Born To Run Cover with Clarence

Rob’s Thoughts:

I wanted to say a few things about the death of Clarence Clemons. The passing of this man has had a profound effect on me and truly made me reflect about my life the past 24 hours. I believe the reason is because Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band was the first band I called “mine” as young teenager. I was turned on to them by a older college guy I worked with. At the age of 15 none of my other friends had ever heard of Springsteen and he was not popular where I grew up in rural Ohio. But I became an evangelist of his music and told everyone I knew how great it was. Over time all my buddies grew to love him.

Once I turned 16 me and my buddies would run the back roads of rural southern Ohio listening to Bruce and his songs of escape, redemption and positivity. I still remember all these times like it was yesterday and I watch the corn fields roll by as we listened Born to Run and Darkness On The Edge of Town. It truly helped shape our lives and our thoughts.

Over the past 33 years I have listened to everything Bruce has produced. I have over 500 of his songs in my iTunes library. Through all the years of growing up and all the different genres of music, I have listened Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and they have NEVER left my side.

I was lucky enough enough to see Clarence play with Bruce on several occasions. Look at this ticket I saved from July 26, 1981. It only cost $12.50 to see him play for 4 hours. The show went on past mid-night!

My Ticket From 1981

It was Clarence Clemons that Bruce always feed off of in the shows. It was their chemistry that made the E Street Band so much fun to see. They just worked off of each other and Clarence Clemons was that beacon of light that ALWAYS kept the crowd smiling.

One of my favorite shows was when I saw Bruce in 1986 with Dawn Marie in Cleveland, Oh. Cleveland was always one of the bands favorite places to play and it was an extraordinary show. Dawn Marie and I managed to get seats WAY up front and it was the closest I ever got to the stage. I believe we were in row 13.

Finally, I was lucking enough in 2009 to get Nils Lofgren tickets for show because of my buddy Jack’s ownership in Mudd Guitars. It was the last time I saw them and will be the last time ever seeing Clarence Clemons. Mudd does custom guitar work for Nils Lofgren and got the hookup in the “band seats” as well as pass into the Meet & Greet. Unfortunately everything was running behind schedule so the Meet and Greet never happened but it was still a fantastic night all in all! Here a few pictures.

2009 Ticket

Our Nils Lofgren Passes

Clarence On Stage In 2009

Mudd, Mad Jack Myself in our seats

I want to conclude by saying Rest In Peace Clarence Clemons! You along with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have impacted my life more than you know and you will be missed. Your death will be one of the markers in my life I don’t forget as it has made me realize that I am aging and how we all get older!

From Bruce himself:

It is with overwhelming sadness that we inform our friends and fans that at 7:00 tonight, Saturday, June 18, our beloved friend and bandmate, Clarence Clemons passed away. The cause was complications from his stroke of last Sunday, June 12th.

Bruce Springsteen said of Clarence: Clarence lived a wonderful life. He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything he had every night he stepped on stage. His loss is immeasurable and we are honored and thankful to have known him and had the opportunity to stand beside him for nearly forty years. He was my great friend, my partner, and with Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to tell a story far deeper than those simply contained in our music. His life, his memory, and his love will live on in that story and in our band.

From: Associated Press writer Wayne Parry in Asbury Park, N.J., contributed to this report.

NEW YORK — Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player for the E Street Band who was one of the key influences in Bruce Springsteen’s life and music through four decades, has died. He was 69.

Clemons died Saturday night after being hospitalized about a week ago following a stroke at his home in Singer Island, Fla.

Springsteen acknowledged the dire situation earlier this week, but said then he was hopeful. He called the loss “immeasurable.”

“We are honored and thankful to have known him and had the opportunity to stand beside him for nearly 40 years,” Springsteen said on his website. “He was my great friend, my partner and with Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to tell a story far deeper than those simply contained in our music. His life, his memory, and his love will live on in that story and in our band.”

Known as the Big Man for his imposing 6-foot-5-inch, 270-plus pound frame, Clemons and his ever-present saxophone spent much of his life with The Boss, and his booming saxophone solos became a signature sound for the E Street Band on many key songs, including “Jungleland,” a triumphant solo he spent 16 hours perfecting, and “Born To Run.”

In recent years, Clemons had been slowed by health woes. He endured major spinal surgery in January 2010 and, at the 2009 Super Bowl, Clemons rose from a wheelchair to perform with Springsteen after double knee replacement surgery.

