Let's do it this way," but it's the same thing onstage. Maybe Bruce will make an When Lyon was 16, he was asked by Sonny Kenn, leader of a popular Asbury Park band called Sonny and the Starfires, to join a new blues-oriented combo he formed, earning Lyon his first paying gig. Bruce Springsteen was the breakout star. What kind of strategy do you use when it comes time to record? Do you feel that you understand women? Tickets: $19.50. In the song, Lyon channels his anger over the citys neglect of homeless people into sassy, edgy ironic humor that fits into an old blues tradition of laughing when it hurts too much to cry: You pray to God, but he never seems to hear/Youre in the mayors prayers, Lord, make them disappear, Lyon sings in a voice that is half biting, half bemused. 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. Do you agree that it takes a lot of courage? Still, the music I make isn't really like the music he makes. A. I'd probably be a writer. We honed our crafts. Wed eat fried chicken and listen to the band. 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,. And God knows Ive been in enough of them.. Rolling Stone magazine called it one of the top 100 pop albums of all time in 1987. '", In 1993, Scialfa finally released her first solo album, "Rumble Doll." 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. Despite wide swings in popular music and the unpredictable tastes of the record-buying public, the Jukes have managed to survive as a band while many other 70's bands have not. 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. If you want to discuss contents of this page - this is the easiest way to do it. We never made any money. You'd go into a literature class in high school and you've already read all the books, so you go, "God, this is going to be a long season here.". When Soozie Tyrell played violin for the Jukes back in the 70's, early 80's, I thought that was a great sound for the band. You probably never asked yourself, What if?. Don't Threaten. Will there be a new one in 1994? While the club generally booked cover bands, word about the Jukes and their powerhouse live show began to spread, and soon they were playing weekends and drawing as many as two thousand fans a night. Gallery | Links 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. Early on when we were teenagers, I think we understood that we were given a great gift of making music. And we were lucky to find each other. While Lyon remains the same throaty-sounding romantic with classic soul influences, the music is tailored to the late 80s, with programmed rhythms and smooth synthesizer textures. You can put it up on the internet. Discover Southside Johnny Lyon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. 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. . Also, I was the blues guy. That was Dr. Zoom & the Sonic Boom. I'm interested in combining things, like the sounds of the old vocal groups, the blues, even something as foreign sounding as the violin. The Beatles and the Stones and the Animals those kind of successful garage bands it gave us the impetus to try it. Anyone have insght as to his scene that was cut? With Early Elton Trio, John mainly uses his sunburst '64 Fender Jazz bass. He walked on stage, and the crowd just went nuts, Lyon said. 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. My real priorities were my family my kids and Bruce and my work with the E Street Band." The Jukes landed a once-a-week gig at an Asbury Park club that had seen better days, the Stone Pony, playing off nights for the door. 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. Click here to edit contents of this page. 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. For more about the band, ple I said, Great--any towns got a pool hall cant be so bad. Well, of course, as soon as I move in there they close it down and make a Volkswagen parts joint out of it. But after graduating from Neptune High School on the Jersey Shore in 1967, you enrolled at Monmouth College. . Some day I'll do a blues album. 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 Steve Van Zandt was the songwriter-producer and Springsteen sidekick and consigliere who would go on to The Sopranos and Underground Garage satellite radio notoriety. ", Per "Racing In The Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader," Springsteen and Julianne Phillips divorced in 1989, and in 1990, Springsteen and Scialfa moved to a $14 million estate in Beverly Hills, California. I hope all of the Jukes and all of the Juke fans are doing well. But I'm not anywhere near ready to give it all up. Its not a case of feuding between old friends, he explained, but of being caught up in careers and personal lives that dont often intersect. Career: Band leader and lead singer of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. "Change for the sake of change is not always a good thing," said Mr. Lyon, who is 45. 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Maybe you could make a go out of it. Event has been relocated to the Wax Nightclub,125 King St. W., Kitchener Tickets $45. Mike Boehm is a former arts reporter and pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times. A powerful vocalist whose style is steeped in vintage blues, R&B, and soul, Johnny was the leader and frontman for the group the Asbury Jukes, whose tough bar band sound married the impact of hard rock with the swing and horn-fueled punch of blues and deep soul. Chance of rain 70%. Going to school, becoming a teacher, working at the Pepsi Cola bottling? Scialfa said of her trajectory as an artist, "A lot of it is my own ambivalence, because if you really want to get something done, you get it done. The great blues mecca of Ocean Grove, New Jersey? General Wikidot.com documentation and help section. One of the seminal figures on the New Jersey rock scene and a gifted, charismatic singer steeped in soul, blues, and R&B. New Jersey music icon Southside Johnny Lyon is doing "fine" during the coronavirus outbreak and he has plenty of toilet paper, too. 