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Michael Ejercito
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Bruce Springsteen Contracts COVID and Misses His Archives’ Inaugural
Awards Show, but Presents Via Video
Springsteen and Patti Scialfa both had to skip an awards show where
Steven Van Zandt, Darlene Love, Sam Moore and Steve Earle were being
honored. The previous night, he closed out a gig with a moving
dedication to his nephew, who died that day
By Michele Amabile Angermiller
Plus Icon
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 29: (L-R) George Clooney, Aloe Blacc,
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa attend the Clooney Foundation For
Justice Inaugural Albie Awards at New York Public Library on September
29, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Albie
Awards)
Getty Images for Albie Awards
The inaugural American Music Honors awards show — a fundraiser for the
Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth
University — launched Saturday night without two very important
presenters in attendance: Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa.
Bob Santelli, the Archives’ executive director, broke the news that the
Springsteens were both diagnosed with COVID-19 just hours after
Springsteen took a final bow Friday night at the Prudential Center,
wrapping the first part of his 2023 tour with the E Street Band.
“It broke our hearts around 6 a.m. this morning when I got a call that
two of the most important people who were supposed to be here, Bruce
Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, unfortunately came down with COVID.”
While the news was met with silence in the crowd, host Jon Stewart
lightened the mood, joking, “They’re alive. Don’t overreact. You can
still see them in concert. They’re home sitting by the fire eating
French onion soup.”
Despite his absence physically, Springsteen was feeling spry enough to
tape two videos presenting awards to Darlene Love and fellow E Street
Band member Steven Van Zandt.
Stewart joked that Springsteen “with COVID looks better than me,” adding
that he appeared “eerily healthy.”
“Aren’t you supposed to have sniffles or something?” he said. “We shut
down the world for a year and a half.”
Springsteen was supposed to receive a proclamation from New Jersey
Governor Phil Murphy, who was in attendance with his wife, Tammy.
Murphy, who joked that some in the audience were hoping that he was the
one with COVID, unveiled a proclamation declaring Sept. 23, 2023,
Springsteen’s birthday, “Bruce Springsteen Day” in the Garden State.
“I can’t believe it’s taken this long,” Murphy said.
“It’s not a rest area, but it’s nice,” quipped Stewart, an obvious
reference to the Jon Bon Jovi rest stop and others in New Jersey. “It’s
not like taking a whiz to ‘Livin’ on a Prayer,’ but it’ll do,”
The evening was a celebration of rock and soul music, honoring Van
Zandt, Love, Steve Earle and Sam Moore of Sam and Dave for their musical
contributions and career. Presenters included E Street Band bassist
Garry Tallent honoring Earle and Southside Johnny Lyon inducting Moore,
with Van Zandt’s band, the Disciples of Soul, serving as the house band.
The joyful tone was set early as the Disciples of Soul performed a
medley of songs associated with each artist, starting with Love’s “A
Fine, Fine Boy” and the Sam and Dave hit “Soul Sister, Brown Sugar.” The
short set included Earle’s “Hard-Core Troubadour” and Van Zandt’s “I Am
a Patriot.”
Tallent inducted Earle, crediting him for his decision to move to Nashville.
“When you’ve been around music as long as I’ve been, and if you’re lucky
to come across an artist whose musical influences are so broad and whose
understanding of the importance and meaning of music is so great that
sometimes you just have to sit back and admire the genius — I play with
basically one of those guys,” he said. “Steve Earle is one of those guys
too.”
Earle, who performed his song “Copperhead Road” after accepting his
award, said that although he has other awards — including not just three
Grammys but a fleeting honor as the “fan of the game” on a Jumbotron at
Yankee Stadium — this one meant “a lot to me because of the name over
the door of the organization giving out this award.”
Springsteen wore a denim jacket and looked quite alert despite a late
night in Newark the night before at a show where he performed for three
hours and even did a shot with a fan from Avalon, NJ celebrating her
21st birthday. He saluted Love’s accomplishments and recounted how her
relationship with Van Zandt and him dated back to seeing her perform in
1982 at a show where she sang his hit “Hungry Heart.”
