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Tunnel of Love Express Tour
|Tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
|Associated album
|Tunnel of Love
|Start date
|February 25, 1988
|End date
|August 4, 1988
|No. of shows
|Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert chronology
The Tunnel of Love Express was a concert tour by Bruce Springsteen and featuring The E Street Band along with The Horns of Love that took place in 1988. It followed by four and a half months the release of Springsteen's 1987 album, Tunnel of Love. Considerably shorter in duration than most Springsteen tours before or since, it played limited engagements in most cities, leading to tickets being in great demand. Shows were held in arenas in the U.S. and stadiums in Europe and included an historic performance in East Berlin.
Coming on the heels of the massively successful Born in the U.S.A. Tour, the Tunnel of Love Express was designed to disorient Springsteen's audiences. A theatrical entrance began the show, a full horn section appeared, band members were rearranged from their customary positions, and on-stage spontaneity was kept to a minimum. Set lists were unusually static, and many of Springsteen's most popular concert numbers were omitted altogether. Instead, the shows featured Springsteen B-sides and outtakes as well as renditions of obscure genre songs by others. Critical reaction to the concerts was generally favorable, with some mixed reviews, while audiences were sometimes baffled.
The show featured backup singer Patti Scialfa brought center stage and the object of sexually themed presentations unusual for Springsteen. That, combined with the dour nature of many Tunnel of Love songs, led to speculation that Springsteen's marriage to Julianne Phillips was troubled. Further visual evidence of Springsteen and Scialfa becoming a couple emerged as the tour progressed, his separation from Phillips was officially confirmed, and for the first time Springsteen became the subject of a tabloid fervor. Springsteen and Scialfa eventually married, and the Tunnel of Love Express shows were the last full-length ones Springsteen would play with the E Street Band for eleven years.
- 1 Itinerary
- 2 The show
- 3 The East Berlin show
- 4 Life imitating art imitating life
- 5 Critical and commercial reception
- 6 Legacy
- 7 Broadcasts and recordings
- 8 Personnel
- 9 Tour dates
- 10 Songs performed
- 11 See also
- 12 Bibliography
- 13 References
- 14 External links
The tour came four and a half months after the release of Springsteen's 1987 album, Tunnel of Love, which had sold well – although nowhere near the blockbuster levels of its predecessor, Born in the U.S.A., which the album was partly a counter-reaction to – and already generated a hit single in "Brilliant Disguise".[1][2][3][4] In part, the unusual lag reflected the ambivalence of the album; Springsteen had first recorded it solely by himself, and then some E Street Band parts had been dubbed in.[2] Indeed, Springsteen and the band had started to drift apart over the previous two or three years, seldom speaking amongst themselves.[5] Springsteen had considered going out on tour solo, and his management had provisionally booked 3,000-seat halls around the country.[3] But he eventually decided against that approach, feeling the tone of the resulting show would be too dark.[3]
The tour was officially announced on January 6, 1988.[6] One of the few Springsteen tours to be formally named, the "Express" part came from its shorter duration – roughly half his typical length – and the shorter stays in any given location, generally just one or two nights.
The United States leg of the tour took place in arenas,[7] starting on February 25 at the Worcester Centrum and continuing for 43 shows. There were five-night stands in two major markets, at the Los Angeles Sports Arena and at New York City's Madison Square Garden; the shows at the latter closed the American leg on May 23. The European leg commenced on June 11 at the Stadio Comunale in Turin, Italy, and continued for 23 shows in stadiums, concluding the tour on August 4 at Barcelona, Spain's Camp Nou.[8]
The tour became the first one in which Springsteen did not play his home state of New Jersey; speculation that he would play a special series of dates there upon his return from the European leg proved unfounded.[9][10]
The show[edit]
Springsteen's concerts from his beginnings up through the massively popular Born in the U.S.A. Tour had been a linear progression of basically the same show, scaled to greater and greater heights. Apparently having achieved all he could along those lines, and feeling that the Born in the U.S.A. Tour had done too much of it, Springsteen sought to change directions.[3][4][11] As Springsteen later wrote in his 2016 memoir, "Tunnel was a solo album, so I wanted to distance the tour from being compared to our USA run."[12] The Tunnel of Love Express was, as rock author Jimmy Guterman later wrote, "a tour intended to disorient."[13]
Springsteen augmented the E Street Band with a five-piece horn section led by Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg.[4] Generally known as The Miami Horns, they had recently been performing on the Jersey shore bar scene as La Bamba and the Hubcaps[4] and were billed on this tour as the Horns of Love.[14][15] This addition to the band would be both highly visible and audible. (Springsteen had wanted to carry a ten-piece band with a horn section going back to his pre-E Street, Bruce Springsteen Band days, but had not been able to afford it heretofore.[16])
The stage backdrop was a tapestry of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.[17] The entrance of the band onto the stage, heretofore a casual affair, was now elaborate and stylized. It was set up to mimic fairgoers entering a carnival ride,[11] with Springsteen assistant Terry Magovern playing a ticket-taker at the gate near an ominous and foreshadowing sign that said:[1][18]
|This is a dark ride
(One of the tour T-shirts being sold proclaimed "This is not a dark ride", but as both a newspaper reviewer wrote at the time, and a fan who later became an author wrote later, that was a lie.[19][20]) Roy Bittan was already on synthesizer as an extended intro to "Tunnel of Love" was played. Band members entered the stage two by two, taking tickets from Magovern, each (with the help of a professional costumer) more sharply dressed than for previous tours:[2] Max Weinberg and Danny Federici, Garry Tallent and Nils Lofgren, the horn section. Next came Patti Scialfa in a tight mini-skirt,[21] big hair and carrying a bunch of balloons: more foreshadowing. Once in their positions, band members started their parts in the song.[22] Penultimately, Clarence Clemons entered with a single rose between his teeth. Springsteen appeared last, dressed in trousers, a jacket and white shirt that departed from his past denim-and-bandanas look, matched the Annie Leibovitz-photographed look from the Tunnel album cover, and emphasized the greater formality of what was about to come.[11][23][12] Once present, the band's traditional positions on stage were flipped:[13] now Clemons was on the right, Bittan on the left, and so on; Weinberg moved from the center to the side, and backup singer Scialfa from the back riser to the front where Clemons had been.[4] Springsteen declared this to be evidence of his desire to shake things up when rehearsals began: "The first thing I did was make everyone stand in a different place."[4]
The music of the show itself was a departure, and the show overall more subdued than in the past,[11] with the return to arenas making the show more accessible.[24] Yet at the same time the stage presentation was more stylized and choreographed than on any tour before.[22] The country-influenced rock and serious ballads of the new album were not ideal stage material.[23] Audiences expected the moody "Tunnel of Love" to open, but the second slot — which in past years was filled by well-known rousers such as "Badlands", "Out in the Street" or "Prove It All Night" — now was ... "Be True", an obscure, lightweight B-side[23] to the underperforming 1981 "Fade Away" single. And so the show's theme was established — an examination of relationships, often of the failed, sour variety, much as the album had been.[1] A long spoken introduction to "Spare Parts" over a quiet piano backing by Roy Bittan reiterated the song's hardscrabble setting.[4][25] Theatrics were up throughout: A tortured rendition of the Biblical "Adam Raised a Cain", sitting on a park bench with Clemons in a long prologue to "All That Heaven Will Allow",[26] the horn section throughout swooping and swaying and doing every bit of stage shtick known to horn sections.
