The group's most recent concert in New Jersey was on New Year's Eve at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank. A. 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. It was so overwhelming that other things just didn't matter as much. You can do that at home or you can go to a studio and do it quickly. I was always of the mind-set of if you get a better offer for more money, take it. You probably never asked yourself, What if?. Q. So I would vacuum and make the beds and play their records and sing along with them. Mostly retired people. If I'd gone out and played it live, it would've made the record more accessible to people. All the activity has been spurred by the release of Better Days, the first Southside Johnny album in three years. But connecting with a woman in a romantic relationship is probably something else. And we were lucky to find each other. The first Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes compilation to be released in America since Super Hits, this 2013 collection casts a wider net than that 2001 set, incorporating a couple of cuts from Southside Johnny 's albums for Universal. He believes every musician has his or her unique sound. Even though his friends Bruce Springsteen and. 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. Despite a myriad of style changes and passing trends in pop music since the band's early 70's inception, Southside Johnny has remained true to its rhythm-and-blues roots. . There are times when I feel, What am I--chopped liver? Lyon acknowledged. Too many times I've gone into the recording studio with the idea that the album would sound like this and it comes out sounding like something entirely different. If you are lazy going through the songs, you wont have an audience. 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. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I think it's a great time to be a musician because you don't have to pay $1 million to go into a studio to record. Did you have this kind of connection that is not superficial? If she worked the day shift, I'd say, Mom, I'm going to stay home today and I'll clean the house, do the dishes, make the beds, vacuum, do all the different things, and she said, Okay, of course. You know, I hated school and I wasn't really getting a lot out of it. You and the Jukes haven't released a new album in more than two years. Sometimes after the weekend was over, we'd go out for a hamburger." They can download it, and you're so in charge of everything. There was a place called Piners Lounge and Steven and I would go there and Bruce would come and wed watch Garry play. Born Vivienne Patricia Scialfa on July 29, 1953, Scialfa grew up in the affluent suburb of Deal, New Jersey, per the Washington Post. Performing is a way for me to explore my own emotions. A. But I'm not anywhere near ready to give it all up. But the truth is, I basically ignored the entire thing as much as I could. The new album, "Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes: Live In Cleveland '77," recorded at the band's May 2, 1977, show at the Agora Theater in Cleveland, is a testament to the group's outsider . 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. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: That's correct. 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 Lyon was born on 4 December 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA. Join Songkick to track Southside Johnny and get concert alerts when they play near you. Bruce (Springsteen) has that good intuitive sense about whats right and wrong.. It was crazy. A. I dont look back that much, but when I do I think: How lucky can anybody be? I have a real iron throat. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes 8 p.m. Saturday, SugarHouse Casino, 1001 Delaware Ave.. $29. Thats in dispute. King album one day. View wiki source for this page without editing. It leaves you with a strong feeling of respect. Check out how this page has evolved in the past. My wife, Jill, keeps wondering the same thing. It was four rolls of toilet paper, some candy bars, some toothpaste, (of which I was almost out), and a bottle of wine. Coronavirus in NJ: Bon Jovi says son Jake is '100 percent' recovered from COVID-19 scare. Do you view rock-and-roll and performing today with the same enthusiasm and intensity you did 20 years ago? The band also found time to make an appearance in Joan Micklin Silver's 1977 movie Between the Lines. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. One of the seminal figures on the New Jersey rock scene and a gifted, charismatic singer steeped in soul, blues, and R&B. Career: Band leader and lead singer of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. I don't really sell many records. Q. Wow. "And he just was riveting, and I thought 'Wow, who is this guy?' 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Steve Van Zandt was out as producer and principle songwriter (he was also busy with his other gig in Bruce Springsteen's E . 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 View all concerts Chase City, VA, US Change location 2,658 fans get concert alerts for this artist. You have to really put your heart and soul into it. The business is still refreshingly random, Lyon joked. "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. Worrying about album sales and things like that would just make me more neurotic than I already am. Patti Scialfa has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's The E Street Band since 1984 and Springsteen's partner since 1988. We had a Monopoly game on stage. I really am not good at lip-syncing. "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. Some Jukes fans have wondered why you've never made a blues album, given your love of the music. In 1984, E Street Band member Nils Lofgren was too sick to join Springsteen and the rest of the band on tour, and Springsteen asked Scialfa to join as a backup singer. Education: Neptune High School, 1967; Monmouth College, 1966-1968. Im not driving a truck. Hell be in Philadelphia with the Jukes at SugarHouse Casino on Saturday. Don't knowingly lie about anyone 877-477-3715. sugarhousecasino.com. There's not just one thing, and I think that's reflected in all of our music. 