Was John Cafferty Really Trying to Sound Like Springsteen?

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@robertvanpelt4039 Год назад

Being from Philly I'm well acquainted with the Jersey sound. I find both Bruce and John's music to be credible and both musically stand on their own.

@andyinoregon Год назад

You asked a great question, and John Cafferty gave you an incredible, extemporaneous doctoral thesis on rock and roll.

@davidward5225 8 месяцев назад

You can have Springsteen; I’ll take Cafferty every time.

@anakina1 Год назад

He just sounded like him naturally and was not trying to be him. Nice to see you reintroduce them to us.

@davidhodgins7122 Месяц назад

John has a great voice and some great songs like Pride and Passion, Running Through The Fire have been on my music play list for years.

@boogeen1 Год назад

I love that song with its pumping bass line and high energy and never thought it was a Springsteen rip off. It's just the sound of all their shared influences. Great interview as always.

@heavychevy4616 Год назад

i love john cafferty & the beaver brown band! ...im a fan & own most, if not all, of their complete collection of work, including the new greatest hits album i just got last week... & nothing against bruce, i mean afterall, he did have that ONE decent song... born to run... & i do like that song, enough so that its actually on my playlist... but comparing bruce to a great all american rock n roll band with SO MANY GREAT SONGS in their arsenal like john cafferty & the beaver brown band is just unfair ...cafferty for the win please sir! ...thank u gentlemen

@sandralawson4761 3 месяца назад

Im from RI. Beaver Brown was around before Springsteen was big and they didnt emulate him. Bruce was great that he supported bands he liked - respect to all

@rodger7029 Год назад

Enjoyed his music. It stands on its own

@williamlangan5902 Год назад

I always liked his song Victory Dance. They'd play it when my college won a game. And we'd go to the middle of the dance floor and dance with our pointer fingers high up in the air! One thing I liked about this interview is John Cafferty's honesty. He's very humble and unpretentious. He could've gotten annoyed or defensive when you asked him about On The Dark Side. I remember learning how to play the chords E-A-D-A-A.

@rbfcaf Год назад

Outstanding interview. Just love his music.

@99thDimension Год назад

Agreed Jersey Sound which is Springsteen gig, Southside was always my fav from Jersey.

@jtmichaelson Год назад

I remember when it was released I felt immediately that it was a bad Springsteen cover. It didn't take much more than that piano intro and then his deep Bruce aura. Sax solos, heavy piano and hard guitar chords to a driving beat making the melody hard but friendly. But then again we were being fed "Dancing In The Dark" so it was welcomed to hear Bruce in another form. "Tender Years" was nice, "C-I-T-Y" was simple, but "Dark SIde" worked for us heavy Springsteen fans out there that had had enough of "Dancing In The Dark". Not to take away from Born in the U.S.A. "Downbound Train" and "Cover Me" are highly amazing numbers, but Cafferty helped balance that sound.

@tomjewell7759 Год назад

Great take. Dark Side filled in a hole to where Bruce was but not was going.

@qthelost Год назад

I had the same reaction to that song. I was 13 and there just seemed to be something magical about that song, and, of course, it will always be connected to the movie. I had just started playing guitar, but when the song came out, I remember going to the piano and picking out that opening piano part.

@jimwalshonline9346 Год назад

Got to hang with JC in Texas back in the day. Good guy...

@stianmathisen4284 Год назад

Did Caffertys "Tender Years" influence Springsteens "The Time That Never Was" or was it the other way around?

@marcpaola1371 7 месяцев назад

I had the same thought

@rachaelgross986 Год назад

❤ your music did more than that for me!!! Love you guys so much!!! ❤️

@thesapodcast 3 месяца назад

Love The Boss and John they’re both great, it was more a case of parallel development both of them from seaside towns, playin’ shore sound, around the same time, same venues, similar influences, similar vocal range, but each a powerhouse of their own. RI represent!

@kencoakley3959 10 месяцев назад

Back when I was 14 (in 1980) Beaver Brown played at the Cape Cod Casino and were known as a Bruce Springsteen tribute band.

@neilouellette3004 Год назад

John Cafferty grew up near me and we would go see them play all the time in Rhode Island. Especially his Summertime shows along the Rhode Island Shore. They played shows everywhere in New England and never forgot their roots and fan-base. John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band put on dynamite shows. I thought they're more like early J. Geils Band than Bruce Springsteen.