Plenty of songs (typically eight or nine) from Tunnel of Love appeared, as would be expected, and much if not all of the audience were reasonably familiar with them, as the album had been out for a while.[27] But the dominance of obscurities, of B-sides and outtakes, continued,[4][28] with immediate audience response sacrificed for what might be a slower but deeper understanding.[21] Springsteen said, "The idea on this tour is that you wouldn't know what song was gonna come next. ... [The show feels] real new, real modern to me. I figure some people will wrestle with it a little bit. But that's okay."[4] Some fans worried that Springsteen looked like he was not having as much fun on stage as in the past.[29] The first set saw "Roulette", a previously unreleased number from The River sessions about the Three Mile Island accident,[28] (which was paired with the previous tour's "Seeds" to lend an element of sociological anguish to the personal).[30] The second set saw Springsteen assuming the manner of a televangelist or professional wrestler[26] delivering "I Am a Coward", a remake of Gino Washington's little-known 1964 local Detroit hit "Gino Is a Coward",[31][12] and "Part Man, Part Monkey", a never-before-heard, Springsteen-written quasi-reggae ode to the Scopes monkey trial by way of Mickey & Sylvia's "Love is Strange".[31] Audiences were bewildered.[17][28]
Gone completely were several of Springsteen's most popular numbers and traditional concert warhorses: "Badlands", "The Promised Land", "Thunder Road", "Jungleland".[3][14] Springsteen had said as the tour began, "when I went to put this show together, I said, 'Well, what were the songs that were the kind of cornerstones of what I had done? Those are the ones I automatically put to the side.'"[3]
The first set did close with a blockbuster pairing of "War" and "Born in the U.S.A."; compared to the latter's opening of shows during the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, it now served to sum up a set's worth of personal struggles and counter any mistaken notions about the song's patriotic intent.[4][31] The first hour and a half of the show featured no selections from Springsteen albums prior to Born in the U.S.A. other than "Adam Raised a Cain".[23] The main set closer, a position long held by "Rosalita" until cut during the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, was now held by the fairly obscure, roadhouse-flavored and hotly played, Springsteen-written-but-Joan Jett-recorded "(Just Around the Corner to the) Light of Day" (it would hold this position for band-based Springsteen tours through the end of 2000).[22][24][25]
The encores began with Springsteen's signature song, "Born to Run", recast completely, slowly played solo by Springsteen on acoustic guitar and harmonica and with a melancholy feel,[24][25] albeit with the band standing behind him,[22] sometimes with an audience sing-along of "whoa-whoa's" at the end. Springsteen prefaced these performances with an introduction along the same lines every night:[32] "Before we came out on tour, I was sitting around home trying to decide what we were gonna be doing out here this time. What I felt I wanted to sing and say to you." After detailing how he came to write "Born to Run" a decade and a half earlier, he would say that its overt theme of escapism had concealed a deeper search for connection and for a place its protagonists could call home. That, now, to Springsteen meant a place deep within oneself.[14][32] He concluded by saying, "I wanna do this song tonight for all of you, wishing with all my heart that you have a safe trip to home."[4][33]
After this, Springsteen finally retreated into normalcy, with the last half-hour of the show an upbeat, redemptive sequence that The New York Times described as a "rip-roaring, cinderblock-shaking jubilee."[19][34] Presented were top hits such as "Hungry Heart" and "Glory Days" (both with heavy roles from the horn section)[17] and even, in the second encores, the resurrection of a couple of veteran numbers dropped midway through the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, "Rosalita" and the "Detroit Medley".[4][17] Springsteen reasoned that the latter's "Devil with a Blue Dress On" was actually the ultimate moment of the show, as the 'trick' of juxtaposing serious, emotional content with exciting entertainment was pulled off.[4] But those last two would also be gone by the latter stages of the American leg, and the second encore would be filled with more regional obscurities such as The Sonics' "Have Love, Will Travel" and unlikely attempts at Roy Orbison's "Crying". The encores also delved into Springsteen's longtime interest in soul music, showcasing Percy Sledge's 1967 arrangement of Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender", Arthur Conley's "Sweet Soul Music", and a longtime staple, Eddie Floyd's "Raise Your Hand".[28]
Overall, shows ran a little under three hours in length, up to an hour shorter than what audiences had become accustomed to with Springsteen.[23] Set lists were unusually static during the tour,[21][22][23] a deliberate decision by Springsteen, who saw the show as "focused and specific".[4] Not having to play multiple shows in many venues also helped, although some of the faithful[35] were travelling to multiple cities to see the tour. During the early weeks, often only one song changed per night; a two-night stand at the Philadelphia Spectrum saw no changes at all, highly unusual especially in Springsteen's home territories.[23]
During later shows on the European leg, setlists began to change, with occasional surprise additions.[9] "Badlands" began appearing, and "Thunder Road" a couple of times,[23] while televangelist-styled song introductions were dropped due to lack of cultural context.[26] The many Americans at a West German show at Frankfurt's Waldstadion waved flags as "Born in the U.S.A." was played, with U. S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Burt in attendance.[36]
The East Berlin show[edit]
Most unusual of the European shows was one in East Berlin on July 19, 1988, some 16 months before the Berlin Wall came down. It was organized by the socialist youth movement Free German Youth in an attempt to relieve some tension among the younger populations of East Germany by bringing in one of the most popular of Western musicians.[37] Springsteen was extolled by state newspaper Neues Deutschland as a working-class American who "attacks social wrongs and injustices in his homeland."[38]
It was held at the Radrennbahn Weißensee cycling track, far away from the Wall (previous concerts held on the Western side of the Wall by Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson had given East Berlin security forces trouble in keeping youths away from the Eastern side to listen).[37] Initial news reports estimated that there were some 160,000 people in attendance.[38] This was practically one percent of the German Democratic Republic's entire population.[39] It was the largest audience of Springsteen's career to that point[40] and the largest ever to see a rock concert in the GDR.[38] Much of the concert was broadcast live on both state television and radio,[39] although the television broadcast quality was shaky.[37]
Springsteen modified the set list for the occasion, opening with "Badlands" for the first time on the Express[41] and making a tour debut for "The Promised Land". Before playing Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom", Springsteen stated in phoenetically recited German, "I want to tell you, I'm not here for or against any certain government, but to play rock 'n' roll for you East Berliners ... in the hope that one day, all barriers will be torn down."[39] GDR officials took advantage of a tape delay to delete Springsteen's words on the broadcast.[39][42] The show became one of the most politically meaningful moments of Springsteen's career.[39]
Since the initial reports, some estimates of the crowd size have been increased, often to a figure of 300,000.[37][41] Internet posters have made claims as high as 500,000. In 2013, Erik Kirschbaum, a Berlin-based journalist, published his book Rocking the Wall: The Berlin Concert That Changed the World, which argues that the Springsteen concert was a signal event in the process that led to the Peaceful Revolution, the fall of the Wall, and Die Wende.[37] Gerd Dietrich, a professor of history at Humboldt University, was quoted saying that "Springsteen's concert and speech certainly contributed in a large sense to the events leading up to the fall of the wall. It made people … more eager for more and more change … It showed people how locked up they really were."[37][41] Thomas Wilke, who has studied the impact of popular music in East Germany, said "It was a topic of discussion for quite some time afterwards. There was clearly a different feeling and a different sentiment in East Germany after that concert."[37]
Life imitating art imitating life[edit]
From the first release of Tunnel of Love, there had listeners who wondered if some of the gloomy portrayals of interpersonal relationships on the album indicated that Springsteen's 1985 marriage to actress and model Julianne Phillips was in trouble.[43] Others, however, cautioned against such interpretations, pointing out that Springsteen's 1982 album Nebraska had been full of intense tales of spree killers and other criminals, of which Springsteen clearly had no personal experience.[43][44] Los Angeles Times music writer Robert Hilburn, interviewing Springsteen at the Worcester start of the tour, wrote that "Springsteen seemed extremely comfortable sitting on a sofa with his wife in the dressing room area – a picture that seemed to contradict the speculation that Tunnel of Love's songs of troubled romance reflected signs of trouble in his own marriage."[3]
In addition to everything else, what was different about the Tunnel of Love Express was Springsteen's first go at explicit carnality,[28] from the opening "Tunnel of Love", where he and Scialfa sang cheek to cheek with lips nearly touching at the same microphone, to other numbers such as "Part Man, Part Monkey".[31] A centerpiece of the second set was an eight-minute reworking of one of The River's casual rockers, "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)". Now it was recast into rockabilly mode, with a half-spoken, half-sung introduction detailing a youth's frustrations up to the iconic car parked with a girlfriend on a lovers' lane. Out come the horn section, sans horns, to do synchronized dancing[31] and sing call-and-response. Out come Scialfa and two women from backstage, three temptresses for the six assembled men. Around they circle each other, as Springsteen sings "You Can Look", resting the microphone below his belt in between lines. Finally the song winds down, as Springsteen and Scialfa stare at each other. Springsteen goes back to the drum kit, where a tray full of water and a sponge are. In tours past, this was a classic moment of Springsteen the relentless showman; he would sponge off his head, gulp down water and spray it over the stage, revitalizing himself to keep on playing for a few more hours. Now, however, he took the sponge, pulled his pants out by his belt buckle, and squeezed the water down into his crotch. Perhaps tame by the standards of Prince or Madonna at the time, but for Springsteen and his audience, a line had been crossed.