“By that time, Darlene had become this mysterious figure in the music
industry who had made this bunch of amazing records and was considered
one of the best, if not the best, of all the ’60s singers, male or
female — and then in the ’70s suddenly disappeared,” he said. “As fate
would have it, Darlene leaves the business to become a housekeeper in
the ’70s. I’m sure there’s something equally bizarre, unjust and
impossible to imagine,” he added, though little comparable came to mind.
Love was overcome with emotion receiving her award, and celebrated by
performing an uplifting version of “River Deep Mountain High” with the band.
“I said I was going to laugh for the first five minutes but now I’m
going to try not to cry,” Love said. “I love you, Stevie, with all my
heart. My husband loves you. You know, it’s hard. You never know what
you have done for us. Because I had truly said goodbye to this business,
because this is one of the hardest businesses you ever want to be in.
You have to love it. You have to love people that don’t love you. You go
the show and you say, why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? But it’s
because of the gift that God has given me here and I truly intend to use
it for the next 80.”
Lyon was reverential inducting Moore, recalling how he and Van Zandt
were inspired to form the Asbury Jukes after watching Moore perform at a
show in New Jersey.
“One of those moments in your life, you hear that first Sam and Dave
record and you just go, ‘I wanna do that. That’s what I want to do,'” he
said. “There’s not a lot I can say about Sam except that he is still
teaching me.”
The 87-year-old Moore took the stage seated in a chair and lead the
crowd through an uplifting and fun performance of the hit “I Thank You.”
Springsteen appeared again on video to honor his friend Van Zandt and
his accomplishments in music and socially conscious efforts, including
organizing “Artists Against Apartheid” for the “Sun City” record.
Springsteen reminisced about the first time the two met as teenagers at
the Hullabaloo Club in Middletown, NJ and ” I found a rock ‘n’ roll
partner in crime forever.”
“Yes, we liked the same music, yes, we liked the same bands, and it was
at one time we liked the same clothes,” he said, quoting his song from
“Born in the USA,” “Bobby Jean.”
“He does look kind of healthy, doesn’t he? — son of a bitch,” Van Zandt
joked, before giving a speech about his passion for music and his
mission to preserve the legacy through his TeachRock initiative, a
program also offered at Monmouth University.
“This is nice to have a home for Bruce’s archives, and we’ll talk about
other things as well as teaching workshops and all the rest that’s going
to come with this wonderful organization,” he said.
“We were the luckiest generation ever growing up in a renaissance. I
define renaissance very simply by when the greatest art is being made,
it’s when it’s also the most commercial, you are in the middle of a
renaissance. And that was the ’60s,” he said. “Of course, we were taking
it for granted at the time, thinking that this was normal. Of course, we
soon realized that it was a very, very special time.”
Van Zandt explained that the TeachRock initiative expands the standard
S.T.E.M. basic curriculum of science, technology, engineering and math
and adds an “A” for Arts, therefore transforming it to what he described
as “S.T.E.A.M.”
“You integrate the art into math, into engineering, and not as a
separate entity, but actually part of that same discipline. And this is
changing the way kids are starting to learn,” he said.
The evening was capped by Van Zandt taking the stage to perform the song
“Bitter Fruit” with the Disciples of Soul, and a finale that called all
four honorees to the stage with Lyon to perform “It’s Been a Long Time,”
“Hungry Heart” with Love on lead vocals, “Soul Man,” “Tenth Avenue
Freeze Out” and “I Don’t Want to Go Home.”
The previous night at Prudential Center, Springsteen closed out the show
by dedicating the night’s final song, an acoustic version of “I’ll See
You in My Dreams,” to his nephew, Michael Shave. An online family
obituary noted by Springsteen fans reported that Shave died at age 53 on
Friday, although Springsteen did not mention the death as part of his
dedication.
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Bruce Springsteen Contracts COVID and Misses His Archives’ Inaugural
Awards Show, but Presents Via Video
Springsteen and Patti Scialfa both had to skip an awards show where
Steven Van Zandt, Darlene Love, Sam Moore and Steve Earle were being
honored. The previous night, he closed out a gig with a moving
dedication to his nephew, who died that day
By Michele Amabile Angermiller
Plus Icon
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 29: (L-R) George Clooney, Aloe Blacc,
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa attend the Clooney Foundation For
Justice Inaugural Albie Awards at New York Public Library on September
29, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Albie
Awards)
Getty Images for Albie Awards
The inaugural American Music Honors awards show — a fundraiser for the
Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth
University — launched Saturday night without two very important
presenters in attendance: Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa.
