Posted on 04/30/2017 1:42:20 PM PDT by SMGFan
Even though he has spent much of his career writing songs about the working man, Bruce Springsteen will be the first to tell you he hasn’t done much in the way of hard work himself.
As part of the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, the Boss sat down with actor Tom Hanks for a conversation about his life and music. “The only honest work I’ve ever done in my entire life was at 14 or 15 when I was a lawn boy,” he told the crowd at the Beacon Theatre. “I painted houses and tarred roofs in the summertime – that was to get the money to buy my first guitar
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If he’d worked more he might have been able to afford voice lessons.
No one who has seen one of his concerts would suggest for a second that he doesn’t work hard. Like him or not, the guy puts on a good show.
Kind of sounds like Ted Kennedy. What did he ever do except be in government office? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!! At least John F. Kennedy was in military service and fought in WWII, even though he was a cheater on his wife and jumped into bed with every woman he came into contact with, like the ex-mafia big whig’s Ho that he bedded. But at least he did something except live off the government dime. These people are all the same. Once they make the big time as rock stars, what else do they do beside drink booze, bed Ho’s and snort all the drugs they can buy. All the same. Every one of them.
I was a professional musician for 22 years. That’s HARD work. I’ll give Springstein a pass on this.
It takes a lot of work to set up shows and bookings. The average musician, until he becomes well known, probably don’t even make minimum wage for what they do full time.
He IS vastly overrated and I don't care for his music. I think his enduring fame is a curious mystery and in my opinion much of what grew his popularity was the presence of the late Clarence Clemmons.
That said: touring hundreds of days a year is no party. So, I have to take a bit of an issue with the idea that he's never done a day's work.
Okra?
Bobo's ken?
Did you ever see Okra at a Buuuce concert?
No, Buuuce could sit on his coin quietly and enjoy his tambourine-snapping second wife (who, yeah, where is she in that photo? on that boat? anywhere? Bueller? Bueller?) but Buuuce has embraced vapitude harder and with even less élan than Algore.
Your post makes not a lot of sense, but his wife is to his right (left side of photo).
Agree 100%.
That’s Patti Scialfa his second wife. Julianne Phillips was his first wife. Phillips is an actress. Patti is in Bruce’s E. Street Band
My ex’s cousin is a big fan. Big girl with a lisp, so it came out ‘Bruuuuth!”
She still bakes a cake and parties with her cats on Bruuuth’s birthday
Springstein is a beach bar band. He is not Jimmy Page.
For sale - 1952 Fender Telecaster, blond finish, owned by Bruce Springstein. Never played, just slung behind his back. Strap locks used.
Springsteen hasn’t been cool since the 80’s, man.
I've seen him in concert as well (before he got really political) and those concerts were really something. Also, he's put out some really good songs such as "Incident on 57th Street", "4th of July (Sandy)", and Backstreets.
His leftist views have betrayed his blue collar fan base and his politics has made it more difficult for me to listen to his music, but I'll never say that he's an awful performer.
Used to haul propane tanks for my dad when I was in high school, part time. Haven't worked hard, full time since my "kiddie cruise" (3 years) as a Navy enlisted man between 1963-66.
Look at all that white privledge
Agreed. Saw his show back in 1992. Clearly he is anathema to FR politics and I have no plans to ever see him again but he can put on a show.
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