Newsday wrote, "Dripping wet during 'Part Man, Part Monkey' – which is as sexual a message as Springsteen has ever transmitted live – Springsteen was, literally, steaming."[28] Amplified deep breathing.[28]
This was all a big change for Scialfa, who had stayed in the background during the 1984–1985 Born in the U.S.A. Tour, her first. Early on the tour, she said in an interview about her new role: "Bruce coaxed me and urged me to reach. He was very patient, very willing to teach. He had a lot of confidence in me. ... I feel real complete working with him on stage. It's like for a moment nothing bad can happen to you. It's a wonderful give-and-take. You go through every emotion every night."[45] The tour soon proved sufficiently strenuous for her that she began gulping down milkshakes in an effort to restore lost weight to her 5-foot-8, 117-pound frame.[46]
But there was more to the Tunnel of Love Express than just what Springsteen had planned.[33] On stage, Scialfa had now become Springsteen's principal vocal partner (a role held in the past by the departed Steve Van Zandt) as well as principal foil (supplanting Clarence Clemons),[47] and in this number and others, the way Springsteen and Scialfa approached each other, and how they held their bodies as they sang together, made their byplay the center of the show right from the "Tunnel of Love" opener.[31][45][48][49] Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh later wrote of the sparks flying from the interaction, "You could have written it off just to musical magic ... if you were dumb as a doorstop", and said that even those that oblivious could not have missed the meaning of the body language during their performance on "One Step Up", in which a man lists metaphors for the failing love in his marriage, expresses his lack of desire to find it again, and starts casting a wandering eye about.[48]
Springsteen and Scialfa's involvement had thus been rumored since early on the tour.[40] Suspicion and confirmation came in stages. Phillips had traveled with the tour initially and even danced onstage during "You Can Look", but at times had looked lost and lonely backstage; she then left (apparently to try out for or shoot a film, variously reported as Sweet Lies with Treat Williams, Fletch Saves with Chevy Chase, or Skin Deep directed by Blake Edwards).[45][50][51][52] Springsteen and Phillips spent their May 13 wedding anniversary apart.[53] During the Madison Square Garden shows in mid-May, fans and the New York newspapers began noticing that Springsteen was not wearing his wedding ring on stage.[43][50][53]
A National Enquirer headline declared, "Bruce Springsteen's Marriage in Trouble", soon followed on June 9 by USA Today asking "Is Bruce on the Loose?".[43] Springsteen's management initially declined any comment.[43] The European leg of the tour started in Italy, with three shows in mid-June in Rome. Paparazzi caught Springsteen and Scialfa snuggling each other in their underwear (sometimes described as nightshirts) on a Rome balcony in one photograph and dressed but lounging together on a single deck chair with drinks in hand in another.[5][40][45][54] An Italian paper wrote, "There are no doubts ... Patti and Bruce really love each other."[45] A tabloid fever was underway.[48][55]
On June 17, Phillips' publicist officially confirmed that Springsteen and Phillips had split .[45][53] Attention did not diminish; by the time the tour hit France, photographers were capturing Springsteen and Scialfa walking arm in arm through Parisian streets or lolling in the grass in one of the city's parks.[56][57] When the show reached Wembley Stadium in London, the Fleet Street papers were preoccupied with judging whether the two really were an item; The Star and News of the World said yes, The Daily Mail was unsure, while the Sunday Mirror ran a photograph of Springsteen staring intently at his guitar and claimed it was the only love in his life.[58] The goings-on around Springsteen became fodder for jokes on late-night talk shows in the U.S.[59]
Later that month, Springsteen's management elaborated that the cause had been that they just grew apart, and explicitly denied tabloid reports that the needs of her career or disagreements about having children had played a role.[53] Phillips subsequently said the same thing in an interview in Us magazine.[52] On August 30, Phillips filed for divorce, which was made final in March 1989.[5] Scialfa later said of the period, "I just thought, I can't take this ... Bruce and I had gotten together, it was a very turbulent time."[55] Springsteen himself said, "My first wife's one of the best people I've ever met. She's lovely, intelligent – a great person. But we were pretty different, and I realized I didn't know how to be married."[60]
English fans interviewed had mixed reactions to the romantic developments,[58] while American fans interviewed, after expressing some sympathy and unease for those involved, generally felt that Springsteen's private life was his business.[44] Some belonged to a camp that had never seen Phillips as a good match for Springsteen from the start.[44][52][57][61] Others were surprised that Springsteen would end up in the middle of a messy and indiscreet love triangle.[57][59] Some married fans did not like Springsteen's seemingly cavalier behavior, even if they had not approved of Phillips, and some longtime fans did not like Scialfa's usurping of the Clemons stage role.[47] On the other hand, some female fans were happy to see their idol possibly available again.[59] There was no immediate drop in Springsteen album sales or radio airplay.[59]
The two primary organs of the Bruce faithful at the time, Backstreets Magazine and the "Springsteen party line" (a telephone-based precursor to Springsteen fan groups and mailing lists on the Internet), said nothing about the developments at all.[44] Music writer David Hinckley said that while Springsteen had never promoted himself as a hero or role model, he had nonetheless built a bond of faith with his fan base around the notion of doing the right thing. Hinckley wondered whether Springsteen could "win the faithful back".[29] Music writer Gary Graff said that because Springsteen espoused "hanging tough and solving problems" that made his marital failure "especially intriguing" to the public.[59] The affair continued to draw the attention of the celebrity and supermarket press, eventually including a long piece in Woman's World magazine that quoted Judith Kuriansky, a psychologist and television talk show host, to the effect that Springsteen was going through a midlife crisis.[57] Quasi-official Springsteen biographer Marsh would later write that the separation had occurred in early May at the end of the West Coast portion of the American leg,[48] while an Us magazine story based around a Phillips interview placed it sometime between the early stages of the tour and the couple's May 13 anniversary.[52] Regardless of exactly when the marriage ended and the new relationship began, the impression left upon the wider public was that Springsteen was a heartless man cheating on his wife an ocean away, Phillips was humiliated, and Scialfa was the "other woman".[48]
The search for a deeper personal connection that Springsteen had mentioned during his "Born to Run" introduction had left him, in an interview during the tour, comparing his fame and situation to that of Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.[4] But his quest to undermine his Born in the U.S.A.-era fame with a more subdued album and smaller-scale tour had ended up in most unexpected fashion.[62]
Critical and commercial reception[edit]
Due to the limited number of dates in each city and the continuing popularity of Springsteen from the 1984–86 period, tickets were hard to come by.[63] Long waits for the chance to buy tickets were common.[63][64] This was in the era of the "ambush sale", when often no advance word would be given of when tickets were going on sale (or bracelets for the rights to get tickets were being distributed).[35][65] This was especially the case for this tour, as in some locations such as for Nassau Coliseum tickets went on sale much closer to the event date than usual.[66] Thus, for example, in the weeks preceding the New York area shows, several dozen fans would gather at major Ticketmaster outlets on Saturday mornings, listening on portable radios with the idea that something might be happening right then. Most often, nothing would happen, and a rock radio disc jockey would then confirm that no tickets were going on sale that day. Or fans would gather outside the box office at the Centrum in Worcester, hoping that ticket bracelets might suddenly be distributed that day, and be suddenly rewarded if they were.[35] The alternative of buying tickets over the telephone once they went on sale was often fruitless.[10]
The disparity between supply and demand meant high prices for scalpers, with $22.50 tickets to the Nassau Coliseum shows on Long Island going for anywhere from $100 to $400[63] and other shows expensive as well.[10][20] Undercover police worked venue parking lots to try to curb the practice.[63] Fans from all over Ohio and parts of Indiana attended the Richfield Coliseum shows in Cleveland, with some paying scalper prices.[24] Fans in Rockford, Illinois staged an (unsuccessful) petition drive to get Springsteen to add their city to the tour's routing.[67]
The three kickoff shows in Worcester sold out in two hours[65] (the site having been chosen for the tour opening, the venue manager thought, because the New England area had given a very favorable response to the Born in the U.S.A. Tour.)[35] Two shows in Cleveland's Richfield Coliseum sold out in four hours.[64] Indeed, there were quick sellouts all across the eastern U.S. and elsewhere.[66][68]
Reviews of the Tunnel of Love Express were generally favorable, with some more mixed views.
