I imagine a Springsteen concert to basically be watching a guy straining to pass a bowling bowl. That’s what he sounds like to me.
He was very musically artistic on the first two albums. I even went backstage and chatted with him in a little bar in Brigantine hardly bigger than my living room. Then he sold out and went with the loud banging and Dylan imitations — only there will never be another Dylan, who was, and is, totally unique from deep in his soul. When I heard the apparently soul-disabled Springsteen try to sing a Dylan song to “honor” Dylan at the Kennedy Center Honors, I was embarrassed for Bruce. Simply no comparison. I pitied him making such an azz of himself.