But his health seemed to be improving. In May, he performed with Lady Gaga on the season finale of “American Idol,” and performed on two songs on her “Born This Way” album. Just this week, Lady Gaga’s video with Clemons, “The Edge of Glory,” debuted.

Clemons said in a 2010 interview with The Associated Press then that he was winning his battles — including severe, chronic pain and post-surgical depression. His sense of humor helped.

“Of all the surgeries I’ve had, there’s not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic,” he said.

“God will give you no more than you can handle,” he said in the interview. “This is all a test to see if you are really ready for the good things that are going to come in your life. All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.”

Outside The Stone Pony, the legendary Asbury Park, N.J., rock club where Springsteen, Clemons and other E Street Band members cut their teeth in the 1970s, Phil Kuntz stopped to place a small yellow flower on a decorative white fence. Nearby, someone taped a handwritten sign that read simply “RIP Big Man.”

“I’ll never hear ‘Jungleland’ played live again, and that’s a bummer,” said Kuntz, 51, who had seen Clemons perform with Springsteen in excess of 200 times.

Caroline O’Toole, The Stone Pony’s general manager, called it “a sad day for Asbury Park.”

“He was ‘the Big Man’ but he was an even bigger man here,” she said. “His presence was just enormous and unbelievable. No one who has ever played at our club in all the decades was ever like him.”

John D’Esposito, a talent buyer for the concert promoter Live Nation, also stopped by the club.

“Asbury Park is crying right now,” he said. “It’s like the whole city is one big teardrop. Our Pied Piper is gone.”

Reaction came from across the entertainment industry.

“Clarence Clemons was an electric, generous, sweet spirit. Taught me how to look cool with a sax. Goodbye Big Man,” tweeted actor Rob Lowe.

Added Questlove, drummer for the Roots: “RIP Clarence Clemons. A True Legend. Will be absolutely missed.”

An original member — and the oldest member — of the E Street Band, Clemons also performed with the Grateful Dead, the Jerry Garcia Band, and Ringo Starr’s All Star Band. He recorded with a wide range of artists including Aretha Franklin, Roy Orbison and Jackson Browne. He also had his own band called the Temple of Soul.

The stage “always feels like home. It’s where I belong,” Clemons, a former youth counselor, said after performing at a Hard Rock Cafe benefit for Home Safe, a children’s charity, in 2010.

Born in Norfolk, Va., Clemons was the grandson of a Baptist minister and began playing the saxophone when he was 9.

“Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone. I wanted an electric train for Christmas, but he got me a saxophone. I flipped out,” he said in a 1989 interview with the AP.

He was influenced by R&B artists such as King Curtis and Junior Walker. But his dreams originally focused on football. He played for Maryland State College, and was to try out for the Cleveland Browns when he got in a bad car accident that made him retire from the sport for good.

His energies then focused on music.

In 1971, Clemons was playing with Norman Seldin & the Joyful Noise when he heard about rising singer-songwriter named Springsteen, who was from New Jersey. The two hit it off immediately and Clemons officially joined the E Street Band in 1973 with the release of the debut album “Greetings from Asbury Park.”

Clemons emerged as one of the most critical members of the E Street Band for different reasons. His burly frame would have been intimidating if not for his bright smile and endearing personality that charmed fans.

“It’s because of my innocence,” he said in a 2003 AP interview. “I have no agenda — just to be loved. Somebody said to me, ‘Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.’ That’s a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.”

But it was his musical contributions on tenor sax that would come to define the E Street Band sound.

“Since 1973 the Springsteen/Clemons partnership has reaped great rewards and created insightful, high energy rock & roll,” declared Don Palmer in Down Beat in 1984. “Their music, functioning like the blues from which it originated, chronicled the fears, aspirations, and limitations of suburban youth. Unlike many musicians today, Springsteen and Clemons were more interested in the heart and substance rather than the glamour of music.”

In a 2009 interview, Clemons described his deep bond with Springsteen, saying: “It’s the most passion that you have without sex.”

“It’s love. It’s two men — two strong, very virile men — finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust,” he added.

Clemons continued to perform with the band for the next 12 years, contributing his big, distinctive big sound to the albums, “The Wild, The Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle,” ”Born to Run,” ”Darkness on the Edge of Town, “The River” and “Born in the USA.” But four years after Springsteen experienced the blockbuster success of “Born in the USA” and toured with his group, he decided to disband the E Street Band.

“There were a few moments of tension,” the saxophonist recalled in a 1995 interview. “You’ve been together 18, 19 years. It’s like your wife coming to you: ‘I want a divorce.’ You start wondering why? Why? But you get on with your life.”