@l.t.w8985 Год назад

So now I know why they came to my college at SMU Southeastern Massachusetts University in North Dartmouth or South Dartmouth. It's been many years since I graduated as I'm dating myself. But I remember them when they just were starting out and had a hit song

@robertalmeida3180 Год назад

@@l.t.w8985 I was at that show at SMU. I first saw them as an 18 year old, 1973, in Newport, RI in a bar that I can't exactly recall the name of. As JC stated, they played, we danced, the bar sold beer, ...all night. Then in a few short years people stopped dancing and it became like a small concert in a small bar. Next came venues that were larger, more far away and more difficult to get into unless you went to so many you were almost a recognized groupie outside in line and someone would let you in . They played at the RI Auditorium on North Main St in Providence and you knew then that the bar band you first started following was onto bigger and better things. The original line up was, in my opinion the best. Probably because it was the first I knew. ( no one likes change but life happens) RIP Pat Lupo and Bobby Cotoia...Kenny Joe Silva from Fox Point, Providence was a great drummer. anyway, I could go on for hours......

@l.t.w8985 Год назад

@@robertalmeida3180 sorry I didn't notice that you wrote to me. I think we had Taylor Dayne come to the College, also. She was just starting out but I could be mistaken. Very cool story

@l.t.w8985 Год назад

@@robertalmeida3180 I know this is a long shot but I was very good friends with a Ruth Almeda from the Providence area. Any relation?

@guysumpthin2974 10 месяцев назад

Springsteen was trying to copy Cafferty . Springsteen was older , but john was playing clubs as a minor in 1972 , the born to run album was the beginning of bruce getting good at copying john , and been trying for 3years

@pascale-annedesaulniers9780 Год назад

Love John Cafferty music, and also Springsteen ! It is true that when listening Eddie's stuff I though it was Springsteen. But Cafferty have his own sound.

@maryellenstankovich1511 Год назад

When you're from jersey, you have that gravely voice.

@TheEWFX29 Год назад

But he's from Rhode Island.

@ford982 Год назад

I'm from Jersey. I don't sound Gravely lol

@RG-hf4et Год назад

Well, maybe a lot do....but I don't...lolol.

@RG-hf4et Год назад

@@TheEWFX29 JC may as well have been from NJ !! 😉

@theradioramires 11 месяцев назад

@@ford982 Because you is a gay

@rickvia8435 11 месяцев назад

I saw Beaver Brown twice in the 1980's (before I saw Eddie And The Cruisers) and drank a beer with Mike Antunes and Frank Lupo after one of the shows. All I can say about the musical style is the band shared the same influences with Steve/ The Jukes and the E Streeters - Some of the best music ever made.

@pulsarlights2825 Год назад

Bruce had a few early bands, like Steel Mill, that tries to sound like hard rock. Steve Van Zandt always claimed the E Street band initially tried to sound like Van Morrison's early work, "Astral Weeks" and "Moondance"...

@jdodport Год назад

Some of the best nights of my life were spent in R.I. beach clubs drinking and dancing to Beaver Brown. Next week I can see them again, at Summerfest in Milwaukee. Sad to know that Pat and Bobby have died. But I can't wait to relive those old times and introduce that sound to my own adult children. Poor kids...gonna hear their Dad sing songs they've never heard before.

@hatchtambu Год назад

i love the cruisers 2 soundtrack, dark side is great but it doesn't move me like runnin thru the fire maryia emotional storm nyc song garden of eden and the great one called some like it hot!!!! all killer songs

@mikemelrose5718 10 месяцев назад

I always thought the dark side would've been a great springsteen song!!! I can totally see & hear bruce doing this!!!

@LuvsAutumn8467 10 месяцев назад

Such a great song. I remember seeing the movie on tv and it was good but the music was better. He must get sick of the questions about the Bruce Springsteen comparisons I imagine. I like interviews like this where you learn alot about the artist and the music.

@dougnasty99 Год назад

Not really, John Cafferty is definitely totally his own thing. I don’t understand how anyone can see it any other way. Critics don’t make music.

