I really liked it and I moved down there, but I didn't move down there because of the music. It was open from 8 till 5 oclock in the morning. Who were your role models or sources of inspiration when you began your music career? Patti Scialfa has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's The E Street Band since 1984 and Springsteen's partner since 1988. What kind of strategy do you use when it comes time to record? The band's most recent album, "Better Days," was released in 1991 on the Impact label. . I said, 'Well, all I know is, this feels real, and maybe I have got a mess going here in some fashion, but that's life. View wiki source for this page without editing. I didn't want to have anything to do with any record companies, so my friend Garry Tallent, who was Bruce Springsteen's bass player for all those decades, he and I went to high school together and he said, "Come on down to Nashville and meet some people. That's hard to say, of course. Very much so. 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. This is the official Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Facebook Page. This week, the 70-year-old singer spoke on the phone from his hometown of Ocean Grove, N.J. Hell be in Philadelphia with the Jukes at SugarHouse Casino on Saturday. Append content without editing the whole page source. We swapped musical educations. They're together a lot and they seem very affectionate. Ive had 20 years in this music business, and Ill have 20 more. 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." Discography: Studio recordings -- "I Don't Want to Go Home"; "This Time It's for Real"; "Hearts of Stone"; "The Jukes"; "Love Is a Sacrifice"; "In the Heat"; "At Least We've Got Shoes"; "Better Days"; "Slow Dance" (solo). A. I Dont Want to Go Home might have been. ", Per "Racing In The Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader," Springsteen and Julianne Phillips divorced in 1989, and in 1990, Springsteen and Scialfa moved to a $14 million estate in Beverly Hills, California. 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. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yeah, I love The Birchmere. Maybe I need to descend further into the pit of life.Profile. Ayear later, per People, Springsteen's label, Columbia, offered her a record contract of her own. King album one day. It gets tiresome, sure. Its a fact of life. Information: (714) 496-8930. Chance of rain 70%.. Q. I wasnt going back to working at the post office. B. The article noted that the album had ended up bringing Scialfa into the spotlight, and while it had kickstarted her career, it hadn't led to a large body of solo work, as she had originally hoped it would. It's one of my favorite places to play. 1966-07-26 Business District, Asbury Park, NJ, 1966-07-25 Business District, Asbury Park, NJ, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. 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. Will there be a new one in 1994? As Lyon honed his chops on the blues harp and learned lyrics to some of his favorite songs, he would occasionally perform a few songs with friends who had formed bands. Their next concert will be tomorrow at the Bottom Line in New York City. Tell me about the women in your life. I remember a hair band opening for us, and I looked in the dressing room and there was a big mirror with all this cocaine. 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. Wed eat fried chicken and listen to the band. "And I've always wanted to be as free and odd and eccentric as I wanted, because I'm just naturally that way - and I can. A. I know some of the songs I want to record, but I don't know about the style of those songs. When people ask me for advice, I say, Get some rest, drink lots of water, dont party all night, and certainly dont do cocaine.. Do you feel that you understand women? SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: They have such confidence onstage and such delight, and I was always impressed by people like that, like James Brown and Jackie Wilson, Sam & Dave. As the Asbury Jukes were becoming one of New Jersey's most popular acts, Bruce Springsteen grew out of his local following into a respected journeyman rock & roller after he landed a deal with Columbia Records in 1973, and his third album, 1975's Born to Run, transformed him into a legitimate star, a critical favorite who finally connected with a mass audience. How do you think you influenced Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, who acknowledged you as his reason for singing? We do not monetize a photo in any way, but if you want your photo to be removed, let us know, and we will remove it. Lyon said it doesnt bother him to remain tied to the Springsteen sphere of influence. "He just had that presence where you couldn't take your eyes off him. One of my sax players went with David Bowie. Another thing that is interesting about you is that you didn't plan your career or your life, which you mentioned in one of your interviews. I suspect he was just one of the singers in the club and it wasn't a terribly important scene, but too bad for Southside! When Soozie Tyrell played violin for the Jukes back in the 70's, early 80's, I thought that was a great sound for the band. We werent old enough to drink, but because we knew Garry we could get in. You can put it up on the internet. In 2007, Scialfa released her third solo album, "Play It As It Lays." I wasnt a big cocaine person, though. Pal to Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt, longtime veteran of late-night jams at such legendary Joizy clubs as the Upstage and the Stone Pony, possessor of a classic R&B; growl, Lyon even named his band the Asbury Jukes after Asbury Park, the decaying resort town and center of the states productive 70s musical scene. . With the addition of a horn section, the Blackberry Booze Band evolved into Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes. You think, well, that's what you have to do. You're