explained how she always had to balance her solo work with her duties to the E Street Band as well as to her family, noting she had just taken two days off from touring to get her son Evan ready for college. Lyon is a key figure in Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock N Roll, director Tom Jones documentary about the rise, fall, and revival of the central Jersey boardwalk town showing in theaters May 22 and 29. When he came back to N.J., he was broke and needed to put together a band. "And he just was riveting, and I thought 'Wow, who is this guy?' Southside Johnny Lyon was born on December 4, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA as John Lyon. I was always of the mind-set of if you get a better offer for more money, take it. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Well, I didn't really believe in it until I had been doing it for a number of years, because most of the time back then, guys wanted to be guitar heroes and play 20-minute guitar solos, and the singer was just somebody that sang in between the guitar solos. That was an all-black band that had Clarence Clemons, and theres this little skinny white kid Garry Tallent playing bass. I always took that as a tremendous compliment because some of the best music Ive heard has been in bars. I used to clean the house. She studied jazz at the University of Miami before moving to New York and starting busking on street corners, singing in clubs, and doing session work in studios. Are you excited to be coming to The Birchmere? And we were lucky to find each other. S. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. Information: (714) 496-8930. Q. Gallery | Links We were musicians and we were going to make a go of it one way or another, even if it meant playing in local bands on the weekends and getting a job during the week, but the main thing in our lives back then was music. Upcoming scheduled Jersey shows include June 6 at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair; July 3 at the Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park and July 6 at the Ocean City Music Pier. We were all scuffling. I read that your mom let you stay home and listen to music instead of going to school. And we were tenacious about it. I don't look at it so externally. presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution We do not monetize a photo in any way, but if you want your photo to be removed, let us know, and we will remove it. So the label agreed to an alternative plan. That was our college. Each contributed songs to the band that was known then as Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, and Van Zandt, known nowadays as political rocker Little Steven, served as the bands manager and producer. Southside Johnny (Lyon), good friend and one time band mate of Steve Van Zandt was listed in the credits as "himself" yet definitely not in the ep. Its not so bad to be lumped in with people of that caliber.. Lyon started using the stage name Southside Johnny, a nickname given him for his love of Chicago blues and the extensive collection of rare blues and R&B sides he owned in tandem with Tallent. "And I have a horn section and he doesn't.". When you watch old clips on YouTube, it's uncanny how closely aligned Springsteen and Southside are musically - both representative of the Jersey Shore sound of the '70s, with its big band rock spiked with romanticism and a rootsy, heartland ethos. "I was living with Miami Steve (Van Zandt, Southside's guitarist, songwriting partner and producer before departing for Springsteen's E Street band) and Albany Al in a three-bedroom apartment," recalls the 63-year-old rock vet. Maybe I'm not old enough. I have a real iron throat. The group has always featured Mr. Lyon's soulful vocals and a horn section, often called the Miami Horns in honor of a Jukes co-founder, (Miami) Steve Van Zandt (a k a Little Steven). SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: My mother and my father were great readers of good literature. Most of us didn't go to college for a career. The newly-formed 1982 lineup of The Asbury Jukes (with former E Street Band member Ernest "Boom" Carter on drums) provided the musical entertainment at the reception, along with "special guest" Bruce Springsteen. ", He laughs. For better or for worse, playing in a band is never the same. Q. 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