Whereas his New Jersey residence was presumably being egged and toilet-papered by empty-handed trick-or-treaters, Bruce Springsteen spent Halloween evening on the highway, performing a bought out present with the E-Road Band in Montreal. Whereas the Boss couldn’t be bothered to decorate up as, say, a pirate, or an enormous, freakishly lifelike E.T., he did get into the Halloween spirit by taking part in a seasonal monitor.
In actual fact, Springsteen opened the present along with his Halloween tribute: Ray Parker Jr.’s “Ghostbusters” – which, as we’ve mentioned earlier than, 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” track as if it have been certainly one of their trademark hits, even enlisting the gang to sing alongside in response to the road “Who you gonna name?” The one approach it may 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 track are one thing of a rarity.
When the franchise was rebooted (the primary time) again in 2016, the soundtrack was filled with a number of covers of the track. They usually certain 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 track by Fall Out Boy that includes Missy Elliott, which is greatest described as “unrelentingly excruciating.” I’d quite have Dan Aykroyd attempt to promote me his cranium vodka for 3 and a half minutes than hearken to that model once more.
Springsteen’s random cowl simply is likely to be the most effective Ghostbusters-based content material we’ve gotten all yr (sorry, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire). And, in fact, he’s no stranger to recording songs for films. He received an Academy Award for Greatest Authentic track for “Streets of Philadelphia” from Philadelphia. He additionally wrote and recorded the title monitor for the Mickey Rourke drama The Wrestler, which is much much less danceable than “Ghostbusters.”
Weirdly sufficient, Springsteen additionally got here very near recording a track for the Harry Potter franchise, although there aren’t any good rhymes for “horcrux.” Reportedly, he learn the primary guide to his youngsters and was impressed to write the track “I’ll Stand by You At all times.”
Springsteen then supplied the track to Warner Bros. throughout the making of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, however they rejected it.
On reflection, he actually dodged a bullet on that one.
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