Check out how this page has evolved in the past. The singer-songwriter and the frontman of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes is known for influencing what critics call the "New Jersey sound," but if you ask him about it as I did, he would tell you that this sound does not exist. Information: (714) 496-8930. From Brucebase: Bruce (and several E-Streeters) with Southside Johnny in the early hours of August 31 (1978) following their gig at the Richfield Coliseum. Does it bother you that you are forever being compared with Bruce Springsteen? Another thing that is interesting about you is that you didn't plan your career or your life, which you mentioned in one of your interviews. Pal to Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt, longtime veteran of late-night jams at such legendary Joizy clubs as the Upstage and the Stone Pony, possessor of a classic R&B; growl, Lyon even named his band the Asbury Jukes after Asbury Park, the decaying resort town and center of the states productive 70s musical scene. Born Vivienne Patricia Scialfa on July 29, 1953, Scialfa grew up in the affluent suburb of Deal, New Jersey, per the Washington Post. Maybe I'm not old enough. Even then, he says, Springsteen stood out. Well, 20 years is a long time, and my band isn't your average-size band. If you weren't a performer and recording artist, what do you think you'd be doing now? Despite a myriad of style changes and passing trends in pop music since the band's early 70's inception, Southside Johnny has remained true to its rhythm-and-blues roots. I really am not good at lip-syncing. The newly-formed 1982 lineup of The Asbury Jukes (with former E Street Band member Ernest "Boom" Carter on drums) provided the musical entertainment at the reception, along with "special guest" Bruce Springsteen. New Jersey music icon Southside Johnny Lyon is doing "fine" during the coronavirus outbreak and he has plenty of toilet paper, too. Johnny of Southside Johnny and the Jukes, https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/27/nyregion/new-jersey-q-a-johnny-lyon-johnny-of-southside-johnny-and-the-jukes.html. B. And Lyon found himself wondering whether he ever would be able to develop a musical direction beyond the horn-driven, roots-conscious R&B; that was the Jukes specialty. Is Virginia ready for mandated electric vehicles? Click here to edit contents of this page. Why did you decide to move to Nashville at one point in your life? He was very patient, very willing to teach. Most E Street Band and Asbury Jukes members (past and present) were in attendance. Keep it Clean. I felt I was in a rut, and I had a big crisis, Lyon said over the phone last week from his home in Montclair, N.J., taking time out from making pumpkin pies that he and his wife, Jill, would serve for Thanksgiving dinner the next day at a soup kitchen in Newark. We swapped musical educations. There was a place called Piners Lounge and Steven and I would go there and Bruce would come and wed watch Garry play. It was so great. There's not just one thing, and I think that's reflected in all of our music. All A. A pair of movies put Southside Johnny back in the public eye in 1990 -- his version of "Please Come Home for Christmas" appeared in the hit Home Alone, and he recorded a pair of tunes for Captain America, "Memories of You" and "Written in the Wind." 96, but slipped the following week to No. The first Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes compilation to be released in America since Super Hits, this 2013 collection casts a wider net than that 2001 set, incorporating a couple of cuts from Southside Johnny 's albums for Universal. Detour Ahead: The Music of Billie Holiday, Michael Chiklis On His Lifelong Passion For Music and His Debut Album, 'Influence'. People can hear it. Johnny Lyon, is telling me over the phone from somewhere on the New Jersey Shore. . One of my sax players went with David Bowie. Their next concert will be tomorrow at the Bottom Line in New York City. While a video of the title tune earned some scattered MTV airplay, the album wasn't a hit, and they returned to something closer to their signature sound on 1984's In the Heat. The move came at a lull in Lyons musical career, and life in San Clemente (which he shares with his wife, Jill, and their two canaries) has been mostly quiet: walks in nearby Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park, drinks on the pier at sunset, movie outings. By 1971, Lyon had formed a group called the Sundance Blues Band, which featured Lyon on lead vocals and harp, as well his high school friend Garry Tallent and other future stars such as Steven Van Zandt, Vini Lopez, David Sancious, and a promising guitarist named Bruce Springsteen. View wiki source for this page without editing. The group's most recent concert in New Jersey was on New Year's Eve at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank. Toronto Star articles, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com, Conversations are opinions of our readers and are subject to the, 211 Pritchard Road, Unit 4, Hamilton ON L8J 0G5. "Bruce does these charity shows around Christmas and he always calls and it's fun to do, and we play a lot of Chuck Berry, and he drinks tequila and I drink whisky and a good time is had by all.". Songs | Lyrics A powerful vocalist whose style is steeped in vintage blues, R&B, and soul, Johnny was the leader and frontman for the group the Asbury Jukes, whose tough bar band sound married the impact of hard rock with the swing and horn-fueled punch of blues and deep soul. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, But I got used to it a long time ago. Structural Info Facts Filmography Known for movies Home Alone (1990) as Soundtrack Adventures in Babysitting (1987) as Band Leader at Frat Party The Karate Kid Part II (1986) as Soundtrack The Mighty Ducks (1992) as Soundtrack Source IMDB Wikipedia SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I think it's a great time to be a musician because you don't have to pay $1 million to go into a studio to record. The song, with lyrics by Lyon and music by Springsteen, was intended for Southside Johnnys 1978 album, Hearts of Stone, but hadnt surfaced until now. Notifications from this discussion will be disabled. This is the official Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Facebook Page. I agree. New Jersey music iconSouthside Johnny Lyon is doing fine during the coronavirus outbreak and he has plenty of toilet paper, too. You can link it to other sites. Bruce Springsteen was the breakout star. Q. Q. They got to play guitar and I got to sing the blues, but after a while, you realize that people were actually listening to you and that maybe you did have that talent. If she worked the day shift, I'd say, Mom, I'm going to stay home today and I'll clean the house, do the dishes, make the beds, vacuum, do all the different things, and she said, Okay, of course. You know, I hated school and I wasn't really getting a lot out of it. So it was a confluence of things. You and the Jukes haven't released a new album in more than two years. While the group's membership has gone through dozens of changes since the mid-'70s, with Southside at the vocal mike their sound has remained remarkably consistent from their '70s efforts (1976's I Don't Want to Go Home, 1978's Hearts of Stone) to their 21st century sessions (2002's Going to Jukesville, 2010's Pills and Ammo), though the group did detour into dance music on 1983's Trash It Up (produced by Nile Rodgers). SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Well, I didn't really believe in it until I had been doing it for a number of years, because most of the time back then, guys wanted to be guitar heroes and play 20-minute guitar solos, and the singer was just somebody that sang in between the guitar solos. Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes: 2005: Maxine Brown: All the Time in the World: Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band: September 2008: Tom Waits: A Whiter Shade of Pale: Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes: 2004: Procol Harum: Back in the U.S.A. Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes: 1981: Chuck Berry: Billie's Blues: Southside . It was four rolls of toilet paper, some candy bars, some toothpaste, (of which I was almost out), and a bottle of wine. It leaves you with a strong feeling of respect. 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As the Asbury Jukes were becoming one of New Jersey's most popular acts, Bruce Springsteen grew out of his local following into a respected journeyman rock & roller after he landed a deal with Columbia Records in 1973, and his third album, 1975's Born to Run, transformed him into a legitimate star, a critical favorite who finally connected with a mass audience. He's a great artist. Most of us didn't go to college for a career. 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 I had to replace the horn section when they went out with Diana Ross. Springsteen's new success persuaded record companies that New Jersey might be a hub for fresh talent, and soon Epic signed Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes to a record deal. Steve Van Zandt was the songwriter-producer and Springsteen sidekick and consigliere who would go on to The Sopranos and Underground Garage satellite radio notoriety. We werent old enough to drink, but because we knew Garry we could get in. Southside Johnny: To me, the spontaneity of making music is the beauty of it, instead of this idea that you're going to program everything and everything's going to work out right --really just let it go and see where the night takes you.. Get an email notification whenever someone contributes to the discussion. One of the reasons I got into rock-and-roll was because I wanted to avoid the tediousness of life. Q. T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner. Lyon's parents were music fans with a taste for jazz (his father played bass in a jazz combo before landing a steady job with the post office), and he grew up with the sounds of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington filling the house. Q. Meanwhile, Lyon has landed appearances on The Tonight Show and Late Night With David Letterman. And theres a video of Its Been a Long Time, the shooting of which picked up national media attention. For nearly 20 years, Johnny Lyon and his band, the Asbury Jukes, have carried on a music tradition steeped in rhythm-and-blues and blue-collar rock-and-roll that has made them one of the state's most enduring pop-music groups. But I can't imagine not being in music. In one of your interviews, you described this age as the golden age for musicians. I honestly dont try to keep up with all that (sales) stuff because it can make you completely neurotic, and Ive got lots of other things to keep me neurotic.. The Sundance Blues Band fizzled out after the closing of the Upstage Club, and by 1972 Springsteen had founded a hard rock band called Steel Mill. Besides you, there aren't any original members of the band left. Thats where I met Bruce and Steve. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes are an American musical group from the Jersey Shore led by Southside Johnny. I wasnt a big cocaine person, though. Bruce, we all thought was really going to be something, though we didnt expect him to get as huge as he got. Maybe I need to descend further into the pit of life.Profile. He also trades vocals with Lyon and Van Zandt on Its Been a Long Time, the first single from the album. Southside Johnny Lyon (John Lyon) was born on 4 December, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA, is a Soundtrack, Actor, Miscellaneous. There's a fascination with the other gender in that you just see the world differently than men do, and I'm always fascinated by that. She once again explained how she always had to balance her solo work with her duties to the E Street Band as well as to her family, noting she had just taken two days off from touring to get her son Evan ready for college. Im very happy in my life, Im very happily married, I love the band I play with, I love the material I get to play on stage. Wedding reception for Southside Johnny and his bride, Jill Glasner. More important, however, it marks a reunion with Steve Van Zandt, who produced and wrote many of the tunes for Lyons first--and best-received--three albums from the mid- to late 70s: I Dont Want to Go Home, This Time Its for Real and Hearts of Stone, the last of which made Rolling Stone magazines 1990 list of the best 100 albums of the previous 20 years. After three years, Southside was disenchanted with the Richmond rock scene, and he returned to New Jersey. It's something you just naturally do. Well, I don't know what people thought about the record one way or another. Notify administrators if there is objectionable content in this page. In speaking about the release of "21st Street Lullaby," she explained, "I don't look at it as an event. You're always with men, and we've had women in the band and all, but I just like when I'm not with the guys, I like sometimes to hear somebody else talk. The Jukes have had a number of personnel changes over the years. I suspect he was just one of the singers in the club and it wasn't a terribly important scene, but too bad for Southside! I'm proud to be compared to Bruce. I used to clean the house. Q. Do you know what I mean? We listened to it all the time, and when we started being in bands and started thinking about making records, we realized that we were very lucky, and we didn't want to give up our chance by taking some side job. Im sort of master of my destiny, more so now than ever before, and it feels good. Its a good time in my life. He wanted to thank a fan who left a care package at his doorstep. There was nothing that was attractive other than music, so that's what you did You were tenacious about following that one opportunity to do the one thing you really loved. It's just the perfect stage for us in some ways. In an interview that year with NPR's Weekend Edition, Scialfa said the idea behind the record "was to go into the complexities of a long-term relationship. 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