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To: Olog-hai
While I feel for any child who had to grow up with a mad, abusive father, I will never give this "artist" a penny, nor will I excuse his slavish devotion to socialism.
18 posted on 01/16/2013 8:34:08 AM PST by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: Darnright

I’m really confused by this “revelation”.

I started being a fan in the early 70’s and have read *tons* of interviews and just about every bio there was back then.

*Never* was his father described as “abusive”.

He was a bus driver, not the sullen, angry “factory worker” of songs.

His mom was a wonderful, loving mother who coddled him.

The only ‘strife’ between father and son that was ever mentioned was his father’s pleas for Bruce to get a job.

The boy partied all night and slept on his porch roof, at friends’ houses or under the boardwalk.

He’s never had a “normal job”, not even pumping gas and that annoyed his hard working middle class dad as it would any dad but I never, ever heard of “abuse”.

If Bruce didn’t mind admitting he ‘pretended to be a queer’ for his draft board meeting, I’m sure he would have mentioned a brutal father with equal openness.

Bruce is buying into his own cult of victomology and rewriting the ‘song of his life’, IMO.


24 posted on 01/16/2013 8:46:02 AM PST by Salamander (Put some workboots in the drier. Recite Dr Seuss. Now you're a rapper!)
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