2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 The enthusiasm for the music is definitely still there. Does it bother you that you are forever being compared with Bruce Springsteen? Rolling Stone magazine called it one of the top 100 pop albums of all time in 1987. Call 519-635-6257 or purchase online at. The band also found time to make an appearance in Joan Micklin Silver's 1977 movie Between the Lines. 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. I collected that kind of music, so they would play their English kind of invasion music and garage bands and I'd play blues. I wasnt going back to working at the post office. The Jukes have had a number of personnel changes over the years. Youve got to work hard to prove that you belong there, and once you do that, they're on your side. Southside Johnny Tickets, Tour Dates & Concerts 2024 & 2023 - Songkick Southside Johnny On tour: yes Southside Johnny is not playing near you. Why not? S. Even then, he says, Springsteen stood out. Be Proactive. He believes every musician has his or her unique sound. . Notifications from this discussion will be disabled. Q. We have very eclectic taste. View wiki source for this page without editing. It's one of my favorite places to play. Check out how this page has evolved in the past. 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." 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. Its one thing to do Fever and I Dont Want to Go Home, which I still love and get a great reaction, but when you get a new song that you havent played a thousand times and it still gets a great reaction, its really a big thrill.. 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. I moved down there because of the people that I have met. That was our college. I've always known what the Jukes ought to sound like. He carried himself as a person who has something to say, and still does. Call 519-635-6257 or purchase online at www.ticketmaster.com/, - Venue change for Thursday's Southside Johnny concert in Kitchener, Anyone can read Conversations, but to contribute, you should be a registered Torstar account holder. Indeed there isand it's a great one. 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! Their son, Evan James Springsteen, was born on July 25, 1990. What about the "New Jersey magic" that transforms musicians into stars? Early on when we were teenagers, I think we understood that we were given a great gift of making music. For more about the band, ple 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. After years of singing backup for her husband, Springsteen contributed backing vocals to several "Rumble Doll" songs. I'm interested in combining things, like the sounds of the old vocal groups, the blues, even something as foreign sounding as the violin. Just two people in the record struggling to see if they can be close, if you can trust the person, how intimate can you get without getting hurt. That was Dr. Zoom & the Sonic Boom. Its a good time in my life. And Garry wound up playing with Little Melvin & the Invaders. Johnny of Southside Johnny and the Jukes, https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/27/nyregion/new-jersey-q-a-johnny-lyon-johnny-of-southside-johnny-and-the-jukes.html. It was a crisis of faith in his career prospects and his chances for creative growth. I was just trying to make a really good record for myself.". I don't define myself entirely by music. Join Songkick to track Southside Johnny and get concert alerts when they play near you. See pages that link to and include this page. General Wikidot.com documentation and help section. She has been a musician and songwriter throughout her life, and although her own creative pursuits have often taken a back seat to those of her much more famous husband, Scialfa has continued to work both with and without the E Street Band for over 35 years. Every time I got off the bus, there would be literally hundreds of people sleeping there and begging and nobody was taking care of them, he said. You can link it to other sites. 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.. Hell be in Philadelphia with the Jukes at SugarHouse Casino on Saturday. I am fine. He is back fronting the nine-piece Jukes and resuming a heavy performing schedule that includes shows tonight and Wednesday at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, Thursday at the Roxy in West Hollywood, and Friday and Saturday at the Strand in Redondo Beach. "I'm friends with a lot of these guys who have become big rock stars and it's not for me. Nevertheless, the old links to Springsteen and Van Zandt are inescapable, given the mutual roots, and the fact that they wrote many of the Jukes most notable songs. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I have a wife I'm still married to, but we're separated, but I go and visit her. 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. 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 Detour Ahead: The Music of Billie Holiday, Michael Chiklis On His Lifelong Passion For Music and His Debut Album, 'Influence'. Steven (Van Zandt) will go out and live with the people hes going to write about and learn as much as he can. He wanted to thank a fan who left a care package at his doorstep. A. Do you agree that it takes a lot of courage? He had a gold top Les Paul, and he wrote songs and sang and put together bands and was a great guy to know.". I don't know if it's courage so much as it's just stubbornness. . Some Jukes fans have wondered why you've never made a blues album, given your love of the music. 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. Patti Scialfa has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's The E Street Band since 1984 and Springsteen's partner since 1988. If you weren't a performer and recording artist, what do you think you'd be doing now? Southside Johnny was born on December 4th, 1948 which makes him 68 years old. Don't knowingly lie about anyone Per Acoustic Storm, Scialfa contrasted the record with the intimacy of her first one, saying, "There are some songs with the same theme of closeness; how to be close, love songs. We honed our crafts. Q. Right before I went on stage, I had this feeling of revulsion. We email each other and send pictures, and I have a number of women friends that I do that with. Is Virginia ready for mandated electric vehicles? 