Ted Leo Covers Bruce Springsteen
This vid comes from Ted's solo set at the Callum Robbins Benefit Show at Northsix in Williamsburg Friday night where, according to The Battering Room, cover lover Leo played 11 covers in a 16 song set. We're sure no one complained though; by now we know Ted can pull off his own brand of Thin Lizzy ("Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone," performed that night) or Idol Pop ("Since U Been Gone"), but he really knocks it out of the park on this Boss tune. Oh shit, "Glory Days" was the baseball one, right? Anyway, forget the metaphor. "Dancing In Dark" live in Brooklyn is pretty sweet, despite the lack of a 21st century hipster Courtney Cox, as P4K points out.
Posted at 10:24 AM in Video
Tags: Bruce Springsteen | Ted Leo
that song sounds cool... does anyone know where i can find more music by this Springstein fellow? does he have a myspace page with song clips or something?
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Always was, and still is, my favorite Springsteen song. Sweet.
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chad vangaalen has been performing "dancer in the dark" live for quite a while now.
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where have all the rude boys gone is an original song, no?
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yeah, joseph, Rude Boys is Ted's song. "Little Girl in Bloom" is the Thin Lizzy cover.
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he covered "dancing in the dark" at a cbgb's benefit back in the fall of 2005.
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everyone else is copying the sound, might as well give the lyrics some attention, too.
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He also did Outdoor Miner by Wire. My new wave friend almost walked out at that, but he is a bit intense.
Leo's been doing the Brooce song a few years now.
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"Rude Boys" is a Leo original, but, as the item said, it's Ted's own brand of Thin Lizzy. That song and "Timorous Me" are unabashed Thin Lizzy tributes. You can hear early (Greetings; Wild, the Innocent...) Springsteen in Thin Lizzy, too, so it's sort of Springsteen filtered through Thin Lizzy filtered through Leo. He wears his influences on his sleeve sometimes, but he's so obvious about it that those songs come off as knockoffs. Interested to hear what the other covers were...
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what other covers did he play?
also, ted leo is awesome. I'm really excited about the new album and bonus EP!!
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edit: Above, I meant to write "those songs DON'T come off as knockoffs."
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everyone else is copying the sound, might as well give the lyrics some attention, too.
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Ditto what Brian said, and that was w/the Rx. The highlight of the CB's Gallery performance was a pair of audience members jumping up on stage and doing the Bruce-Courtney dance during the song.
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I also saw him do it when he played a bill with Rainer Maria at Northsix a couple years ago. Caitlyn had lost her voice a couple songs into Rainer Maria's set, so Ted jumped up and did "Dancing in the Dark". The cool part was Caitlyn jumping back up to recreate the Courtney Cox dance from the video.
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my friend maureen does the kick-assingest courtney cox dance in the world. i just thought that should be noted for the record.
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i first saw ted cover 'dancing' in '99 or '00 at the more than music fest in dayton, ohio.
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I saw him do it at a solo show in the small room at the Black Cat in DC a few years ago. Awesome then, awesome now.
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i didn't mean to start a contest...my only point was that it wasn't a new cover.
alas...
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I saw him do it at a solo show in the small room at the Black Cat in DC a few years ago. Awesome then, awesome now.
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There is only one person that should be doing Springsteen tunes, and that's Springsteen.
Mike
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yeah mike. brilliant. wtf?
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There is only one person who should be doing Pete Seeger tunes, and that's S... Oh, wait.
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