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Saratoga, CA download .. August 24 2001

si — Mon, 07 May 2012 08:29:38 +0000

The one dose that we published got some attention on the Bruuuce.com Board – so you can thank our friend JF1 for prompting the whole show being posted!

This was a standout show from the Villa Montalvo (Saratoga has often inspired highlight performances through the years), taken from 2001. The band at the time was:

Bruce Hornsby, Bobby Read, Bonnie Bonaparte, J.V. Collier, Doug Derryberry, J.T. Thomas.

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Bruce and Bobby Weir – part two

si — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:26:53 +0000

Alone and Together… part two is now up for download! Bruce and Bobby Weir took to the stage for two shows earlier in the year in Oakland, CA – one set each, then together for set three. The March 31 show is already up for download, and so here is the April 1 show! Both are brought to you on Bruuuce.com with thanks to taper Trent T. for so generously sharing on etree. The terrific photo on the front page is from John Margaretten – you can see more at www.margaret-10.com.

If you missed either show, or want more, then don’t fret – they are taking the show on the road in July with Branford Marsalis!

All Good Music Festival – Thornville, OH .. July 19 2012
Gathering of the Vibes – Bridgeport, CT .. July 20 2012

April 1 2012

Bruce solo:

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Bobby solo:

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Bruce and Bobby together:

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Levon Helm 1940-2012

si — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:35:44 +0000

Levon Helm, drummer, singer and co-founder of The Band, passed away on Thursday April 19 at the age of 71.

The three-time Grammy Award winner had been fighting throat cancer since 1998.

“Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon,” Levon’s manager Barbara O’Brien said in a statement.

“He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.”

Bruuuce.com would like to celebrate Levon’s contribution to the music world by including an old favourite which Bruce has played on occasion: The Weight, recorded from Bruce’s show in London with Jimmy Haslip and John Molo in June 1993.

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Here also is a two-part video of Bruce playing the same song with Levon himself and Sam Bush, filmed at Merlefest in 2008.

Part one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWZOkTIpGHE

Part two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrIW9kY8CQg

Bruce has said: “There’s always been a bond between us. He’s got a deep pocket and he plays his own way, with that slinky groove. He’s just funky as hell. And couple that with his voice, his great voice. He’s completely unique, sprung from Zeus.”

“He’s so upbeat, laughing and smiling. You have that spirit that’s pretty much indomitable. He’s just funny as (expletive)”.

Return of the Daily Dose

si — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:23:07 +0000

After much behind the scenes work on Bruuuce.com, everything is in working order and ready for touring season!

One of our most popular features makes a return today, with the return of the Daily Dose – a live recording each day from a Bruce Hornsby show. You are all welcome to make a request, as always, but we’re going to kick off with several from the same show, until you have the complete concert!

Stay tuned then, in the next several days, for one track per day from the August 30 2011 show at the beautiful Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. You’ll be able to grab each “dose” from the front page of Bruuuce.com, starting April 6.

We also have an archive page of all doses since April 2011 … over 30,000 downloads!

All files available for download have been checked for viruses using both Norton Internet Security and Sophos Anti-Virus.

Bruce and Bobby Weir

si — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:29:43 +0000

Alone and Together… and now up for download! Bruce and Bobby Weir took to the stage for two shows this past weekend in Oakland, CA – one set each, then together for set three. Both shows are brought to you on Bruuuce.com with thanks to taper Trent T. for so generously sharing on etree. The terrific photo on the front page is from John Margaretten – you can see more at www.margaret-10.com.

If you missed either show, or want more, then don’t fret – they are taking the show on the road in July with Branford Marsalis!

All Good Music Festival – Thornville, OH .. July 19 2012
Gathering of the Vibes – Bridgeport, CT .. July 20 2012

March 31 2012

Bruce solo:

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Bobby solo:

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Bruce and Bobby together:

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Setlists in 2012 – and we need your help!

si — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:26:32 +0000

The 2012 tour schedule is now underway, and we’re looking for your help, please!

Any setlists, recordings, photos or reports are always gratefully received – please e-mail Si if you can help, and everything will be shared here on Bruuuce.com.

Setlists so far are now up from the early 2012 shows: 2012 setlists.