The Associated Press found the opening Worcester shows full of "twists and turns" that at first "befuddled the crowd with an assortment of seldom-heard songs" before he "eventually put the crowd in a frenzy."[17] The Blade newspaper of Toledo, Ohio declared that "there is much new and much different about the 'Tunnel of Love' tour. There are new songs, and new insights to be gained from old ones."[24] The Milwaukee Journal found that the obscure and unexpected songs in the set list were the show's best moments, but also said that "at times, the new horn section proved to be unneeded baggage", either diluting or drowning out the rest of the band.[14]
Jon Pareles of The New York Times found the show undermined by the didactic, monochromatic nature of Springsteen's more recent songs.[34] Stephen Holden of the same paper, on the other hand, thought those same songs "wonderful", and wrote that "In concert, [Springsteen has] figured out how to string songs into extended journeys that take on a cumulative power as the evening proceeds."[30] He concluded that "Springsteen reconciles seemingly unreconcilable concepts: a sober awareness of social and erotic realities and a boundless faith in life."[30] (Holden's review itself became suspect due to his describing performances of songs not actually played.[69])
The Spokane Chronicle said that with the addition of the horn section, "the always powerful E Street Band is more muscular than ever" and that thematically, the show takes the viewer "for a bleak ride before you reach the light of day."[19] Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times assayed that Springsteen "stepped away from the two concert elements that have most been associated with him – spontaneity and celebration – to concentrate on artistic independence and growth."[21] The result, Hilburn stated, were Springsteen's "most studied, yet most radical and liberating appearances yet".[21]
The Glasgow Herald stated that the first-set performances of John Lee Hooker's (by way of The Animals) "Boom Boom" as well as the Bo Diddley-inspired "Ain't Got You"/"She's the One" were the high points of the Birmingham concert at Villa Park but that overall the show lacked genuine geographical or thematic connection with its British audience.[70] The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet claimed that the second and third parts of the show were the greatest rock show ever put forth on Swedish ground.[71]
In all, the Tunnel of Love Express lacked the athletic, boisterous liveliness that Springsteen had been known for, and featured largely fixed and predetermined performances and on-stage banter.[9] Bassist Tallent would say a couple of decades later,
|The Tunnel of Love Express tour was unlike anything we'd ever done in that so much of it was staged. The band had fixed positions onstage; unlike every other time we performed live, there was really no spontaneity. We had our parts and needed to stick to them if the show was going to make any sense.[11]
Springsteen biographer Marsh would write in 2006, "As a tour, Tunnel of Love Express presents the greatest puzzle of Springsteen's career."[1] In his 2016 memoir, Springsteen wrote of the tour, "After Born in the USA, it was an intentional left turn and the band was probably somewhat disoriented by it, along with my growing relationship with Patti."[12] Of the split with Phillips, he wrote, "I dealt with Julie's and my separation abysmally, insisting it remain a private affair, so we released no press statement, causing furor, pain and 'scandal' when the news leaked out. It made a tough thing more heartbreaking than necessary. I deeply cared for Julianne and her family and my poor handling of this is something I regret to this day."[72]
In any case, rearranging where the band members stood on stage did not change things enough for Springsteen.[73] The August 4, 1988, show in Barcelona that closed out the Tunnel of Love Express would be the last full-length Springsteen and E Street Band show for eleven years. Following the Human Rights Now! Tour later that year, which featured abbreviated sets and few performances of Tunnel of Love songs, Springsteen broke up the E Street Band. It would not tour again until the 1999–2000 Reunion Tour.[9] The staged aspects of the tour would not appear again, and its songs would remain infrequently performed.
Broadcasts and recordings[edit]
MTV filmed the March 28 show in Detroit's Joe Louis Arena. Portions of several songs were aired as part of their special Bruce Springsteen – Inside the Tunnel of Love on April 30.[74]
As noted earlier, much of the July 19 East Berlin concert was broadcast live on GDR state television and radio.[38]
The first set of the July 3 show in Stockholms Olympiastadion was broadcast live on radio to an international audience. Distributed through DIR Broadcasting and available free to any station that wanted it, it was Springsteen's first live broadcast since 1978, and the first available nationwide.[75] Some 300 stations broadcast it in the U.S., and it was also heard across Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan.[75] Proceeds from commercials that aired before and after the concert segment were to be divided between DIR and Springsteen, and after subtraction for costs, sent to charity.[75] The set itself followed tour practice except for the addition of Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom" at the close, as Springsteen announced his upcoming participation in Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! Tour later that year.[76] The concert was subsequently issued through the Bruce Springsteen Archives in November 2017.
The Chimes of Freedom EP, released in August 1988, included that rendition, as well as documenting three other song performances from scattered dates on the Express, including the radical simplification of "Born to Run".
In July 2015, Springsteen released LA Sports Arena, California 1988, the first official full show live release from this tour. It captured the April 23 show performed at the L.A. Sports Arena and was available through his website.[77] This would be followed by the release of the July 3 show at Stockholms Stadion in November 2017 and the release of the May 23 U.S. leg finale at Madison Square Garden in January 2019.
The E Street Band[edit]
- Bruce Springsteen – lead vocals, guitars, harmonica
- Roy Bittan – piano, synthesizer
- Clarence Clemons – saxophone, congas, percussion, background vocals
- Danny Federici – organ
- Nils Lofgren – guitars, background vocals
- Patti Scialfa – background vocals, some featured duet vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
- Garry Tallent – bass guitar
- Max Weinberg – drums
The Horns of Love[edit]
- Mario Cruz – saxophone
- Eddie Manion – saxophone
- Mark Pender – trumpet
- Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg – trombone
- Mike Spengler – trumpet
Tour dates[edit]
|Tickets sold / available
|North America
|February 25, 1988
|United States
|The Centrum
|38,233 / 38,233
|February 28, 1988
|February 29, 1988
|March 3, 1988
|Chapel Hill
|Dean Smith Center
|40,158 / 40,158
|March 4, 1988
|March 8, 1988
|The Spectrum
|37,296 / 37,296
|March 9, 1988
|March 13, 1988
|Richfield Coliseum
|37,644 / 37,644
|March 14, 1988
|March 16, 1988
|Rosemont, Illinois
|Rosemont Horizon
|35,632 / 35,632
|March 17, 1988
|March 20, 1988
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|Civic Arena
|16,969 / 16,969
|March 22, 1988
|The Omni
|32,944 / 32,944
|March 23, 1988
|March 26, 1988
|Lexington, Kentucky
|Rupp Arena
|23,134 / 23,134
|March 28, 1988
|Detroit, Michigan
|Joe Louis Arena
|39,550 / 39,550
|March 29, 1988
|April 1, 1988
|Uniondale, New York
|Nassau Coliseum
|37,760 / 37,760
|April 2, 1988
|April 4, 1988
|Landover, Maryland
|Capital Centre
|36,333 / 36,333
|April 5, 1988
|April 12, 1988
|Houston, Texas
|The Summit
|34,128 / 34,128
|April 13, 1988
|April 15, 1988
|Austin, Texas
|Frank Erwin Center
|17,190 / 17,190
|April 17, 1988
|St. Louis, Missouri
|St. Louis Arena
|18,532 / 18,532
|April 20, 1988
|Denver, Colorado
|McNichols Arena
|17,660 / 17,660
|April 22, 1988
|Los Angeles
|Los Angeles Sports Arena
|77,734 / 77,734
|April 23, 1988
|April 25, 1988
|April 27, 1988
|April 28, 1988
|May 2, 1988
|Mountain View, California
|Shoreline Amphitheatre
|20,105 / 20,105
|May 3, 1988
|20,123 / 20,123
|May 5, 1988
|Tacoma, Washington
|Tacoma Dome
|47,642 / 47,642
|May 6, 1988
|May 9, 1988
|Bloomington, Minnesota
|Met Center
|34,795 / 34,795
|May 10, 1988
|May 13, 1988
|Indianapolis, Indiana
|Market Square Arena
|17,577 / 18,154
|May 16, 1988
|New York City
|Madison Square Garden
|98,458 / 98,458
|May 18, 1988
|May 19, 1988
|May 22, 1988
|May 23, 1988
|June 11, 1988
|Stadio Comunale di Torino
|55 000
|June 13, 1988
|Piazza di Spagna
|June 15, 1988
|Stadio Flaminio
|June 16, 1988
|June 18, 1988
|Château de Vincennes
|June 19, 1988
|Hippodrome de Vincennes
|70 000
|June 21, 1988
|Villa Park
|June 22, 1988
|June 25, 1988
|Wembley Stadium
|80 000
|June 28, 1988
|Feyenoord Stadion
|100 000
|June 29, 1988
|July 2, 1988
|Stockholm Olympic Stadium
|July 3, 1988
|July 7, 1988
|RDS Arena
|July 9, 1988
|Bramall Lane
|July 10, 1988
|July 12, 1988
|West Germany
|51 400
|July 14, 1988
|St. Jakob Stadium
|July 17, 1988
|West Germany
|Olympia Reitstadion Riem
|July 19, 1988
|East Berlin
|East Germany
|Radrennbahn Weissensee
|500 000
|July 22, 1988
|West Berlin
|July 25, 1988
|July 27, 1988
|Valle Hovin
|July 30, 1988
|West Germany
|August 2, 1988
|Vicente Calderón Stadium
|62 000
|August 4, 1988
|Camp Nou
|90 000
Songs performed[edit]
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
See also[edit]
- Alterman, Eric (2001). It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen. Back Bay. ISBN 0-316-03917-9.
