[garyhope]

I saw Springsteen's first live concert in California. I thought he was just an ordinary bar band.

He's insufferably pretentious, portentous, affected, phony and contrived with all the faux humility and fake humbleness. He's this way because he's actually stupid. He is a lucky guy though to gain such an audience which becomes self-perputating with slavish, idolatrous fans.

Much of rock music is now just contrived posing and fake "Kodak Moments" as learned and parroted by the MTV video generation. Pre video, there were real concerts with real musical moments rather than just show bizzy stage shows.

Brucie, Wucie. The fake humility and "common man" pose makes me barf. It's indicative of the slide in standards and ability of the public to discern reality from the ersatz.

[garyhope]

Whoops, that's "self-perpetuating" rather than "self-perputating "

That darn spell checker!

[Looking4Truth]

Much of rock music is now just contrived posing and fake "Kodak Moments" as learned and parroted by the MTV video generation. Pre video, there were real concerts with real musical moments rather than just show bizzy stage shows.

Agreed.

A lot of very famous artists before MTV came along wouldn't get signed these days because they wouldn't have the 'right' stage presence or looks.

MTV and all it's derivatives suck.

Confession: I did like them between about '85 and '89 when they actually played music videos.