To find out whether Bruce is coming to a town near you, please visit www.brucehornsby.com/tour.

01/30/12 Glasgow Show for download

si — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:37:26 +0000

Bruce returned to the UK for the first time in seven years for a show each in London at the historic Shepherd’s Bush Empire, and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for part of the Celtic Connections festival. London was a solo show; in Glasgow he was joined by Jerry Douglas and Tim O’Brien (the latter of whom he only met that afternoon).

Photos from the show on the homepage and on the left are are from Dave Muckle, a teacher from Northumberland who specialises in piano and song writing/producing. His website is at www.dmuckle.com.

Please enjoy the recording from Glasgow posted below – a document of a great evening.

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2012

si — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:53:07 +0000

Please feel free to e-mail Si with any additions or amendments. Thanks to all those who have contributed below!

01/09/12 Pool Deck – Jam Cruise
Country Doctor, Go Back to Your Woods, Funhouse, Simple Prayer, Prairie Dog Town, Jack of Diamonds > Valley Road, Pete and Manny, This Too Shall Pass, Line in the Dust, Talk of the Town, Sunflower Cat, Across the River, White-Wheeled Limousine

01/10/12 Pool Deck – Jam Cruise
Space is the Place, Tango King, King of the Hill > Big Boss Man > Tempus Fugit, Shadow Hand, Drunken Hiccups > Valley Road**, Big Rumble, Mandolin Rain, Straight No Chaser > Rainbow’s Cadillac > (Who Knows jam)
Comments: Steve Kimock sat in for the entire set.

01/28/12 Shepherds Bush Empire – London, UK
Set One: (Shostakovich) > The Road Not Taken, Valley Road, Black Rats of London, Don of Dons, Soon Enough, Where’s the Bat, 20/20 Vision > Night on the Town, Catenaires > Talk of the Town > Charlie Woody and You, I Can’t Make You Love Me
Set Two: Country Doctor, Dreaded Spoon, Crown of Jewels, End of the Innocence, Hymn in C, Spider Fingers > Questions and Answers, The Way It Is, Fortunate Son, Mandolin Rain
Encore: What the Hell Happened
Encore 2: Standing on the Moon > Halcyon Days
Comments: first solo show of 2012.

01/30/12 Royal Concert Hall – Glasgow, UK
Set One: (Shostakovich) > China Doll, Lost in the Snow, Sad Moon, Song C > Sad Moon, Lost Soul, Heir Gordon, (Schoenberg), Neighbourhood Watch, (Don of Dons), Soon Enough, Mandolin Rain
Set Two: Valley Road > (Life of the Party), The Road Not Taken > (Hole in My Bucket) > (Working in a Coalmine), End of the Innocence, 20/20 Vision, I Can’t Make You Love Me, The Way It Is
Encore: What the Hell Happened, Spider Fingers > (Questions and Answers)
Comments: part of the Celtic Connections Festival. ‘Soon Enough’ with Jerry Douglas, remainder of show until solo encore was with Jerry Douglas and Tim O’Brien

02/07/12 The Strand – York, PA
The Road Not Taken, Harbor Lights, Who Takes Care of Mom, ???, Soon Enough, End of the Innoncence, Preacher in the Ring, The Way It Is, 20/20 Vision, Night on the Town, What the Hell Happened, Hooray for Tom, Fortunate Son > (Southbound)
Encore: Mandolin Rain, King of the Hill
Comments: Solo show

02/08/12 Grand Opera House – Wilmington, DE
Set One: (Shostakovich), Instrumental (from Red Hook Summer Soundtrack, upcoming Spike Lee movie), Sticks and Stones (Bruce forgot first verse, sang it after finishing Sticks and Bones), Heir Gordon, Lost in the Snow, Instrumental (Arnold Schoenberg), Paperboy, Look Out Any Window, Sneaking Up On Boo Radley, The End of the Innocence, Gonna be Some Changes Made
Set Two: The Black Rats of London, Sad Moon, The Show Goes On, The Dreaded Spoon, (Super Freak), The Way It Is (bluegrass version), This Too Shall Pass, Talk of the Town > (Catenaires) > Talk of the Town, The Valley Road (bluegrass version)
Encore: Mandolin Rain
Comments: Solo show