- Cavicchi, Daneil (1998). Tramps Like Us: Music & Meaning among Springsteen Fans. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511833-2.
- Derkins, Susie (2002). Rock & Roll Hall of Famers: Bruce Springsteen. New York: Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8239-3522-1.
- Guterman, Jimmy (2005). Runaway American Dream: Listening to Bruce Springsteen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81397-1.
- Marsh, Dave (2006). Bruce Springsteen On Tour: 1968–2005. New York: Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 1-59691-282-0.
- Masur, Louis P. (2009). Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision. New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1-60819-101-7.
- Santelli, Robert (2006). Greetings From E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 0-8118-5348-9.
- Springsteen, Bruce (2016). Born to Run. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5011-4151-5.
- Symynkywicz, Jeffery B. (2008). The Gospel According to Bruce Springsteen: Rock and Redemption, from Asbury Park to Magic. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 978-0-664-23169-9.
- Wiersema, Robert J. (2011). Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen. Vancouver: Greystone Books. ISBN 978-1-55365-845-0.
- ^ a b c d Marsh, Bruce Springsteen On Tour, p. 172.
- ^ a b c Marsh, Bruce Springsteen On Tour, p. 175.
- ^ a b c d e f g Hilburn, Robert (March 2, 1988). "Springsteen plays few hits on 'Tunnel of Love' tour" (Los Angeles Times). Anchorage Daily News. p. G-9.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Pond, Steve (May 5, 1988). "Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel Vision" (cover story). Rolling Stone.
- ^ a b c Symynkywicz, The Gospel According to Bruce Springsteen, p. 105.
- ^ "Springsteen tour begins in February". Milwaukee Sentinel. January 7, 1988. p. 3.
- ^ Derkins, Bruce Springsteen, p. 70.
- ^ "El primer concierto de Bruce Springsteen en España". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. April 21, 2011.
- ^ a b c d Derkins, Bruce Springsteen, p. 75.
- ^ a b c Cavicchi, Tramps Like Us, p. 48.
- ^ a b c d e Santelli, Greetings From E Street, pp. 76-77.
- ^ a b c d Springsteen, Born to Run, p. 350.
- ^ a b Guterman, Runaway American Dream, p. 173.
- ^ a b c d Christensen, Thor (March 17, 1988). "Bruce grows up without growing old". The Milwaukee Journal. p. 5B.
- ^ McShane, Larry (November 24, 1991). "Jersey shore reunion for Southside Johnny". Hudson Valley News. Associated Press. p. A4.
- ^ Marsh, Bruce Springsteen On Tour, pp. 45–46, 178.
- ^ a b c d e McShane, Larry (March 1, 1988). "Strange twists appearing in Springsteen's tour". Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Associated Press. p. D8.
- ^ Marsh, Dave (September 30, 2002). "To Case the Promised land". CounterPunch. Retrieved November 5, 2007.
- ^ a b c Adair, Don (May 6, 1988). "Springsteen in Tacoma: It's a ride in the 'Tunnel of Love'". Spokane Chronicle. p. 5.
- ^ a b Wiersema, Walk Like a Man, p. 87.
- ^ a b c d e Hilburn, Robert (May 10, 1988). "Springsteen opening new door with tour" (Los Angeles Times). The Eugene Register-Guard. p. 6A.
- ^ a b c d e Guterman, Runaway American Dream, p. 174
- ^ a b c d e f g h Marsh, Bruce Springsteen On Tour, p. 178.
- ^ a b c d e Ford, Tom (March 20, 1988). "Bruce, Bruce, Bruce". The Blade. Toledo. p. E1.
- ^ a b c Marsh, Bruce Springsteen On Tour, p. 182.
- ^ a b c Marsh, Bruce Springsteen On Tour, pp. 179–180.
- ^ Cavicchi, Tramps Like Us, p. 86.
- ^ a b c d e f g Williams, Stephen (April 1, 1988). "Springsteen a Steamy Hit in Detroit". Newsday.
- ^ a b Hinckley, David (August 22, 1998). "How the Boss Lost His Halo". Us. p. 16.
- ^ a b c Holden, Stephen (May 17, 1998). "Springsteen at the Garden". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c d e f Guterman, Runaway American Dream, p. 175
- ^ a b Masur, Runaway Dream, pp. 160–161.
- ^ a b Marsh, Bruce Springsteen On Tour, p. 183.
- ^ a b Pareles, Jon (February 27, 1988). "Springsteen Starts First Tour in 2 Years". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c d "Boss fans' patience rewarded". The Bulletin. Bend, Oregon. United Press International. February 7, 1988. p. E10.
- ^ "Names in the News". The Durant Daily Democrat. Associated Press. July 13, 1988. p. 2.
- ^ a b c d e f g Connolly, Kate (July 5, 2013). "The night Bruce Springsteen played East Berlin – and the wall cracked". The Guardian. London.
- ^ a b c d "More than 100,000 East German fans see Springsteen". The Lewiston Journal. Associated Press. July 21, 1988. p. 8D.
- ^ a b c d e Alterman, It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive, pp. 247-248.
- ^ a b c Derkins, Bruce Springsteen, p. 74.
- ^ a b c Ayed, Nahlah (November 6, 2014). "How a Bruce Springsteen concert helped bring down the Berlin Wall". CBC News.
- ^ A fan present is said to have written: "19th of July 1988: Bruce played over 4.5 hours in East Berlin, we're there to celebrate him, I paid lousy 19.95 east marks for my ticket but what I really bought and got was a glimpse to freedom. I smelled the American spirit that night and I'll never forget it!"
- ^ a b c d e Hilburn, Robert (June 19, 1988). "Does album really reflect if marriage is going down?". Asbury Park Press (Los Angeles Times)
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- ^ a b c d Gundersen, Edna (June 23, 1988). "Fans: Affair only proves he's human". USA Today. p. 1D.
- ^ a b c d e f Trebbe, Ann (June 20, 1988). "It's official: Bruce, wife no longer a duet". USA Today. p. 1D.
- ^ "Patti pounds it out on tour with Bruce". USA Today. April 19, 1988. p. 2D.
- ^ a b Infusino, Divina (November 18, 1988). "Springsteen Latest To Face Media Backlash". Copley News Service. p. 21.
- ^ a b c d e Marsh, Bruce Springsteen On Tour, p. 187.
- ^ Wiersema, Walk Like a Man, p. 92.
- ^ a b "Are Bruce and Julianne splitting?". Toronto Star. May 29, 1988. p. D2.
- ^ Takiff, Jonathan (June 23, 1988). "The honeymoon is over ... Marriage no longer music to Springsteens' ears". Boca Raton News. Knight-Ridder Newspapers. p. 1W.
- ^ a b c d Van Buskirk, Leslie (August 22, 1998). "Starting Over". Us. pp. 12–16.
- ^ a b c d Gundersen, Edna (June 28, 1988). "Finally, Bruce's official word on the breakup". USA Today. p. 1D.
- ^ "Was Bruce really born to run?". USA Today (photographs)
|url=(help). June 23, 1988. p. 1D.
- ^ a b Willman, Chris (July 11, 1993). "Speaking Up in Her Own Voice". Los Angeles Times. p. 4.
- ^ "Boss' New Beat". New York Daily News (photograph)
|url=(help). June 22, 1998. p. 19.
- ^ a b c d Byron, Ellen (August 1989). "The Boss and his midlife crisis". Woman's World. pp. 32–33. Date is approximate.
- ^ a b Goldfarb, Michael (June 27, 1988). "Bruce and Patti? It's hard to tell". USA Today. p. 2D.
- ^ a b c d e Graff, Gary (July 3, 1988). "Springsteen marriage woes have some distraught, others ambivalent". The Vindicator. Youngstown, Ohio. Knight-Ridder Newspapers. p. D18.
- ^ Dawidoff, Nicholas (January 26, 1997). "The Pop Populist". The New York Times Magazine.
- ^ Cavicchi, Tramps Like Us, p. 32.
- ^ Guterman, Runaway American Dream, p. 176.
- ^ a b c d Moyers, Cope (April 3, 1988). "Hey, What's $100?' Supply meets demand at Springsteen concerts". Newsday. p. 3.
- ^ a b "Springsteen fans pack Coliseum". The Bryan Times. Associated Press. March 16, 1988. p. 1.
- ^ a b "Concert is 2-hour sell out". The Modesto Bee. February 15, 1988. p. A2.
- ^ a b Moyers, Cope (March 4, 1988). "No Tickets, but Sales Are Hot". Newsday. p. 7.
- ^ "Boss fanatics mount write-in". Rome News-Tribune. Associated Press. March 4, 1988. p. 10A.
