Southside Johnny & the Jukes 1986 album, At Least We Got Shoes, had not left much of a commercial footprint. If you're in a bad mood about having a fight with your old lady, you can talk to her about it.". No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism I was out here on tour (in late 1988) and I played the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, and I said, This looks nice, lets move here. And we did.. You somehow scrounged your way through and if you werent starving to death you got to play on Friday and Saturday night. 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. 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 . When New Jerseys Asbury Park music scene rose up in the 1970s, there were three bright lights on its rock-and-soul triangle. S. Join Songkick to track Southside Johnny and get concert alerts when they play near you. And we were lucky to find each other. Append content without editing the whole page source. But the truth is, I basically ignored the entire thing as much as I could. Now that the pieces are in place, the only thing left is to see how the record sells. This led to Southside Johnny reviving the Jukes as a live act, playing occasional shows in the United States and touring Europe and the U.K. every year. View/set parent page (used for creating breadcrumbs and structured layout). Ocean Grove was a very quiet place. We honed our crafts. This was not the kind of music that other people listened to, but I didnt know that. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I kind of got fed up with the record business, the music business, and I didn't want to work anymore. He had a gold top Les Paul, and he wrote songs and sang and put together bands and was a great guy to know.". Thats right. Thats in dispute. 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. They loved good music and they had great senses of humor and some sarcasm. Still, the music I make isn't really like the music he makes. . Those things were never really that important to me, but what was important was, I was allowed to do whatever I wanted onstage or in the studio. 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. We never made any money. 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. A. The singer-songwriter and the frontman of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes is known for influencing what critics call the "New Jersey sound," but if you ask him about it as I did, he would tell you that this sound does not exist. Im very happy in my life, Im very happily married, I love the band I play with, I love the material I get to play on stage. Do you view rock-and-roll and performing today with the same enthusiasm and intensity you did 20 years ago? 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. A. I really am not good at lip-syncing. Wed eat fried chicken and listen to the band. ", New Jersey Q & A: Johnny Lyon; It got a lot of great reviews. King and others too numerous to mention. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: No. I just cant wait to do (the new material) live, because I know its going to get a great reaction, and itll be new stuff, Lyon said. 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 . SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I do connect with them. Are you excited to be coming to The Birchmere? person will not be tolerated. Q. A. My wife, Jill, keeps wondering the same thing. I always feel self-conscious. Van Zandt and Springsteen both figured heavily in the launching of Lyons career in the mid- to late-70s. 110. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. General Wikidot.com documentation and help section. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. We had a Monopoly game on stage. 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 Track artist I thought it was a great record. 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. Some people thought its success would give both you and the Jukes increased exposure, particularly with younger audiences. I used to clean the house. Bobby Bandiera and I have been writing songs. To order copies of 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. Discover Southside Johnny Lyon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. So whats he doing in--gulp--San Clemente? '", In 1993, Scialfa finally released her first solo album, "Rumble Doll." 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. You can put it up on the internet. A. The project evolved as Van Zandt began writing tunes for what Lyon describes as a homecoming album, a look into their musical past. I don't really sell many records. 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And Southside Johnny Lyon was the blues and R&B vocalist and bandleader who could outsing both of them. I think that most of the people who come to see us want that. 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. My life has been an adventure; I want to keep it that way. And Garry wound up playing with Little Melvin & the Invaders. Q. Ive been very lucky. I lived with Steven and two other guys, and we would listen to each others records. Music was so important to us when we were young. Notifications from this discussion will be disabled. "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.". I remember going over to the Orchid Lounge and listening to B.B. racist or sexually-oriented language. 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 always say this. Scialfa was happy to oblige, contributing two new songs; Roth also used two songs from "Rumble Doll." 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. It brings out a slightly different show in that it's so intimate and we do different songs, but we still rock out. We werent old enough to drink, but because we knew Garry we could get in. She agreed and joined the tour three days before its start. I dont like making videos, Lyon confessed. Featured Pages, Gig Pages 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. Worrying about album sales and things like that would just make me more neurotic than I already am. Its a fact of life. Maybe I'm not old enough. 