02/09/12 Adelphi University – Garden City, NY
Messiaen – Musique de Marseau > China Doll, Big Rock Candy Mountain > Candy Mountain Run, Holy Trinity, Where’s The Bat, Don of Dons, Soon Enough, End of the Innocence, Danny Boy, Catenaires > Preacher in the Ring Part 1, The River Runs Low, Mandolin Rain (Skaggs Version), Shadow Hand > Bach > Shadow Hand, The Way It Is > Bach Goldberg Variations > The Way It Is, 20/20 Vision > Night on the Town > 20/20 Vision
Encore: I Can’t Make You Love Me, Spider Fingers > Questions & Answers > Tighten Up > Spider Fingers
Comments: Solo show

02/11/12 Keswick Theatre – Philadelphia, PA
Song from Spike Lee movie, The Road Not Taken, 20/20 Vision, Night on the Town, Black Rats of London, Heir Gordon, Here We Are Again, Where’s The Bat, End of the Innocence, In the Low Country, The Dreaded Spoon, Valley Road, The Way it Is, Talk of the Town*, Spider Fingers, I Can’t Make You Love Me
Encore: Standing on the Moon > Halycon Days
Comments: Solo show. * denotes with special guest Bobby McFerrin

02/14/12 Carolina Theater – Durham, NC
Set One: Song from Spike Lee movie > China Doll > (Messaien) > China Doll, The Road Not Taken, Classical piece > Paperboy, Where’s the Bat, Don Of Dons, Valley Road (Grateful Dead style), Cyclone, I Can’t Make You Love Me
Set Two: 20/20 Vision > Night on the Town, Sad Moon, (Dirty Ground), Preacher in the Ring I > Catenaires, The Low Country, The Way It Is > Bach Goldberg Variations > The Way It Is, Mandolin Rain (minor key version), Swan Song
Encore: Spider Fingers > Questions and Answers >???,Soon Enough
Comments: Solo show.

02/15/12 Peace Center for the Performing Arts – Greenville, SC
(Shostakovich) > Sticks and Stones, 20/20 Vision (Jimmy Martin) > Night on the Town > Concerto (Schoenberg), Valley Road, End of the Innocence, Who Takes Care of Mom, Where’s the Bat, Big Rock Candy Mountain > Candy Mountain Run, The Low Country, The Way It Is > Goldberg Variations (Bach) > Way It Is, The Show Goes On, What the Hell Happened to Me, Hooray for Tom, King of the Hill, Mandolin Rain.
Encore: Talk of the Town > Charlie Woody and You > Caténaires (Elliot Carter), Standing on the Moon > Wharf Rat > Standing on the Moon > Halcyon Days
Comments: Solo show.

02/17/12 The Palladium – Carmel, IN
Set One: Ligeti intro, Sad Moon, The Road Not Taken, Heir Gordon, Simple Prayer, Where’s the Bat?, End of the Innocence, Nobody There But Me, 20/20 Vision, A Night on the Town
Set Two: Harbor Lights, Valley Road, Hooray for Tom, Invisible, The Way It Is, Talk of the Town, Mandolin Rain, Spider Fingers
Encore: Standing on the Moon, Halcyon Days
Comments: Solo show.

02/25/12 Ferguson Center – Newport News, VA
Red Hook Summer Score > (Ligeti) > China Doll > ‘Bird Music’ (O. Messiaen) > China Doll, Lost in the Snow > ??? > Lost in the Snow, Hooray for Tom, Valley Road, Where’s the Bat, Simple Prayer, End of the Innocence, Love Me Still, Nobody There But Me. 20/20 Vision > Night on the Town, The Way It Is, Black Rats of London, Sneaking Up on Boo Radley > Catenaires (E. Carter) > Sneaking Up on Boo Radley, Mandolin Rain
Encore: I Can’t Make You Love Me, The Don of Dons, Soon Enough
Comments: Solo show.

