[Time is now]

I used to be a Springsteen fan. He came up the hard way, seriously paid his dues, as most in the music industry must, and made his way on providing a product that untold millions around the world wanted to buy. But as with most major success stories, the money makes you mad (insane). The list is endless of how money makes you a do-gooder, and how suddenly you "find" a higher calling.

What these people fail to realize is that we want to buy their product, not it's byproduct....

[Alberta's Child]

He came up the hard way, seriously paid his dues . . .

A New Jersey columnist wrote a great piece a couple of years ago in which he debunked most of the myths about Springsteen. His major complaint about "the Boss" was that Springsteen was a phony; he spent his entire life feeding off the myth that he grew up in a working-class environment in a fading industrial town in New Jersey.

I seem to remember this guy pointing out that Springsteen was a normal kid in a suburban high school, and that his father was an accountant or something like that.