You set your sights on making the best music you can and not try to be a star or make a lot of money. They have been recording albums since 1976 and are closely associated with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. But connecting with a woman in a romantic relationship is probably something else. Structural Info Facts Filmography Known for movies Home Alone (1990) as Soundtrack Adventures in Babysitting (1987) as Band Leader at Frat Party The Karate Kid Part II (1986) as Soundtrack The Mighty Ducks (1992) as Soundtrack Source IMDB Wikipedia As Lyon honed his chops on the blues harp and learned lyrics to some of his favorite songs, he would occasionally perform a few songs with friends who had formed bands. "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. Going to Jukesville followed in 2002, and the tough, eclectic Into the Harbour was issued in 2006. And through all the changes, the band leader -- me -- has remained constant. 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 Songs | Lyrics You are all about raw and honest music, and I think this takes a lot of heart, and also takes a lot of courage; you put all of yourself into music. 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. Coronavirus in NJ: Bon Jovi says son Jake is '100 percent' recovered from COVID-19 scare. 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." Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Im doing what I like to do--even if the surroundings continue to be earthy. They weret really written for me. I think that the main thing about being from New Jersey is that it's so blue collar that if you don't work hard onstage, they won't respect you. By 1971, Lyon had formed a group called the Sundance Blues Band, which featured Lyon on lead vocals and harp, as well his high school friend Garry Tallent and other future stars such as Steven Van Zandt, Vini Lopez, David Sancious, and a promising guitarist named Bruce Springsteen. Tell me about the women in your life. King play his guitar through the cracked window. Low 49F. I honestly dont try to keep up with all that (sales) stuff because it can make you completely neurotic, and Ive got lots of other things to keep me neurotic.. I'm interested in combining things, like the sounds of the old vocal groups, the blues, even something as foreign sounding as the violin. I hope all of the Jukes and all of the Juke fans are doing well. 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With 1978's Hearts of Stone, Southside Johnny and the group stepped up their game and produced what was widely regarded as their strongest album to date, a more dramatic and personal set with strong songwriting and ferocious performances. Q. Even then, he says, Springsteen stood out. I think that most of the people who come to see us want that. When he came back to N.J., he was broke and needed to put together a band. And God knows Ive been in enough of them.. Its a good time in my life. She once again explained how she always had to balance her solo work with her duties to the E Street Band as well as to her family, noting she had just taken two days off from touring to get her son Evan ready for college. person will not be tolerated. Even though his friends Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi achieved more fame, Southside Johnny's unmatched dedication will be remembered forever. Time to find out. 110. In a 1988 People magazine article about Scialfa, Asbury Jukes singer Bobby Bandiera called her "a beer-drinking buddy. 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,. Gallery | Links 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. 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. I don't look at it so externally. I have more toilet paper than I need for a year. Maybe you could make a go out of it. You can be attracted to a woman, but once you start talking, they become a human being and you become a human being to them, and if there's a human connection, that's one thing, but I've never really been attracted on a surface level. or anything. A. I take performing and recording very seriously. I know some of the songs I want to record, but I don't know about the style of those songs. What kind of strategy do you use when it comes time to record? Ayear later, per People, Springsteen's label, Columbia, offered her a record contract of her own. And we were lucky to find each other. It's just to me that it's a unique vision of the world, a unique take on the world, and of course, I hang around in my career with guys, guys, guys, guys. Much of the new material explores how it feels to be us now, looking back, Lyon said. "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. Q. We swapped musical educations. You could make a career out of it. Eager to record again but not excited about signing another record deal, Southside Johnny devised a new strategy and formed his own label, Leroy Records, to release his music when and how he wanted, and giving him full creative freedom. Was it always your goal to be a singer and performer? And when he and Lyon struck up a friendship, it changed the course of Lyon's life. "I'd seen James Brown and Ray Charles,'' Southside Johnny, a.k.a. Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools Thursday (Feb. 2), 8 p.m. Education: Neptune High School, 1967; Monmouth College, 1966-1968. I wish I could have gone out and played live after it came out. What about the "New Jersey magic" that transforms musicians into stars? Maybe I'm not old enough. Get our L.A. One of the seminal figures on the New Jersey rock scene and a gifted, charismatic singer steeped in soul, blues, and R&B. They're together a lot and they seem very affectionate. Thats where I met Bruce and Steve. The great blues mecca of Ocean Grove, New Jersey? All the activity has been spurred by the release of Better Days, the first Southside Johnny album in three years. 