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. A. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, Southside Johnny has long been considered the Grandfather of "the New Jersey Sound ." Jon Bon Jovi has acknowledged Southside Johnny as his "reason for singing." permissions/licensing, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com. 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. Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools Thursday (Feb. 2), 8 p.m. . So I had very little time to devote to studying. In one of your interviews, you described this age as the golden age for musicians. King and others too numerous to mention. 96, but slipped the following week to No. Their next concert will be tomorrow at the Bottom Line in New York City. 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. He is an actor, known for Home Alone (1990), Adventures in Babysitting (1987) and The Karate Kid Part II (1986). I think that the main thing about being from New Jersey is that it's so blue collar that if you don't work hard onstage, they won't respect you. Thats got to be $1,000 worth of cocaine and youre only making $500 a night? Now that the pieces are in place, the only thing left is to see how the record sells. Bruce Springsteen had visited his parents in California. The song, with lyrics by Lyon and music by Springsteen, was intended for Southside Johnnys 1978 album, Hearts of Stone, but hadnt surfaced until now. I really am not good at lip-syncing. I think I earned enough credits to get an associate arts degree, but I'm not sure. One of the seminal figures on the New Jersey rock scene and a gifted, charismatic singer steeped in soul, blues, and R&B. New Jersey music icon Southside Johnny Lyon is doing "fine" during the coronavirus outbreak and he has plenty of toilet paper, too. Location: 913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park, NJ 07712 Contact: 732-502-0600 Hold Fast Records "If you want old vinyl, there is a record shop on Cookman Avenue,'' Lyon says. Im not driving a truck. I have a lot of women friends. You've been the leader of the Asbury Jukes for two decades. I have a vague idea about what I want to do and I'd like a set list, but if at any moment I want to do a different song, I'll just call out the title of the song or the opening riff and we'll do it. I did it once and went on stage and my voice dried out. Im doing what I like to do--even if the surroundings continue to be earthy. This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. 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. It seems to me thats cutting your own throat; the more people you attract to your station, the bigger base you have. People come and go; that's part of the business. 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. Your last album, "Better Days," was perhaps the most critically acclaimed album you've done since "Hearts of Stone." Who gave him the nickname Southside? 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. Since leaving Springsteens E Street Band in 1984, Van Zandt had turned much of his musical and personal attention to political causes, including the founding of Artists United Against Apartheid. 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.. You have permission to edit this article. They weret really written for me. A. I take performing and recording very seriously. I cover pop music, from what's happening in the local scene to national trends and touring acts. John Lyon (born December 4, 1948), [1] better known by his stage name Southside Johnny, is an American singer-songwriter who usually fronts his band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes . ", By the spring of 1988, rumors were flying that Scialfa and Springsteen were having an affair. You can put it up on the internet. I said, Great--any towns got a pool hall cant be so bad. Well, of course, as soon as I move in there they close it down and make a Volkswagen parts joint out of it. "He just had that presence where you couldn't take your eyes off him. The project evolved as Van Zandt began writing tunes for what Lyon describes as a homecoming album, a look into their musical past. 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. Partly cloudy this evening then becoming cloudy with periods of light rain after midnight. Some day I'll do a blues album. This husband-and-wife-owned shop is full of punk, soul, jazz, reggae, and R&B. I dont like making videos, Lyon confessed. 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. Guitarist Billy Rush became their main songwriter and band leader, and Southside and company cut two studio albums for Mercury, 1979's soulful The Jukes and 1980's harder edged Love Is a Sacrifice. It could get a boost if the video catches on, but Southside Johnny records have never been huge sellers, even in the glory days. We were in bands together. Will there be a new one in 1994? Even though his friends Bruce Springsteen and. Scialfa was happy to oblige, contributing two new songs; Roth also used two songs from "Rumble Doll." 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? So I would vacuum and make the beds and play their records and sing along with them. I think that most of the people who come to see us want that. CLEVELAND, Ohio - Go to any Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes show these days (the band still plays regularly up and down the East Coast) and you'll find a new, coveted item amongst fans. View and manage file attachments for this page. The group has always featured Mr. Lyon's soulful vocals and a horn section, often called the Miami Horns in honor of a Jukes co-founder, (Miami) Steve Van Zandt (a k a Little Steven). Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. The three of you influenced each other, so how did Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi influence you? The Sundance Blues Band fizzled out after the closing of the Upstage Club, and by 1972 Springsteen had founded a hard rock band called Steel Mill. Q. They don't want us to be the same set list every night. 