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Workingman's anthems of Boss cloaked in irony (SPRINGSTEEN BOMBS OUT IN CHICAGO)
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| June 15, 2006
| DAVE HOEKSTRA
Posted on 06/15/2006 3:37:09 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief
Shark Jumping, 450lb Elvis BTTT
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posted on
06/15/2006 4:35:08 AM PDT
by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
To: Chi-townChief
Maybe getting the Dixie Chicks to open for him would help.
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posted on
06/15/2006 4:38:32 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(If you read only one book this year, read "Stolen Valor".)
To: edpc
5,500 x 100 = 550,000 $550,000
- federal taxes
- state taxes
- municipal/township tax
- cost of venue
-cost of advertising
- managers fee
- agents fee
- band's fee
- equipment rental
-insurance
-"miscelaneous"...
yeah he cleared about $50,000.00, not bad for a nights work...being a "working man" and all.
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posted on
06/15/2006 4:49:38 AM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: Lurker
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posted on
06/15/2006 4:51:51 AM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: Dick Vomer
he cleared about $50,000.00- federal taxes
- state taxes
- municipal/township tax
We were talking gross figures, but that would be poetic. If it were true, however, it would blow up the Lib complaints about tax cuts being for the rich...
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posted on
06/15/2006 4:57:28 AM PDT
by
edpc
To: garyhope
I hope Streisand un-retirement tour is just as successful
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:08:51 AM PDT
by
txroadhawg
("Stuck on stupid? I invented stupid! " Al Gore)
To: Chi-townChief
Maybe the Boss can team with the Dixie Chicks and play the indian casino circuit. If they add in Bin Jovi, they might even fill most of the 1500 seats.
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:18:59 AM PDT
by
pissant
To: Chi-townChief
I can't think of a single Springsteen tune that doesn't cause my radio to suddenly turn off or change channels.
To: Chi-townChief
.....the $92 ticket price knocked out the working-class audience that Springsteen and Seeger have championed. That's all you need to know about liberals.
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:28:33 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: Lurker
I've loathed Springsteens music since 1977 and quite proudly I might add. Ditto.
Bananarama is more enlightening.
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:31:39 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: iopscusa
..... his music sounds to me as little more than an adverising jingle. Well stated.
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:34:05 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: Chi-townChief
Springsteen and his raucous 17-piece band failed to even fill the pavilion. Roughly 5,500 fans showed up, and the $92 ticket price knocked out the working-class audience that Springsteen and Seeger have championed.
So much for the 'working' people Springsteen claims to represent.
Ticket prices anymore are beyond outragious. I have passed over a number of concerts in the last several years because it would have cost over $100 for me and my Wife to go. Forget it - they're not that important.
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:35:02 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Man was made in the image of God, not pond scum)
To: Fester Chugabrew
I can't think of a single Springsteen tune that doesn't cause my radio to suddenly turn off or change channels. That's odd. His tunes have that exact effect on my radio.
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:35:58 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: Chi-townChief
Nobody's gonna beat Ry Cooder's version of "Blind Alfred Reed's "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live".
To: E Rocc
Carlton Theater, Red Bank, N.J. 1975. 10th Ave. Freeze Out, Night and the Fever were life changing experiences.
That was when Bruce and the band were just about to launch. They were optimistic in looking toward the future and the music reflected it. Contract dispute with DellaPelle bittered Bruce forever. From Darkness it has been a steady downhill slide. Pity.
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:45:21 AM PDT
by
frithguild
(The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
To: Chi-townChief
(In what is becoming a Springsteen tradition, he kicked off the concert almost an hour after the advertised 7:30 p.m. start.) Make'em wait.
"Working-class man" letting the little guy know what he really thinks of him.
May Brucie Boy have many more empty seats in his future.
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:46:29 AM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: metesky
I met Seeger in 1962 in Harvard SQ. a pal of mine was a big folk music fan, gifted musician, and future drug victim. he, Seeger, seemed kind of smarmy and self righteous.
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:55:44 AM PDT
by
Little Bill
(A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
To: garyhope
You got that straight; in the "Hail Hail Rock and Roll" movie, Keith Richard came across as much more articulate than Springsteen so what does that tell you?
To: Little Bill
Is he aware of Seeger's support for the Nazis from '39-'41?
To: Little Bill
Oops, by "victim", maybe I should assume that he's no longer around.
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