Monday, December 14, 2020

To Err is Truman. Er, Human. Er, Whatever.

On SNL last Saturday, Bruce Springsteen hit a massive clam on guitar. At the 4:33 moment of the clip.

And there's lots of other raggedy things about the performance. Like occasionally pitchy vocals, not quite right sax, blah blah blah.

But who freaking cares?

And why, you ask?

Because (A) It's a gorgeous song, passionately rendered...

...and B) FOR ONCE THE MUSIC ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE IS ACTUALLY, HOW YOU SAY(?), LIVE!!!

I should add -- play this one loud.

6 comments:

elroy said...

The whole thing was "a little pitchy dawg" but I enjoyed it - I was glad they started with Ghosts.

Nice to see over 400 cumulative years of music experience on the SNL stage

Dwayne Ray said...

I was talking about this earlier today. Rough performance

pete said...

I think Bruce knew exactly what he was doing. Jake, not so much.

joeleeh said...

Massive Clam? I didn't think it was "massive" but what was closer to massive was how much "the professor's" saxophone was flat to the band.

Anonymous said...

Roy Bittan is "The Professor," and he plays keys.

JB said...

Hey. it's live rock 'n roll, it's not supposed to be perfect.