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. It brings out a slightly different show in that it's so intimate and we do different songs, but we still rock out. Lyon, frontman for the Asbury Jukes, shared an update on. Who were your role models or sources of inspiration when you began your music career? But the truth is, I basically ignored the entire thing as much as I could. I want to be on the same radio station that plays Nine Inch Nails and LL Cool J and Tom Waits. I thought it was a great record. "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. My mother worked, and would say it was OK to stay home as long as I cleaned the house. A. Hang in there and we will have a party as soon as possible. By 1967, the center of the Jersey Shore rock scene had become an Asbury Park nightspot called the Upstage Club, a booze-free venue that allowed local musicians to play original music and teenagers to hang out until the wee hours of the morning. presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution But I can tell you this. But because success is associated with planning, as they always tell you that although you don't have to follow the plan, you have to plan; can you explain your success to me? They were so determined that was going to be what they did. I don't know why. Keep it Clean. We're very close. She agreed and joined the tour three days before its start. Ive been very lucky. In 2020, as reported by Rolling Stone, Bobby Roth, a director, friend, and neighbor of Springsteen and Scialfa, asked Scialfa to write some songs for his teen drama "Pearl." Get our L.A. Tickets: $19.50. You care very much because you know that if you don't make music, you're going to have to get a real job, and who wants that? They have recorded or performed several Springsteen songs, including "The Fever" and "Fade Away". 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. Upcoming scheduled Jersey shows include June 6 at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair; July 3 at the Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park and July 6 at the Ocean City Music Pier. The album "Tunnel of Love" contained lyrics that hinted at trouble in Springsteen's relationship with Phillips and the tour featured a more front and central role for Scialfa, who performed more duets with Springsteen than she had in the past. 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. We were musicians and we were going to make a go of it one way or another, even if it meant playing in local bands on the weekends and getting a job during the week, but the main thing in our lives back then was music. Gary Tallent would play rockabilly, so we absorbed all those different influences and they all come out in the music. Three big musicians: Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and yourself come from that area, and you all know each other. 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. to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I think it's just natural. All credits to the original photographer. I worked during the day and performed at night. It's just to me that it's a unique vision of the world, a unique take on the world, and of course, I hang around in my career with guys, guys, guys, guys. The album entered the Billboard charts at No. We swapped musical educations. I don't look at it so externally. ", Things You Didn't Know About Bruce Springsteen's Wife Patti Scialfa, Racing In The Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader. That record was like really a love letter to my husband, Bruce, and had very few characters in it. And, he notes with a laugh, the musical cross-pollination that began decades ago is still going on - most recently, with Springsteen's poaching of the Jukes' brass section. Q. My wife, Jill, keeps wondering the same thing. The connection continues on Slow Dance with Walking Through Midnight, a fine ballad of inner turmoil and frustrated yearning that Lyon and Springsteen wrote 10 years ago. Two years later, the group signed a recording contract with Epic Records and released the album "I Don't Want To Go Home." 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 think we knew it at the time. I have more toilet paper than I need for a year. I read that your mom let you stay home and listen to music instead of going to school. 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. It's just natural that you work hard onstage, because it's your chance to make music You don't just go, "Oh, I really don't care.". . 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." 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. They have been recording albums since 1976 and are closely associated with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. I always took that as a tremendous compliment because some of the best music Ive heard has been in bars. All the activity has been spurred by the release of Better Days, the first Southside Johnny album in three years. The best performance is always when the audience explores them with you. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes are an American musical group from the Jersey Shore led by Southside Johnny. 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 . Notify administrators if there is objectionable content in this page. Baton twirlers. As the Sundance Blues Band and its offshoots became frequent attractions at the Upstage, Southside was playing several sets a night, four or five nights a week, and he began seriously considering a career as a professional musician. In a 2004 interview with Acoustic Storm, Scialfa said of her first record, "It was a very honest record for me and I was very happy with it because I can put that record on and it really expresses a very specific time in my life honestly and creatively. His go-to basses with the Asbury Jukes are a Fender Precision bass, and a short scale Jerry Jones Longhorn. 