Whereas his New Jersey dwelling was presumably being egged and toilet-papered by empty-handed trick-or-treaters, Bruce Springsteen spent Halloween evening on the street, performing a offered out present with the E-Avenue Band in Montreal. Whereas the Boss couldn’t be bothered to decorate up as, say, a pirate, or a giant, freakishly lifelike E.T., he did get into the Halloween spirit by enjoying a seasonal observe.
Actually, Springsteen opened the present along with his Halloween tribute: Ray Parker Jr.’s “Ghostbusters” – which, as we’ve discussed before, isn’t a lot about scientists combating ghosts with nuclear accelerators as it’s about attractive poltergeists being whole pervs.
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Springsteen definitely didn’t half-ass the efficiency, he and the band performed the “Ghostbusters” tune as if it had been one in all their trademark hits, even enlisting the group to sing alongside in response to the road “Who you gonna name?” The one method it might have been higher is that if Springsteen had introduced Slimer onto the stage to bounce with him à la Courteney Cox.
This isn’t the primary time that Springsteen labored a Halloween-themed cowl right into a present both. When he performed in Rochester, New York again on October 31, 2012, he performed the traditional “Monster Mash.”
However the “Ghostbuters” cowl is particularly notable as a result of it was fairly good — and good covers of the Ghostbusters theme tune are one thing of a rarity.
When the franchise was rebooted (the primary time) again in 2016, the soundtrack was stuffed with a number of covers of the tune. They usually positive weren’t nice. Like, for some purpose, there was one by the Christian a cappella group Pentatonix:
Far worse was the weirdly-rushed tackle the tune by Fall Out Boy that includes Missy Elliott, which is greatest described as “unrelentingly excruciating.” I’d relatively have Dan Aykroyd attempt to sell me his skull vodka for 3 and a half minutes than hearken to that model once more.
Springsteen’s random cowl simply may be the perfect Ghostbusters-based content material we’ve gotten all yr (sorry, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire). And, in fact, he’s no stranger to recording songs for motion pictures. He gained an Academy Award for Finest Unique tune for “Streets of Philadelphia” from Philadelphia. He additionally wrote and recorded the title observe for the Mickey Rourke drama The Wrestler, which is way much less danceable than “Ghostbusters.”
Weirdly sufficient, Springsteen additionally got here very near recording a tune for the Harry Potter franchise, regardless that there aren’t any good rhymes for “horcrux.” Reportedly, he learn the primary e-book to his children and was impressed to write the song “I’ll Stand by You Always.”
Springsteen then offered the song to Warner Bros. during the making of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, but they rejected it.
In retrospect, he really dodged a bullet on that one.
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