For better or for worse, playing in a band is never the same. The album is on Cypress Records, the independent label whose roster leans toward such mellow folk-pop artists as Jennifer Warnes, Leonard Cohen and Jesse Colin Young. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: That's correct. The album included references to everyone from writer Sylvia Plath to racecar driver Shirley Muldowney to '60s girl groups like the Chiffons. Wed eat fried chicken and listen to the band. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I think it's just natural. He wanted to thank a fan who left a care package at his doorstep. 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 Right before I went on stage, I had this feeling of revulsion. 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. 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. But now I have 24 rolls of toilet paper because I had bought some and then re-bought some before this whole thing started, and then my cleaning lady had left me a 12 pack. So it was a confluence of things. I cover pop music, from what's happening in the local scene to national trends and touring acts. 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 At the end of the show, they ran through Its Been a Long Time several times for the cameras, with the result patched together by the director. Some people thought its success would give both you and the Jukes increased exposure, particularly with younger audiences. They have been recording albums since 1976 and are closely associated with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. Check out how this page has evolved in the past. We were all scuffling. Does it bother you that you are forever being compared with Bruce Springsteen? Im not a big fan of videos. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Well, I didn't really believe in it until I had been doing it for a number of years, because most of the time back then, guys wanted to be guitar heroes and play 20-minute guitar solos, and the singer was just somebody that sang in between the guitar solos. We rode up this hill, and right there was this big 8-ball on a pillar. Partly cloudy this evening then becoming cloudy with periods of light rain after midnight. Its not my natural bent to write a socially committed song, Lyon said. 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Youve got to work hard to prove that you belong there, and once you do that, they're on your side. I worked during the day and performed at night. It was a great education for all of us. What's the secret? Southside Johnny: To me, the spontaneity of making music is the beauty of it, instead of this idea that you're going to program everything and everything's going to work out right --really just let it go and see where the night takes you.. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yes, we're all pretty good friends. Do you feel that you understand women? presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution There's some really nice people down here," so I did. 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. I have more toilet paper than I need for a year. It was open from 8 till 5 oclock in the morning. Discover Southside Johnny Lyon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Append content without editing the whole page source. When you watch old clips on YouTube, it's uncanny how closely aligned Springsteen and Southside are musically - both representative of the Jersey Shore sound of the '70s, with its big band rock spiked with romanticism and a rootsy, heartland ethos. I don't know if it's courage. Recorde. More important, however, it marks a reunion with Steve Van Zandt, who produced and wrote many of the tunes for Lyons first--and best-received--three albums from the mid- to late 70s: I Dont Want to Go Home, This Time Its for Real and Hearts of Stone, the last of which made Rolling Stone magazines 1990 list of the best 100 albums of the previous 20 years. If they came up with a prototype for the hard-working Jersey Shore bar-band rocker, it would probably come pretty close to the real-life Southside Johnny Lyon. Everybody likes a lot of different things. So whats he doing in--gulp--San Clemente? . Hang in there and we will have a party as soon as possible. Two other E Streeters, drummer Max Weinberg and bassist Garry Tallent, appear on the album. I havent seen either of them in years or spoken to them, Lyon said. The site's review called the album a "slow seduction" and noted, "there's not a bad song in the bunch, and the title track is a gem." A. I don't know if I have one strategy. Do you connect with them? Too many times I've gone into the recording studio with the idea that the album would sound like this and it comes out sounding like something entirely different. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I kind of got fed up with the record business, the music business, and I didn't want to work anymore. I really liked it and I moved down there, but I didn't move down there because of the music. They're glowing. The album entered the Billboard charts at No. Bruce Springsteen had visited his parents in California. Three big musicians: Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and yourself come from that area, and you all know each other. So I had to learn all these songs. Frank Sinatra: Live At Melbourne Festival Hall. Wedding reception for Southside Johnny and his bride, Jill Glasner. "It really was a great crucible, and sort of our college, because we were teenagers back then, and we learned so many styles of music - country and western, blues, guitar rock - because nobody said 'no' to anything. 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. I think it is courage because you put all of yourself, all of your heart in one direction. Well, I don't know what people thought about the record one way or another. To order copies of A. . Steven (Van Zandt) will go out and live with the people hes going to write about and learn as much as he can. Information: (714) 496-8930. Notifications from this discussion will be disabled. Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Change the name (also URL address, possibly the category) of the page. There's not just one thing, and I think that's reflected in all of our music. See pages that link to and include this page. I learned a lot from them and that there was a certain sophistication that wasn't really prevalent in the area I grew up in, so they were very unique people, and I'm very grateful to have had them for parents because they taught me how to read good literature and how to laugh and how to listen to music. Each contributed songs to the band that was known then as Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, and Van Zandt, known nowadays as political rocker Little Steven, served as the bands manager and producer. 