03/02/12 Smothers Theatre – Malibu, CA
Music from Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer, Sticks and Stones, Sad Moon, End of the Innocence > Song F > End of the Innocence, Heir Gordon, Holy Trinity, Neighborhood Watch, Where’s the Bat, Love Me Still, Valley Road, Look Out Any Window, Talk of the Town > Catenaires > Talk of the Town, The Way It Is, Hooray for Tom, Invisible, Spider Fingers
Encore: I Can’t Make You Love Me, The Low Country
Comments: Solo show.

03/23/12 Stiefel Theatre – Salinas, KS
Piano intro, Preacher in the Ring, Music from Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer, Preacher in the Ring, Catenaires, China Doll > Messiaen’s Musique de Marseau, End of the Innoncence, Where’s the Bat?, Don of Dons, Holy Trinity, Valley Road, Fortunate Son, Dreaded Spoon, The Way It Is, (I am a Man of Constant Sorrow), (Ocean of Diamonds), Nobody There But Me, 20/20 Vision, Talk of the Town
Encore: Maindolin Rain, Cyclone
Comments: solo show.

03/31/12 Fox Theatre – Oakland, CA
Music from Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer > Sticks and Stones, Heir Gordon, Preacher in the Ring, Banter, Where’s the Bat?, Continents Drift, Valley Road, 20/20 Vision > Night on the Town
Set with Bob Weir: Too Much Monkey Business, Most of the Time, Lady with a Fan > Dark Star > The Other One, Me and My Uncle
Encore: Hell in a Bucket
Comments: first set Bruce solo. Second set Bob Weir solo. Third set together.

04/01/12 Fox Theatre – Oakland, CA
Music from Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer > China Doll > Music of the Birds, Big Rock Candy Mountain > Candy Mountain Run, Paperboy, (new song), Superfreak, Talk of the Town > Charlie Woody and You > Catenaires, The Way It Is, Mandolin Rain, King of the Hill
Set with Bob Weir: Sugaree, Looks Like Rain, Mexicali Blues, Standing on the Moon > Dark Star > Jack Straw
Encore: Ripple
Comments: first set Bruce solo. Second set Bob Weir solo. Third set together.

05/04/12 New Orleans Jazz Fest – New Orleans, LA
Sunflower Cat > Lot to Laugh Train to Cry, (Straight, No Chaser) > Rainbow’s Cadillac, Dirty Ground, The Way It Is*, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Tango King*, Jacob’s Ladder > Cartoons and Candy, White-Wheeled Limousine > Long Black Veil > Just One Drink > White-Wheeled Limousine Reprise
Comments: Rainbow’s Cadillac and Jacob’s/Cartoons on accordion. Dirty Ground first time ever with the band. * w/Bonerama.

Unpublished Bruce interview from 2011

si — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:19:26 +0000

Thanks a lot to Paul Fuhr for contributing this interview that he conducted with Bruce last year. It didn’t make it to print as Paradigm Journal sadly folded, so Paul has very kindly shared it with us. You can also download the PDF version that was intended for publication.

An Interview with Bruce Hornsby

BY PAUL FUHR & JEFF PLANK

Showman. Genius. Virtuoso. By any name, Grammy Award-winner Bruce Hornsby has made a career of defying expectations at every turn and forging his own unique musical path. Hornsby’s body of work ranges from radio hits to acclaimed bluegrass albums, an off-Broadway musical to a full-fledged gig as a member of The Grateful Dead. Endlessly inventive, humorous and humble, Hornsby took time to speak with us about the release of his second live album Bride of the Noisemakers, his creative process, touring with Bela Fleck, and thirty years of looking down that old valley road…

PAUL: Hey, Bruce. Thanks so much for doing this. Congrats on your new album, by the way. I picked up Bride of the Noisemakers the first day it came out.

Well, thanks, man. You probably got it on Amazon for $3.99, didn’t you? Good for you, man. Well, that’s two records for $3.99 which works out to, what, about four or five songs?

Anyway, the tour’s going well. We’ve just done two shows with Bela [Fleck] and it’s a very natural pairing. Bela and I have been playing together for years. I’ve sat in with his band; he’s sat in with my band quite a few times. It’s a very easy hookup.

PAUL: Cool. We’ll be seeing you in a few weeks at your show in Columbus.

Well, good. You can see if we’re sucking for yourselves.

