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proBRUCEr

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

My name is Bruce. I've worked in music-related television since 1994, with a brief foray into music-related non-profit work.
I created, wrote, and produced the first 333 episodes of a show for Fuse called Steven's Untitled Rock Show before handing it off in October 2006 (after two full years). Now I am the channel's supervising producer for music programs, tours, and festivals.
You will never see a photo of me here because I like some modicum of anonymity. But I'd love for you to befriend my profile so I can pick your brain on occasion, as well as keep you in the loop on all things that I find rocking, through bulletin posts, blogs, and photos.
Cheers, proBRUCEr

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The Dalai Lama. What a great dude.

Music:

Bad Religion, Anti-Flag, Biffy Clyro, Jonah Matranga, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Color Fred, Circa Survive, Funeral For A Friend, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Say Anything, Rise Against, These Green Eyes, Nightmare of You, Reggie And The Full Effect, God Fires Man, Plain White T’s, Valient Thorr, Social Distortion, Five O’Clock Heroes, Paramore, MAE, The Bouncing Souls, Lou Reed, Bob Mould, Communique, Spitalfield, Jack's Mannequin, Blackpool Lights, Moneen, Death From Above 1979, Armor for Sleep, The Graduate, Lovedrug, Panic! At The Disco, Action Action, Frank Sinatra, The Explosion, Minus The Bear, Copeland, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed and Cambria, AFI, Billy Squier, Breaking Pangaea, Dance Hall Crashers, The Dandy Warhols, Iron Maiden, Jebediah, Favez, The Matches, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Nada Surf, Snow Patrol, Stiff Little Fingers, Styx, Sugarcubes, Bjork, Suicidal Tendencies, This Day And Age, Brand New, Jimmy Eat World, Over It, Against Me!, The Loved Ones, The Honorary Title, Guns N Roses, Piebald, Robbie Williams, Ted Leo, The Get Up Kids, The Academy Is..., Saves the Day, Pixies, Weezer, onelinedrawing, Motion City Soundtrack, Johnny Cash, Thursday, The Eels, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Sweet, David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Sparta, New End Original, Fall Out Boy, Magnetic Fields, Modest Mouse, The Anniversary, Billy Joel, Blur, Cartel, Cat Stevens, Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello, Gene, George Michael, Kirsty MacColl, The Kinks, Lifetime, Limbeck, Living Colour, Loretta Lynn, Mama Cass Elliot, The Mamas & The Papas, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Public Image Ltd., Pulley, Quicksand, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superchunk, Tom Petty, Tool, Traveling Wilburys, Van Halen, Velocity Girl, Yo La Tengo, The Shins, The Stills, Hey Mercedes, Sense Field, The Replacements, Shakira, The Darkness, The Stereo, Straylight Run, The Clash, Hot Hot Heat, Queen, System of A Down, Midtown, The Early November, Placebo, Faith No More, The Ramones, Errortype:11, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Alkaline Trio, Dar Williams, Queen, Far, The Beatles, Blondie, Elvis Presley, Instruction, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, For Squirrels, Frank Black, Joey Ramone, John Lennon, John Mellencamp, Melissa Etheridge, Mercury Rev, The Pretenders, The Promise Ring, Pulp, R.E.M., Rancid, Rasputina, Redd Kross, Sinead O’Connor, The Sisters of Mercy, Skunk Anansie, Sleater-Kinney, Smoking Popes, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, that dog, Willie Nelson, Warren Zevon, Guided By Voices, Ozzy Osbourne, Atom and His Package, No Use For A Name, NOFX, American Lesion, Judas Priest, Hot Hot Heat, Smashing Pumpkins, Electric Six, Elliot Smith, Face To Face, Descendents, All, Ben Folds Five, The Postal Service, The Sheila Divine, American Eyes, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, The Beautiful South, Billy Bragg, Girls Against Boys, Helmet, Henry Rollins, The Housemartins, Iggy Pop, India.Arie, Joseph Arthur, The Judybats, k.d. lang, Kenny Rogers, Mother Love Bone, Phranc, Pop Unknown, Prince, Refused, Relient K, The Rentals, Roy Orbison, XTC

Heroes:

The many amazing and talented folks I've had the good fortune of working with and/or befriending over my years in music.

My Blog

Bryan Adams is the devil

I just got a press release that the latest record from Bryan Adams (remember the 80s?) is going to be available exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores. I just threw up in my mouth a ...
Posted by proBRUCEr on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:53:00 PST

Whats mine is YURS!

We've had a lot of great happenings on the Rock Show this year! First, I came back to the show as Supervising Producer after being away from my baby for about a year. Then we decided to cha...
Posted by proBRUCEr on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:28:00 PST

Should the right to vote start at 16?

I thought this editorial from the NY Times last week was really thought-provoking. I've long said that there are 16 and 17 year-olds who I meet who are more informed and savvy than a lot of "full grow...
Posted by proBRUCEr on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:46:00 PST

Help me celebrate a different kind of birthday with a donation to The Sean McGrath Fund!

Hello, MySpacers! This is a note I sent out Monday to my entire address book. I thought I'd re-post here, in case any of you were fans of Sean's bands and might want to make a donation in his memory!...
Posted by proBRUCEr on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:52:00 PST

What if the candidates’ SPOUSES could debate?

I wanted to take a moment to pimp a friend's cool new project, since I know that a lot of you aren't just musically savvy, but also very up on your politics.   My good friend (and former Fus...
Posted by proBRUCEr on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:46:00 PST

Get funding for your charity project from Do Something & Take Action Tour!

Over the years, I've gotten a lot of messages here on MySpace asking if Fuse could get involved by sponsoring various charity events y'all put on around the country. Sadly, the cha...
Posted by proBRUCEr on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:31:00 PST

Casey Calvert TWLOHA tribute shirt fundraiser

First off, thank you all for your wonderful comments about the special episode of SURS we produced earlier this week in tribute to the life of Casey Calvert. We sleeplessly worked all day and night, t...
Posted by proBRUCEr on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:35:00 PST

Join the SURS group on last.fm!

I had a meeting recently with someone from a great British-based company called last.fm, which is a music-based social networking site...sort of an amalgam of the features on MySpace, PureVolume,...
Posted by proBRUCEr on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:38:00 PST

SURS Hawthorne Heights tribute special, 11/27 at 4:00 EST

Hey, friends. As we continue dealing with the sad news about the death of our friend Casey Calvert from Hawthorne Heights, we here at Fuse have been pulling and screening all of the band's Fuse&...
Posted by proBRUCEr on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:02:00 PST

R.I.P. Casey Calvert of Hawthorne Heights

Hey, folks. It's with a heavy heart that I pass along the sad news below from Hawthorne Heights, which they posted Saturday. Today is probably the worst day ever. Its with our deepest regre...
Posted by proBRUCEr on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:18:00 PST