1949-64 Its the stupidest drug. In an interview that year with NPR's Weekend Edition, Scialfa said the idea behind the record "was to go into the complexities of a long-term relationship. By 1971, Lyon had formed a group called the Sundance Blues Band, which featured Lyon on lead vocals and harp, as well his high school friend Garry Tallent and other future stars such as Steven Van Zandt, Vini Lopez, David Sancious, and a promising guitarist named Bruce Springsteen. How do you think you influenced Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, who acknowledged you as his reason for singing? Playlists | Radio | Podcast It got a lot of great reviews. I wish I could have gone out and played live after it came out. "But I walked into the place I used to hang out, the Upstage Club, and this long-haired guy was onstage telling a story about how the nuns taught him the blues by bringing in a B.B. expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Toronto "And Bruce would come over all the time and we'd listen to each other's records and play poker and monopoly. You probably never asked yourself, What if?. I always had kind of a soft spot for Southern Cal, Lyon confessed in an interview at the Hollywood offices of Impact Records, his new label. 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about It was such a great time. They have recorded or performed several Springsteen songs, including "The Fever" and "Fade Away". I Dont Want to Go Home might have been. Do you agree that it takes a lot of courage? Not 'I'm gonna try to be a musician.' Asbury Jukes hits include Talk to Me, All I Want Is Everything, Hearts of Stone, Trapped Again, I Dont Want to Go Home, Its Been a Long Time and Having a Party.. She agreed and joined the tour three days before its start. 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. The newly-formed 1982 lineup of The Asbury Jukes (with former E Street Band member Ernest "Boom" Carter on drums) provided the musical entertainment at the reception, along with "special guest" Bruce Springsteen. 1978's Hearts of Stone was a superb distillation of everything Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes had been trying to do with their music in the early years, and when it failed to sell significantly better than its predecessors, it signaled some major changes for the band. A. I went to Monmouth College for two and a half years and majored in English literature. Thats got to be $1,000 worth of cocaine and youre only making $500 a night? If you want to discuss contents of this page - this is the easiest way to do it. The move came at a lull in Lyons musical career, and life in San Clemente (which he shares with his wife, Jill, and their two canaries) has been mostly quiet: walks in nearby Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park, drinks on the pier at sunset, movie outings. I honestly dont try to keep up with all that (sales) stuff because it can make you completely neurotic, and Ive got lots of other things to keep me neurotic.. I think we know what it takes to keep an audience and to make them want to come back. I treasure my privacy and l like being left alone on the street.". I had a care package left on my porch today from a fan who left her initial as K, Lyon said. A powerful vocalist whose style is steeped in vintage blues, R&B, and soul, Johnny was the leader and frontman for the group the Asbury Jukes, whose tough bar band sound married the impact of hard rock with the swing and horn-fueled punch of blues and deep soul. Something does not work as expected? Southside Johnny soon landed a new record deal with Mercury Records, but had to deal with an even bigger change, as Steve Van Zandt dropped out as the guitarist, songwriter, and producer for the Asbury Jukes; his role in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band had become too time consuming. There are some great songs on it, thanks to Little Steven and Bruce. But I can't imagine not being in music. If you weren't a performer and recording artist, what do you think you'd be doing now? Why not? You have permission to edit this article. Time to find out. A lot of those, Steven and Bruce and those people, had not heard a lot of Chicago blues, some, but not a lot of them. Those albums featured the horn-driven Jukes sound along with a sprinkling of Springsteen-penned nuggets, notably The Fever and Hearts of Stone. Lyon went on to record several 80s albums with the Jukes, along with some solo efforts in several styles, but he never quite regained his stride after the departure of Van Zandt, who was busy in his role as Springsteens guitarist. Southside Johnny Rock Singer #131416 Most Popular Boost Birthday December 4, 1948 Birthplace Ocean Grove, NJ Age 74 years old Birth Sign Sagittarius About Rock and blues singer who was a member of the band Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, the group that released the album I Don't Want to Go Home in 1976. The Jukes landed a once-a-week gig at an Asbury Park club that had seen better days, the Stone Pony, playing off nights for the door. racist or sexually-oriented language. 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She studied jazz at the University of Miami before moving to New York and starting busking on street corners, singing in clubs, and doing session work in studios. You can link it to other sites. Watch headings for an "edit" link when available. Ocean Grove was a very quiet place. Born Vivienne Patricia Scialfa on July 29, 1953, Scialfa grew up in the affluent suburb of Deal, New Jersey, per the Washington Post. Wow. It's a very satisfying thing to do, so I started playing with a lot of different people and writing songs and just got back into the business. Southside Johnny (his nickname comes from his love of the raw, hard-edged brand of blues from Chicago's South Side) and the Asbury Jukes started out in 1974 as the house band at the Stone Pony,. I remember going over to the Orchid Lounge and listening to B.B. His name, of course, was Bruce Springsteen, though at the time he was just another up and coming nobody trying to get a break. Even though his friends Bruce Springsteen and. 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