{"id":34745,"date":"2022-05-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=34745"},"modified":"2024-01-03T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T23:25:52","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-im-your-detail-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/roll-of-the-dice-im-your-detail-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: I’m Your Detail Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only\u00a0think<\/em> I’m cataloging every song Bruce has ever written or covered.<\/p>\n

Every once in a while I get a reminder that there are probably hundreds, maybe thousands of unknown performances that either weren’t captured on tape or are sitting in someone’s private collection.<\/p>\n

Someone like John Stamos, for instance.<\/p>\n

In the early days of the Great Pandemic, the actor posted an eyebrow-raising video to his social media accounts: a fifteen-minute excerpt from John Fogerty’s 50th birthday party at Fogerty’s house in the spring of 1995.<\/p>\n

At some point during the festivities an impromptu jam session broke out, and among the assembled musicians we can see John, his wife Julie on percussion, Stamos on drums… and one former New Jerseyan about to take a hiatus from rock and roll for a few years.<\/p>\n

By way of introduction, Stamos wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis happened 25 years ago (no Stamos, it wasn\u2019t a dream) It was John Fogerty \u2018s intimate 50th surprise birthday party. Now, I promised super cool Julie Fogerty that I would never let this private home-spun video out of my hands. (posting wasn\u2019t even close to being a thing yet) But sitting around during this time, scanning through old videos, I figured it would be extremely special for people to see these two SUPERNOVA\u2019S, two of music\u2019s biggest and most legendary ICONS sing and play together. (In John\u2019s living room, no less) So I asked Julie if it was okay to post a bit \u2026 she said, \u201cSure, and when this whole thing is over, let\u2019s have a barbecue.\u201d I f\u2019n love John & Julie Fogerty so much! Thank you for this unforgettable, once in a lifetime, unimaginable, most incredible musical moment of my life!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

We can forgive Stamos his fanboy excitement–who among us wouldn’t have that reaction playing with some of rock’s most legendary icons?<\/p>\n

The set list that night was comprised of Fogerty hits like “Born on the Bayou<\/a>” and “Proud Mary,” combined with early rock and blues classics like “In the Midnight Hour<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

But it was one song in particular that made even the most knowledgeable Springsteen scholars (and at least one obsessive blogger) snap to attention: a song no one had ever heard before, for which no one could trace the lineage, and for which no reference to its lyrics could be found anywhere on the Internet.<\/p>\n

The song is called–we\u00a0think<\/em>–“I’m Your Detail Man,” and based on the content and style, I’d lay good odds that it’s a Springsteen original.<\/p>\n