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. Another thing that is interesting about you is that you didn't plan your career or your life, which you mentioned in one of your interviews. Help Us | Upload. Wedding reception for Southside Johnny and his bride, Jill Glasner. Q. The following year, Southside Johnny revived the Asbury Jukes for the album Better Days, a set in the group's classic style that was produced by Steve Van Zandt and included appearances from Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, the latter a longtime Southside Johnny fan. You think, well, that's what you have to do. The Upstage Club. 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. Their son, Evan James Springsteen, was born on July 25, 1990. His multiple awards include recognition for stories on both Bruce Springsteen and Jersey Shore. Contact him at @chrisfhjordan; cjordan@app.com. "Bruce does these charity shows around Christmas and he always calls and it's fun to do, and we play a lot of Chuck Berry, and he drinks tequila and I drink whisky and a good time is had by all.". It brings out a slightly different show in that it's so intimate and we do different songs, but we still rock out. 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Now that the pieces are in place, the only thing left is to see how the record sells. The band also found time to make an appearance in Joan Micklin Silver's 1977 movie Between the Lines. One of my sax players went with David Bowie. 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. Click here to edit contents of this page. So the label agreed to an alternative plan. You have to really put your heart and soul into it. Chance of rain 70%.. 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. Most of the changes have been for the better of the band. Rolling Stone magazine called it one of the top 100 pop albums of all time in 1987. A. . 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 They're both in love. Getting some traction is the hardest thing for me. Low 49F. The Boss, of course, went on to write songs for early albums by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes - including '78's seminal Hearts of Stone - traded off band members with them and occasionally appeared with them in concert. each comment to let us know of abusive posts. It's a friendship that has held fast more than four decades. What's the secret? The couple married on June 8, 1991. Springsteen's new success persuaded record companies that New Jersey might be a hub for fresh talent, and soon Epic signed Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes to a record deal. Their next concert will be tomorrow at the Bottom Line in New York City. "I like where I am,'' confides the genial vocalist, content to follow his own muse and, on occasion, tour to places like Kitchener, where he'll play an "acoustic-esque" show of hits and covers with a pared-down version of the Jukes, dubbed The Poor Fools. Will there be a new one in 1994? Critics have called us the worlds greatest bar band, Lyon said. 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. 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. I didnt want to be on stage anymore. "I was living with Miami Steve (Van Zandt, Southside's guitarist, songwriting partner and producer before departing for Springsteen's E Street band) and Albany Al in a three-bedroom apartment," recalls the 63-year-old rock vet. 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. Then once that idea got into you, you never wanted to let it go, because what are the alternatives? It went on like that for years--first in a succession of bands that included such fellow aspiring Jersey rockers as Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt, then by more than a decade of touring and recording as the leader of Southside Johnny & the Jukes. Republication or distribution of this content is Append content without editing the whole page source. Right before I went on stage, I had this feeling of revulsion. 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. 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 It gets tiresome, sure. We reinforced our belief in ourselves. Southside Johnny Lyon (John Lyon) was born on 4 December, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA, is a Soundtrack, Actor, Miscellaneous. I have a lot of women friends. Check out how this page has evolved in the past. Recorded over six weeks in June and July, Better Days was released late last month. People come and go; that's part of the business. 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. She's in love. Its not my natural bent to write a socially committed song, Lyon said. 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." After the 1988 release of Slow Dance, a solo album of ballads that he says was recorded for his wife, Lyon began playing the Los Angeles region in a band called Blues Deluxe and making plans for a blues album featuring material co-written by him and his guitarist, Bobby Bandiera. I didn't want to have anything to do with any record companies, so my friend Garry Tallent, who was Bruce Springsteen's bass player for all those decades, he and I went to high school together and he said, "Come on down to Nashville and meet some people. accounts, the history behind an article. Detour Ahead: The Music of Billie Holiday, Michael Chiklis On His Lifelong Passion For Music and His Debut Album, 'Influence'. We sat down after that and talked about working together again, Lyon said. Lyon said it doesnt bother him to remain tied to the Springsteen sphere of influence. "And I have a horn section and he doesn't.". When asked if she was working on a new album, Scialfa replied that she was, noting she was halfway through the process but was sharing a studio with her prolific husband during the pandemic: "He's always like, 'I have to go do this thing and that thing.' Soundtrack: Home Alone. We were young and we wanted adventure and there was this music that promised that. A. 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. He's a great artist. Q. 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. Gary Tallent would play rockabilly, so we absorbed all those different influences and they all come out in the music. 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