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Revved up like a douche?

Is that what he says?
Never could figure it out and I hated that song from day
one, but they played it over and over and
over.......................

The line is "Revved up like a Deuce"
The Deuce refers to a 1932 Ford, which was and is the ultimate early Ford to hotrod with a high horsepower engine.

That said, from reading reviews of recent Springsteen concerts and talking to some people I know who have seen him on this tour, what appears to be happening to Bruce is what happened to Steve Miller. You may not be a Steve Miller fan but he had a varied and interesting early career in the mid 60's to the early 70's, but he finally made it big with his "Take The Money and Run", "Jungle Love", "Fly Like An Eagle", "Abracabra" etc., hit singles in the mid to late 70's, and his recent tours have somehow attracted a predominantly frat/beach party kind of crowd who are mainly interested in those specific songs and that era of Miller's career. He gets little reaction to his earlier work and that is when many fans go to the concession stands. On his website he usually has a poll asking fans to suggest which of his little played "older" songs should be added to the next tour. Steve Miller has accepted that this is what the vast majority of his current concert attending fans want...Just The Hits, Please.

Springsteen is fighting this but from those I talked to who saw him, most of the crowd had little interest in his new stuff and somber tunes....they want Rosalita, Blinded By The Light, Thunder Road, Born In The U.S.A., 10th Avenue...etc....
Sure there are a lot of hard core fans who want the new stuff too, but a lot of concertgoers are casual Bruce fans who get dragged to the concert with the fanatical fan, and pretty much all that will interest them are the hit Springsteen songs that they know, and those are the ones that are in continuous rotation on Classic Rock Stations. For many, Bruce is now just another "Classic Rock" act. My friends who attended some of the shows said that lots of people were talking and going to the concessions during the new songs.

I saw Miller in the 70's and about 10 years ago. He put on a great show and every song was kick @$$!
We have a 'classic' rock (I HATE that term) station in Seattle (KISW). I first tuned them in just prior to New Years Eve and they were playing the top 1,000 rock songs. It was great and they were really going back into the vault.
But once the weekend was over, it was back to the business of playing the same damned songs over and over.
Here's what seems to be their daily routine:

Pink Floyd
Van Halen
Guns & Roses
Aerosmith
Def Leppard

Over and over and over. I thought 'payola' was illegal?
They must have lost the combination to the vault!

That's funny about Springsteen fans at the concession stands.
I'd rather see Junior Brown any damned day!!! =^)