Mostly retired people. 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. Some people thought its success would give both you and the Jukes increased exposure, particularly with younger audiences. Born Vivienne Patricia Scialfa on July 29, 1953, Scialfa grew up in the affluent suburb of Deal, New Jersey, per the Washington Post. Find out as you read our phone conversation. The fact that young people were starting to make their own music and there was audience for that. Storyteller | Eyewitness 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. Their son, Evan James Springsteen, was born on July 25, 1990. Do you feel that you understand women? We were young and we wanted adventure and there was this music that promised that. "They were all 'I'm gonna be a musician!' They really inspire you with their command of the stage. I don't look at it so externally. I want to be on the same radio station that plays Nine Inch Nails and LL Cool J and Tom Waits. 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. Are you excited to be coming to The Birchmere? Right before I went on stage, I had this feeling of revulsion. Im sort of master of my destiny, more so now than ever before, and it feels good. I've always known what the Jukes ought to sound like. presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution 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. Don't Threaten. They're together a lot and they seem very affectionate. 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. 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 . Playlists | Radio | Podcast I'm proud to be compared to Bruce. King album one day. . Their onstage interactions got steamier and more suggestive, and in June they were spotted kissing in Rome, Italy. 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. If you're in a bad mood about having a fight with your old lady, you can talk to her about it.". 1982-08-10 Southside Johnny Wedding Reception, Asbury Park, NJ, {"module":"wiki\/image\/FlickrGalleryModule","params":{"userName":"brucebase wiki","sort":"date-posted-desc","tagMode":"all","perPage":"50","tags":"august,10,1982"}}, Unless otherwise stated, the content of this page is licensed under. I wish I could have gone out and played live after it came out. Get our L.A. Getting some traction is the hardest thing for me. each comment to let us know of abusive posts. Since then, Johnny and the Jukes have released more than a dozen albums. I had a care package left on my porch today from a fan who left her initial as K, Lyon said. 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. And through all the changes, the band leader -- me -- has remained constant. Johnny Lyon, is telling me over the phone from somewhere on the New Jersey Shore. He is an American singer-songwriter who fronts the band Southside Johnny & . Southside Johnny's story is one of resilience, perseverance and making music for the love of music. One of my sax players went with David Bowie. Worrying about album sales and things like that would just make me more neurotic than I already am. It is a unique moment in time. 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.. Be Nice. He carried himself as a person who has something to say, and still does. 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 not driving a truck. Two other E Streeters, drummer Max Weinberg and bassist Garry Tallent, appear on the album. I think we knew it at the time. We listened to it all the time, and when we started being in bands and started thinking about making records, we realized that we were very lucky, and we didn't want to give up our chance by taking some side job. My real priorities were my family my kids and Bruce and my work with the E Street Band." You have permission to edit this article. 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. It's a friendship that has held fast more than four decades. Let's do it this way," but it's the same thing onstage. Watch headings for an "edit" link when available. No. Performing is a way for me to explore my own emotions. Bruce Springsteen was the breakout star. Threats of harming another She worked along with my father. I always say this. I definitely wasn't a model student. Call 519-635-6257 or purchase online at. 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. I always feel self-conscious. Recorded over six weeks in June and July, Better Days was released late last month. Physically, it's a little bit more challenging for me now; my shows tend to be very energetic. Even though his friends Bruce Springsteen and. 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. S. 96, but slipped the following week to No. Bruce Springsteen had visited his parents in California. Q. If I'd gone out and played it live, it would've made the record more accessible to people. They can download it, and you're so in charge of everything. 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 weret really written for me. Statistical Information Gary Tallent would play rockabilly, so we absorbed all those different influences and they all come out in the music. There's a fascination with the other gender in that you just see the world differently than men do, and I'm always fascinated by that. Scialfa was happy to oblige, contributing two new songs; Roth also used two songs from "Rumble Doll." . Going to school, becoming a teacher, working at the Pepsi Cola bottling? 877-477-3715. sugarhousecasino.com. To order copies of This is a must-ask question: What is it about New Jersey? Music was so important to us when we were young. accounts, the history behind an article. Information: (714) 496-8930. 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. "Steven (Van Zandt) always wanted to be active politically and to play music and now he's an actor as well (on The Sopranos). King play his guitar through the cracked window. Maybe I'm not old enough. 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 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. 