During the breaks, Clemons continued with solo projects, including a 1985 vocal duet with Browne on the single “You’re a Friend of Mine” and saxophone work on Franklin’s 1985 hit single “Freeway of Love.” He released his own albums, toured, and even sang on some songs.

Clemons also made several television and movie appearances over the years, including Martin Scorsese’s 1977 musical, “New York, New York, in which he played a trumpet player.

The break with Springsteen and the E Street Band didn’t end his relationship with either Springsteen or the rest of the band members, nor would it turn out to be permanent. By 1999 they were back together for a reunion tour and the release of “The Rising.”

But the years took a toll on Clemons’ body, and he had to play through the pain of surgeries and other health woes.

“It takes a village to run the Big Man — a village of doctors,” Clemons told The Associated Press in a phone interview in 2010. “I’m starting to feel better; I’m moving around a lot better.”

He published a memoir, “Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales,” in 2009 and continued to perform.

He is the second member of the E Street Band to pass away: In 2008, Danny Federici, the keyboardist for the band, died at age 58 of melanoma.

Zdeno Chára Holding Stanley Cup

I wanted to say a few things about this Years Stanley Cup Playoffs!

First and foremost I want to say my primary hockey allegiance is with the Detroit Red Wings. I was born in Detroit and will forever be a die hard Wings fan. With that said I have a lot of allegiance to the Boston Bruins also. You see when I was just a little boy and my father first started taking me to hockey games it was the at the height of the ‘72 Bruins championship run. With names like Bobby Orr and Phil Espisito I really developed a love of hockey which I have rekindled the past few years. I had the ‘72 Bruins trading cards, I had their pictures on my bedroom walls and I became addicted to hockey. By this time I lived in Ohio and we used to always go out on our ice covered streets and ponds in the winter and play hockey. Sometimes we even played on the blacktop in our tennis shoes. All the boys in neighborhood loved the Bruins back then.

This had to be one of the best Stanley Cup finals I’ve ever seen. Going all the way down to game 7 made it super exciting. In 118 years of the Stanley Cup only 21 series have went to a game 7! I really thought Vancouver was going to pull it off in their home arena because of the 21 game 7’s only 2 away teams have won. But Boston’s goalie Tim Thomas was just unbelievable! He stopped anything and everything that came near the goal. Only giving up 8 goals in 7 games.

I am a little sad because I have several Canadian friends and I know how bad they wanted to win because Canada has not had the cup since Montreal won it in 1992 and Canada is, after all, the home of Hockey. But forever reason one of the greatest goalies in the NHL Roberto Luongo of Vancouver struggled throughout this series and gave up 22 goals.

Another bit of trivia 6’9” Zdeno Chára (Slovakia) is only the second European to ever to hoist the Stanley Cup as team captain. Nicklas Lidstrom (Sweden) of the Detroit Red Wings was the first.

But all in all it was a fantastic series and after 40 years the Bruins have the Stanley Cup again!

It was so fucking hot, taking all my clothes off with a major road right behind us! I had such a great, and I got so wet! I couldn’t keep my hands off myself- or Big D! When we got home he gave me a boquet of beautiful roses- and I couldn’t even keep those off of me! You should see what I did with one of them! Come on and join me,help me celebrate Mother’s Day the way every MILF wants! CLICK HERE!

This was one of those times I was actually a little star struck. You see even though I’m an adult webmaster, I am still human and there are women I see online that I just fall for like any guys does. Aria Giovanni for me is one of those women. So getting to meet her last night was a real special treat for me. Believe me I have spent my share of “quality time” looking at her photos LOL! I have to say meeting her in such a casual atmosphere all chilled out in her everyday clothes was something special!  She was sweet and just willing to chat, a real down to earth woman.

Just wanted to share this because I was excited about it and it was super enjoyable experience for me. Cheers to Aria!

DreamnetRob and Aria Giovanni

Interracial Sex Rocks!

But back to my initial question; why are so many people hung up negatively with it? She occasionally gets email from people that are very angry regarding her interracial fun. They spew out racial slurs call her n****r lover and all sorts of weird stuff. They bash me for allow my wife to be with a black man and accuse me of not being able to satisfy her. It’s totally ridiculous in both of our opinions. We just laugh it off really. But think about it at a scientific level. What is the difference between white, black, brown, red or yellow people? I mean we’re all genetically made up the same. Sure our bodies and skin pigmentation may have evolved a little different depending on which part of the globe our heritage is from, but that’s it. We all share the same biological make up. So once again that leads me back to societal views on why some chastise her (and us) for these encounters.

