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A. I went to Monmouth College for two and a half years and majored in English literature. But I'm not anywhere near ready to give it all up. 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 "I haven't put on a suit for 40 years. 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. The following year, Southside Johnny revived the Asbury Jukes for the album Better Days, a set in the group's classic style that was produced by Steve Van Zandt and included appearances from Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, the latter a longtime Southside Johnny fan. A pair of movies put Southside Johnny back in the public eye in 1990 -- his version of "Please Come Home for Christmas" appeared in the hit Home Alone, and he recorded a pair of tunes for Captain America, "Memories of You" and "Written in the Wind." If she worked the day shift, I'd say, Mom, I'm going to stay home today and I'll clean the house, do the dishes, make the beds, vacuum, do all the different things, and she said, Okay, of course. You know, I hated school and I wasn't really getting a lot out of it. Southside Johnny's story is one of resilience, perseverance and making music for the love of music. People can hear it. It brings out a slightly different show in that it's so intimate and we do different songs, but we still rock out. Thats right. A. It could get a boost if the video catches on, but Southside Johnny records have never been huge sellers, even in the glory days. "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. Watch headings for an "edit" link when available. But the truth is, I basically ignored the entire thing as much as I could. Discography: Studio recordings -- "I Don't Want to Go Home"; "This Time It's for Real"; "Hearts of Stone"; "The Jukes"; "Love Is a Sacrifice"; "In the Heat"; "At Least We've Got Shoes"; "Better Days"; "Slow Dance" (solo). I think he started to remember how much fun it was to make that kind of music, just the heartfelt R&B; style, whether it be up-tempo or slow.. The Jukes have had a number of personnel changes over the years. Nevertheless, the old links to Springsteen and Van Zandt are inescapable, given the mutual roots, and the fact that they wrote many of the Jukes most notable songs. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. For more about the band, ple There's some really nice people down here," so I did. 1976's I Don't Want to Go Home was their debut album, and documented the band's tight, muscular attack; it also included guest appearances from Ronnie Spector and Lee Dorsey, and Springsteen contributed two songs for the sessions, "The Fever" and "You Mean So Much to Me." Lyon and Bandiera already have performed two weeks of acoustic gigs in Europe in support of the album, and will head East in December with the full band for a two-week tour. Southside Johnny & the Jukes play at 8 p.m. tonight and Wednesday at the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano. Low 49F. Physically, it's a little bit more challenging for me now; my shows tend to be very energetic. ", Event has been relocated to the Wax Nightclub,125 King St. W., Kitchener, Tickets $45. You're a little bit timid the first couple of times you get onstage, but then you see those guys really just having a great time and confident that the people that love it are going to go, "That's where I'm going to be." They have recorded or performed several Springsteen songs, including "The Fever" and "Fade Away". Check out how this page has evolved in the past. The three of you influenced each other, so how did Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi influence you? Just two people in the record struggling to see if they can be close, if you can trust the person, how intimate can you get without getting hurt. Hell be in Philadelphia with the Jukes at SugarHouse Casino on Saturday. After three years, Southside was disenchanted with the Richmond rock scene, and he returned to New Jersey. 2008 also saw Southside & the Jukes celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of Hearts of Stone with a series of shows at Asbury Park's Stone Pony, one of which was recorded and released by Leroy in 2009 as Hearts of Stone Live. He believes every musician has his or her unique sound. So that was my job, but I made it a point that we would do a blues song because that was my first love, blues music. You'd go into a literature class in high school and you've already read all the books, so you go, "God, this is going to be a long season here.". The band also found time to make an appearance in Joan Micklin Silver's 1977 movie Between the Lines. Help Us | Upload. For nearly 20 years, Johnny Lyon and his band, the Asbury Jukes, have carried on a music tradition steeped in rhythm-and-blues and blue-collar rock-and-roll that has made them one of the state's most enduring pop-music groups. Thats got to be $1,000 worth of cocaine and youre only making $500 a night? His name, of course, was Bruce Springsteen, though at the time he was just another up and coming nobody trying to get a break. Bruce (Springsteen) has that good intuitive sense about whats right and wrong.. It is a unique moment in time. Does it bother you that you are forever being compared with Bruce Springsteen? B. Call 519-635-6257 or purchase online at. I agree. She's in love. King album one day. Information: (714) 496-8930. Southside Johnny Lyon (John Lyon) was born on 4 December, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA, is a Soundtrack, Actor, Miscellaneous. You set your sights on making the best music you can and not try to be a star or make a lot of money. Its not so bad to be lumped in with people of that caliber.. 