a little bit timid the first couple of times you get onstage, but then you see those guys really just having a great time and confident that the people that love it are going to go, "That's where I'm going to be." Southside Johnny & the Jukes 1986 album, At Least We Got Shoes, had not left much of a commercial footprint. ", New Jersey Q & A: Johnny Lyon; Southside Johnny's rare solo efforts gave him a chance to explore other musical directions, as he embraced adult contemporary pop on 1988's Slow Dance and jazz on 2008's Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits and 2017's Detour Ahead: The Music of Billie Holiday. This Time It's for Real was the second album by New Jersey Rock / R&B band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, featuring three compositions by Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt, as well as an additional five by the latter.Like their first album, I Don't Want To Go Home, there are a number of guest artists and duets, a trend that would be dropped for their next album, Hearts of Stone. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes are an American musical group from the Jersey Shore led by Southside Johnny. I had a care package left on my porch today from a fan who left her initial as K, Lyon said. You set your sights on making the best music you can and not try to be a star or make a lot of money. Socially conscious songwriting was one new direction that Lyon didnt foresee as he began work on Slow Dance. But as he commuted in from New Jersey to work in a Manhattan studio with co-producer Steve Skinner, the scene that confronted him each day at the New York Port Authority bus terminal demanded commentary. Whats the big deal about changing your pronouns? A. I went to Monmouth College for two and a half years and majored in English literature. Things changed when Springsteen asked her to rejoin him on the road in 1987 for the "Tunnel of Love" tour, which delayed Scialfa recording her own record. I wish I could have gone out and played live after it came out. 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. The three of you influenced each other, so how did Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi influence you? "Steven (Van Zandt) always wanted to be active politically and to play music and now he's an actor as well (on The Sopranos). What's the secret? But in the summer of 90, Southside had a gig at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park and decided to call Van Zandt and several former Jukes. It's been the focus of my entire life. The album included references to everyone from writer Sylvia Plath to racecar driver Shirley Muldowney to '60s girl groups like the Chiffons. We never made any money. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. I don't know if it's courage so much as it's just stubbornness. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I think just the dedication to it, kicking ass every night even if there's only 20 people in the audienceYou go out and do your two hours and you play as hard as you can, and it really doesn't matter. By the summer of 1988, their relationship was out in the open and they were seen together constantly in New York and New Jersey. 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. Springsteen's new success persuaded record companies that New Jersey might be a hub for fresh talent, and soon Epic signed Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes to a record deal. Some record companies understood that. 2008 also saw Southside & the Jukes celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of Hearts of Stone with a series of shows at Asbury Park's Stone Pony, one of which was recorded and released by Leroy in 2009 as Hearts of Stone Live. If anybody needs some, send me an email. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, "Having a Party" Stone Pony show from September 26, 1991, in support of Southside's Better Days album, which was produce. But I got used to it a long time ago. Now that the pieces are in place, the only thing left is to see how the record sells. Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes: 2005: Maxine Brown: All the Time in the World: Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band: September 2008: Tom Waits: A Whiter Shade of Pale: Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes: 2004: Procol Harum: Back in the U.S.A. Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes: 1981: Chuck Berry: Billie's Blues: Southside . I detested school. Star Newspapers Limited and/or its licensors. Southside Johnny & Jill Glasner Wedding Reception. Im not a nostalgist. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I do connect with them. 96, but slipped the following week to No. Information: (714) 496-8930. Mostly retired people. Q. But then there's other songs just about living, and trying to find out who you are, where are the people around you, where are you going to set your compass, and are you going to follow that; where are you going to set your moral compass, and are you going to follow it. "Bruce does these charity shows around Christmas and he always calls and it's fun to do, and we play a lot of Chuck Berry, and he drinks tequila and I drink whisky and a good time is had by all.". Tickets: $19.50. Steve Van Zandt was the songwriter-producer and Springsteen sidekick and consigliere who would go on to The Sopranos and Underground Garage satellite radio notoriety. 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. But the truth is, I basically ignored the entire thing as much as I could. Some Jukes fans have wondered why you've never made a blues album, given your love of the music. Then, a little more than a year ago, Lyon decided, contrary to the title of one of his signature songs, that he wanted to go home after all--or at least that he couldnt go on belting it out in the clubs 150 to 200 nights a year. Thats the nature of this kind of long-lived horn band. Lyon developed a taste for harder blues and R&B from listening to the radio late at night, and in his early teens, he began learning to play harmonica after "borrowing" one from his brother, who had bought a guitar and fancied himself the next Bob Dylan. Why did you decide to move to Nashville at one point in your life? You can link it to other sites. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: My mother and my father were great readers of good literature. It was so great. "Garry Tallent (Springsteen's bassist and Southside's best friend) and I were talking a couple of years ago and realized everybody pretty much got what they wanted. There's some really nice people down here," so I did. A. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. http://wfuv.org Follow @wfuv: http://ow.ly/flLAg Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes perform "I Don't Want To Go Home" live at The Cutting Room. Besides you, there aren't any original members of the band left. Some didn't, but now I have my own record company, so I'm free to do what I want to do and I take whatever direction I like. I have more toilet paper than I need for a year. Are you excited to be coming to The Birchmere? Help Us | Upload. I would hear songs like Louis Armstrong Struttin With Some Barbecue and it felt like there was life somewhere. Read Full Biography. Bruce Springsteen was the breakout star. After three years, Southside was disenchanted with the Richmond rock scene, and he returned to New Jersey. King play his guitar through the cracked window. If you made a friend in Germany who's a guitar player and you got this song, you can send it to him and say, "What do you think? A more extensive tour, including West Coast dates, probably will come next year. Music was so important to us when we were young. Call 519-635-6257 or purchase online at. Be Nice. You can be attracted to a woman, but once you start talking, they become a human being and you become a human being to them, and if there's a human connection, that's one thing, but I've never really been attracted on a surface level. Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools Thursday (Feb. 2), 8 p.m. Discover Southside Johnny Lyon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. "He's stealing my saxophone players to replace Clarence (Clemons, who passed away last year), so we steal from each other's bands occasionally.". I don't know if it's courage. 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 I never have looked at women, except for about 15 to 16, 17 years old, as sex objects. You are all about raw and honest music, and I think this takes a lot of heart, and also takes a lot of courage; you put all of yourself into music. From Brucebase: Bruce (and several E-Streeters) with Southside Johnny in the early hours of August 31 (1978) following their gig at the Richfield Coliseum. Their second child, Jessica Rae Springsteen, was born on December 30, 1991 and their third child, Sam Ryan Springsteen, was born on January 5, 1990. Most E Street Band and Asbury Jukes members (past and present) were in attendance. They got to play guitar and I got to sing the blues, but after a while, you realize that people were actually listening to you and that maybe you did have that talent. 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Southside Johnny was born on December 4th, 1948 which makes him 68 years old. Ive been very lucky. In a 1988 People magazine article about Scialfa, Asbury Jukes singer Bobby Bandiera called her "a beer-drinking buddy. I want to be on the same radio station that plays Nine Inch Nails and LL Cool J and Tom Waits. The move came at a lull in Lyon's 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 . Q. Also, I was the blues guy. Do you view rock-and-roll and performing today with the same enthusiasm and intensity you did 20 years ago? Bruce Springsteen had visited his parents in California. Bobby Bandiera and I have been writing songs. If you are lazy going through the songs, you wont have an audience. Steven (Van Zandt) will go out and live with the people hes going to write about and learn as much as he can. Rolling Stone magazine called it one of the top 100 pop albums of all time in 1987. The club often featured open jams, and Lyon, like many other aspiring musicians, would stop by regularly to hear music, meet other players, and hopefully take the stage for a few tunes. Leroy was launched with 2000's Messin' with the Blues, which featured the latest edition of the Asbury Jukes. A pair of movies put Southside Johnny back in the public eye in 1990 -- his version of "Please Come Home for Christmas" appeared in the hit Home Alone, and he recorded a pair of tunes for Captain America, "Memories of You" and "Written in the Wind." Bruce (Springsteen) has that good intuitive sense about whats right and wrong.. 1949-64 Playlists | Radio | Podcast Im not driving a truck. 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. Was it always your goal to be a singer and performer? A. Bruce Springsteen was the man who took the sound of the Jersey Shore music scene to the world, but it was Southside Johnny (aka John Lyon) who was the early focal point of the scene that produced many of the major figures of the Garden State's rock & roll community.A powerful vocalist whose style is steeped in vintage blues, R&B, and soul, Johnny was the leader and frontman for the group the . I'm proud to be compared to Bruce. The album received great reviews, but while Southside and the band were touring in support, Impact Records, the label that released it, went bankrupt, which left the record dead in the water. Wedding reception for Southside Johnny and his bride, Jill Glasner. ", Per AllMusic, Scialfa wrote all 12 songs on "Rumble Doll." They really inspire you with their command of the stage. That musical meeting led to a renewed partnership on the new album. He was very patient, very willing to teach. presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution There's not