PAUL: Let’s start off with your musical SCKBSTD. How long have you been interested in writing musicals?

It was never something I was trying to do. It was never something I had much of an interest in, although we did write two musicals in high school. Then again, if you knew how to play an instrument, you were allowed to play. Our band played this pre- jazz-meets-sock-hop scene in rural Virginia. It was just a joke.

I got a letter out of the blue from Playwrights Horizons on 42nd Street. They’d heard three songs off my Halcyon Days record and they thought it sounded like show music, so they sort of commissioned me to do this.

So, I thought, “Hey, let’s give this a shot.” That was in 2005 and it’s years later. We ran one idea up the flagpole about a Civil War re-enactor which we thought was pretty funny: people dressing up and camping out.

We thought the whole scene was pretty interesting and amusing. Who knows? Maybe that will be my next gig. Anyway, we have some wind behind our sails and we’re in production in Norfolk, Virginia.

JEFF: How did SCKBSTD differ, approach-wise, than your albums? When you are going into the studio, are you doing a lot of demo work beforehand or are you seeing if things develop organically?

The process is not that much different: I write the songs, I demo them, and then I show them either to the band or, in this case, the producers of the play.

I just get feedback and go from there. It’s mostly about writing the song. It has to be something that is strong and interesting to me. If everyone thinks it sucks, then I don’t know what to do. Actually, the latest song I’ve written has gotten very mixed response. It’s a rather dissonant, sort of graduate-level piece of music.

Some of the less adventurous music listeners in our camp are going “Whoa.” “What’s this?” But that generally makes me think I’m onto something, if you know what I mean.

PAUL: Well, to that point, you once said “Playing a song straight is a real prison for [you].” Have you ever written a song as a foundation in the hopes of reverse- engineering it live and/or taking it somewhere different?

Well, that would be a really good approach, Paul. I wish the approach was that we’d write the song and play the song live a lot and then we recorded it. We did that once. It worked okay, way back in The Range days. For the record A Night on the Town, we played a few of those songs live first, but not that much.

The schedule had it that we weren’t able to do that so, that would be better for us because I’m a slow learner. After we record them and we start playing it live, that’s when we really learn how to play them. So, frankly, that’s one reason why we put out these live albums every once in a while, every ten years.

We get to the point where, in some cases, we kinda nailed it in the studio version but haven’t beaten it. In more cases than not, what a song eventually evolves into is way stronger to me.

A lot of it has to do, frankly, with the way I sing the song. Bride showcases that development where I write the song, I record the song, then I learn how to sing it–not just play it. That’s a really good reason to have Bride out there. It really shows the way I think songs should’ve sounded originally.

PAUL: I don’t think anyone’s ever asked you this: How did your appearance in the little-known Robin Williams black comedy World’s Greatest Dad happen?

Oh yeah, man. I was so happy to be part of that. It’s so funny. I got a call from my producer’s old friend, Bobcat Goldthwait. You guys know who he is?

BOTH: Oh, yeah.

Well, as is the case with a lot of people in modern popular culture, what most people know about him is not what’s he about at all: some shrieking, screaming comic from the mid- 1980s. He’s actually not that guy at all. Bobcat’s a really good independent filmmaker.

So, he called my friend and said “We’re doing a film with Robin Williams. We need a musician for Robin to be a fan of and we’ve picked Bruce Hornsby. How do I get in touch with him?” He said, “Well, I just about talk to him every day. I’m doing his record right now.”

So, Bobcat and I talked. That’s how it came about. It’s a hilarious movie. Where else can you hear lines like: “Bruce Hornsby is a fag.”“But he’s got kids, Kyle! “Well, you have children, and you’re a fag.”

Quite an offbeat, but—to me—well- done movie. There’s a hilarious scene with these two Goth girls fighting over my Spirit Trail record in the halls of a high school.

JEFF: Bruce, I’d like to switch gears a bit. There’s always the one recurring theme you have in interviews: You can’t seem to escape the Grateful Dead. Is there ever a day you wake up when you say “If I get asked one more goddamned question about the Grateful Dead, I’m going to snap?”

No, man, I don’t have any problem with that at all. I loved my time with The Dead. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I grew up as a Deadhead. My older brother was a Deadhead and attended a Deadhead fraternity at UVA where they used to drop acid, paint their faces, and go play intramural volleyball.

