Posted on 02/29/2004 4:17:34 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
Springsteen torture at Camp X-Ray
01Mar04
A TERROR suspect freed from Guantanamo Bay has told of cruel and unusual punishment.
Hamed Abderrahman Ahmad, a Spaniard who denies any links with terrorism, said he had to wrap his head in a damp towel to try to muffle loud tapes of Born in the USA.
Mr Ahmad said he was confined to a small cell where the lights were always on and he was forced to listen endlessly to Bruce Springsteen.
"First I spent a month in a cell two metres square that had a roof of sheet iron, with unbearable heat," he said.
"All day they blared patriotic American music. It was Born in the USA. We had to put wet towels on our heads to be able to bear the heat and not hear the music . . .
"Later they put us in even smaller cells."
This report appears on NEWS.com.au.
I think it's a good choice ---- in a subtle kind of way --- many people mistake it for a patriotic song --- including these mohammedans. Springsteen is probably steaming mad --- he's going to have to admit his song is torture and condemn them for using it, the liberals would have to demand an anti-American song has to be pulled.
Testify, brother! If you've heard one yelping, you've heard 'em all.
A friend of mine who I met in the late 80s used to own a club in Manhattan back in the 70s - he played disco for the reason you mention - it got the ladies in the joint. Of course the ladies got the men in and with that combo he sold a lot of drinks. But he'll quickly admit he was not a disco fan for musical enjoyment aspects. That being said Disco was an urban thing at first but it eventually changed all the clubs in the suburbs that used to have live rock bands. They all eventually switched to a DJ and dance music. I started going to clubs when I was 16 as I was big and had facial hair plus my friends were older and you only had to be 18 anyway. At least I got to experience the club scene before the switch was wide spread and finalized.
What did I listen to? Typical stuff - Stones, Zeppelin, Doors, Pink Floyd, Allman Brothers, etc. plus two bands that were big that got no radio play at all - Black Sabbath and Hot Tuna. Never got into most of late 70s bands at all - cheap trick, foreigner, van halen, etc. - they were almost as bad as Bruce ;^) Like I said to Mr. Mojo, it got to the point that I had to turn the radio dial every 3 song so I eventual gave up R&R. Hey man, it wasn't a point of trying to be cool, it was a natural reflexive reaction of my ears. Some sounds inspired me and others were like fingernails on a blackboard. Why do some guys like football and others baseball and others like both and some can't stand either? It's how we're hard wired - genetics that is. I react to color the same way I react to music. I'm sensitive to these things. Some aren't and so it goes....
That's true nationally, but Bruce was a New Jersey icon before then, with lots of NYC radio airplay.
Do you remember when Scott Muni of WNEW got an advance copy of Darkness? The way I heard the story, he supposedly was in a record store when he overheard some Barbra Streisand fan complaining about having a Springsteen album in her BS record sleeve? The record in question turned out to be Darkness. The story goes that Muni took the record off her hands, and was the first to play the album on the radio.
It's funny with Bruce -- he was a local hero rock icon in NY/NJ in the 70s, became a national star in the 80s, and is pretty much back to being just a local hero again now. The vast majority of his American tour dates last year were on the East Coast.
That's what I listened to mostly as well. .....and you can throw in Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Yes, Aerosmith (up until '78), Little Feat, CCR, Cream, Jeff Beck, Leon Russell, Hendrix......too many to mention, really.
But I also listened to a lot of jazz -- Mingus, Monk, Miles, Coltrane, Tatum, Ellington........
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