"I'd seen James Brown and Ray Charles,'' Southside Johnny, a.k.a. Q. After the 1988 release of Slow Dance, a solo album of ballads that he says was recorded for his wife, Lyon began playing the Los Angeles region in a band called Blues Deluxe and making plans for a blues album featuring material co-written by him and his guitarist, Bobby Bandiera. 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 & the Jukes play at 8 p.m. tonight and Wednesday at the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano. It gets tiresome, sure. My parents loved music. If she worked the day shift, I'd say, Mom, I'm going to stay home today and I'll clean the house, do the dishes, make the beds, vacuum, do all the different things, and she said, Okay, of course. You know, I hated school and I wasn't really getting a lot out of it. By the summer of 1988, their relationship was out in the open and they were seen together constantly in New York and New Jersey. Maybe I need to descend further into the pit of life.Profile. ", 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. Music was so important to us when we were young. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I kind of got fed up with the record business, the music business, and I didn't want to work anymore. Partly cloudy this evening then becoming cloudy with periods of light rain after midnight. One of the seminal figures on the New Jersey rock scene and a gifted, charismatic singer steeped in soul, blues, and R&B. 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." It was such a great time. 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. 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. Q. This is the official Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Facebook Page. He's not rationalizing - he really is content. It's like being an athlete. 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. . Thats the nature of this kind of long-lived horn band. 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. I treasure my privacy and l like being left alone on the street.". Coronavirus in NJ: Bon Jovi says son Jake is '100 percent' recovered from COVID-19 scare. It was so overwhelming that other things just didn't matter as much. 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! Anyone can read what you share. We sat down after that and talked about working together again, Lyon said. 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." Has Southside Johnny become Surfside Johnny? Too many times I've gone into the recording studio with the idea that the album would sound like this and it comes out sounding like something entirely different. 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. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? It was open from 8 till 5 oclock in the morning. And some hand sanitizer and wipes. Real music Louis Armstrong and the Hot Fives, the Hot Sevens. The band developed a large following in Richmond, Virginia, and when Springsteen invited Southside to tag along and sing a few songs at a Richmond gig, Johnny quickly acquired a new girlfriend and was invited to join a band called Studio B. Wedding reception for Southside Johnny and his bride, Jill Glasner. Live recording -- "Reach Up and Touch the Sky. "And I have a horn section and he doesn't.". What's the secret? Critics have called us the worlds greatest bar band, Lyon said. 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. Mostly retired people. Republication or distribution of this content is When did you discover that you were lucky and had a gift? King play his guitar through the cracked window. "But we're always there if anybody needs us. Thats got to be $1,000 worth of cocaine and youre only making $500 a night? A. There was a place called Piners Lounge and Steven and I would go there and Bruce would come and wed watch Garry play. Hell be in Philadelphia with the Jukes at SugarHouse Casino on Saturday. The album included references to everyone from writer Sylvia Plath to racecar driver Shirley Muldowney to '60s girl groups like the Chiffons. person will not be tolerated. I Dont Want to Go Home might have been. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. Southside Johnny Lyon. Frank Sinatra: Live At Melbourne Festival Hall. 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. 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. After three years, Southside was disenchanted with the Richmond rock scene, and he returned to New Jersey. racist or sexually-oriented language. Lyon couldnt be faulted for some frustrated yearning over his own career: After all, Huey Lewis & the News is an R&B-based; bar band in the same mold as the Southside Johnny & the Jukes. 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 One of my sax players went with David Bowie. Im not a big fan of videos. 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. "They were all 'I'm gonna be a musician!' 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. Patti Scialfa has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's The E Street Band since 1984 and Springsteen's partner since 1988. They're glowing. "Bruce always wanted to make his music count for people. A. 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. I'm interested in combining things, like the sounds of the old vocal groups, the blues, even something as foreign sounding as the violin. With 1978's Hearts of Stone, Southside Johnny and the group stepped up their game and produced what was widely regarded as their strongest album to date, a more dramatic and personal set with strong songwriting and ferocious performances. Southside Johnny (his nickname comes from his love of the raw, hard-edged brand of blues from Chicago's South Side) and the Asbury Jukes started out in 1974 as the house band at the Stone Pony, Asbury Park's now-legendary rock club. One of the things I'm most proud of is that the Jukes haven't lost their edge on stage. 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 . Don't Threaten. There are other things I'm interested in. Tickets: $19.50. 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.. Still, he admitted, Its not an easy sell--this kind of music--to a lot of stations. Radio, he believes, is even more restricted than it was in the 70s. Everybody likes a lot of different things. 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. 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. 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. 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. King album one day. 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'm friends with a lot of these guys who have become big rock stars and it's not for me. She worked along with my father. And we were tenacious about it. Ocean Grove was a very quiet place. The band also found time to make an appearance in Joan Micklin Silver's 1977 movie Between the Lines. Hes carried on as a hardworking road warrior for decades since, recording with an ever-evolving Jukes lineup, most recently on the 2015 return to form, Soultime! Wed eat fried chicken and listen to the band. Change the name (also URL address, possibly the category) of the page. We email each other and send pictures, and I have a number of women friends that I do that with. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yeah, I love The Birchmere. Mike Boehm is a former arts reporter and pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times. It could get a boost if the video catches on, but Southside Johnny records have never been huge sellers, even in the glory days. I think that most of the people who come to see us want that. 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.". 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. Indeed there isand it's a great one. Why not? Was it always your goal to be a singer and performer? A. The business is still refreshingly random, Lyon joked. 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. Wow. Southside Johnny's story is one of resilience, perseverance and making music for the love of music. Be Truthful. You can put it up on the internet. 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. Southside Johnny & Jill Glasner Wedding Reception. Recorde. I like that--really just let it go and see where the night takes you, and I don't knowI've always been that way where I trust in the people around me and I trust in myself to not go so far that I'll lose my career or my audience, but they understand that I'm not going to do the same thing over and over. Most of us didn't go to college for a career. I don't look at it so externally. Low 49F. "And Bruce would come over all the time and we'd listen to each other's records and play poker and monopoly. The Upstage Club. Van Zandt and Springsteen both figured heavily in the launching of Lyons career in the mid- to late-70s. Watch headings for an "edit" link when available. "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. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: That's correct. Tickets: $19.50. View wiki source for this page without editing. And Garry wound up playing with Little Melvin & the Invaders. Some people thought its success would give both you and the Jukes increased exposure, particularly with younger audiences. But connecting with a woman in a romantic relationship is probably something else. I wasnt going back to working at the post office. 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