1966-07-26 Business District, Asbury Park, NJ, 1966-07-25 Business District, Asbury Park, NJ, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Some of the group's most noted songs were composed by Mr. Van Zandt and Mr. Springsteen, a longtime supporter of the band. Coronavirus in NJ: Bon Jovi says son Jake is '100 percent' recovered from COVID-19 scare. The best performance is always when the audience explores them with you. So it was a confluence of things. 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 Bobby Bandiera and I have been writing songs. 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. 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. Even then, he says, Springsteen stood out. People can hear it. 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. 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 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,. The Jukes have had a number of personnel changes over the years. Not 'I'm gonna try to be a musician.' Do you view rock-and-roll and performing today with the same enthusiasm and intensity you did 20 years ago? 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. Q. 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. But I got used to it a long time ago. I think it is courage because you put all of yourself, all of your heart in one direction. It was two floors above a Thom McAn shoe store. "He's got more straight ahead rock 'n' roll roots and I have more rhythm and blues roots," points out Southside. But the truth is, I basically ignored the entire thing as much as I could. So, out of luck.. I felt I was in a rut, and I had a big crisis, Lyon said over the phone last week from his home in Montclair, N.J., taking time out from making pumpkin pies that he and his wife, Jill, would serve for Thanksgiving dinner the next day at a soup kitchen in Newark. My mother worked, and would say it was OK to stay home as long as I cleaned the house. I hope all of the Jukes and all of the Juke fans are doing well. Rolling Stone magazine called it one of the top 100 pop albums of all time in 1987. All the activity has been spurred by the release of Better Days, the first Southside Johnny album in three years. Lyon said it doesnt bother him to remain tied to the Springsteen sphere of influence. We have very eclectic taste. 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. 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). A. I treasure my privacy and l like being left alone on the street.". One of the seminal figures on the New Jersey rock scene and a gifted, charismatic singer steeped in soul, blues, and R&B. Most of us didn't go to college for a career. I don't really sell many records. Discover Southside Johnny Lyon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Southside Johnny & the Jukes play at 8 p.m. tonight and Wednesday at the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I kind of got fed up with the record business, the music business, and I didn't want to work anymore. Soundtrack: Home Alone. A. I certainly hope so. Now that the pieces are in place, the only thing left is to see how the record sells. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, "He just had that presence where you couldn't take your eyes off him. You're a little bit timid the first couple of times you get onstage, but then you see those guys really just having a great time and confident that the people that love it are going to go, "That's where I'm going to be." Notifications from this discussion will be disabled. 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. Southside Johnny & Jill Glasner Wedding Reception. 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." We reinforced our belief in ourselves. 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 Its a good time in my life. Thats the nature of this kind of long-lived horn band. I'm interested in combining things, like the sounds of the old vocal groups, the blues, even something as foreign sounding as the violin. ", 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. 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. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: My mother and my father were great readers of good literature. 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. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yeah, I can't just be superficial. In a 2004 interview with the Washington Post, Scialfa said of the album "I was happy with the way it was received, and I've met a lot of nice people who seem to know it. 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 group's most recent concert in New Jersey was on New Year's Eve at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank. Three big musicians: Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and yourself come from that area, and you all know each other. My life has been an adventure; I want to keep it that way. Their second child, Jessica Rae Springsteen, was born on December 30, 1991 and their third child, Sam Ryan Springsteen, was born on January 5, 1990. 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. 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. Scialfa noted in 2004, "I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls and they felt safe with me. There were times when you needed a record company to get international recognition, but unless you're the top priority for the record company, you might as well do it yourself because you're not going to get that much out of them. It's a very satisfying thing to do, so I started playing with a lot of different people and writing songs and just got back into the business. 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. 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. "Change for the sake of change is not always a good thing," said Mr. Lyon, who is 45. 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. His multiple awards include recognition for stories on both Bruce Springsteen and Jersey Shore. Contact him at @chrisfhjordan; cjordan@app.com. I think we know what it takes to keep an audience and to make them want to come back. It's not odd to me to have women as friends, and it's almost always been that way. A. 