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Bruce Springsteen's latest ode to the "common man"
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| 4/7/2006
| Bruce Springsteen
Posted on 04/07/2006 5:18:48 AM PDT by bagadonutz
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To: bagadonutz
I want to find and kill the person who gave Springsteen the Woody Guthrie albums and John Steinbeck books.
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posted on
04/07/2006 8:15:21 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: SuziQ
Does he still live in Rumson NJ? Don't know.But,knowing his ilk,I'll wager that he's living in lower Fairfield County,CT....Darien,New Canaan,Greenwich.
To: Gay State Conservative
When we lived in NJ, about 20 yrs. ago, some friends of ours scored big and got a great price on a house in Rumson, just down the street from Oyster Bay. It was truly the case of the worst house in the best neighborhood, and they were fixing it up a little at a time. I remember riding with her one day in the area, and she pointed out The Boss's house. It was a HUGH home on a lot that looked to be probably 3 or 4 acres, which for Rumson is also HUGH! Don't know if he stayed there or not. It wasn't too far from his old stomping grounds in Asbury Park.
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posted on
04/07/2006 8:20:54 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Ace of Spades
Remember the No Nukes concert at MSG? Difference was, back then he could be forgiven because he was the best rock musician in the world. That was the first concert I ever attended, at the tender age of 16.
After about three hours of mostly folkie crapola like James Taylor and Jackson Browne, the whole place went dark. Then a blue spotlight shown on the center of the stage, where Springsteen was playing the opening licks to "Prove it All Night." The place went nuts and screamed along with him. When the band joined in for the chorus, every light in the Garden came on and every single person was dancing on top of their chairs, like it was the greatest encore ever, and it was still the first song!
He absolutely blew the roof off the place. There was never a band like them in their prime.
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posted on
04/07/2006 8:23:49 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: SuziQ
Except that it was written to condemn Reagan's economy, if I'm not mistaken. You are mistaken. The River came out in 1980. Jimmah was the president.
And the song premiered the year before at the No Nuke's concert.
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:31:33 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: garyhope
Do not get me started about treasonous, anti-American, degenerate old fart Pete Seeger.
And do not ever get me started about "folk music". Yech, barf, puke!!!
Use A Folk Guitar, Go To Jail!
Hippy Dippy "Folk Singers" for Communism! Damn, I like the way you think. Your post is almost verbatim what I'd say.
I cringe when I'm out at a bar/restaurant eating dinner and some wuss singer/songwriter wannabe starts twangin' on his guitar getting ready to start his 'show'.
It's almost as bad as being there for karaoke.
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posted on
04/07/2006 11:24:21 AM PDT
by
Looking4Truth
(Radical Muslims and Illegal immigrants: Too stupid to create so they invade or destroy.)
To: Looking4Truth
"It's almost as bad as being there for karaoke"
The worst karaoke I ever saw (and I've only been to one) was when I got bumped off a flight in Detroit and they put me up in the ugliest Raddison hotel I've ever been in. The "restaurant" was such a joke when I walked in, I burst out laughing. How bad was it?,.....It was sooooo bad, that the next morning I went down and took pictures of it to remember it.
It was sort of a cross between powder blue fake ocean swirls, fake palm trees, fake Polynesian Tiki Boom Boom Room and a menu that if it wasn't fried, it wasn't on the menu. Did I mention that the "service" was almost non existent? Anyway,......
The "Karaoke Room" (more like Kara-oki, not to disparage all the fine people from Oklahoma) was a barren concrete shell with institutional tables and folding high school cafeteria chairs, with 4 or 5 men and one woman "singing" their little ole hearts out. I couldn't have made this up. I felt sorry for all the citizens of Detroit. I was stunned. It was surreal to me. I must be naive.
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posted on
04/07/2006 12:27:33 PM PDT
by
garyhope
(Simplicity is best in everything)
To: joebuck
Bruce Springsteen: Irrelevant since 1987.
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posted on
04/07/2006 1:00:58 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: Petronski
Bruce Springsteen: No talent hack. He should still be struggling in some New Jersey dive.
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posted on
04/07/2006 1:09:12 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
("The GATOR boys are HOT right now."---Joakim Noah)
To: Tribune7
Oops, I guess I'm wrong. I didn't even know who he was until the early 80's, and I lived in NJ at the time!
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posted on
04/07/2006 2:21:10 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: SuziQ
You must be just a child :-)
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posted on
04/07/2006 5:11:35 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: Tribune7
ROTFL!! No, far from it. I was almost a teenager when Bob Dylan became popular during the Great Folk Scare of the early 60's. I was amused when the media tried to compare the songwriting capabilities of the Boss and Dylan. I never thought there was any comparison; Dylan had a real way with words.
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posted on
04/07/2006 7:45:18 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: bagadonutz
"Nebraska" was excellent, and that was just him and a guitar.
To: SuziQ
I never thought there was any comparison; Dylan had a real way with words. That is true.
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posted on
04/07/2006 8:20:29 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: bagadonutz
I guess Roy Orbison was hurling when he invited Springsteen to play with him on that " Black and White album/DVD ". Yeah Roy Orbison had incredible bad taste. lol Or mabey Bruce bought his way onto it. Or mabey he hitched a ride with Bonnie Raitt. Another two bit artist I'm sure. lol Nobody mentioned Greetings from Asbury Park.
Sarcastic eniugh? lol
Regards: TennesseeLamb
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posted on
04/29/2006 12:34:21 PM PDT
by
TennesseeLamb
(If you'll be my DixieChicken...Mak...I'll be your TennesseeLamb. :-))
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