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My Own Boss is a solo, unplugged tribute to Bruce Springsteen. I'm not aiming to recreate the more dour nature of his solo shows, but rather looking to merge that with the transcendent energy of Springsteen's shows with the E-Street Band. My goal is to run listeners through a gamut of emotions much like attending a Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band concert would. Much like with the real Springsteen, the audience won't know what I'm going to play, as the set changes from night to night and my catalog of songs is the Boss' entire repertoire.
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Gig Length: 45 - 180 minutes
The central goal of My Own Boss is to perform a show which mixes the quiet intimacy of Bruce Springsteen's solo performances with the emotional depth and excitement of his legendary shows with the E-Street Band. Much like a real Bruce Springsteen concert, you never know what song I'm going to play next -- the whole of Springsteen's catalog is fair game. The quiet contemplativeness of "Brilliant Disguise" to the raucous rebellion of "Born to Run" -- it's all on display during a My Own Boss performance.
Eric Garneau has over a decade of musical experience, and has been playing professionally for over two years. In addition to being the bass player in Chicago cover band Take Cover, Eric has been lunchtime entertainment at various Potbelly stores since 2005. In his career, Eric has performed at venues such as Walter Payton's Roundhouse, the Double Door, the Miramar Theater (Milwaukee), the Canopy Club (Urbana, IL), Bobby McGee's, Amp Rock Lounge, Uncle Fatty's, and JJ Kelley's. He participated in the inaugural Chicago Winter Music Fest and will be featured in the documentary about the Chicago cover band scene coming out of that fest. He will be performing with Take Cover at 115 Bourbon Street later in 2010.
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Eric on The Boss:
"Bruce Springsteen, for a long time, wasn't my favorite musician -- not even close. I remember buying his greatest hits record in high school because I was going through a rock-and-roll classics phase and I felt I SHOULD have it, and I also bought Born in the USA although I listened to that once and filed it away. I wasn't totally sold on Bruce's musical style and I don't know why, except I always liked 'Thunder Road' and I could have sworn that the recording of 'Born to Run' actually got LOUDER after the "one, two, three, four...!".
In college I picked up a few more Boss albums thanks to the influence of friends, notably "Darkness on the Edge of Town" on vinyl and the "Live in New York City" CD, and by this time there was a collection of Bruce songs that I'd really started to like. I still wouldn't put him anywhere near my top musicians, but I was, at that point, a fan.
It wasn't until a few years after I graduated that the real power of Springsteen hit me. I was taking a couple-hour day trip and decided to listen to the whole of "Live in New York City" on the drive. Somewhere on that trip, it hit me: the amazing thing about the Boss is that his music captures the whole of the emotional spectrum. In a couple hours of concert CDs, listeners could run an emotional gamut, from the assertively triumphant 'My Love Will Not Let You Down' to the down-and-out sadness of 'The River' to the pissed-as-all-hell 'Youngstown' and of course back around to the defiance of 'Born to Run,' an anthem of hope tucked away inside a song about escape. At that point in my life I considered myself fairly well-versed in music -- I'd been in a couple bands, was a solo performer, and also spent a few months as a DJ in college -- and I had never seen an artist take command of the human experience as much as Bruce Springsteen had.
At that point, it was safe to say, I was a devotee. I began to scoop up his other albums and developed a liking or at least an appreciation for them all. I'd also gone to see him live several times. His live shows were like church for me -- an affirmation of life, with all its hardships, but also all its joys. Bruce believes in the promised land, and so do I.
And so somewhere amongst a sea of performing in a cover band and also as a solo cover artist, I got the idea to do a solo tribute to this man whose music was above all others in my collection. My goal would not be to recreate the atmosphere of his more dour solo concerts, nor could I hope to channel the energy and transcendence of an E-Street Band show, but I thought I could aim for something in between, something that hopefully hints at that full emotional spectrum over which Bruce is truly the Boss. And here I am, aiming. If you're a fan of the Boss, of folk/rock/Americana music in general, or a fan of this great experience we all share -- life -- maybe come check me out some time, and we'll talk about the promised land."
-Eric Garneau/My Own Boss, November 2009
I can provide all necessary equipment, although a PA with one microphone and one instrument input is very much appreciated.
Every Bruce Springsteen song, from his E-Street albums to his solo career to his Pete Seeger-inspired cover album, is fair game. There is an emphasis on the E-Street tunes, to be sure, but it would be a crime to ignore such excellent songs as "The Ghost of Tom Joad" or "Tougher Than the Rest."
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Songs performed live so far:
Atlantic City
Because the Night
Blinded by the Light
Born in the USA
Born to Run
Cover Me
Dancing in the Dark
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Drive All Night
Fade Away
The Ghost of Tom Joad
Glory Days
I'm Going Down
I'm on Fire
Johnny 99
Long Time Comin'
Long Walk Home
Mansion on the Hill
My Lucky Day
Nebraska
Point Blank
The Price You Pay
The Promised Land
Radio Nowhere
Reason to Believe
The Rising
The River
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
State Trooper
Thunder Road
Two Hearts
Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band!
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