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 View and manage file attachments for this page. Their next concert will be tomorrow at the Bottom Line in New York City. 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. Recording Sessions 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. 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. There's not just one thing, and I think that's reflected in all of our music. We're very close. Most of us didn't go to college for a career. Be Truthful. 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. Find out as you read our phone conversation. Most E Street Band and Asbury Jukes members (past and present) were in attendance. 1966-07-26 Business District, Asbury Park, NJ, 1966-07-25 Business District, Asbury Park, NJ, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Sundays there were no cars allowed on the street. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yeah, I can't just be superficial. They're both in love. Tickets: $19.50. Q. I always took that as a tremendous compliment because some of the best music Ive heard has been in bars. Some people thought its success would give both you and the Jukes increased exposure, particularly with younger audiences. When people ask me for advice, I say, Get some rest, drink lots of water, dont party all night, and certainly dont do cocaine.. The best performance is always when the audience explores them with you. 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. I think that all stations should play all kinds (of music), instead of just trying to narrow their demographic down to this little 18- to 26-year-old white males in suburbia, he said. I actually started singing in front of people when I was 16 years old. I thought it was a great record. I detested school. 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. If they needed a singer and this was in the guitar-hero era, two verses and then 20 minutes of a guitar solo I became the singer. Southside Johnny Lyon was born on December 4, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA as John Lyon. I don't know why. 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 Lewis has hits and plays in arenas, while the Jukes still ply the barrooms and roadhouses. And then there were girls that would look at us, for once. The article noted that the album had ended up bringing Scialfa into the spotlight, and while it had kickstarted her career, it hadn't led to a large body of solo work, as she had originally hoped it would. We listened to it all the time, and when we started being in bands and started thinking about making records, we realized that we were very lucky, and we didn't want to give up our chance by taking some side job. We have very eclectic taste. I had to replace the horn section when they went out with Diana Ross. 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 Lyon, frontman for the Asbury Jukes, shared an update on social media from his home in Ocean Grove on Monday, March 30. Their onstage interactions got steamier and more suggestive, and in June they were spotted kissing in Rome, Italy. A. A. I went to Monmouth College for two and a half years and majored in English literature. 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? Even though his friends Bruce Springsteen and. Information: (714) 496-8930. I already knew Garry Tallent and Vini Lopez. That'd be as bad as working in an office. Who gave him the nickname Southside? Going to Jukesville followed in 2002, and the tough, eclectic Into the Harbour was issued in 2006. You've been the leader of the Asbury Jukes for two decades. "He's stealing my saxophone players to replace Clarence (Clemons, who passed away last year), so we steal from each other's bands occasionally.". Wedding reception for Southside Johnny and his bride, Jill Glasner. Threats of harming another If you made a friend in Germany who's a guitar player and you got this song, you can send it to him and say, "What do you think? "And Bruce would come over all the time and we'd listen to each other's records and play poker and monopoly. When asked about Scialfa's new prominence on stage, Springsteen credited the songs' subject matter, noting, "The album is about men and women, you know." "But I walked into the place I used to hang out, the Upstage Club, and this long-haired guy was onstage telling a story about how the nuns taught him the blues by bringing in a B.B. T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner. It wasnt a mid-life crisis, said Lyon, who will turn 40 Sunday. It's just natural that you work hard onstage, because it's your chance to make music You don't just go, "Oh, I really don't care.". Southside Johnny paid homage to one of his earliest influences on his 2017 solo effort, Detour Ahead: The Music of Billie Holiday, in which he went into the studio with a jazz ensemble and cut nuanced but passionate takes on 11 of Lady Day's most memorable songs. Right before I went on stage, I had this feeling of revulsion. I want to be on the same radio station that plays Nine Inch Nails and LL Cool J and Tom Waits. Born Vivienne Patricia Scialfa on July 29, 1953, Scialfa grew up in the affluent suburb of Deal, New Jersey, per the Washington Post. Growing up in a small town in New Jersey, when the winter kicks in and its around February and you start thinking about places youd rather be, Southern California has always been one of them. A. I don't know if I have one strategy. 