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. 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. His name, of course, was Bruce Springsteen, though at the time he was just another up and coming nobody trying to get a break. 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 Put a guitar part on it," and you can do it with anybody around the world. There was nothing that was attractive other than music, so that's what you did You were tenacious about following that one opportunity to do the one thing you really loved. You set your sights on making the best music you can and not try to be a star or make a lot of money. They treat us great. Very much so. I already knew Garry Tallent and Vini Lopez. 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? If they needed a singer and this was in the guitar-hero era, two verses and then 20 minutes of a guitar solo I became the singer. 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. All the activity has been spurred by the release of Better Days, the first Southside Johnny album in three years. 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Well, I don't know what people thought about the record one way or another. Recorded over six weeks in June and July, Better Days was released late last month. It is a unique moment in time. Some day I'll do a blues album. Check out how this page has evolved in the past. Event has been relocated to the Wax Nightclub,125 King St. W., Kitchener Tickets $45. The albums appealed to the Jukes' fan base and "I'm So Anxious" from The Jukes became a minor hit, but they didn't expand their audience, and after cutting an excellent live album, 1981's Reach Up and Touch the Sky, Mercury and Southside Johnny parted ways. If you are lazy going through the songs, you wont have an audience. "And I have a horn section and he doesn't.". 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Much of the new material explores how it feels to be us now, looking back, Lyon said. It was just perfect. 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.". It was so great. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. What kind of strategy do you use when it comes time to record? Coronavirus in NJ: Bon Jovi says son Jake is '100 percent' recovered from COVID-19 scare. "I haven't put on a suit for 40 years. Since then, Johnny and the Jukes have released more than a dozen albums. King play his guitar through the cracked window. 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. You could make a career out of it. You have to really put your heart and soul into it. Published May 9, 2019 Dan DeLuca I cover pop music, from what's happening in the local scene to national trends and touring acts. The Jukes have had a number of personnel changes over the years. 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. Songs | Lyrics 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 Partly cloudy this evening then becoming cloudy with periods of light rain after midnight. TikTok:Jersey gal Gloria Gaynor's hand-washing 'I Will Survive' video a viral hit, Lyon, 71, is an architect of the Sound of Asbury Park with Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt and more, and a member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame. I realized once again that music is fun and fulfilling. They have been recording albums since 1976 and are closely associated with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. 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. The first Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes compilation to be released in America since Super Hits, this 2013 collection casts a wider net than that 2001 set, incorporating a couple of cuts from Southside Johnny 's albums for Universal. 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. Republication or distribution of this content is The album included references to everyone from writer Sylvia Plath to racecar driver Shirley Muldowney to '60s girl groups like the Chiffons. ", Event has been relocated to the Wax Nightclub,125 King St. W., Kitchener, Tickets $45. It seems as if it's impossible for you to escape his shadow. It was four rolls of toilet paper, some candy bars, some toothpaste, (of which I was almost out), and a bottle of wine. . each comment to let us know of abusive posts. 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. Partly cloudy this evening then becoming cloudy with periods of light rain after midnight. Low 49F. People like Big Joe Turner, Ray Charles, B. In one of your interviews, you described this age as the golden age for musicians. 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. This husband-and-wife-owned shop is full of punk, soul, jazz, reggae, and R&B. 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 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. 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. Besides you, there aren't any original members of the band left. He also trades vocals with Lyon and Van Zandt on Its Been a Long Time, the first single from the album. Do you know what I mean? Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. 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 . You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. 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. View and manage file attachments for this page. Find out as you read our phone conversation. After 1986's At Least We Got Shoes, Mirage cut ties with Southside, and he put the band on hiatus, cutting a solo album, 1988's Slow Dance, that leaned in the direction of adult contemporary music, dominated by love songs and ballads. 1,083 talking about this. 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 can't just be superficial. Southside Johnny & Jill Glasner Wedding Reception. 