- ^ Gundersen, Edna (March 14, 1988). "Bruce adds 6 new stops". USA Today. p. 1D.
- ^ "Just a Tiny Detail". Newsday. May 18, 1988. p. 6.
- ^ Belcher, David (June 23, 1988). "Villa Park, Birmingham: Bruce Springsteen". The Glasgow Herald. p. 4.
- ^ Peterson, Jens (July 3, 1988). "unknown". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Stockholm. For a later use of this review, see Steen, Håkan (June 23, 1999). "Alla svenska gig". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Stockholm.
- ^ Springsteen, Born to Run, p. 351.
- ^ Masur, Runaway Dream, p. 160.
- ^ "Rock News & Notes". Daily News of Los Angeles. April 29, 1988.
- ^ a b c Jensen, Elizabeth (July 1, 1988). "Boss says thanks in big way". New York Daily News. p. 98.
- ^ Marsh, Bruce Springsteen On Tour, p. 188.
- ^ "Los Angeles Sports Arena Los Angeles, CA". Brucespringsteen.net. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-26. Retrieved 2013-12-14.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Brucebase - home". brucebase.wikispaces.com. Retrieved 19 April 2018.


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With the world's latest royal nuptials still buzzing around the world, we look at how normal folk can get a little regal in New Zealand. While Prince Harry was a popular and much photographed royal visitor to New Zealand in 2015, it's a much lesser known fact that Meghan Markle holds a special flame for New Zealand. She wrote a "love letter to New Zealand" on her (now-defunct) The Tig blog in 2014. British royals have a long history of visiting New Zealand. To celebrate Harry & Meghan's official visit to New Zealand as part of their first royal tour that will fall on the occasion of Invictus Games Sydney 2018, we have compiled a list of stunning spots where "commoners" like us can enjoy a New Zealand Royal Experience!
New Zealand Royal Experience – Where To Stay
1. Wharekauhau Lodge
Bounded by hills and sea and overlooking the magnificent Palliser Bay, Wharekauhau Lodge hosted the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (aka Wills and Kate) and Prince George when they graced New Zealand's shores in 2014. Since then, the lodge's executive chef Marc Soper snagged the New Zealand Chef of the Year title, and general manager Richard Rooney was named one of the world's top luxury resort managers. With rooms starting from $655 a night (off-peak), it's good to know the help is top-notch.
2. Huka Lodge
Huka Lodge is as quintessentially Kiwi as the All Blacks and the silver fern. Claiming pride of place on the banks of the Waikato River near Taupo, the lodge has hosted both the late Queen Mother and the Queen, along with a long list of other European royals. Renowned for its excellent trout fishing (the Queen is rumoured to have cast a line or two on her visit), Huka Lodge is a much-lauded luxury escape.
3. Art Deco Masonic Hotel
When the Queen and Prince Philip visited New Zealand for her Coronation Tour in the summer of 1953-54 (the country's first visit by a reigning monarch), they spent their time in Napier at the Art Deco Masonic Hotel – then just the Masonic Hotel. The hotel is still operational, and features some deeply impressive art deco architecture and interiors: in fact, the whole town of Napier is something of an art deco wonderland.
4. Matakauri Lodge
Matakauri – on the shores of Lake Wakatipu just outside of Queenstown – also hosted Wills and Kate on their 2014 tour, sans Prince George, who reportedly stayed with his nanny back in Wellington. With unparalleled views of The Remarkables and Cecil and Walter peaks, the lodge features clean architectural lines, oodles of glass and wood, and complete privacy.
5. Stewart Island Lodge
Man-of-the-moment Prince Harry stayed at Stewart Island Lodge in Oban when he briefly visited New Zealand's southernmost island in 2015. The small but upmarket lodge has views of Halfmoon Bay; each room has an ensuite and a shared balcony that allows visitors to soak up the magnificent views.
New Zealand Royal Experience – Partake In Royal Activities
1. Wine tasting at Whither Hills
On their 2014 tour, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took time out to taste the Marlborough region's famed Sauvignon Blancs at Whither Hills winery. The estate is also renowned for its food, which the royal couple undoubtedly enjoyed during their private lunch.
2. Ride the rapids
No trip to Queenstown would be complete without a jet boat ride. Clearly, Wills and Kate felt the same, as they spent their first day in New Zealand's adventure capital with an exhilarating ride on the iconic Shotover Jet.
3. Horse racing at Ellerslie
Queen Elizabeth II has always loved the gee-gees; not surprising, then, that she spent Boxing Day 1953 listening to the thunder of hooves at the race meet at New Zealand's premier racecourse, Ellerslie in Auckland.
4. Underground excitement
The dramatic and spectacular subterranean caverns at Waitomo are also likely to have delighted the young queen when she visited in 1953. Glow worms, stalagmites and stalactites (plus a local hotel that's rumoured to be haunted) make Waitomo Caves a must-visit.
4. River-run
One of the highlights of Prince Harry's trip in 2015 was paddling a Māori waka (canoe) down the Whanganui River on the North Island. After the 40-minute experience, the royal admitted he was "knackered". Whanganui experiences for mere mortals include jet-skiing, fishing, white-water rafting and kayaking.
New Zealand Royal Experience – New Zealand's helpful i-SITES
When Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex, visited New Zealand in 2014 she was full of praise for the network of i-SITES which help tourists and locals with visitor information. The Duchess of Sussex was so impressed she wrote about them on her old blog The Tig saying, "All over NZ are i-SITE Visitor Information Centres where you get all sorts of information. You pop in and they'll tell you the best nearby campsite, local intel, park info, etc. Many people don't book accommodation in advance—you can book places to stay through i-SITES, and the people who work there are super friendly and helpful."
New Zealand Royal Experience – Interesting Fast Facts
- Huka Lodge has 20 private dining spots, both indoors and out.
- The Māori name for Stewart Island, home to the Stewart Island Lodge, is Rakiura, which means "land of the glowing skies".
- Matakauri Lodge is named after the Māori warrior chief who killed the giant Matau by fire so that he would never threaten his wife or tribe again.
- The first Masonic Hotel in Napier was destroyed by a fire in 1896. In 1931, the rebuilt hotel was ravaged by fire again, this time after the massive Hawkes Bay earthquake. It was rebuilt in 1932.
- Wharekauhau Lodge is part of Wharekauhau Country Estate, a 1200ha working farm home to Angus cattle and 2500 Romney sheep.
- Huka Lodge executive chef Paul Froggatt, a Brit, has worked at four Michelin star restaurants, including the three-starred Le Relais Bernard Loiseau in France.
- Renowned New Zealand interior designer Virginia Fisher is behind the crisp clean style of Matakauri Lodge.
- Stewart Island is NZ's third largest island, but it only makes up 0.6 per cent of the country's total land area.
- Huka Lodge's guest list is remarkable, and includes such luminaries as Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Diana Ross, The Spice Girls, John Cleese, Muiccia Prada, Billy Crystal, Tilda Swinton and Sir Edmund Hillary.
- At Matakauri, cocktail hour is held every evening in the Picasso Bar, where three unglazed white ceramic plates by Picasso adorn the walls.
- The Queen wasn't the only famous guest at the Art Deco Masonic Hotel: both Mark Twain and Anna Pavlova stayed at the Napier landmark, and have suites named in their honour.
- Spring water from Wharekauhau is used to make the acclaimed Lighthouse Gin.
- Stewart Island is featured in the book Top 100 Birding Sites of the World, and has New Zealand's largest accessible population of native birds.
- The coffee table in the Upper Lounge at Matakauri is made from timber washed up on the north-west coast of NZ after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
- Wharekauhau is home to an almost 60-year-old Meyer lemon tree, which is used to create the house lemonade.
- American novelist James A. Michener wrote part of his novel Return to Paradise while staying at Huka Lodge.
We hope we have got you excited to embark on a royal trip to New Zealand for your well deserved year-end holiday!


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The New Frontier: A Case Study in Applying Instructional Design for Distance Teacher Education
Joy Egbert; Michael Thomas
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 3 (2001) pp. 391–405
Like a scene from a Wild West land grab, would-be pioneers in the wilderness of online learning are surging forward with thoughts awash with optimism, trepidation, and a profound sense of staking a claim in this new educational environment. Even for ...
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Three Community Building Strategies and Their Impacts in an On-Line Course
Joy Egbert; Chin-Chi Chao; Karen Ngeow
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While resume writing is a tricky task for most, it is a necessary step in securing a job. James Modlin, an instructor in the Stillman School of Business' management department, calls resume writing an art and asks that his students work on their resumes during the first few classes.
