Posted on 09/23/2016 3:19:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
1. "Born to Run," Born to Run. The song that earns every great cliché about rock and roll. It is escape, it is freedom, it is four-chord liberation. If you don't like "Born to Run," you don't like Bruce Springsteen. The song distills every single element of Springsteen's sound into four-and-a-half minutes, which contains the essential question his entire catalogue tries to answer: "I want to know if love is real."* The performance is stellar. Tallent's bass is more complex than you'd think, sometimes vibrating like a car engine, other times fluid and melodic, and he leads the charge for the last minute and 15 seconds. Federici swoops in and out with such power and grace, especially the way his organ comes in at "Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims." After his initial opening attack, Ernest "Boom" Carter is sitting back there on drums, swinging away. (It would be Boom's sole appearance on a Springsteen track.) Bruce's voice is warm and sad and sexy and full of soul, and Clemons's solo is a reveille, a call to arms. "Born to Run" was Sancious's swan song before leaving the E Street Band, and his piano melodies are ethereal and majestic. What a way to go.
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He sings like John McCain talks: with his teeth clinched. I like I’m On Fire and nothing else.
Off key monotone groaning. No thanks. I do like a couple of his songs, as long as Manfred Mann is doing them. Bruce “squawking” his 3 note range...I’ll pass. Never did get the popularity. He makes Bob Dylan sound like Sinatra.
Springsteen songs are only good when they are played by other bands (cover bands at bars)
“Stranger in Town” - what a brilliant album.
I think we knew some of the same women. At least, the same types!
Yep
Bruce makes no bones about Van being a major influence...as he was to Seger also.
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