Well, so far on FR I’ve learned that Springsteen, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones never had any talent as musicians or songwriters.
Chuck Berry wrote and recorded a bunch of great songs. He is up there at the top with Little Richard and Buddy Holly in my opinion in his influence on rock and roll. He was cheap and lazy as far as live performances, used local pick up musicians when he did a show to avoid paying professionals and didn’t really care about his fans.
Springsteen puts much more effort into his
work and into actually being a musician and performer. Appearing with Hillary in 2016 killed any pretense of being an advocate for the working man, but that is pretty much just an act for any multi-millionaire performer (they’re all limousine liberals). ‘Born to Run’ got a lot of attention, but check out ‘Darkness On The Edge of Town’ and ‘Nebraska’ for some fine work.
Born To Run was that incredible. Right about 1974 or 1975. It was the best on the radio song that I had ever heard. Went to the Fox Theater in Atlanta and saw the band live. Great Concert. Now a days I look at what Bruce has become and just say “what went wrong.” Yet that concert was still in my memory as one of the very best.
I'm being totally serious. People only say Springsteen's music sucks because of his political beliefs.
Compare to Ted Nugent who is a rock hero around here because he's a staunch conservative, a supporter of President Trump and also he likes to hunt. Likes to hunt a lot! But let's face it, his music is rather pedestrian and gives most people a head-ache.
If only Ted Nugent would write Bruce Springsteen like songs - he would be the perfect all around guy.