Posted on 01/02/2017 6:57:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
During a new interview with comedian Marc Maron on the WTF podcast, Bruce Springsteen questioned President-elect Donald Trump’s basic “competency” three weeks before he’s set to take the oath of office. “I’ve felt disgust before, but never the kind of fear that you feel now,” Springsteen said. “It’s as simple as the fear of, is someone simply competent enough to do this particular job? Do they simply have the pure competence to be put in the position of such responsibility?” The rocker, who campaigned for Hillary Clinton, went on to express his concerns that Trump’s campaign unleashed “bigotry, racism, intolerance” that will be difficult to quell now that he will be in the White House. “Whether it’s a rise in hate crimes, people feeling they have license to speak and behave in ways that previously were considered un-American and are un-American,” Springsteen added. “That’s what he’s appealing to. My fears are that those things find a place in ordinary civil society.”
“”Backstreets” was great piece of Classic rock.”
Credit where credit is due. I like a lot of his stuff and have since I was in high school.
But.....He’s dead to me now. And I saw him live just this last year for the first time since 1978.
Springsteen....another “celebrity” who should have assumed room temperature in 2016.
Is Springsteen competent enouigh to find his ass with both hands?
“...He made some good records in the 70s and 80s and put on a heck of a concert....”
Yeah, like many of em, he should have just stuck to music because his politics really, really suck. Who knows how many fans this pompous azz has lost over the years.
LOL! I say this exact same thing every time this over-rated poser opens his mouth to "sing." If it weren't for his fan base in those places, no one would have ever heard of this maroon. I consider it a blessing this last Christmas season that I got away with not hearing his awful version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town."
Truest comment I heard during the election was that no one had ever called Donald Trump a “racist” until he ran for President against an old white woman.
Tramps like us baby we were born to run...
Yes, he did.
Back in the 80s, I often went to Asbury Park and visited all the places mentioned in his songs.
I was mad for him.
After The River, he jumped the shark.
He ditched his wife for the Jersey skank, because the very young wife was not inclined to immediately start popping out babies for him and things went to hell.
He annulled Julie and married that other thing.
Tunnel Of Love was a musical diary of his wife issues and infidelity.
I didn’t like him at all, personally, after that.
I still blast everything from Greetings From Asbury Park to The River, full blast, in the car, occasionally adding a few tracks from Nebraska.
I don’t even know where my CDs from the Stupid Era are, anymore.
Saw him at the Cap Center in ‘78 and it was an unbelievable show.
But, he remains a great disappointment to me, otherwise.
Ironically, in the beginning, he was a hero of the right wing, blue collar working class.
Revved up like a Deuce.
shut up and play the hits brucie!
This is what happens when your only source of “news” is the Huffington Post.
He was “punk” because he wore a leather jacket once. And he aped some of his singing style from Suicide.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/12/springsteens-punk-roots/
But Springsteen was on to Suicide and knew they had something special. His love for the stark sound of their first two albums (1977’s “Suicide” and 1980’s “Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev”) began dripping into his own music through the brooding 1982 album “Nebraska.” One track, in particular, “State Trooper,” was punctuated with shrill yelps that were an obvious steal from Vega. “I remember walking into my label just after it came out,” Vega says. “I thought it was one of my albums that I had forgotten about. But it was Bruce!”
In HS, I was saddled with a public speaking class.
I am *not* a public speaker type person.
We had to stand up and recite long poems, from memory, in front of the class.
I recited Backstreets.
The whole class and the teacher went wild.
I cannot publicly speak but damn, can I ever emote.
:D
Oh yeah, like the one that encouraged a man to leave his wife and kids because he has a ‘hungry heart’? Yeah that was a real manly song. /sarc
7years ago I heard a truck driver in the OKC flying j say that the song helped push his irrational thought process over the top. He left his wife and kids, and by the time he realized what a fool he had been, she was remarried.
Isn’t the song ‘born on the 4th of July’ an anti war song? One thing for certain, Bill Ayers, those liked minded, helped the kmer Rouge rise to its extremely murderous hight. Didn’t brave Bruce admit to dodging the draft by faking brain injury from a motorcycle accident?
Walking in Memphis? More like writing a song to make a buck off of Elvis fans, imo.
Rant off.
He’s a limousine liberal extraordinaire
He needed a place to pasture that 10 million dollar Olympic jumper he bought his wannabe equestrian daughter.
On the other hand, the music of Ted Nugent is not my cup of tea but I admire the man.
I'm pretty certain that if Springsteen had the politics of Ted Nugent, many here would be hailing him as one of the most brilliant rock performers that America ever produced.
Mister Springsteen, I admire your music. Stick to that. It’s the same reason I don’t offfer opinions on spinal stenosis. Write what you know.
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