You know what sucks and is great about threads like this... Now I'm going to be up to about three or four am listening to music.
Actually, that doesn't suck!
Thanks to Lysistrata, I'm beginning with a vinyl copy of Nantucket Sleigh Ride.
Looking forward to a whale of a good time...
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I don't think that politics or organized religion actually expresses who we truly are. in our hearts when we are alone with our our selves.
The Rolling Stones, New York Academy of Music, 1965?
Bruce Springsteen at Largo (Md.) Arena
The Alvin Brothers and the Blasters (1980's when?)
Roy Orbison (1980s. Fox Trap)
Bruce Springsteen, RFK Stadium
Bruce Springsteen, Constitution Hall (accoustic)
Bruce Springsteen, DC Convention Center
I saw Springsteen at the Hampton Coliseum in 1981 on the River Tour. Very good show except at times he got kind of preachy and political. I am like Bruce....just play some music buddy.
He plays and writes from his background and what he has learned. He came from a poor family in Jersey, his father a poor man of Irish background who was depressed and couldn't keep a job.. His mother ,the daughter of Italian immigrants ,who supported the family. He grew up in a duplex in south Jersey. He had a sister, some two years younger, but when he was a young teenager his parents then came up with another baby A few years later, his parents moved to California, his sister married at a young age, so he was alone. He rings true. He's just telling it true. This is why I like him. He fought himself out of his roots with just his guitar. This takes an amazing amount of fortitude. It takes an amazing amount of character. I love Bruce Springsteen because, whatever his faults, he is rock-solid;
I read his biography as well. I only saw him once. It was a very good show. Darkness on the Edge of Town is my favorite album of his. I understand why you like him. I personally do not like a mix of entertainment and politics, no matter what the politics. But that is just me. But no doubt he is very, very good live, I certainly enjoyed the show I saw
I remember when I was in law school, at night after after working a full day at my job, working by day and going to school at night. I used to blast Springsteen on the radio when I was driving home, The message was DON'T QUIT!. Hang tough, even if you have to power through the darkness. Springsteen's music certainly helped me get to hang tough and graduate.
I truly understand. I went to graduate school while working night shifts in a psychiatric hospital. I still don't know how I did it. It was an unbelievable grind. Springsteen was big for me in my late teens to mid twenties. I still remember drinking beer with some buddies listening to Racing in the Streets and Candy's Room. Atlantic City is an amazing song. So is Brilliant Disguise, Thunder Road, and many, many others.
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We look back and don't know how we did it. It's just one hour at a time, another day to get through. Darkness On the Edge of Town was what I blasted when I was in law school. It was about getting through the worst of it and emerging victorious and taking the sadness and the exhaustion along the way. You might say that I had a crush on Bruce, but it wasn't just that he was physically attractive and played a guitar. I grew up at the same time as he did (he's the same age as my brother), and in some rough circumstances and saw some of the same moments in my house that he did. He has incredible empathy, which has been revealed in his work. I would love to talk with him. He has an incredible mind. He says what I feel. He has a gift of empathy, understanding, and gentleness.
Everything dies, baby, that's a fact. But maybe everything that dies, some day comes back.
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland
Good grief. How did this all emerge from the mind of a little poor kid from Freehold?