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. You set your sights on making the best music you can and not try to be a star or make a lot of money. 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.' Another studio effort with the Jukes, 2010's Pills and Ammo, confirmed that Southside and his colleagues were still working in top form, and he dug into his '70s soul and R&B influences for 2015's Soultime. All Don't knowingly lie about anyone If you're in a bad mood about having a fight with your old lady, you can talk to her about it.". that is degrading to another person. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yes, we're all pretty good friends. It's not odd to me to have women as friends, and it's almost always been that way. Southside Johnny's story is one of resilience, perseverance and making music for the love of music. Frank Sinatra: Live At Melbourne Festival Hall. "I haven't put on a suit for 40 years. I think we know what it takes to keep an audience and to make them want to come back. One of the things I'm most proud of is that the Jukes haven't lost their edge on stage. 1949-64 "And I have a horn section and he doesn't.". ''. Things changed when Springsteen asked her to rejoin him on the road in 1987 for the "Tunnel of Love" tour, which delayed Scialfa recording her own record. 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. New Jersey music iconSouthside Johnny Lyon is doing fine during the coronavirus outbreak and he has plenty of toilet paper, too. Even though his friends Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi achieved more fame, Southside Johnny's unmatched dedication will be remembered forever. 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. This week, the 70-year-old singer spoke on the phone from his hometown of Ocean Grove, N.J. Hell be in Philadelphia with the Jukes at SugarHouse Casino on Saturday. The song, with lyrics by Lyon and music by Springsteen, was intended for Southside Johnnys 1978 album, Hearts of Stone, but hadnt surfaced until now. 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. 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.. One of the seminal figures on the New Jersey rock scene and a gifted, charismatic singer steeped in soul, blues, and R&B. Q. Share with Us. And some hand sanitizer and wipes. We reinforced our belief in ourselves. More important, however, it marks a reunion with Steve Van Zandt, who produced and wrote many of the tunes for Lyons first--and best-received--three albums from the mid- to late 70s: I Dont Want to Go Home, This Time Its for Real and Hearts of Stone, the last of which made Rolling Stone magazines 1990 list of the best 100 albums of the previous 20 years. It's one of my favorite places to play. That's the common thread of almost all of the bands, even the younger bands that are coming up. Steven (Van Zandt) will go out and live with the people hes going to write about and learn as much as he can. Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. You could make a career out of it. B. Change the name (also URL address, possibly the category) of the page. 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. Other albums, like "Love is a Sacrifice," "At Least We Got Shoes" and a Southside Johnny solo album, "Slow Dance," followed in the 1980's. Help Us | Upload. Songs | Lyrics Van Zandt and Springsteen both figured heavily in the launching of Lyons career in the mid- to late-70s. Bobby Bandiera and I have been writing songs. They're glowing. We swapped musical educations. They have recorded or performed several Springsteen songs, including "The Fever" and "Fade Away". 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 He carried himself as a person who has something to say, and still does. There are other things I'm interested in. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: They have such confidence onstage and such delight, and I was always impressed by people like that, like James Brown and Jackie Wilson, Sam & Dave. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes are an American musical group from the Jersey Shore led by Southside Johnny. A. Getting some traction is the hardest thing for me. I went through months of that. There were times when you needed a record company to get international recognition, but unless you're the top priority for the record company, you might as well do it yourself because you're not going to get that much out of them. Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools Thursday (Feb. 2), 8 p.m. 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. ", Event has been relocated to the Wax Nightclub,125 King St. W., Kitchener, Tickets $45. He is an American singer-songwriter who fronts the band Southside Johnny & . Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. 