just one thing, and I think that's reflected in all of our music. Click here to toggle editing of individual sections of the page (if possible). Southside Johnny paid homage to one of his earliest influences on his 2017 solo effort, Detour Ahead: The Music of Billie Holiday, in which he went into the studio with a jazz ensemble and cut nuanced but passionate takes on 11 of Lady Day's most memorable songs. It had never happened to me before. New Jersey music icon Southside Johnny Lyon is doing "fine" during the coronavirus outbreak and he has plenty of toilet paper, too. ", Scialfa's second album, "21st Street Lullaby," followed in 2004. You're always with men, and we've had women in the band and all, but I just like when I'm not with the guys, I like sometimes to hear somebody else talk. It got a lot of great reviews. Southside Johnny's story is one of resilience, perseverance and making music for the love of music. 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 People like Big Joe Turner, Ray Charles, B. Since then, Johnny and the Jukes have released more than a dozen albums. My mother worked, and would say it was OK to stay home as long as I cleaned the house. A. I certainly hope so. For more about the band, ple His go-to basses with the Asbury Jukes are a Fender Precision bass, and a short scale Jerry Jones Longhorn. I think that would be boring. Do you connect with them? "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. She once again explained how she always had to balance her solo work with her duties to the E Street Band as well as to her family, noting she had just taken two days off from touring to get her son Evan ready for college. I dont always remember what Im supposed to do.. Going to school, becoming a teacher, working at the Pepsi Cola bottling? It's not odd to me to have women as friends, and it's almost always been that way. I actually started singing in front of people when I was 16 years old. I went through months of that. All Only because I like a wide range of music and I think everybody would, if they got a chance to hear it., Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Travis Barkers finger injury delays Blink-182 tour: One of those freak accidents, The timeless creativity of De La Soul, now (finally) available for the streaming generation, Court orders Kodak Black into drug rehab after rapper allegedly tests positive for fentanyl, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. But I can't imagine not being in music. 2021 | 2022 | 2023, For Collectors | Releases View and manage file attachments for this page. 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. Career: Band leader and lead singer of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Has Southside Johnny become Surfside Johnny? 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. I think I earned enough credits to get an associate arts degree, but I'm not sure. When New Jerseys Asbury Park music scene rose up in the 1970s, there were three bright lights on its rock-and-soul triangle. In 1995, Southside Johnny recorded the title song for a low-budget movie called Tuff Turf, and the tune was issued as a 12" single by Rhino Records, becoming his first solo release. Its not a case of feuding between old friends, he explained, but of being caught up in careers and personal lives that dont often intersect. We were young and we wanted adventure and there was this music that promised that. We had cheerleaders. Q. We've gotten older, but wiser, too. Indeed there isand it's a great one. or anything. Southside Johnny Lyon was born on December 4, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA as John Lyon. Soundtrack: Home Alone. What about the "New Jersey magic" that transforms musicians into stars? He's not rationalizing - he really is content. I remember going over to the Orchid Lounge and listening to B.B. You'd go into a literature class in high school and you've already read all the books, so you go, "God, this is going to be a long season here.". Most of the changes have been for the better of the band. Tickets: $19.50. Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Featured Pages, Gig Pages PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. Thats got to be $1,000 worth of cocaine and youre only making $500 a night? I think that all stations should play all kinds (of music), instead of just trying to narrow their demographic down to this little 18- to 26-year-old white males in suburbia, he said. A. I am fine. Did you have this kind of connection that is not superficial? New Jersey music iconSouthside Johnny Lyon is doing fine during the coronavirus outbreak and he has plenty of toilet paper, too. For 1983's Trash It Up!, the group shortened their name to Southside Johnny & the Jukes, moved to the Atlantic-distributed Mirage label, and teamed with producer Nile Rodgers to create a sleeker, more dance-oriented sound. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. I think it is courage because you put all of yourself, all of your heart in one direction. In 1984, E Street Band member Nils Lofgren was too sick to join Springsteen and the rest of the band on tour, and Springsteen asked Scialfa to join as a backup singer. After years of singing backup for her husband, Springsteen contributed backing vocals to several "Rumble Doll" songs. And Garry wound up playing with Little Melvin & the Invaders. We had a Monopoly game on stage. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism Southside Johnny Lyon. I was just trying to make a really good record for myself.". Their onstage interactions got steamier and more suggestive, and in June they were spotted kissing in Rome, Italy. each comment to let us know of abusive posts. 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. Most of us didn't go to college for a career. racist or sexually-oriented language. You and the Jukes haven't released a new album in more than two years. 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