@painterroy 5 месяцев назад

One of the all-time best Bar bands ever.

@stevejohnson1321 Год назад

That movie was a strange set-up, as it had a lot of competition and initially lost money in the theaters. On cable it literally came alive. One roommate watched it nine times, "It's a movie about real people, just like us, working to become musicians."" That had more than a ring of truth to it. The focus wasn't on being mobbed by crowds, but on moving up in the ranks and the misfortunes that naturally happen in the business. Later I'd come upon those who would claim "I've been listening to Eddie and the Cruisers since the 1960s." That's not what happened..

@tonytoonstours Год назад

Bruce was and is a big fan of JC & the BBB. He would talk about them during his darkness tour when talking about college music

@error-ve9sg 11 месяцев назад

If it wasn’t for the movie Eddie and the Cruisers, with the character Eddie bringing Caffertys music to life…no one ever, anywhere would ever have known or cared cafferty even existed. Even now, no one knows of cafferty and his band. Everyone has heard of the character Eddie Wilson!

@elizataylor4666 2 месяца назад

Not true…

@pulsarlights2825 Год назад

"Boardwalk Angel" sounds a lot like "Jersey Girl" but Springsteen didn't write that song anyway....

@StephEWaterstram Год назад

What scene was it even in EATC? I don't remember it being in the movie. It was always on the soundtrack.

@jenniferjones9638 2 месяца назад

Love JCBBB! Americana at its BEST!

@jimiwhispers6632 Год назад

Just listen to his voice in this interview. That's John and not Bruce. Two different guys who play Rock & Roll. You can hear the dark side in his voice. Enjoy both and Rock On..

@clairedelia2647 Год назад

I always thought he really knew the woman that came out of the shadows and walked like a dream …made him feel crazy and feel so mean….

@rabbitohsrule121 Год назад

John cafferty and the Beaver brown band and Bruce Springsteen all legendary!

@laurabaker2743 3 месяца назад

Cafferty is better … love this band ❤️

@rabbitohsrule121 Год назад

But you can hear in John's voice that he is the American icon!

@reneluna73 Год назад

John Cafferties voice is way better

@delmanicke9228 7 месяцев назад

I think John has his sound his voice is incredible. Why does Springsteen name have to try shadow over John. He is an artist in his own right. I love his music I wish ans hipe there is more.

@tbone2451 Год назад

No way, the dark side is a very good song. Song by a guy with a voice.

@curtismichael4703 Год назад

I don’t know if he was trying but he does sound like Springsteen. Not a bad thing in my opinion because he wrote some great tunes. If you’re going to emulate someone it might as well be the best!

@smiley-qb3nt 4 месяца назад

Springsteen loved there band and wanted to sound like the Brown beaver band

@smiley-qb3nt 4 месяца назад

Bc Springsteen was more popular historically people will say cafferty copied Springsteen but Springsteen loved Brown beaver sound he even says it in interview Springsteen in the beginning emulated there sound a little of course it was long time ago that gets lost througg the years . But they both sounded similar regardless except John cafferty had a way better voice

@jjdvideo Год назад

Sounds like a cross between Springsteen & Elvis Presley.

@Logos8 Год назад

"On the Dark Side" is ripped from the same cloth as Springsteen's "She's the One" and "Preacher's Daughter."

@JG-pj3bg Год назад

John Cougar Mellencamp has a similar sound to Bruce Springsteen also, there are always singers that have similar voices and styles

@craigbfolksinger 10 месяцев назад

I think because they liked the same music beatles motown etc

@elizataylor4666 2 месяца назад

Living in the C I T Y !!!

@thomasdudley6514 Год назад

Yes he was a younger version

@kc0lif Год назад

very similar to east street band.

@MattSyversonthePaperbackRocker Год назад

Beaver Brown Band is too hard to say lol

@frodofraggins Год назад

Well Eddie and the Cruisers was an unofficial Springsteen biopic right? I'm going to guess that the film makers were very up front with the sound they wanted. They certainly didn't try to avoid sounding like him. Personally I don't care either way. they wrote some solid songs.

@soganoflarider Год назад

The movie was more so a Jim Morrison biopic according to the writer of the script

@cindycinn2724 Год назад

Funny I loved John Cafferty...and not Bruce Springsteen ... just realized that they do sound somewhat similar ...lots people and singers can sometimes ... there is only so many voices

@lastguyminn2324 Год назад

Yes, John Cafferty sounded like Springsteen...can you give him a bigger compliment?

