Remembering the man who put 914 on the rock’n’roll map

Hudson Valley News ^ | 10/12/22 | Robert Brum

[Impala64ssa]

The place where Springsteen honed his legendary talent at sounding like he's desperately trying to make a bowel movement.

Just another celebrity hypocrite. When he bought that nice spread in central NJ he bought his daughter the horsey she always wanted and "pulled some strings" at the Monmouth Cty zoning office to have his property zoned as farmland to catch a big tax break. Pretty slick for someone who schtick was evoking this regular working class persona.

For all his wokeness he's the epitome of cultural appropriation. If it weren't for Robert Johnson, Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly and other bluesmen from the past he'd be just another White trash from the Jersey Shore crashing Chevelles on the Garden State Pkwy.
The 914 Studio was conveniently located near the Gentlemen's Club, a notorious stripper bar.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Never could stand Springsteen. Mainly for the reasons you enumerate.

[Semper Vigilantis]

"...he'd be just another White trash from the Jersey Shore crashing Chevelles on the Garden State Pkwy."

LMAO - you owe me a keyboard.

[shotgun]

Say what you will about Springsteen (uber nut job lib), but the man put on the best concert I ever went too.

[1Old Pro]

Say what you will about Springsteen (uber nut job lib), but the man put on the best concert I ever went too.

You need to get out more :)

[God luvs America]

I detest Springsteen because of his music and the way the media salivated over his crap for years. Bruce Sh!tsteen, as i call him, was my introduction to bias in the media.

In the 70’s when rags such as Rolling Stone and others routinely trashed the mighty Led Zeppelin, Sh!tsteen could do no wrong despite what i thought was boring, mundane music.

Everyone would reply, “Have you ever seen him in concert???!!! Have you ever seen him in concert???!!” when i told them i did not like Sh!tsteen. So finally a girlfriend took me to see him in 1985- the concert was long, boring and pretentious.

It was only years later I realized what a political hypocrite this guy was.

[gloryblaze]

Glory Days is pretty good ...

[skeeter]

I have to agree, the old fatuous phony of today put on a great show in 1978 with more energy than I’ve seen since.

[blabs]

You’ve obviously never been to an Iron Maiden concert...nobody does it better!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Sh!tsteen could do no wrong despite what i thought was boring, mundane music.

Bingo.

"I'm Going Down lyrics;"

Down, down, down, down
I'm going down, down, down, down
I'm going down, down, down, down
I'm going down, down, down, down
I'm going down, down, down, down
Oh darling I'm going down

I'm going down, down, down, down
I'm going down, down, down, down

Egad. What a talent.

[God luvs America]

When i saw him in concert it started great. After the first three songs i thought, “hey- i may like this!!”

Then i remembered why i hated his music so much...the 5th song sounded exactly like the 6th song which sounded exactly like the 7th song which sounded exactly like the 8th song.

Then there was the preaching....and the lecturing...and a 20 minute version of the Beetle’s “Twist and Shout.” What a complete bore!!!

[x]

Um ... didn’t Woodstock (now 845 but not then) put the 914 on the rock ‘n roll map ?

[SamAdams76]

Springsteen deserves all the abuse we can heap on him, for he is the epitome of the pretentious, hypocritical, virtue-signaling liberal that we all love to loathe. He loves to lecture his audience on politics and adopts a false "working-class" persona while he's living on a horse farm like an aristocrat and raising his children to be equestrians. (Nothing wrong with any of that but please drop the fake working-class act already.)

That doesn't make him a bad musician however.

His "Nebraska" album just had its 40th Anniversary and Sirius/XM played the entire album on my way home from work yesterday. That is really an epic work that cannot be denied, just because he's a flaming a*hole in person.

[caver]

Well said!

[circlecity]

I loved Springsteen’s first 5 albums (up through “The River”). After that I lost interest. He got too preachy.

[circlecity]

That’s just the chorus. There are also three verses of lyrics. Choruses are often repetitive.

[John S Mosby]

From his very beginnings through now— Springsteen is a fake- fake rocker,fake “blues”man, fake revolutionary

(sucking up to Pete Communist Seeger with his longneck banjo- a card carrying admitted Communist who followed the Comintern’s direction of Anti-WWII and Anti Nazi- until Hitler invaded the Soviets. Then it was.. US join the World War with our “allies” Stalinist Soviet Russia!). Springsteen singing crappy organizing union songs with Pete Seeger at the Obamaumao the First Inauguration on the steps of the LINCOLN memorial! FAKE FAKE)

He can’t sing, barely play and is desperate to keep his “show” going. But- aside from the FAKE (Springsteen marketed to Viet vets— a huge lie) “Born in the USA” crap-—the ultimate insult was when his management INSERTED him into the Traveling Wilburys, constantly getting in the camera shots with the Great ROY ORBISON... who was the real deal. Springsteen is the kind of “rocker” that fat boy fag Chris Christie listened to and probably still listens to.

No regular guy at all— a regular folkie origin COMMIE no doubt. FAKE. Dry up and go away please... bruce. Note: the idiots that be in Orlando have him doing an incredibly priced ticketed show in ... Jan/Feb. It’s not selling, not even to the disney downline queers.

[Fiji Hill]

Arthur’s career as a recording engineer included the hits My Boyfriend's Back, Hang On, Sloopy, Chapel of Love, Leader of the Pack, and Van Morrison’s American debut album, Blowin' Your Mind, which included Brown-Eyed Girl, on which he sang backup.

All great tunes, especially Chapel of Love.

[shotgun]

Saw him at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse in 1984 when he extended his Born in the USA tour

[skeeter]

IMO I lost interest in his act when he started pumping iron & dancing.