Bruce is to 70’s 80’s rock fans what the Dixie Chicks are to country music fans.
They alienate half their customer base every time they condescend to impart some of their socio-economic-political wisdom on the world.
That said, if you saw the Boss on the Superbowl half time show it was like watching your great grandfather trying to get down in ghetto town.
He looked and sounded like he was ready to have a stroke right there in the stadium.
But fortunately, for the medical team, he was able to finish the set.
“They alienate half their customer base every time they condescend to impart some of their socio-economic-political wisdom on the world.”
So, you’d advise Ted Nugent to “shut up and sing”?
Springsteen was denouncing Reagan on stage shortly after election night in 1980. It’s nothing his fans don’t already know about him.
I saw him do a chord change that was breathtaking in its musical complexity and required him to move his fingers at least twice. I also found out that he is fatter than Johnny Cash, since he didn't quite fit in to the costume he obviously picked up at the Cash Estate Yard Sale.
The knee-slide? Slinging the guitar around his neck? Wow! Or at least Sham-Wow!