This was a post from Backstreets today, I love just about everything Bruce puts out there or has to say but this story matters today and the song is even more beautiful and meaningful. The lyrics are so real and deep. Thank you to all the men and women who have served... Visa Backstreets-THIS BLACK STONE AND THESE HARD TEARS This Veterans Day, we look back at a lost Springsteen track, The Wall, which debuted live ten years ago. Inspired by a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Bruce played the song twice in 2003, in Somerville, MA, and twice again in 2005 on the Devils & Dust tour (above, video from the Meadowlands). And thats it. The Wall honors Motifs singer Walter Cichon, a local hero for Bruce in Freehold in the 60s, as well as Castiles drummer Bart Haynes, both of whom were killed in Vietnam. Bruce described the songs inspiration at its Somerville Theatre premiere: I was down in Washington, at an event at the White House that was honoring Bob Dylan. And I had an unusual experience. I took my wife to the Vietnam War Memorial, shed never seen it. We went there, and... I had a few friends when I was a kid, the drummer of my first band and another close friend in town. And we were looking for their names, and we found their names. That night we had this event, we end up at this dinner and, and there was Robert McNamara [Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968]. Joe Grushecky sent me, for some reason, a week or so later, sent me an article out of a newspaper. So we kinda wrote this song together, in some fashion. This is called The Wall.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:50:06 +0000
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