When applying science to human emotions, many of the things we believe simply do not make sense or stand up to scientific scrutiny. They are “learned” behaviors; hate is learned, love is learned, compassion is learned and so is tolerance. And it is how these things were taught to us as youngsters or through our own life learning experiences that develop our views on race. I mean come on … reality is reality.. I know I’m a white man that is of average endowment and I know that many black men are endowed much more than I. Does that bother me or make me jealous? Of course not, that would be irrational.

All I’m trying to say is that if you are one of those people that send hate mail, think before you send. Don’t let your irrational hate take over the truth of a situation. You are doing nothing but showing your ignorance. But then again some believe that ignorance is bliss and for them the world goes buy empty and devoid of true thought.

I came to your FB page today to read what you have posted lately and comment like I often do. To my surprise you have blocked me from commenting! Really? Are you serious? With the thousands of comments on your FB page you are honestly afraid of what I, an normal American, has to say? I find this absolutely amazing and explains your closed minded view of the world.

While I made it no secret that I did not agree with most of what you had to say. I was NEVER mean spirited or throwing out insults to people. I only commented on your posts and posts of others. I provided my alternative view points and thoughts and various subjects. Is it wrong to allow dissenting opinion? Is it not our differences that allow for debate? If we all thought exactly the same there would be no need for debate.

I must admit that I am truly amazed that I was blocked from commenting, actually shocked. I suppose I should not be in light of all the stories coming out about your extreme paranoia regarding anyone opposing your views.

In conclusion, if you are open to debate and the true American that you claim to be you should remove me from the group of people that cannot comment.

Sincerely,
Rob

The Dreamnet.com Office from Rob on Vimeo.

This is one of my favorite costume. This is a Sexy Black Leather Garter. My partner had asked me to wear this. Do you like it? I am so excited when I wear Sexy costume. My favorite pic is my tiny underwear with this garter. I want you to see my beauty butt! Hope you have a fun! CLICK HERE!

Well Dawn Marie and my sister in law sent me these jokes and they are to funny!

Breaking News ! The Ohio Highway Patrol is cracking down on speeders heading into Cincinnati. For the first offense, they give you 2 Bengals tickets. If you get stopped a second time, they make you use them.

Q. What do you call 47 millionaires around a TV, watching the Super Bowl?
A. The Cincinnati Bengals

Q. What do the Cincinnati Bengals and Billy Graham have in common?
A. They both can make 70,000 people stand up and yell “Jesus Christ.”

Q. How do you keep a Cincinnati Bengal out of your yard?
A. Put up a goal post.

Q. What do you call a Cincinnati Bengal with a Super Bowl ring?
A. Old

Q. What’s the difference between the Cincinnati Bengals and a dollar bill?
A. You can still get four quarters out of a dollar bill.

Q. How many Cincinnati Bengals does it take to win a Super Bowl?
A. Nobody remembers.

Q. What do the Bengals and opossums have in common?
A. Both play dead at home and get killed on the road! ?

We did a bunch of photo shoots which was nice because quite frankly after 12 years online Dawn Marie and I are tired of shooting in our house LOL!

Here is a few fun pictures from the trip and I definitely feel rejuvenated!

I have been wanting to write for a long time on the topic of stealing Amateur Adult content and really couldn’t put into words. But once I saw this video released by the Free Speech Coalition I decided it was time to post something.

The video above shows professional Hollywood Porn Industry people. But the EXACT same thing holds true for the sites like Dreamnet.com and women we work with. Even though the women of Dreamnet.com don’t make big money and most started doing this for fun. There are a lot of costs and time involved!

So where will your favorite Amateur Adult Internet woman be a year from now? That is the question you must ask yourself if you are one of those people that take their pictures and videos for trading on the plethora of forums and tube sites that allow you share the content of the Dreamnet.com women.

This is the dirty little secret of the Amateur word that nobody wants to talk about, but it’s time to talk about it! Everyone wants to think that all the girls do this ONLY because they love it. Well that is part of it for sure. But many do it because they love it and because they make a living at it. Even going back to the early days of Dreamnet.com when it was run by Tracey and her hubby, the girls did it because they made great money and enjoyed it! As a matter of fact, in the late 90’s and early 2000’s the girls made really good money having a website. This is because content stealing was not an issue. Amateur women made much more than they do now and that is a fact, ask any woman that has been around for a since the 1990’s and they will tell it’s true.