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, Asbury Park's now-legendary rock club. Its one thing to do Fever and I Dont Want to Go Home, which I still love and get a great reaction, but when you get a new song that you havent played a thousand times and it still gets a great reaction, its really a big thrill.. When I plan to make an album, I drive myself insane trying to think of the right thing or things to do, instead of just going into the studio and having fun. I was always of the mind-set of if you get a better offer for more money, take it. rights reserved. It got a lot of great reviews. Let me ask you about Nashville. 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. View/set parent page (used for creating breadcrumbs and structured layout). Do you connect with them? 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. In one of your interviews, you described this age as the golden age for musicians. Anyone can read what you share. The album entered the Billboard charts at No. "He had long hair, a great grin and chicks just loved the s*** out of him. His answer was to take 6 months away from the band to record his first album on his own, Slow Dance. Instead of the punchy, beer-and-sawdust party music associated with the Jukes, it is a low-key album, given mostly to ballads. 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. . Ive been very lucky. Born Vivienne Patricia Scialfa on July 29, 1953, Scialfa grew up in the affluent suburb of Deal, New Jersey, per the Washington Post. I think that most of the people who come to see us want that. Socially conscious songwriting was one new direction that Lyon didnt foresee as he began work on Slow Dance. But as he commuted in from New Jersey to work in a Manhattan studio with co-producer Steve Skinner, the scene that confronted him each day at the New York Port Authority bus terminal demanded commentary. She's in love. 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. While the group's membership has gone through dozens of changes since the mid-'70s, with Southside at the vocal mike their sound has remained remarkably consistent from their '70s efforts (1976's I Don't Want to Go Home, 1978's Hearts of Stone) to their 21st century sessions (2002's Going to Jukesville, 2010's Pills and Ammo), though the group did detour into dance music on 1983's Trash It Up (produced by Nile Rodgers). Lyon is a key figure in Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock N Roll, director Tom Jones documentary about the rise, fall, and revival of the central Jersey boardwalk town showing in theaters May 22 and 29. But connecting with a woman in a romantic relationship is probably something else. Has Southside Johnny become Surfside Johnny? I really liked it and I moved down there, but I didn't move down there because of the music. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. 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His go-to basses with the Asbury Jukes are a Fender Precision bass, and a short scale Jerry Jones Longhorn. Has it been difficult to maintain the same sound with so many changes in personnel? Southside Johnny has long been considered the Grandfather of "the New Jersey Sound ." Jon Bon Jovi has acknowledged Southside Johnny as his "reason for singing." I thought this is what people do. Keep it Clean. Was it always your goal to be a singer and performer? 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Use the 'Report' link on His name, of course, was Bruce Springsteen, though at the time he was just another up and coming nobody trying to get a break. John Lyon was born in Neptune, New Jersey on December 4, 1948 and grew up in nearby Ocean Gove. That record was like really a love letter to my husband, Bruce, and had very few characters in it. Rich L.A. homeowners are snapping them up, High school basketball: Southern California and Northern California Regional results and updated pairings, Madonna salutes late brother Anthony Ciccone for blowing my mind as a young girl, L.A. Phils 2023-24 season lineup celebrates the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall, Cardi B changes tune on community service, calls it best thing, spiritual journey, Moroccan singer convicted of rape in Paris, gets 6-year term, Jonas Brothers promise Broadway residency will be a walk down musics memory lane. This husband-and-wife-owned shop is full of punk, soul, jazz, reggae, and R&B. No. "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.". This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. 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. "Steven (Van Zandt) always wanted to be active politically and to play music and now he's an actor as well (on The Sopranos). I had to if there was any chance of me keeping my sanity. He wanted to thank a fan who left a care package at his doorstep. . After 1986's At Least We Got Shoes, Mirage cut ties with Southside, and he put the band on hiatus, cutting a solo album, 1988's Slow Dance, that leaned in the direction of adult contemporary music, dominated by love songs and ballads. A. I definitely wasn't a model student. Well, 20 years is a long time, and my band isn't your average-size band. Physically, it's a little bit more challenging for me now; my shows tend to be very energetic. 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.. to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about Everybody likes a lot of different things. When you watch old clips on YouTube, it's uncanny how closely aligned Springsteen and Southside are musically - both representative of the Jersey Shore sound of the '70s, with its big band rock spiked with romanticism and a rootsy, heartland ethos.
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