The Fan of The Boss Podcast

On this episode of my podcast, I have Rob and JB on from Springsteen Sings The Alphabet. Once I found out they were bringing back their podcast after a few years long hiatus, I thought they would be 2 great guests to have on, and after a few weeks of planning and scheduling, I was finally able to get them on.

We have a great chat about how they know each other, how their podcast began, how they were introduced to Bruce and more, along with Tracks 2 and Electric Nebraska.

I’m planning another episode with Rob and JB before Christmas, so stay tuned!

In this episode of the podcast, I recap the Power to the People Festival with my Bruce friend, Kyle C, who was in attendance at the festival with some mutual friends. I know Kyle through the Bruce Springsteen discord and I’ll attach a link to that below.

We also have a brief discussion as to how Kyle got into Bruce and and talk about the two shows we attended together on the LOHAD American tour in Belmont & Philadelphia. At the end, I ask him the questionnaire.

Discord link: https://discord.gg/QRdspbQHK

On this episode of the podcast, I’ve a good buddy of mine on, Marcos Cabanas.

We have known each other for a few years and we first met in person at Bruce’s show in Amsterdam in 2023, which we attended together, and we speak about that, how he got into Bruce (being a similar age to myself), along with the Madrid 2024 shows & The San Sebastián shows in 2025.

Marcos is a musician himself, so we discuss that, and he has actually done some work with E Street Band members, which is very cool and we talk about that.

Marcos came up with a fun idea for the podcast, which I will do with guests from now on, ask a questionnaire, similar to the Stephen Colbert Questionnaire that he used to do on his Late Show, so I ask him some fun/tough questions towards the end.

Here’s a link to Marcos’ site: https://marcoscabanas.com/

On this episode of the podcast, I’ve a friend of mine on who goes by the name of Lilbud.

How we know each other is through a Bruce Springsteen discord server. It’s essentially a chat room where you can discuss all things Bruce, no matter what age you are, and I’ll put a link to it below. It’s a great community on there!:

https://discord.gg/KsUz6vZXs

In this episode, we discuss what Lilbud has done for the Bruce community such as his bootleg archive, ‘Radio Nowhere’, his Bruce wiki site similar to BruceBase, ‘DataBruce’, and the E Street Shuffle site that he has taken over from Ken Rosen. We also discuss and geek out over what is potentially left in the vault, the archive series and bootlegs. I hope you enjoy!

Lilbid’s Site:

https://lilbud.github.io/

Radio Nowhere Archive:

https://archive.org/details/radionowhere

Databruce Setlist Database:

https://www.databruce.com/

E Street Shuffle Archive:

https://lilbud.github.io/shuffle/

In this episode, my friends Tim, Sean & I discuss The Rising and how it made Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen again. The 3 of us are in our 20’s and while 2 of us were very young when 9/11 happened & when the Rising was released, and one of us wasn’t even born, The Rising is one our favourite Springsteen albums and one of his most significant in our opinion. In this podcast, we also do a track by track review of every song on the album. I hope you enjoy it!

In this episode, I’ve a good Bruce buddy of mine on, Mark Dempsey.

I first met Mark earlier this year at the Washington DC show in company of mutual friends, and one of our very first conversations was geeking out over the Buffalo 2009 show, which was the final show of the Working on a Dream tour, which Mark was at and which we discuss in this podcast.

We also talk about The Ghost of Tom Joad, The Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour and some of Mark’s favourite shows from the 90 Bruce shows he has seen over the years.

In this short episode of the podcast, I answer some of your questions, and discuss my trip to the U.S. earlier this year to see the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour

On Episode 2, I have a great Bruce chat with a good buddy of mine, and one of Ireland’s biggest Bruce fans, Nigel Brothers.

We talk about Feile Springsteen in Rathangan this past weekend, Nigel’s first show, his favourite shows that he has attended around the world, the Nebraska period, Tracks 2 and many more!

Nigel also has his own Bruce tribute band called ‘The Human Touch’ where he is the lead singer, we talk about that also and their performance at Feile Springsteen this past weekend.

In this opening episode of ‘The Fan of the Boss Podcast’ it’s just a little introduction on myself on how I became a fan of Bruce, the origins of my fanpage, my favourite shows that I have attended and a little bit more!