Posted on 05/23/2025 12:18:17 PM PDT by DallasBiff
No Surrender chose to perform at another venue after a Toms River bar owner told them his city “is red and won’t stand for [Springsteen’s] bullshit”
Over here on E Street, it’s pretty quiet now that a Jersey Shore bar owner questioned whether No Surrender, a Bruce Springsteen cover band, should perform at his establishment after the real Springsteen openly criticized Donald Trump. The group had booked a gig at Riv’s Toms River Hub, in Toms River, New Jersey, on May 30 (a Friday night, always a great night for Springsteen), but found out Sunday night the concert was in jeopardy.
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Bruce forgot the meaning of his song “My Hometown”.
Trump does understand it and is trying to help the kinds of people Bruce talks about in the lyrics:
“ Now Main Street’s whitewashed windows
And vacant stores
Seems like there ain’t nobody
Wants to come down here no more
They’re closing down the textile mill
Across the railroad tracks
Foreman says, “These jobs are going, boys
And they ain’t coming back
To your hometown
To your hometown
To your hometown
To your hometown”
Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
Talking about getting out
Packing up our bags, maybe heading south
I’m thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel
And said, “Son, take a good look around
This is your hometown”
this cover band ... do they sound constipated when they sing?
Sorry, it says “cover band”. IOW a “tribute” band that plays bruthee’s stuff. You think he would care?
I’d like to see someone knock the shit out of that ahole.
Do they have their shirts open like him looking like a tranny?
Born in the USA was a hate America song ...
Bruce is so poison, even Springsteen cover bands are affected.
For most, we would shout “shut up and sing!”
For Bruce, not so much
“shut up and, well..... Shut up”
Perhaps it is time people gave Springsteen the Beatles treatment from 1966 when they said they were “more popular than Jesus”, and people all across the USA began to burn their Beatles albums.
He opened up with Born in the USA at a concert attended. Knew the song but didn’t care for it so why did he open his act that way? I think I know. He just wanted to get it out of the way in prep for the upbeat rest of the show. That’s the tour where he slid across the stage and gave a big lip-lock to Clarence Clemons. People ate it up. It grossed me out.
Perhaps it is time people gave Springsteen the Beatles treatment from 1966 when they said they were “more popular than Jesus”, and people all across the USA began to burn their Beatles albums.
In 1966 The Rutles faced the biggest threat to their careers. Nasty in a widely quoted interview had apparently claimed that the Rutles were bigger than God, and was reported to have gone on to say that God had never had a hit record.
The story spread like wildfire in America. Many fans burnt their albums, many more burnt their fingers attempting to burn their albums. Album sales sky-rocketed. People were buying them just to burn them.
But in fact it was all a ghastly mistake. Nasty, talking to a slightly deaf journalist, had claimed only that the Rutles were bigger than Rod. Rod Stewart would not be big for another eight years, and certainly at this stage hadn’t had a hit. At a press conference, Nasty apologized to God, Rod and the press, and the tour went ahead as planned. It would be the Rutles’ last.
Bruce is pissing on the American flag on the album cover.
and The Boss covers in the corner.
Kid Rock could help.
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I wish I could un-read that. Feel like I've just been slimed.
Once saw the Jerry Garcia Band at the Boarding House in San Francisco. Small venue. Clarence showed up and was very restrained. Musically that night, Clarence was great. You could tell he did not want to screw up anything while playing with Garcia.
He is second rate anyhow.
THIS IS THE WAY! Punch the leftist bullies in the mouth.
I’ve always wished I could have seen Old & In the Way at the Boarding House back in the day.
Clarence Clemons was brilliant. Saw him live in a very small club, hardly bigger than a suburban rec room, in the ‘70s. Unforgettable.
Never liked his music from jump and I can’t stand him. Too bad Little Steven has gone along with his BS.
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