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? If I'd gone out and played it live, it would've made the record more accessible to people. Let me ask you about Nashville. For nearly 20 years, Johnny Lyon and his band, the Asbury Jukes, have carried on a music tradition steeped in rhythm-and-blues and blue-collar rock-and-roll that has made them one of the state's most enduring pop-music groups. Mike Boehm Mike. 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. I gave out money each day, and the song (Little Calcutta) just got wrenched out of me by the experience.. Southside Johnny & the Jukes play at 8 p.m. tonight and Wednesday at the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano. I just think it's a great time to make music, and you can communicate with musicians around the world. And yet, while The Boss went on to conquer the world, Southside stayed behind - critically lauded for songs like I Don't Want To Go Home, but shut out of the big leagues, despite his famous connections. Critics have called us the worlds greatest bar band, Lyon said. Chance of rain 70%. Q. People can hear it. 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. 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." If you weren't a performer and recording artist, what do you think you'd be doing now? We were young and we wanted adventure and there was this music that promised that. A. Leroy was launched with 2000's Messin' with the Blues, which featured the latest edition of the Asbury Jukes. Im not driving a truck. Not 'I'm gonna try to be a musician.' King album one day. Southside Johnny Lyon was born on 4 December 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA. So I had to learn all these songs. IF Bruce Springsteen is the heart of New Jersey's rock sound, then Southside Johnny is its soul. Can I ask you about your mother and your connection to her? Lyon is a key figure in Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock N Roll, director Tom Jones documentary about the rise, fall, and revival of the central Jersey boardwalk town showing in theaters May 22 and 29. 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. Frank Sinatra: Live At Melbourne Festival Hall. Q. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, The Beatles and the Stones and the Animals those kind of successful garage bands it gave us the impetus to try it. 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. But I can tell you this. Maybe you could make a go out of it. 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. They weret really written for me. One of my sax players went with David Bowie. The Boss, of course, went on to write songs for early albums by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes - including '78's seminal Hearts of Stone - traded off band members with them and occasionally appeared with them in concert. Going to Jukesville followed in 2002, and the tough, eclectic Into the Harbour was issued in 2006. 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." But he started to have success after his third album, and we all got the chance to put our foot in the door too. director Tom Jones documentary about the rise, fall, and revival of the central Jersey boardwalk town showing in theaters May 22 and 29. "I'd seen James Brown and Ray Charles,'' Southside Johnny, a.k.a. In speaking about the release of "21st Street Lullaby," she explained, "I don't look at it as an event. While the group's membership has gone through dozens of changes since the mid-'70s, with Southside at the vocal mike their sound has remained remarkably consistent from their '70s efforts (1976's I Don't Want to Go Home, 1978's Hearts of Stone) to their 21st century sessions (2002's Going to Jukesville, 2010's Pills and Ammo), though the group did detour into dance music on 1983's Trash It Up (produced by Nile Rodgers). Steven (Van Zandt) will go out and live with the people hes going to write about and learn as much as he can. 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. 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. It leaves you with a strong feeling of respect. We've gotten older, but wiser, too. So that was my job, but I made it a point that we would do a blues song because that was my first love, blues music. His multiple awards include recognition for stories on both Bruce Springsteen and Jersey Shore. Contact him at @chrisfhjordan; cjordan@app.com. All I Dont Want to Go Home might have been. They were so determined that was going to be what they did. Information: (714) 496-8930. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I think it's just natural. Two other E Streeters, drummer Max Weinberg and bassist Garry Tallent, appear on the album. But I can't imagine not being in music. I'm proud to be compared to Bruce. 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. His answer was to take 6 months away from the band to record his first album on his own, Slow Dance. Instead of the punchy, beer-and-sawdust party music associated with the Jukes, it is a low-key album, given mostly to ballads. While the club generally booked cover bands, word about the Jukes and their powerhouse live show began to spread, and soon they were playing weekends and drawing as many as two thousand fans a night. Live recording -- "Reach Up and Touch the Sky. Physically, it's a little bit more challenging for me now; my shows tend to be very energetic. We rode up this hill, and right there was this big 8-ball on a pillar. 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. Do you feel that you understand women? All credits to the original photographer. 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. To order I think we knew it at the time. I had to replace the horn section when they went out with Diana Ross. 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 He had a lot of confidence in me. Q. 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.. 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. "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. 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.