That kind of coin won't cover his bands bar tab.
The author is right about one thing. He should have played the Auditorium or even the Ampitheatre. He might have been able to make it look like he still had a following.
I've loathed Springsteens music since 1977 and quite proudly I might add.
Working mans hero my ass.
He's a phony.
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I actually liked this guy quite a bit up until the mid-80s; I think the Dancing in the Dark video was the last straw. But listening again now, most of his vocals are so overwrought he sounds like he singing while he's sitting on the toilet, constipated.
Working mans hero my ass.
He's a phony.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Bananarama is more enlightening.
I saw an old concert on PBS as I was channel surfing. He sucks up to that mediocre at best, Clarence Clemmins(sp?) like he was his b*cth.
The sad thing is that Bruce misread his audience. "Born in the USA" is about the failure of the US to take care of its Viet Nam War veteran. It's a character portrait; There's nothing left-wing about a man who doesn't understand the geopolitics about why one man should kill another in a far-off land; and it wasn't written when the war was a hot issue. It only became politicized when the left was shocked that the right enjoyed the song, because the song was critical of the US; but if the left was surprised it was only because they didn't imagine the songs broadest themes (i.e., expectations of the U.S. treating its veterans better) played well on the right.
Sadly, Springsteen began to see himself as a new Guthrie. He hasn't had one truly popular album, or even a very good song, since. Born in the USA is not high art, but it is, actually, decent pop music, and, to a respectable degree, an expression of America.
"I catch him when hes strayin teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he aint no friend of mine"
Like John Cougar Mellencamp, he quit be an American, and started being a celebrity, and he didn't even know it when his wheels jumped the track.