Bob Santelli, the Archives’ executive director, broke the news that the
Springsteens were both diagnosed with COVID-19 just hours after
Springsteen took a final bow Friday night at the Prudential Center,
wrapping the first part of his 2023 tour with the E Street Band.
“It broke our hearts around 6 a.m. this morning when I got a call that
two of the most important people who were supposed to be here, Bruce
Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, unfortunately came down with COVID.”
While the news was met with silence in the crowd, host Jon Stewart
lightened the mood, joking, “They’re alive. Don’t overreact. You can
still see them in concert. They’re home sitting by the fire eating
French onion soup.”
Despite his absence physically, Springsteen was feeling spry enough to
tape two videos presenting awards to Darlene Love and fellow E Street
Band member Steven Van Zandt.
Stewart joked that Springsteen “with COVID looks better than me,” adding
that he appeared “eerily healthy.”
“Aren’t you supposed to have sniffles or something?” he said. “We shut
down the world for a year and a half.”
Springsteen was supposed to receive a proclamation from New Jersey
Governor Phil Murphy, who was in attendance with his wife, Tammy.
Murphy, who joked that some in the audience were hoping that he was the
one with COVID, unveiled a proclamation declaring Sept. 23, 2023,
Springsteen’s birthday, “Bruce Springsteen Day” in the Garden State.
“I can’t believe it’s taken this long,” Murphy said.
“It’s not a rest area, but it’s nice,” quipped Stewart, an obvious
reference to the Jon Bon Jovi rest stop and others in New Jersey. “It’s
not like taking a whiz to ‘Livin’ on a Prayer,’ but it’ll do,”
The evening was a celebration of rock and soul music, honoring Van
Zandt, Love, Steve Earle and Sam Moore of Sam and Dave for their musical
contributions and career. Presenters included E Street Band bassist
Garry Tallent honoring Earle and Southside Johnny Lyon inducting Moore,
with Van Zandt’s band, the Disciples of Soul, serving as the house band.
The joyful tone was set early as the Disciples of Soul performed a
medley of songs associated with each artist, starting with Love’s “A
Fine, Fine Boy” and the Sam and Dave hit “Soul Sister, Brown Sugar.” The
short set included Earle’s “Hard-Core Troubadour” and Van Zandt’s “I Am
a Patriot.”
Tallent inducted Earle, crediting him for his decision to move to Nashville.
“When you’ve been around music as long as I’ve been, and if you’re lucky
to come across an artist whose musical influences are so broad and whose
understanding of the importance and meaning of music is so great that
sometimes you just have to sit back and admire the genius — I play with
basically one of those guys,” he said. “Steve Earle is one of those guys
too.”
Earle, who performed his song “Copperhead Road” after accepting his
award, said that although he has other awards — including not just three
Grammys but a fleeting honor as the “fan of the game” on a Jumbotron at
Yankee Stadium — this one meant “a lot to me because of the name over
the door of the organization giving out this award.”
Springsteen wore a denim jacket and looked quite alert despite a late
night in Newark the night before at a show where he performed for three
hours and even did a shot with a fan from Avalon, NJ celebrating her
21st birthday. He saluted Love’s accomplishments and recounted how her
relationship with Van Zandt and him dated back to seeing her perform in
1982 at a show where she sang his hit “Hungry Heart.”
“By that time, Darlene had become this mysterious figure in the music
industry who had made this bunch of amazing records and was considered
one of the best, if not the best, of all the ’60s singers, male or
female — and then in the ’70s suddenly disappeared,” he said. “As fate
would have it, Darlene leaves the business to become a housekeeper in
the ’70s. I’m sure there’s something equally bizarre, unjust and
impossible to imagine,” he added, though little comparable came to mind.
Love was overcome with emotion receiving her award, and celebrated by
performing an uplifting version of “River Deep Mountain High” with the band.