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. Then of course, I started meeting a lot of other musicians and I started jamming. S. Lyon, frontman for the Asbury Jukes, shared an update on social media from his home in Ocean Grove on Monday, March 30. Lewis has hits and plays in arenas, while the Jukes still ply the barrooms and roadhouses. Click here to toggle editing of individual sections of the page (if possible). Southside Johnny & the Jukes 1986 album, At Least We Got Shoes, had not left much of a commercial footprint. He walked on stage, and the crowd just went nuts, Lyon said. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: That's correct. Steve Van Zandt was out as producer and principle songwriter (he was also busy with his other gig in Bruce Springsteen's E . In speaking about the release of "21st Street Lullaby," she explained, "I don't look at it as an event. 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 Rich L.A. homeowners are snapping them up, High school basketball: Southern California and Northern California Regional results and updated pairings, Madonna salutes late brother Anthony Ciccone for blowing my mind as a young girl, L.A. Phils 2023-24 season lineup celebrates the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall, Cardi B changes tune on community service, calls it best thing, spiritual journey, Moroccan singer convicted of rape in Paris, gets 6-year term, Jonas Brothers promise Broadway residency will be a walk down musics memory lane. All the facilities are there, but the internet makes it so that you can disseminate your music. 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. Wedding reception for Southside Johnny and his bride, Jill Glasner. Chance of rain 70%.. The year was 1967, says Southside, or maybe '68, and New Jersey was alive with the sounds of the primitive, pre-Beatles rock and Stax soul that would infuse both his and Springsteen's work. No fallback, no college, no learn another craft - forget it.". We rode up this hill, and right there was this big 8-ball on a pillar. King album one day. He was born as John Lyon in New Jersey. Tickets: $19.50. He was very patient, very willing to teach. 2021 | 2022 | 2023, For Collectors | Releases He also trades vocals with Lyon and Van Zandt on Its Been a Long Time, the first single from the album. Jersey gal Gloria Gaynor's hand-washing 'I Will Survive' video a viral hit, Bon Jovi says son Jake is '100 percent' recovered from COVID-19 scare, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Low 49F. Ocean Grove was a very quiet place. She worked along with my father. They come home from work, have a couple of beers, and put on [Wynonie Harris] Dont Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes at Me.. Growing up in a small town in New Jersey, when the winter kicks in and its around February and you start thinking about places youd rather be, Southern California has always been one of them. Q. Despite a myriad of style changes and passing trends in pop music since the band's early 70's inception, Southside Johnny has remained true to its rhythm-and-blues roots. 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 Live recording -- "Reach Up and Touch the Sky. "They were all 'I'm gonna be a musician!' Gallery | Links Most of the changes have been for the better of the band. "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. It seems too easy. King play his guitar through the cracked window. Has it been difficult to maintain the same sound with so many changes in personnel? 1949-64 Lyon's parents were music fans with a taste for jazz (his father played bass in a jazz combo before landing a steady job with the post office), and he grew up with the sounds of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington filling the house. When reporters asked Scialfa about her extra time in the spotlight, she agreed, explaining "I didn't know when we started rehearsing that he was going to give me a lot to do Bruce coaxed me and urged me to reach. Change the name (also URL address, possibly the category) of the page. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yeah, I can't just be superficial. I treasure my privacy and l like being left alone on the street.". You could make a career out of it. Scialfajoined the bandSouthside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes as a backup singer and met Bruce Springsteen at the Asbury Park, New Jersey club the Stone Pony. Other albums, like "Love is a Sacrifice," "At Least We Got Shoes" and a Southside Johnny solo album, "Slow Dance," followed in the 1980's. Southside Johnny Lyon was born on 4 December 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA. Meanwhile, Lyon has landed appearances on The Tonight Show and Late Night With David Letterman. And theres a video of Its Been a Long Time, the shooting of which picked up national media attention. For the Poor Fools, where they were doing Americana, folk and blues, he mostly played a 1960's German-made Hoyer. The couple married on June 8, 1991. Scialfa said of her trajectory as an artist, "A lot of it is my own ambivalence, because if you really want to get something done, you get it done. Playlists | Radio | Podcast I agree. Even though his friends Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi achieved more fame, Southside Johnny's unmatched dedication will be remembered forever. That year, Springsteen married model Julianne Phillips; Scialfa had reportedly told people that she had feelings for her boss, but she didn't sit around pining for him, even briefly dating actor Tom Cruise as well as various New York musicians. The band's most recent album, "Better Days," was released in 1991 on the Impact label. This is a must-ask question: What is it about New Jersey? "Bruce always wanted to make his music count for people. You have to really put your heart and soul into it. 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 But, he added, I think that when you get to those places, sometimes you need to look back and see how you got there.. Going to Jukesville followed in 2002, and the tough, eclectic Into the Harbour was issued in 2006. 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