Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes play the SugarHouse Casino on Saturday May 11. Do you feel that you understand women? And Garry wound up playing with Little Melvin & the Invaders. Baton twirlers. 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. Most of us didn't go to college for a career. With the addition of a horn section, the Blackberry Booze Band evolved into Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes. 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. My real priorities were my family my kids and Bruce and my work with the E Street Band." Born Vivienne Patricia Scialfa on July 29, 1953, Scialfa grew up in the affluent suburb of Deal, New Jersey, per the Washington Post. Was it always your goal to be a singer and performer? 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. 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 I remember going over to the Orchid Lounge and listening to B.B. ", Things You Didn't Know About Bruce Springsteen's Wife Patti Scialfa, Racing In The Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader. 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. It's like being an athlete. This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: My mother and my father were great readers of good literature. 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. I wish I could have gone out and played live after it came out. 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. 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 Tickets: $19.50. 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. B. "They were all 'I'm gonna be a musician!' I just think it's a great time to make music, and you can communicate with musicians around the world. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. It was such a great time. 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. And when he and Lyon struck up a friendship, it changed the course of Lyon's life. '", In 1993, Scialfa finally released her first solo album, "Rumble Doll." Southside Johnny & the Jukes 1986 album, At Least We Got Shoes, had not left much of a commercial footprint. Don't Threaten. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. Southside Johnny (Lyon), good friend and one time band mate of Steve Van Zandt was listed in the credits as "himself" yet definitely not in the ep. Sometimes after the weekend was over, we'd go out for a hamburger." Be Truthful. We were young and we wanted adventure and there was this music that promised that. I wasnt a big cocaine person, though. I feel that my marriage has really broadened me and certainly given me a sense of some completion but that you can't really look for that. If you are lazy going through the songs, you wont have an audience. I always feel self-conscious. 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. 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. A. or anything. Relations (People / Bands) . Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. Wedding reception for Southside Johnny and his bride, Jill Glasner. The couple married on June 8, 1991. Their next concert will be tomorrow at the Bottom Line in New York City. 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 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. 1,083 talking about this. Understandably frustrated with the business, Southside briefly dropped out of music and relocated to Tennessee, but in 1996, he staged a low-key tour of Europe, where he discovered he still had an audience, and a four-night stand at the Chesterfield Cafe in Paris became the basis of a live album, Spittin' Fire. The band's most recent album, "Better Days," was released in 1991 on the Impact label. I think he started to remember how much fun it was to make that kind of music, just the heartfelt R&B; style, whether it be up-tempo or slow.. But I'm not anywhere near ready to give it all up. 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. ", A 2004 interview with the Washington Post noted that "21st Street Lullaby" came out almost exactly 20 years after Springsteen's iconic 1984 album "Born In The USA." Who were your role models or sources of inspiration when you began your music career? 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. I moved down there because of the people that I have met. 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. Republication or distribution of this content is Structural Info Facts Filmography Known for movies Home Alone (1990) as Soundtrack Adventures in Babysitting (1987) as Band Leader at Frat Party The Karate Kid Part II (1986) as Soundtrack The Mighty Ducks (1992) as Soundtrack Source IMDB Wikipedia When he came back to N.J., he was broke and needed to put together a band. Some record companies understood that. They're together a lot and they seem very affectionate. I am very grateful. presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution 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. 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. View all concerts Chase City, VA, US Change location 2,658 fans get concert alerts for this artist. There was a place called Piners Lounge and Steven and I would go there and Bruce would come and wed watch Garry play. 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. It had never happened to me before. 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. When New Jerseys Asbury Park music scene rose up in the 1970s, there were three bright lights on its rock-and-soul triangle. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I have a wife I'm still married to, but we're separated, but I go and visit her. Threats of harming another In the song, Lyon channels his anger over the citys neglect of homeless people into sassy, edgy ironic humor that fits into an old blues tradition of laughing when it hurts too much to cry: You pray to God, but he never seems to hear/Youre in the mayors prayers, Lord, make them disappear, Lyon sings in a voice that is half biting, half bemused. I had a care package left on my porch today from a fan who left her initial as K, Lyon said. Getting some traction is the hardest thing for me. "And Bruce would come over all the time and we'd listen to each other's records and play poker and monopoly. Economics is not your strong suit. We never made any money. We've gotten older, but wiser, too. I lived with Steven and two other guys, and we would listen to each others records. Youve got to work hard to prove that you belong there, and once you do that, they're on your side. They both worked, and when she had the day shift, she worked at a telephone company as an operator back in the day when they used to have them. Despite wide swings in popular music and the unpredictable tastes of the record-buying public, the Jukes have managed to survive as a band while many other 70's bands have not. 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. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. He also trades vocals with Lyon and Van Zandt on Its Been a Long Time, the first single from the album. 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. 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 . 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You set your sights on making the best music you can and not try to be a star or make a lot of money. 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.". They're both in love. Starting with I Dont Want to Go Home in 1976, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes released three classic Van Zandt-produced albums that epitomized the Jersey Shore sound. He was born as John Lyon in New Jersey. Sales were modest but respectable, and the band toured hard in support, eventually taking a break to cut their second LP, 1977's This Time It's for Real, which featured more guest appearances from R&B heroes (vocal groups the Coasters, the Drifters, and the Five Satins) and songwriting contributions from Springsteen. 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. When people ask me for advice, I say, Get some rest, drink lots of water, dont party all night, and certainly dont do cocaine.. Get an email notification whenever someone contributes to the discussion. So it was a confluence of things. And Lyon found himself wondering whether he ever would be able to develop a musical direction beyond the horn-driven, roots-conscious R&B; that was the Jukes specialty. You and the Jukes haven't released a new album in more than two years. I read that your mom let you stay home and listen to music instead of going to school. Im doing what I like to do--even if the surroundings continue to be earthy. 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