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. Find out what you can do. Will there be a new one in 1994? I definitely wasn't a model student. I dont like making videos, Lyon confessed. As the Sundance Blues Band and its offshoots became frequent attractions at the Upstage, Southside was playing several sets a night, four or five nights a week, and he began seriously considering a career as a professional musician. 1976's I Don't Want to Go Home was their debut album, and documented the band's tight, muscular attack; it also included guest appearances from Ronnie Spector and Lee Dorsey, and Springsteen contributed two songs for the sessions, "The Fever" and "You Mean So Much to Me." Whats the big deal about changing your pronouns? I think we know what it takes to keep an audience and to make them want to come back. The album is on Cypress Records, the independent label whose roster leans toward such mellow folk-pop artists as Jennifer Warnes, Leonard Cohen and Jesse Colin Young. So I had very little time to devote to studying. I remember a hair band opening for us, and I looked in the dressing room and there was a big mirror with all this cocaine. The three of you influenced each other, so how did Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi influence you? Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. 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. Let's do it this way," but it's the same thing onstage. That was Dr. Zoom & the Sonic Boom. The fact that young people were starting to make their own music and there was audience for that. Are you excited to be coming to The Birchmere? Everybody likes a lot of different things. I agree. No. 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. They really inspire you with their command of the stage. 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. 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. A. My real priorities were my family my kids and Bruce and my work with the E Street Band." That was an all-black band that had Clarence Clemons, and theres this little skinny white kid Garry Tallent playing bass. Southside Johnny (Lyon), good friend and one time band mate of Steve Van Zandt was listed in the credits as "himself" yet definitely not in the ep. But Epic Records were disappointed with their sales, and in 1979 they dropped the band. "He's got more straight ahead rock 'n' roll roots and I have more rhythm and blues roots," points out Southside. 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.. Q. I detested school. He walked on stage, and the crowd just went nuts, Lyon said. Low 49F. Also, I was the blues guy. 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. Relations (People / Bands) 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. 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 It's something you just naturally do. The couple married on June 8, 1991. I was just trying to make a really good record for myself.". There was nothing that was attractive other than music, so that's what you did You were tenacious about following that one opportunity to do the one thing you really loved. 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. 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. 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. Scialfa was happy to oblige, contributing two new songs; Roth also used two songs from "Rumble Doll." 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. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yeah, I love The Birchmere. Well, I don't know what people thought about the record one way or another. Two years later, the group signed a recording contract with Epic Records and released the album "I Don't Want To Go Home." A. I don't know if I have one strategy. 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. . A. I certainly hope so. I always say this. each comment to let us know of abusive posts. 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. Very much so. Click here to edit contents of this page. Was it always your goal to be a singer and performer? They come home from work, have a couple of beers, and put on [Wynonie Harris] Dont Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes at Me.. And then there were girls that would look at us, for once. Songs | Lyrics The album received great reviews, but while Southside and the band were touring in support, Impact Records, the label that released it, went bankrupt, which left the record dead in the water. Anyone can read what you share. 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 People come and go; that's part of the business. 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. 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. 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: I kind of got fed up with the record business, the music business, and I didn't want to work anymore. accounts, the history behind an article. Not only did we both grow up on the Jersey Shore and play in the same clubs, but we both have the same musical roots. I dont always remember what Im supposed to do.. 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 . presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution 1,083 talking about this. 2008 also saw Southside & the Jukes celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of Hearts of Stone with a series of shows at Asbury Park's Stone Pony, one of which was recorded and released by Leroy in 2009 as Hearts of Stone Live. 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