When writing a resume, Modlin said, it is best to stick to one or two pages, depending on the extent of the applicant's experience. He said one should think of that one-page resume as the front page of a newspaper and prioritize their experience.
"Think about, 'Where is the headline for that edition?' It's at the top of the page, where people's eyes automatically go to," Modlin said. "Take your resume, fold it in half, look at the top half and then look at the bottom half. Make sure the top half is really catching their attention. That's where you want to have the big stuff."
Modlin said the purpose of a resume is not necessarily to get hired, but to get an interview.
Once an interview is secured, it is important to prove yourself to the hiring manager.
As a former hiring manager, Modlin said first impressions are one of the most crucial moments of an interview.
"First impressions are key. Generally, within less than the first minute that I have spoken with a person, I sort of have an idea if we're going to go any further," he said.
Once the interview is over, Modlin said, one should be polite, thank the interviewer for the opportunity and to come across as positive and excited without being pushy.
"If you're not excited about this job, I'm not sure if I'm going to be excited about you. So be excited. Be authentic. Reemphasize that, 'This sounds like a great opportunity. I really think I would be a good fit in this organization. I really think I'd be able to make a difference. I'm really looking forward to it,'" Modlin said.
Modlin also advises that the interviewee send a handwritten or emailed thank you note and to inquire what the next steps are.
A version of this article appeared in the Tuesday, November 22nd print edition.
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Very few complex things are created simply and quickly.
Complexity requires time and patience, thought and care, effort and struggle. No one expects a tomato plant to sprout, grow, and provide tomatoes in an hour. No one orders an intricate, custom-made piece of jewelry and expects it to be ready in thirty minutes or less.
So why do we so often expect content, the core of how we get our ideas into the world, to be created simply and quickly? Why do so many of us write a post, a book, or a manifesto (that's supposed to sum up an entire life, business, or worldview)—and then publish it immediately? Without asking anyone else to read it, without giving it space to breathe and grow, without stopping to think about how it fits into a whole, without making sure it speaks to our core?
Why are we in such a hurry?
I'll admit here that the online world is changing quickly. Making a living online (or trying to) demands a lot of time, energy, and quick decisions, and sometimes it feels like there will never, ever be enough time.
But I still think there's room to create content thoughtfully. If you give yourself enough lead time, if you're not writing a post that's due tomorrow! or a book that needs to be published and sold yesterday!, there's room for that moment in the shower (we've all had them) when everything becomes clear—that thing you were dancing around, the word you were searching for, the connective element that will pull the entire post/book/whatever together.
I rarely sit down to write and stand up having written exactly what I wanted to. Instead, I have to come back to a piece several times to make sure I've considered all angles and written thoughtfully. I've recently realized that I can consciously harness this power by intentionally writing a layer at a time, trusting the process and knowing the piece will unfold over time. I'm comfortable knowing that I can publish when the piece is ready and the idea is fully formed.
Of course, I have to always be working on several posts (or chapters or newsletters or segments of a report) so that I have enough time to complete each, and I have to work several weeks ahead so there's always something ready to go when the time comes, but I find it's worth it.
How to Write in Layers
I've written these tips specifically about blog posts and newsletters, but they can apply to many kinds of writing. I suggest giving it a try behind the scenes on something that isn't due yet or whose due date you control; putting undue pressure on yourself won't help you make this practice a regular habit—it will just make you stressed.
1. Brainstorm and be open.
What are some topics you've been wanting to discuss? Keep your mind open and write down every idea you have; not all will be published, but you won't know which are the right ones until you get a bit further along in the process.
2. Organize your ideas.
Put all of your ideas in one place—a document, a folder full of documents for each idea, or whatever makes you feel organized and inspired. As you give each idea its own space, connect the ones that go together (often, when I capture an idea, I find later that it ties in with several others I've already written down). You may even find that you've outlined an entire post or newsletter by accident (hate it when that happens, right? Oh, wait…).
3. Set aside some time.
In the beginning, you'll probably have to remind yourself to work on these ideas, and that's totally ok. I'm sure you've seen as much advice as I have about how to start a new habit, so you know it can be tough! Put a reminder on your phone, block it out on your calendar for a couple of weeks, or whatever works for you. But don't be hard on yourself if you miss a few times. Just keep going; there's no deadline and no right or wrong way to get into the groove.
4. Write about what speaks to you.
When you sit down to write, review all your ideas. Which one is calling your name? Which one inspires you in the moment? Sometimes, for me, it's an idea that's I've spent a lot of time on—I want to see if it's ready to present to the world. And sometimes it's one that I haven't worked on at all, a blank slate. When you're writing without a firm schedule, it doesn't matter; when one idea feels finished, you can schedule it and keep going with the others!
5. Be relaxed.
When you've chosen an idea, relax for a moment before you dive in. Maybe even close your eyes and think about the topic for a few minutes. Don't pressure yourself to start writing immediately—unless, of course, you already know what you want to say. And remember that you only need to add a little each time, so don't stress about quantity or even quality. You're like a painter; at first, you'll fill in broad strokes, but as you revisit your canvas, you'll begin thoughtfully adding details, shadows, and light, enhancing your masterpiece with each dab of the brush.
6. Be ready to capture more ideas.
I find that as I give my ideas space to breathe, even more ideas come to me. I become more aware and more open. Write your ideas on a sticky note, in your phone, or in a special document you've created just for that purpose, and then regularly add them into your writing rotation.
7. Remember to publish!
Don't use this practice as an excuse to sit on what you're writing forever. You'll know when it's ready. Be aware of any resistance you may feel; for example, you may find that you're afraid of publishing something you've worked so hard on because it feels much more personal and meaningful than something you just dash off in a half an hour. Work through that fear in whatever way works for you, and remember that your goal is to help someone else, not publish something that's perfect.
8. Celebrate!
When you publish something, take a minute to celebrate. You worked hard, and while it'll feel great if your ideas resonate with others, you still accomplished something pretty awesome just by getting them out there.
If you follow these steps (and are open to adding your own), I think you might find that what you write has more weight and meaning, even if it's a lighthearted piece, and that you struggle much less to get your ideas out to the world clearly. But, of course, I know that writing in layers may not work for everyone, so I'd love to hear if you already write in a different way that works for you. You can leave a comment below or send me an email!


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This is what Goddess of Mercy said about the Final Catastrophe;
Oh! Oh! What a great catastrophe. The pain inflicted causes wails and moans. Great floods burst, and the world becomes submerged. Great fire spread, and men and women are charred to ashes. Great killer wind descends, and even ghosts and deities wail.
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Archive: January 2017
Branch Out: Create an Alphabet Tree
Early literacy skills are probably the most important development for your preschooler,Read more
Water Pollution: Can You See It?
Celebrate Earth Day, or bring green to any day, by encouraging your kids to explore the effects of water pollution on the environment.Read more
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Michael Portillo's "Great Railway Journeys" television series has rekindled our romance with railways. Our adventure includes scenery in areas of Scotland that are dramatic in different ways, creating many memorable experiences on these breathtakingly beautiful journeys
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Milpa (a Nahuatl* word meaning 'to the field') is an agroecosystem of growing crops throughout Mesoamerica based on the ancient Mayan agricultural system where several complementary crops are planted together in a cleared area of forest, and cultivated for two years, then leaving the land fallow for eight years (allowing for natural regeneration of vegetation & a habitat for birds & mammals). But the milpa system isn't just about growing a lot in a tight space, it's a sacred act that brings together families & communities, the core of Mesoamerican society. It's also a system that is self-sustaining, doesn't require pesticides or fertilisers, and the planting of a wide variety of crops sustains their genetic diversity. A milpa will usually have multiple varieties of sweetcorn, beans, squashes & chiles (many will have other crops too, such as amaranth, avocado, jicama, sweet potato & tomatoes).
The Native American 3 Sisters method of companion planting (growing squash, sweetcorn & climbing beans in the same place, where the sweetcorn supports the beans, the beans fix nitrogen in the soil, and the dense groundcover of the squash suppresses weed growth) is a well known example of a milpa system. Pretty cool, huh?
So if you're growing your own veg, a milpa system is well worth a try. I plant squashes & pumpkins at the base of my sweetcorn, tomatoes & beans, where they keep the roots cool & moist, and block out light & suppress weeds. It's also a good way of getting a few more crops out of a small space. Say, if you only have room for a wigwam of runner beans, why not plant a pumpkin or squash at the base, and encourage it to grow around the base of your wigwam. Small climbing squash like acorn can happily work their way up the lower parts of bean frames without affecting your lovely legumes.
