{"id":86601,"date":"2023-12-04T09:28:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86601"},"modified":"2023-12-04T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:28:28","slug":"got-to-be-a-better-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86601","title":{"rendered":"Got To Be A Better Way Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;Southside&#8221; Johnny Lyon&#8217;s birthday today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s (checks notes)&#8230;uh, 75 today.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike their Asbury Park pals in the E Street Band, the Jukes never really hit it big; their last album to really. move the needle was in 1978. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s be clear &#8211; <em>Hearts of Stone <\/em>didn&#8217;t move the needle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2348\">it pinned the needle to the right of the deal<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hearts of Stone (LIVE) - Southside Johnny &amp; the Jukes\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NPQJZG2y-QE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>nd their one Top 40 single, in 1991, was a group effort by Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and Steve Van Zandt to get their friend across that particular finish line.  Of course, I was working at KDWB at the time, and the competition was, well, Vanilla Ice, so it was a welcome respite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Southside Johnny, Bruce Springsteen, Steve VanZandt \u201cIt\u2019s Been a Long Time\u201d Stone Pony 11-1-91\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tHnDYsrXXcM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnny hasn&#8217;t lost a step in concert, of course..  This is his pretty stunning cover of David Ruffin&#8217;s &#8220;My Whole World Ended&#8221;, which he started rolling out about the time he last played the Dakota in Minneapolis in 2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Southside Johnny &amp; the Asbury Jukes - &quot;My Whole World Ended&quot; (Ruffin) - The Stone Pony - 2\/16\/18\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dX91rpkXU5I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Birthday, Southside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And FFS &#8211; come back to the Dakota.   We&#8217;re burning daylight here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;Southside&#8221; Johnny Lyon&#8217;s birthday today. He&#8217;s (checks notes)&#8230;uh, 75 today. Unlike their Asbury Park pals in the E Street Band, the Jukes never really hit it big; their last album to really. move the needle was in 1978. But let&#8217;s be clear &#8211; Hearts of Stone didn&#8217;t move the needle, it pinned the needle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86604,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86601\/revisions\/86604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}