Track artist That was our college. It wasnt a mid-life crisis, said Lyon, who will turn 40 Sunday. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. I dont look back that much, but when I do I think: How lucky can anybody be? 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. permissions/licensing, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com. 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 know some of the songs I want to record, but I don't know about the style of those songs. That was an all-black band that had Clarence Clemons, and theres this little skinny white kid Garry Tallent playing bass. It's a friendship that has held fast more than four decades. You can do that at home or you can go to a studio and do it quickly. You have permission to edit this article. To order copies of And every musician had to have a nickname. Some people thought its success would give both you and the Jukes increased exposure, particularly with younger audiences. Don't knowingly lie about anyone His name, of course, was Bruce Springsteen, though at the time he was just another up and coming nobody trying to get a break. Going to Jukesville followed in 2002, and the tough, eclectic Into the Harbour was issued in 2006. Those albums featured the horn-driven Jukes sound along with a sprinkling of Springsteen-penned nuggets, notably The Fever and Hearts of Stone. Lyon went on to record several 80s albums with the Jukes, along with some solo efforts in several styles, but he never quite regained his stride after the departure of Van Zandt, who was busy in his role as Springsteens guitarist. It is a unique moment in time. How do you think you influenced Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, who acknowledged you as his reason for singing? It was such a great time. Let's do it this way," but it's the same thing onstage. "And I have a horn section and he doesn't.". Check out how this page has evolved in the past. To dream a dream of making music. A. We swapped musical educations. Southside Johnny Lyon. "He just had that presence where you couldn't take your eyes off him. King play his guitar through the cracked window. 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. 1949-64 Hell be in Philadelphia with the Jukes at SugarHouse Casino on Saturday. Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. 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.. The year was 1967, says Southside, or maybe '68, and New Jersey was alive with the sounds of the primitive, pre-Beatles rock and Stax soul that would infuse both his and Springsteen's work. I was just trying to make a really good record for myself.". Storyteller | Eyewitness ", A 2004 interview with the Washington Post noted that "21st Street Lullaby" came out almost exactly 20 years after Springsteen's iconic 1984 album "Born In The USA." My wife, Jill, keeps wondering the same thing. Hang in there and we will have a party as soon as possible. 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. Every time I got off the bus, there would be literally hundreds of people sleeping there and begging and nobody was taking care of them, he said. Pal to Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt, longtime veteran of late-night jams at such legendary Joizy clubs as the Upstage and the Stone Pony, possessor of a classic R&B; growl, Lyon even named his band the Asbury Jukes after Asbury Park, the decaying resort town and center of the states productive 70s musical scene. This is the official Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Facebook Page. I worked during the day and performed at night. You think, well, that's what you have to do. I used to clean the house. View wiki source for this page without editing. If I'd gone out and played it live, it would've made the record more accessible to people. Get an email notification whenever someone contributes to the discussion. I have a lot of women friends. But now I have 24 rolls of toilet paper because I had bought some and then re-bought some before this whole thing started, and then my cleaning lady had left me a 12 pack. The connection continues on Slow Dance with Walking Through Midnight, a fine ballad of inner turmoil and frustrated yearning that Lyon and Springsteen wrote 10 years ago. From Brucebase: Bruce (and several E-Streeters) with Southside Johnny in the early hours of August 31 (1978) following their gig at the Richfield Coliseum. If you're in a bad mood about having a fight with your old lady, you can talk to her about it.". And we were lucky to find each other. But Epic Records were disappointed with their sales, and in 1979 they dropped the band. Some of the group's most noted songs were composed by Mr. Van Zandt and Mr. Springsteen, a longtime supporter of the band. Southside Johnny Rock Singer #131416 Most Popular Boost Birthday December 4, 1948 Birthplace Ocean Grove, NJ Age 74 years old Birth Sign Sagittarius About Rock and blues singer who was a member of the band Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, the group that released the album I Don't Want to Go Home in 1976. A. I certainly hope so. Lyon's parents were music fans with a taste for jazz (his father played bass in a jazz combo before landing a steady job with the post office), and he grew up with the sounds of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington filling the house. That'd be as bad as working in an office. That was Dr. Zoom & the Sonic Boom. I thought this is what people do. The band also found time to make an appearance in Joan Micklin Silver's 1977 movie Between the Lines. New Jersey music iconSouthside Johnny Lyon is doing fine during the coronavirus outbreak and he has plenty of toilet paper, too. His go-to basses with the Asbury Jukes are a Fender Precision bass, and a short scale Jerry Jones Longhorn. The couple married on June 8, 1991. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I think it's just natural. Q. Q. The Jukes have had a number of personnel changes over the years. You've been the leader of the Asbury Jukes for two decades. A pair of movies put Southside Johnny back in the public eye in 1990 -- his version of "Please Come Home for Christmas" appeared in the hit Home Alone, and he recorded a pair of tunes for Captain America, "Memories of You" and "Written in the Wind." "And I've always wanted to be as free and odd and eccentric as I wanted, because I'm just naturally that way - and I can. View/set parent page (used for creating breadcrumbs and structured layout). I havent seen either of them in years or spoken to them, Lyon said. Scialfa was happy to oblige, contributing two new songs; Roth also used two songs from "Rumble Doll." I think we know what it takes to keep an audience and to make them want to come back. Be Nice. "He's stealing my saxophone players to replace Clarence (Clemons, who passed away last year), so we steal from each other's bands occasionally.". A. "I haven't put on a suit for 40 years. It got a lot of great reviews. I don't know if it's courage. He had a gold top Les Paul, and he wrote songs and sang and put together bands and was a great guy to know.". Guitarist Billy Rush became their main songwriter and band leader, and Southside and company cut two studio albums for Mercury, 1979's soulful The Jukes and 1980's harder edged Love Is a Sacrifice. It seems too easy. Star Newspapers Limited and/or its licensors. We werent old enough to drink, but because we knew Garry we could get in. Chance of rain 70%.. Nevertheless, the old links to Springsteen and Van Zandt are inescapable, given the mutual roots, and the fact that they wrote many of the Jukes most notable songs. ", He laughs. It was so overwhelming that other things just didn't matter as much. One of the seminal figures on the New Jersey rock scene and a gifted, charismatic singer steeped in soul, blues, and R&B. View and manage file attachments for this page. ", Scialfa's second album, "21st Street Lullaby," followed in 2004. A. Most of us didn't go to college for a career. Lyon, sounding upbeat and relaxed, said his break from the road and the musical detour he took on Slow Dance have given him renewed enthusiasm for his old calling as a touring bar rocker. All the activity has been spurred by the release of Better Days, the first Southside Johnny album in three years. My real priorities were my family my kids and Bruce and my work with the E Street Band." Coronavirus in NJ: Bon Jovi says son Jake is '100 percent' recovered from COVID-19 scare. This Time It's for Real was the second album by New Jersey Rock / R&B band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, featuring three compositions by Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt, as well as an additional five by the latter.Like their first album, I Don't Want To Go Home, there are a number of guest artists and duets, a trend that would be dropped for their next album, Hearts of Stone. They're together a lot and they seem very affectionate. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yeah, I love The Birchmere. After three years, Southside was disenchanted with the Richmond rock scene, and he returned to New Jersey. And we were tenacious about it. Playlists | Radio | Podcast Its a fact of life. Some record companies understood that. They got to play guitar and I got to sing the blues, but after a while, you realize that people were actually listening to you and that maybe you did have that talent. Do you connect with them? 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? In 2008, the British label Secret Records released a live album recorded during dates with the Asbury Jukes in the U.K., From Southside to Tyneside, while that same year, Southside released an ambitious solo album, Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits, in which he interpreted 12 songs from the gravel-voiced singer and songwriter while backed by a big band led by Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg, a longtime fixture in the Jukes' horn section. Information: (714) 496-8930. 