So all this is a pretty long winded way of explaining why this recipe I came up with the other day is called 'Milpa Chile', using a few veg from my own little milpa (and it's another courgette recipe)
Milpa Chile
2 Ancho chiles (dried)
2 courgettes
250g sweetcorn
100g green beans (or runner beans), sliced
1 onion, sliced
2-3 cloves garlic
1 tsp epazote (or coriander leaf)
50-100ml vegetable stock
salt & pepper
Remove seeds from the ancho chiles & soak in boiling water until soft (this will take 5-10 minutes). Put ancho & garlic in a blender or food processor (have a taste of the soaking water. Sometimes the chile gods frown upon us, and the soaking water tastes bitter & unpleasant. When the chile gods favour us, the soaking water is spiky, spicy and yum. If it isn't bitter, add it to the blender. If the spicy ones frown upon you, add a little water instead. And make appropriate offerings of chocolate hobnobs, and unlikely promises). Wizz away, adding water until you have a smooth puree. Set to one side (incidentally, this puree is lovely with sweet potato wedges. Just toss them in the puree, add a squeeze of orange juice & bake in the oven - yum!). Fry the onion & courgette in a pan until browned. Add the sweetcorn& beans & give it a quick stir & add the ancho puree & stir. Add your vegetable stock (this is a personal judgement thing here, add stock until the sauce is a thickness you like. If you like your chile quite dry & intense, don't add any at all, if you like it quite wet, so the juices soak into the rice, add more). Simmer for 5-10 minutes (5 if you like your beans with a bit of bite, 10 if not. Add water or stock if it's looking a little too dry). Season with salt & pepper, and the epazote/coriander. Serve with rice (I went for arroz amarillo - it's yellow!) & a wedge of lime. Avocado is good too.
Om nom nom!
*A group of languages & dialects around central Mexico & Mesoamerica (the chunk of South America that stretches from Mexico to Honduras & Nicaragua. Nahuatl words that have been adopted & adapted into English include 'Chocolate', 'chile', 'coyote' & 'tomato. The word 'Nahuatl' means 'a good, clear sound'.
Saturday, 14 August 2010
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Jim Carrey Ain't Got Nothing on Hyman
In his most recent "Point," Mark Hyman claims to have collected "some of the dumbest statements made so far" in 2006.
You'll be shocked to learn that he picks quotations exclusively from those left of center.
He takes to task Ted Kennedy for saying "streetwalking" when he apparently meant "jay walking." (I just thank God that we have a president for whom the English language is sacrosanct and who would never make such an embarrassing faux pas himself.)
He also goes after California Assemblyman Mark Leno for criticizing an evangelical Christian group holding a rally in San Francisco by saying "They're loud, they're obnoxious, they're disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco." Hyman says this shows Leno's intolerance.
But Leno didn't ask for the group to be prevented from holding their demonstration; he simply stated his opinion of them. True, Leno's words are awfully harsh, but what Hyman doesn't tell you is that the group Leno is speaking about is an organization called "Teen Mania" and/or "Battle Cry Ministries," headed up by a guy named Ron Luce. The organization's rhetoric is filled with militaristic metaphors (Luce openly talks about a "culture war" and talks about getting young people geared up for "battle") and their demonstrations include the display of red flags (a not-so-subtle echo of fascistic iconography).
And what particularly set Leno off was the fact that Luce held a rally of his group on the steps of the San Francisco courthouse, and in announcing this event, made overt connections to the fact that this was to be a response to the awfulness of the same-sex marriages that had been held on those same steps. My guess is that if Hyman, or anyone else, had a group of flag-waving, rock-playing teens congregating at the place where he celebrated his nuptials, and did so with the specific purpose of mocking his marriage and those of people like him, he'd have a few choice words for them, too.
And Hyman also attacks (surprise, surprise) John Kerry. Kerry's "dumb" statement was a remark that nothing in the Bible suggests that it would be a virtue to cut Medicaid to children.
Hyman makes a point of misreading Kerry's attack on hypocrites who spout platitudes about their "personal relationship with Christ" and the importance of their faith, yet fail to actually put the most basic and obvious values of Christianity into practice when they make policy. Hyman's inane response to Kerry? "Kerry is correct. You will not find a single mention of Medicaid in the Bible."
No, but you will find something about bearing false witness, Mark. Look it up.
The funny thing is that Hyman didn't need to go anywhere to find truly dumb statements. He could have just combed his own archives. Below is a mere sampling of the dumb, false, and simply ugly things Hyman has said in only the first few months of the year.
Hyman said that Senators Kerry and Kennedy put a secret hold on intelligence legislation, when in fact it was a Republican senator who did so.
He claimed the ACLU was anti-Christian, but the ACLU has defended the religious rights of Christians in dozens of cases.
He suggested undocumented immigrants were shiftless drains on America, apparently unaware that one of the first soldiers to die in the invasion of Iraq came to the U.S. illegally.
He claimed MoveOn.org hadn't won any political battles, despite the fact that the group has chalked up a long laundry list of victories across the country.
He blamed Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco for the disastrous aftermath of Katrina, but the same week he made these statements, video showing President Bush being briefed in advance about levee breaches surfaced (proving, among other things, that Bush lied several times in the weeks following about how "no one" could have anticipated the breaches).
He disgustingly suggested that women's sexual freedom and their right to privacy (specifically not being named if they are the victims of rape) are mutually exclusive.
He mocked the plight of those who fled Katrina by saying that New Orleans residents were on "public assistance" instead of rebuilding the city.
He characterized statements made by ACLU president Nadine Strossen in a way that was often 180 degrees at odds with what she actually said and meant.
He approvingly cited a viewer letter that advocated the killing of a judge.
He made disingenuous attacks on the founder of the ACLU and whitewashed over the fascistic leanings held by the leader of the American Legion in the 1920s.
He spent three days championing the altruism of Scott Stapp, who within a few weeks, had married the sister of a "Point" staffer and gotten himself arrested for public intoxication on his way to his honeymoon.
He claimed Maryland legislation concerning Wal-Mart was "anti-worker," despite the fact that the legislation was championed by Wal-Mart employees. He also failed to disclose his own personal connection with Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich, who opposed the legislation.
He claimed a fine concerning a fundraising donation to Hillary Clinton was not covered in the media, despite the fact that nearly every major newspaper in the nation ran a story about it.
He spent an entire "Point" doing an on-air commercial for a book by Jack Cashill, a man who believes Ron Brown's death in a plane crash was an assassination, that the crash of TWA 800 in 1996 was a Clintonian conspiracy, that an admitted killer of an abortion-providing doctor didn't do it, that terrorist bomber Eric Rudolph was unfairly targeted by the FBI because of his fundamentalist politics, and that the theory of evolution is a fraud.
He approvingly cited a study that showed concern about dying motivated people to vote for Bush in 2004, ignoring the study's central point, which is that the Bush campaign used demagoguery and fear mongering in the campaign.
He attacked deceased journalist Jack Anderson for his supposed gilding of facts in his stories, ignoring the obvious hypocrisy of anyone from Sinclair pontificating journalistic ethics, given the company's cozy relationship with disgraced columnist Armstrong Williams, the company's use of pre-fabricated video PR pieces as "news," and the entire "Stolen Honor" fiasco.
Feel free to add your own nominees of Hyman's greatest misses in 2006, or any other of your favorite neo-con falsehoods!
And that's The Counterpoint.
Hyman Index: 2.94


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When it comes to losing weight, a little competition goes a long way. According to a recent study published in the journal OBESITY, social influence of group-based weight loss challenges can help you lose up to 20 percent more weight than you would if you did it alone. Don't be ashamed of trying. Every journey has to start somewhere.
Are you ready to commit?
Sign up in person at Fleet Feet Sports Murfreesboro or sign up through signmeup.com. Mark your calendars for Sunday, January 4th. Stop by the store for your first official weigh in starting Sunday or throughout the week, whenever you choose. (Relax.... all weigh-ins will be done privately in one of our dressing rooms.... and your actual weight will never be revealed to others.) The first week of weigh-ins is January 4th 2014-January 10th. You will receive 12 weigh-ins, limited to one time per week. We recommend consistent days and times, but it's up to you!
I'm self-conscious about my body and weight- do I really have to be weighed in public?
"The scale we use is for Ultimate Discretion"
Our weigh-ins will take place in one of our two private dressing rooms with a staff member. The scale we will utilize is a Tanita BC1000plus Radio Wireless Body Composition Monitor, therefore there is no visible display and the readings are automatically transmitted to remote displays on a laptop.
How many times can I weigh in each week?
One time each week. No exceptions, no taking the lowest weight. Remember, there is a competitive component, but it's really about your health and long term benefits.
For more details, e-mail Marina @ firstname.lastname@example.com or call 615-494-3141.