"Here's what I overheard about the closing of the WB: the powers
that be who have mucho buckoh's riding on the sale of these
waterfront condos want Bruce and his gritty following out of Asbury.
They want to change the image and the message, and attract people who
are sufficiently entwined in the system to afford to invest here."
For one, that will mean people like me will move out of Asbury Park and never
look back.
I have absolutely zero interest in patronizing Fishman and companies vision of
this city.
Music is literally my life. I grew up in the clubs of Asbury and Long Branch,
and from that
experience I created a career for myself that took me around the world. Once
during those
travels, I was in a city in Germany during a recent Worlds Fair, at which I was
working at
the European MTV music awards. I was wandering around the fair wearing my
Vaccaro
Guitars tee shirt, which proudly displays the name Asbury Park. A group of
European
women came up to me and asked about my shirt, then asked if I ever met Bruce (I
had) or
Bon Jovi (him too) and if they could buy my shirt. No kidding! Unfortunately
for them, I
didn't feel like walking around the Worlds Fair shirtless, so I declined.
That's an example of
the far reaching impact that Asbury Park once had.
By taking away the music venues that are the breeding grounds of so many great
musicians, AP Partners are destroying something beautiful...but they don't
care. Money is
their passion, not music and the people that make it.
I feel fortunate that I work at The Saint. At least our musical home isn't
threatened (yet)
but it truly saddens me that the opportunities for original music to flourish
are rapidly
disappearing.
So what will Asbury Park become? Less racially diverse, less interesting, less
vital. Will it
become The OC, Laguna Beach, The Hills? Pier Village?
See you in Paris Maureen :)
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "radio881gal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Wouldn't that be something if Springsteen's 'Radio Nowhere' was about
> the jettisoning of Asbury Radio? When I listen to it I hear a lot of
> potential veins, but I'm still not sure about how I feel about the
> ones that were actually tapped.
> Alas, the song seems to be more about the lack of musical
> identity, than community radio, per se. We did play local musicians
> though, so maybe...
> I often did wonder if Bruce ever knew about Asbury Radio - we were
> the only radio show about Asbury Park, after all. I used to make a
> joke about the fact that I did turn down a Springsteen interview,
> back in the early 70's, in favor of one with Robert Klein.
> (Obviously, I was very young!) I invented this whole thing about how
> Bruce wouldn't visit Asbury Radio because he was still punishing me.
> Don't think anyone fell for that one.
> I used to seriously worry that Bruce ignored us because he
> thought the show, by examining the redevelopment process in depth,
> was somehow undermining the quest of redevelopment. (With the
> exception of the Esperanza's original name, "The Rising", can you
> think of a time Bruce interferred in the plans?) This was because our
> critics often grouped the show into the 'they're against
> redevelopment' label. The idea was absurd. How could anyone be
> opposed to redeveloping a barren, blighted landscape on its face?
> However, the devil, as we know now,was in the details.
> It's nearly a year since we were forced off the air and I wonder
> if we could've even had a show if we were to have started today.
> There's too much riding on the waterfront's success. How would
> Cherokee Investments, with its $30 million in the kitty, (It is a 50%
> partner in Asbury Partners) react?
> There is almost a collective holding of breath out there right
> now. The notion being that if anyone of us exhales the bubble may
> deflate even more. One must smile continously and recite market comps
> while doing so. We must all drink the Kool-Aid. The stakes are too
> high not to.
> I've always felt that Asbury was a strange little microcosm of
> what's going on nationally. Have you noticed how the word 'politics'
> has replaced 'communism' in our 'emphasis vernacular'? I swear sex
> and politics are the two biggest taboos of this century. Sex is
> imperative to human life and politics, well, Jesus Christ was
> political, for...
> So what does Bruce think of all this? I think we're all clear on
> where he comes down about sex, actually. And, he's never really
> choked on political issues regionally. But how does he react to the
> closing of the WB? And the Pony, did someone say it's next?
> Here's what I overheard about the closing of the WB: the powers
> that be who have mucho buckoh's riding on the sale of these
> waterfront condos want Bruce and his gritty following out of Asbury.
> They want to change the image and the message, and attract people who
> are sufficiently entwined in the system to afford to invest here.
> You know the problem with that? You got it. We'd reduce AP to just
> another overpriced bedroom community by the sea, thus killing the
> goose that laid the egg that bore the glory days.
> But maybe not. Maybe they are right. History, ambiguity, it's
> messy. We like it clean these days. No gray - just black and white,
> and lots of antiseptic.
> Well, what does someone else think?
> Maureen
>
> AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "rook782" <rook782@> wrote:
> >
> > Do you think Springstein is a member of Asbury Yahoo Groups?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dapawprint" <dapawprint@>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > I just read that one of Bruce Springsteen's new songs is
> > titled "Radio
> > > Nowhere" does anyone know if this song relates to Asbury Radio?"
> > >
> >
>
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