Al in Strange Places

Post by **Wizzerkat** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:41 am

I decided to start a new thread although I suppose this could be merged elsewhere. In my skating fandom, we sometimes come across skating references and such in places where you would not normally expect to see them. I found a link to a Springsteen info site which talks about Belvedere Cruisin' as well as Bruce/Al intersections. There is other stuff including a couple of pics of Al looking at Springsteen related mags(one being Mad):

http://www.backstreets.com/news.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post by **TMBJon** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:28 am

Wow that was an awesome article. The writer did a pretty good job documenting the connections, though he missed Al's parody of the classic Springsteen Bottom Line poster. I love the pics. I hope some day there is a Weird Al parody of Born To Run.

minnick27 · Post by **minnick27** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:40 am

I was there when those pics were taken. The dude gave Al an awful lit of direction to take those pics

Post by **TMBJon** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:51 pm

Did the photographer provide Al with the copy of Backstreets and MAD?

minnick27 · Post by **minnick27** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:23 pm

Yeah. They did the Backstreets first, and then they said they wanted to get a few more, and asked if he could pose with the Mad the same way he posed with the other one. He gave a look towards the people in line, kind of like there were other people, but he did it and knocked it out pretty quick, but they had him for a solid 5 minutes while the rest of us waited

Post by **TMBJon** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:24 pm

Wow, that's so dumb. They could have done the photos in one minute and spent the other four minutes doing a short interview where Al comments on what he thinks of Bruce, what some of his favorite songs are, and why he hasn't done a Bruce parody yet. What a wasted opportunity.

minnick27 · Post by **minnick27** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:55 pm

No I dont think it wasnt 5 solid minutes of photos, they were talking, I dont know what about though. Apparently nothing of intrest for an article though.

Post by **Kevbo1987** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 3:43 am

TMBJon wrote:Wow, that's so dumb. They could have done the photos in one minute and spent the other four minutes doing a short interview where Al comments on what he thinks of Bruce, what some of his favorite songs are, and why he hasn't done a Bruce parody yet. What a wasted opportunity.

You're not kidding. What was the point of them taking a punch of pictures of him reading Springsteen-related magazines and writing an article with no quotes from Al? Their whole Springsteen connections angle would have been a whole lot more interesting with some actual perspective from Al.

minnick27 · Post by **minnick27** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:03 pm

And i managed to get a copy of the Glory Days performance they mentioned. I'm gonna guess that Al never parodied Bruce because he referred to him as "Weird Al" Yankovich.

Demented Dustin · Post by **Demented Dustin** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:35 am

I am not convinced this is the right place to post this (I did not see anything in the tv/media forum). Mods please move this to correct topic if needed. Not that this is really strange but Al and Suzanne were at the Breaking Dawn Premiere recently. I found these pics while searching internet today.

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/x-BcLqLa ... l+Yankovic

World of Weird Al Yankovic