“I said I was going to laugh for the first five minutes but now I’m
going to try not to cry,” Love said. “I love you, Stevie, with all my
heart. My husband loves you. You know, it’s hard. You never know what
you have done for us. Because I had truly said goodbye to this business,
because this is one of the hardest businesses you ever want to be in.
You have to love it. You have to love people that don’t love you. You go
the show and you say, why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? But it’s
because of the gift that God has given me here and I truly intend to use
it for the next 80.”
Lyon was reverential inducting Moore, recalling how he and Van Zandt
were inspired to form the Asbury Jukes after watching Moore perform at a
show in New Jersey.
“One of those moments in your life, you hear that first Sam and Dave
record and you just go, ‘I wanna do that. That’s what I want to do,'” he
said. “There’s not a lot I can say about Sam except that he is still
teaching me.”
The 87-year-old Moore took the stage seated in a chair and lead the
crowd through an uplifting and fun performance of the hit “I Thank You.”
Springsteen appeared again on video to honor his friend Van Zandt and
his accomplishments in music and socially conscious efforts, including
organizing “Artists Against Apartheid” for the “Sun City” record.
Springsteen reminisced about the first time the two met as teenagers at
the Hullabaloo Club in Middletown, NJ and ” I found a rock ‘n’ roll
partner in crime forever.”
“Yes, we liked the same music, yes, we liked the same bands, and it was
at one time we liked the same clothes,” he said, quoting his song from
“Born in the USA,” “Bobby Jean.”
“He does look kind of healthy, doesn’t he? — son of a bitch,” Van Zandt
joked, before giving a speech about his passion for music and his
mission to preserve the legacy through his TeachRock initiative, a
program also offered at Monmouth University.
“This is nice to have a home for Bruce’s archives, and we’ll talk about
other things as well as teaching workshops and all the rest that’s going
to come with this wonderful organization,” he said.
“We were the luckiest generation ever growing up in a renaissance. I
define renaissance very simply by when the greatest art is being made,
it’s when it’s also the most commercial, you are in the middle of a
renaissance. And that was the ’60s,” he said. “Of course, we were taking
it for granted at the time, thinking that this was normal. Of course, we
soon realized that it was a very, very special time.”
Van Zandt explained that the TeachRock initiative expands the standard
S.T.E.M. basic curriculum of science, technology, engineering and math
and adds an “A” for Arts, therefore transforming it to what he described
as “S.T.E.A.M.”
“You integrate the art into math, into engineering, and not as a
separate entity, but actually part of that same discipline. And this is
changing the way kids are starting to learn,” he said.
The evening was capped by Van Zandt taking the stage to perform the song
“Bitter Fruit” with the Disciples of Soul, and a finale that called all
four honorees to the stage with Lyon to perform “It’s Been a Long Time,”
“Hungry Heart” with Love on lead vocals, “Soul Man,” “Tenth Avenue
Freeze Out” and “I Don’t Want to Go Home.”
The previous night at Prudential Center, Springsteen closed out the show
by dedicating the night’s final song, an acoustic version of “I’ll See
You in My Dreams,” to his nephew, Michael Shave. An online family
obituary noted by Springsteen fans reported that Shave died at age 53 on
Friday, although Springsteen did not mention the death as part of his
dedication.
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HeartDoc Andrew
Apr 17, 2023, 11:38:14 AM4/17/23
to
fully vaccinated and fully masked, only the "full armor of GOD"
(Ephesians 6:11) is 100% protective which we put on as soon as we use
Apostle Paul's secret (http://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 ). Though masking
is less protective, it helps us avoid the appearance of doing the evil
of spreading airborne pathogens when there are people getting sick
because of not being 100% protected. It is written that we're to
"abstain from **all** appearance of doing evll" (1 Thessalonians 5:22
w/**emphasis**).
In the interim, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
http://WDJW.great-site.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) for them to
call their doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of
stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the best while
preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations
and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining via slip-RNA-replication to form
hybrids like http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current
COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
Michael Ejercito
Apr 18, 2023, 8:30:35 AM4/18/23
to
Michael
HeartDoc Andrew
Apr 18, 2023, 9:27:46 AM4/18/23
to
Michael Ejercito wrote:
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to
http://WDJW.great-site.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to
http://WDJW.great-site.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart
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