@sledge7583 4 месяца назад

John over Bruce every single time, enough said. John never sold out and kept his band and life straight.

@smiley-qb3nt 4 месяца назад

Brown beaver was before Springsteen I think .

@TheFord1932 6 месяцев назад

Ahh more like springsteen is like him.😮

@connormack Год назад

Cafferty wasn't trying to sound like Springsteen. That's Bon Jovi's job!

@ford982 Год назад

Definitely wrong there lol

@robertvanpelt4039 Год назад

Your right

@thomasdudley6514 Год назад

But they all came from the garage to the bars

@davemish4163 Год назад

😂

@robertcloer7094 Месяц назад

I think Springsteen was trying to sound more like Philadelphia's Johnny's Dance Band

@kindnessfirst9670 Год назад

Springsteen tribute band- nothing wrong with that.

@alandesgrange9703 Год назад

Why would anybody purposely want to sound like Bruce Can't-singsteen?

@ricardohernandez-jq5vb Год назад

No that was only his style Jersey Way

@steveedlund3218 11 месяцев назад

Springsteen looked like a complete FOOL in that Obama interview. He let that guy take total control of him. He sat there like a ventriloquists dummy with Obama putting all those nasty words in his mouth about Clarence. Saying that Bruce only let Clarence in the band because he felt sorry for him because he was black. Clarence must be rolling over in his grave. Clarence was a great musician and person. Rest in Peace.❤

@matthewchild 9 месяцев назад

Cafferty is a much better singer than Bruce.

@belindagreene-christmas 10 месяцев назад

Why would he want to sound Springsteen? In my opinion he is so much better. Alot better sound. I have always loved listening to John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band., haver never been a fan of Springsteen.

@darylhoskins5696 10 месяцев назад

He had an much better voice than Bruce!!!!

@arcane6465 3 месяца назад

Yeah, I think John Cafferty had way more of a distinctive voice than Bruce Springsteen and they don’t sound anything alike. Nothing I like.

@fredstriker2042 Год назад

For what it's worth I've heard that Springsteen himself created that voice and actually didn't really sing that way or sound that way when he 1st started. He just made it up and now pretends to talk AND sing that way. But what do I know...

@RG-hf4et Год назад

🤣🤣🤣

@MH-zg5yw Год назад

I read that Cafferty and Springsteen were part of the same music scene in Jersey. They knew each other. So it is hard to say who copied who.

@Southernblessed. Год назад

John sounded better than Bruce.

@joekapp5471 Месяц назад

Just because the beaver band sings in the same style as Springsteen and has a baritonish lead singer, it does not mean it sounds like Springsteen! They are pretty easy to tell apart! Please stop saying that beaver brown sounds like Springsteen!!!

@PHILPOP2 Год назад

Better voice than Bruce in my opinion.

@lancelipinsky Год назад

Springsteen sucks, Cafferty is far more superior. The fact that people constantly compare...

@lynnangel39 Год назад

No he wasn't trying to sound like anyone and how dare you try to compare him or his voice to Springsteens 😒😒😒😤...your wrong man just wrong

@lynnangel39 11 месяцев назад

Nooo absolutely not 😒😒😒😒😤😤😤😠😠😠😠😑😑😑

@lynnangel39 11 месяцев назад

And let me tell you something John Cafferty would not ever try and sound like anybody else either he's not like that at all and nore would be ever be like that either 😒😒😒😤😤😤😠😠😑😑😑

@arcane6465 3 месяца назад

Nothing alike. Sorry.

@lisaayers1975 8 месяцев назад

John was way better than Bruce in my opinion. Never liked Bruce that much..John was underrated and Bruce was overrated. ❤

@aaronbrock9480 6 месяцев назад

Cafferty is a better singer than Springsteen. Bruce is great but he isn’t the best vocalist.

@Mike-hr6jz Год назад

Why would anyone want to imitate Springsteen you’ve heard one of his songs you’ve heard all of them he is a prefab Bob Dylan created by the record industry those of us who know no it’s all propaganda so why would you imitate this?