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. For better or for worse, playing in a band is never the same. 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. A. I take performing and recording very seriously. ", Things You Didn't Know About Bruce Springsteen's Wife Patti Scialfa, Racing In The Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader. But, he added, I think that when you get to those places, sometimes you need to look back and see how you got there.. It wasnt a mid-life crisis, said Lyon, who will turn 40 Sunday. Star Newspapers Limited and/or its licensors. 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. One of the reasons I got into rock-and-roll was because I wanted to avoid the tediousness of life. The project evolved as Van Zandt began writing tunes for what Lyon describes as a homecoming album, a look into their musical past. There are other things I'm interested in. After three years, Southside was disenchanted with the Richmond rock scene, and he returned to New Jersey. 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 . 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. I didnt want to be on stage anymore. It got a lot of great reviews. 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. IF Bruce Springsteen is the heart of New Jersey's rock sound, then Southside Johnny is its soul. Southside Johnny Lyon (John Lyon) was born on 4 December, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA, is a Soundtrack, Actor, Miscellaneous. 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 But I'm not anywhere near ready to give it all up. You think, well, that's what you have to do. . The Beatles and the Stones and the Animals those kind of successful garage bands it gave us the impetus to try it. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? It was just perfect. 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. 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.. Education: Neptune High School, 1967; Monmouth College, 1966-1968. . Southside Johnny's story is one of resilience, perseverance and making music for the love of music. The album entered the Billboard charts at No. They have been recording albums since 1976 and are closely associated with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. A. You can do that at home or you can go to a studio and do it quickly. You could make a career out of it. 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. I havent seen either of them in years or spoken to them, Lyon said. I think I earned enough credits to get an associate arts degree, but I'm not sure. While a video of the title tune earned some scattered MTV airplay, the album wasn't a hit, and they returned to something closer to their signature sound on 1984's In the Heat. Partly cloudy this evening then becoming cloudy with periods of light rain after midnight. Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools Thursday (Feb. 2), 8 p.m. "I'm friends with a lot of these guys who have become big rock stars and it's not for me. And some hand sanitizer and wipes. 110. To dream a dream of making music. They loved good music and they had great senses of humor and some sarcasm. expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Toronto 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.. It was so overwhelming that other things just didn't matter as much. Indeed there isand it's a great one. 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.. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: That's correct. 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 . In 1995, Southside Johnny recorded the title song for a low-budget movie called Tuff Turf, and the tune was issued as a 12" single by Rhino Records, becoming his first solo release. Sundays there were no cars allowed on the street. 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. And then there were girls that would look at us, for once. With the addition of a horn section, the Blackberry Booze Band evolved into Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes. Is Virginia ready for mandated electric vehicles? 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. Still, the music I make isn't really like the music he makes. View and manage file attachments for this page. They don't want us to be the same set list every night. He's a great artist. King and others too numerous to mention. 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? That's the common thread of almost all of the bands, even the younger bands that are coming up. Use the 'Report' link on The club often featured open jams, and Lyon, like many other aspiring musicians, would stop by regularly to hear music, meet other players, and hopefully take the stage for a few tunes. "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. New Jersey music icon Southside Johnny Lyon is doing "fine" during the coronavirus outbreak and he has plenty of toilet paper, too. Then of course, I started meeting a lot of other musicians and I started jamming. Q. 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. My wife, Jill, keeps wondering the same thing. Help Us | Upload. Their next concert will be tomorrow at the Bottom Line in New York City. He believes every musician has his or her unique sound. His go-to basses with the Asbury Jukes are a Fender Precision bass, and a short scale Jerry Jones Longhorn. Patti Scialfa has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's The E Street Band since 1984 and Springsteen's partner since 1988. 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. It was such a great time. Bruce (Springsteen) has that good intuitive sense about whats right and wrong.. All Lyon developed a taste for harder blues and R&B from listening to the radio late at night, and in his early teens, he began learning to play harmonica after "borrowing" one from his brother, who had bought a guitar and fancied himself the next Bob Dylan. 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. He had a gold top Les Paul, and he wrote songs and sang and put together bands and was a great guy to know.". 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