Caryn Rose's Blog, page 22
July 20, 2011
"For Clarence"
It was inevitable, it being New Jersey, and it went on all night – adding "Promised Land" at the end of ISHFWILF, thanking Bruce for the loan of the hall, getting the crowd to "Bruuuuce" them. It was inevitable, and I knew it was coming, but when Bono went to the front of the stage and pulled out the sign – and that person had to have gotten online at the stroke of dawn to get that spot – it didn't make it any easier, as he proceeded to dedicate "Moment of Surrender" to the E Street Band...
my novel, B-Sides and Broken Hearts: out now
It is OFFICIAL LAUNCH DAY for B-sides and Broken Hearts. Formerly known as Joey Ramone Is Dead, this is my rock and roll novel, the book I always wanted to read. It is available in both paperback and ebook format.
I hope you will check it out on Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and Smashwords (for Kobo and Sony ereader). It is also available from the respective Amazon sites in the UK, Canada, and Germany! You can also walk into your local bookstore and order a copy.
This is a DIY enterprise –...
July 16, 2011
me talking about Clarence on early-morning telly-vision
For some reason I put this on my Tumblr but not here – me and Rolling Stone's Anthony DeCurtis on Good Day NY on June 20th:
Reaction To Clarence Clemons Death: MyFoxNY.com
July 11, 2011
U2, Montreal 2011
I could, and should, someday write a long treatise about hauling myself from Tel Aviv to London (en route to the US for my sister's wedding) in August of 1993 to see U2 at Wembley Stadium on the Zooropa tour, and how it altered the course of my life completely. That time is not now, but it would go a long way in explaining why I would spend 4 days hauling myself up to Montreal to see U2 play a show in the middle of a race track along with 79,999 other people, why I would get up at 6:30 on my ...
June 18, 2011
love to the big man.
Give my regards to Junior Walker and King Curtis.
more later, when I can manage it.
June 12, 2011
It's time.
The E Street Band needs to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Call in the chips, rally the troops. Now.
June 8, 2011
Guest Post, Guest Playlist
Messrs Patell and Waterman kindly invited me to contribute my own NYC-themed playlist to to their blog, in honor of the publication of their 33 1/3 tomes on Some Girls and Marquee Moon (highly recommended!).
(Also of note, their appearance at my local bookstore, Word, later this month!)
May 26, 2011
for babs.
and if there's one thing
could do for you
you'd be a wing
in heaven blue
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Attn: GIST Research, 10 Brookline Place, W. Brookline, MA 02445
May 24, 2011
Elvis Costello, Beacon Theater, 5-24-11
This was a wonderful evening, jam-packed with stone favorites from start to finish. Any set heavy on the Imperial Bedroom / Blood and Chocolate continuum will ring my chimes.
He did, however, perform the second-worst cover of "Purple Rain" I have ever seen.
May 23, 2011
"Color Me Obsessed" Minneapolis Premiere
It was a cool and sunny day and I was walking around the intersection of N. First Avenue and Seventh Street South, an intersection as historical as 12th Street and Vine and one that looms as large in my legend as does Bowery and Bleecker. I'm standing in downtown Minneapolis, Replacements blasting in my earphones, taking photo after photo of the stars on the wall of the nightclub at that location, that valhalla that launched the careers of every band I have loved from Minneapolis. Purple...