However, in today’s Internet with all the Tube Site, Forums, Torrents and Social Networks these girls get their content stolen and re-posted all the time. So you have to ask yourself the question. What will happen if people keep stealing and trading everyone’s content. I’ll tell you what will happen! The women that make the stuff will simply quit doing it.

So if you are one of the people that steal content and trade with others shame on you! It’s no different than stealing from the store. The content you get from Dreamnet.com and other Amateur sites like it is for your personal viewing pleasure. Not to re-post and trade with others. So please stop or sites like Dreamnet.com and others will not survive!

To those of you that support our women by spending your hard earned money on our sites and keep the content to yourself … THANK YOU! We love you and hope to continue doing this for a long time. But as a community we need to rally together and put all these thieving sites out of business. They do nothing but allow re-posting of stolen content.

The amount of time that Dreamnet.com women and myself spend getting stolen content removed from all these sites could be much better put to use making our sites better!

Thanks for listening to my rant. I look forward to your comments and thoughts.

Sincerely,
Rob

This is some awesome stuff … Deauxma from Dreamnet.com has been with us a long time and she had made it to Urban Dictionary

Deauxma In Urban Dictionary

I was asked this question by somebody on Twitter and I thought I’d share with everyone. I know in this day and age many spouses and significant others are watching Credit Card and Bank Statements very closely. So sneaking purchases past the finance officer in your household can be tricky!

I have BIG NEWS! CCBill now accepts all those Visa and Master Cards that you purchase in the grocery store gift card section!

We don’t recommend lying to your spouse or significant other. Tell them about your adult fantasies you may even be surprised. But if your significant other is closed minded and does not understand you wanting to view adult material follow the simple steps below.

Here is how to surf adult sites online and not get busted!

1. Purchase a prepaid Visa or Mastercard from your local grocery store gift card section. These cards CANNOT be traced to you and you will never sent a statement at your house.
2. Surf the Web privately using the free web browsers Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome. All three browsers are available on both Windows and Mac.  All three browsers offer a private browsing function that allows you to surf the web without leaving browser history, cookies and saved passwords. This way your significant other will have no tracks to follow.
3. Open a free email account. I recommend Gmail, however, both Microsoft and Yahoo have free email accounts too.  Note, DO not put in your real name and personal information.
4. Optional: Create seperate profiles on your computer for yourself and your spouse. Just play it off like you want to have your own space to organize differently.

Click The Images Below To See Private Browsing Examples:

Firefox Private Browsing

Chrome Private Browsing

Safari Private Browsing

Hope these tips help and happy surfing and check out this article on Life Hacker “Top 10 Ways to Access Blocked Stuff on The Web“

One, two, three, four, five

In Mullingar last night, I rested limbs so weary,
Started by daylight, Next morning bright and early,
Took a drop of the pure, To keep my heart from sinking,
That’s the Paddy’s cure, When he’s on the drinking.
See the lassies smile, Laughing all the while,
At me darling style, ‘Twould set your heart a-bubbling.
Asked me was I hired, The wages I required,
Till I was almost tired, Of the rocky road to Dublin.

One, two, three, four, five
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road and all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-la-de-da!

In Dublin next arrived, I thought it such a pity,
To be so soon deprived, A view of that fine city.
Decided to take a stroll, All among the quality,
My bundle it was stole, In a neat locality;
Something crossed my mind, When I looked behind;
No bundle could I find, Upon me stick a wobbling.
Enquiring for a rogue, They said me Connacht brogue,
Wasn’t much in vogue, On the rocky road to Dublin.

One, two, three, four, five
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road and all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-la-de-da!

From there I got away, Me spirits never failing
Landed on the quay just as the ship was sailing;
Captain at me roared, Said that no room had he,
then I jumped aboard, A cabin found for Paddy,
Down among the pigs played some funny rigs,
Danced some hearty jigs, The water round me bubbling,
When off to Holyhead, Wished myself was dead,
Or better far instead, On the rocky road to Dublin.

One, two, three, four, five
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road and all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-la-de-da!

The boys of Liverpool, When we safely landed,
Called meself a fool; I could no longer stand it;
Blood began to boil, Temper I was losing,
Poor old Erin’s isle They began abusing,
“Hurrah my soul,” sez I, Let the shillelagh fly;
Some Galway boys were nigh, Saw I was a hobbling,
With a loud hurray, They joined me in the fray.
Soon we cleared the way, O’er the rocky road to Dublin.

One, two, three, four, five
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road and all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-la-de-da!
One, two, three, four, five
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road and all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-la-de-da!