1949-64 Keep it Clean. If you made a friend in Germany who's a guitar player and you got this song, you can send it to him and say, "What do you think? 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 Q. You can do that at home or you can go to a studio and do it quickly. That's the kind of freedom that you don't really think about until somebody asks you about it. Q. And when he and Lyon struck up a friendship, it changed the course of Lyon's life. Most E Street Band and Asbury Jukes members (past and present) were in attendance. When asked if she was working on a new album, Scialfa replied that she was, noting she was halfway through the process but was sharing a studio with her prolific husband during the pandemic: "He's always like, 'I have to go do this thing and that thing.' Early on when we were teenagers, I think we understood that we were given a great gift of making music. Still, he admitted, Its not an easy sell--this kind of music--to a lot of stations. Radio, he believes, is even more restricted than it was in the 70s. His answer was to take 6 months away from the band to record his first album on his own, Slow Dance. Instead of the punchy, beer-and-sawdust party music associated with the Jukes, it is a low-key album, given mostly to ballads. If you do not yet have a Torstar account, you can create one now (it is free), Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. That was really a Drifters thing. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Well, you plan in a vague way that you want to get another album done, but even if you write the songs and you know which way you want to go, when you take it to the band, sometimes they change a little bit and they may shift it a little bit in a different direction and you go, "Oh, I like that," or you don't and you say, "Let's not do it that way. Thats where I met Bruce and Steve. Was it always your goal to be a singer and performer? I want to be on the same radio station that plays Nine Inch Nails and LL Cool J and Tom Waits. Relations (People / Bands) When did you discover that you were lucky and had a gift? Socially conscious songwriting was one new direction that Lyon didnt foresee as he began work on Slow Dance. But as he commuted in from New Jersey to work in a Manhattan studio with co-producer Steve Skinner, the scene that confronted him each day at the New York Port Authority bus terminal demanded commentary. 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. View and manage file attachments for this page. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Did you have this kind of connection that is not superficial? Q. 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. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I do connect with them. In a 1996 interview with The Advocate, reprinted on the site Greasy Lake, when asked about the negative reaction some people had to Scialfa and Springsteen falling in love, Springsteen replied, "It's a strange society that assumes it has the right to tell people whom they should love and whom they shouldn't. And we were tenacious about it. I have a real iron throat. Change the name (also URL address, possibly the category) of the page. Ocean Grove was a very quiet place. She agreed and joined the tour three days before its start. director Tom Jones documentary about the rise, fall, and revival of the central Jersey boardwalk town showing in theaters May 22 and 29. 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. The connection continues on Slow Dance with Walking Through Midnight, a fine ballad of inner turmoil and frustrated yearning that Lyon and Springsteen wrote 10 years ago. 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). They got to play guitar and I got to sing the blues, but after a while, you realize that people were actually listening to you and that maybe you did have that talent. They weret really written for me. 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. They're together a lot and they seem very affectionate. ", Per AllMusic, Scialfa wrote all 12 songs on "Rumble Doll." It's been the focus of my entire life. I treasure my privacy and l like being left alone on the street.". If they needed a singer and this was in the guitar-hero era, two verses and then 20 minutes of a guitar solo I became the singer. John Lyon was born in Neptune, New Jersey on December 4, 1948 and grew up in nearby Ocean Gove. They don't want us to be the same set list every night. We honed our crafts. TikTok:Jersey gal Gloria Gaynor's hand-washing 'I Will Survive' video a viral hit, Lyon, 71, is an architect of the Sound of Asbury Park with Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt and more, and a member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame. But after graduating from Neptune High School on the Jersey Shore in 1967, you enrolled at Monmouth College. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I think it's a great time to be a musician because you don't have to pay $1 million to go into a studio to record. Im very happy in my life, Im very happily married, I love the band I play with, I love the material I get to play on stage. From Brucebase: Bruce (and several E-Streeters) with Southside Johnny in the early hours of August 31 (1978) following their gig at the Richfield Coliseum. A. I don't know if I have one strategy. 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. 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