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. I never have looked at women, except for about 15 to 16, 17 years old, as sex objects. Still, the music I make isn't really like the music he makes. King album one day. Steve Van Zandt was out as producer and principle songwriter (he was also busy with his other gig in Bruce Springsteen's E . Threats of harming another Published May 9, 2019 Dan DeLuca I cover pop music, from what's happening in the local scene to national trends and touring acts. Mike Boehm Mike. When reporters asked Scialfa about her extra time in the spotlight, she agreed, explaining "I didn't know when we started rehearsing that he was going to give me a lot to do Bruce coaxed me and urged me to reach. And Lyon found himself wondering whether he ever would be able to develop a musical direction beyond the horn-driven, roots-conscious R&B; that was the Jukes specialty. The homecoming feel of Better Days was solidified with the return of many of the old Jukes. 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. 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. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I do connect with them. Tickets: $19.50. Songs | Lyrics To order You're always with men, and we've had women in the band and all, but I just like when I'm not with the guys, I like sometimes to hear somebody else talk. "Change for the sake of change is not always a good thing," said Mr. Lyon, who is 45. ", Event has been relocated to the Wax Nightclub,125 King St. W., Kitchener, Tickets $45. If anybody needs some, send me an email. They were so determined that was going to be what they did. director Tom Jones documentary about the rise, fall, and revival of the central Jersey boardwalk town showing in theaters May 22 and 29. . 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Lewis has hits and plays in arenas, while the Jukes still ply the barrooms and roadhouses. When New Jerseys Asbury Park music scene rose up in the 1970s, there were three bright lights on its rock-and-soul triangle. Gary Tallent would play rockabilly, so we absorbed all those different influences and they all come out in the music. A more extensive tour, including West Coast dates, probably will come next year. Mostly retired people. In October, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes were joined by fellow Jerseyans Van Zandt, Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi for a full concert at the Stone Pony. He believes every musician has his or her unique sound. Southside Johnny was born on December 4th, 1948 which makes him 68 years old. No. It's something you just naturally do. He's a great artist. 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. You care very much because you know that if you don't make music, you're going to have to get a real job, and who wants that? I don't know why. Recorded over six weeks in June and July, Better Days was released late last month. Right before I went on stage, I had this feeling of revulsion. The albums appealed to the Jukes' fan base and "I'm So Anxious" from The Jukes became a minor hit, but they didn't expand their audience, and after cutting an excellent live album, 1981's Reach Up and Touch the Sky, Mercury and Southside Johnny parted ways. This husband-and-wife-owned shop is full of punk, soul, jazz, reggae, and R&B. For better or for worse, playing in a band is never the same. B. Tell me about the women in your life. For more information, visit https://www.birchmere.com. Two years later, the group signed a recording contract with Epic Records and released the album "I Don't Want To Go Home." Before Fame . My life has been an adventure; I want to keep it that way. I think he started to remember how much fun it was to make that kind of music, just the heartfelt R&B; style, whether it be up-tempo or slow.. Southside Johnny Lyon was born on December 4, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA as John Lyon. Wed eat fried chicken and listen to the band. She worked along with my father. Getting some traction is the hardest thing for me. For nearly 20 years, Johnny Lyon and his band, the Asbury Jukes, have carried on a music tradition steeped in rhythm-and-blues and blue-collar rock-and-roll that has made them one of the state's most enduring pop-music groups. Q. All the facilities are there, but the internet makes it so that you can disseminate your music. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: No. If they came up with a prototype for the hard-working Jersey Shore bar-band rocker, it would probably come pretty close to the real-life Southside Johnny Lyon. Ive had 20 years in this music business, and Ill have 20 more. There are times when I feel, What am I--chopped liver? Lyon acknowledged. ", By the spring of 1988, rumors were flying that Scialfa and Springsteen were having an affair. 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