I mean we were even in a Dead cover band, so it must’ve been quite amazing for all the people who followed [Bruce’s band] “Bobby Hi-Test and the Octane Kids”, then cut twenty years later to Madison Square Garden, when I’m at a sold-out show in Madison Square Garden, winging it with no rehearsal with The Dead. No, I wouldn’t change it.

Now, I will say for many years—after ‘95 when [Jerry] Garcia died and The Dead stopped playing–it became a bit of an albatross around my neck because so many people would show up to our shows and scream for Dead songs.

Especially the song we did on the [tribute album] Deadicated, “Jack Straw.”That became a curse.

Obviously, that’s a drag when people expect you to be a cover band for someone else’s music. What’s to like about that? Nothing.

That’s sort of subsided, though. You still hear the odd “Jack Straw” request, but it’s not over half the people. They sounded so loud, it sounded like all the people. So, yes, there was a time.

And Garcia told me that if I started playing with them, a lot of Deadheads are going to come to my shows and start screaming for Dead songs. He said: “You have ‘The Curse,’ man. They’ll never leave.”

Well, they did leave but now maybe they’re coming back. But for the right reasons. Frankly, we prefer that audience to the older, lime-green pants and golf shirt crowd our old hits tend to bring. We’re not really a great vehicle for your stroll down Memory Lane. We prefer the people who are there to dance and have a great time. That’s the audience we want. Our aim is in more keeping with the Grateful Dead- ish audience than an older audience.

JEFF: So, that’s…

Wait, one more thing I’d like to add. So, no, Jeff – I don’t wake up every day and think that. I love the songs. There’s so many great songs. Hell, even Bride is bookended by songs written by [former Dead member] Robert Hunter.

JEFF: Thanks. From a personal experience, I managed to catch you at the Valley Forge Music Fair in ’93 and you did an extended “Scarlet Begonias.” Thanks for elaborating on that.

Yeah. Sure thing, man.

PAUL: You’ve been recording music 30 years … Where do you think the music industry is now?

Well, it’s unrecognizable from where I started. When I got my music deal in ’86, you could actually make money selling records.

Obviously, you still can, but it’s much more difficult now and the record companies are dying by the year and the business is contracting by the year.

All I can say is that I’m glad I had a good fifteen, twenty years during the time where people actually cared about buying music; back when people actually cared about albums. The percentage of people buying music is lowering by the year.

So, how do I feel about it? I wish it was the old way, where you could actually put out a record. I wish there were albums with album art. We used to like it when the art was big and we could put our buddies like Kenny Vance, from Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors, then have us in the background playing a bar mitzvah. We liked it when people could be seen large and clear. So, hey, that’s regrettable, man. It just is.

PAUL: Well, now, you’ve moved from classically trained jazz, bluegrass with Ricky Skaggs, a musical, and a dozen studio albums. Is there a creative avenue you’d like to try out next, like maybe scoring a feature film?

Well, I scored a musical documentary for Spike Lee a couple years ago and that was fun. It wasn’t a feature film, but still. Spike and I are old friends. It was an easy score for me; I just enjoyed doing it. I’d welcome that possibility, but only if my situation was similar to that.

Not really, man. Mostly, these days, it’s modern classical music, which most people hate. There’s a little bit of that, even on Bride, and moving my songwriting into more harmonically complex songs.

For instance, that song I told you about that freaked everyone out. I’m moving in that direction. Less jazz. More modern-classic, simple traditional folk. I just want to jam, man.

PAUL: I know we’re out of time. Thanks so much for doing this, Bruce.

Sure thing. Thanks for being knowledgeable about my shit, guys. See you in a few weeks.

Piston Works for free download

si — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:34:39 +0000

Back in 2002, Bruce played at the home of then-Detroit Pistons coach, Rick Carlisle. Unknown to Bruce, the mini set was being recorded, and later made it onto the BruceHornsby.com website.

Thanks to Highway_61 and others for bringing this up on the Board – this recording is being sold in some rather nefarious quarters, so we’re happy to being it to you today in the spirit with which it was intended… for free.

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