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Sorry, but wrong yet again. Bruce has simply never done drugs. Friends and bandmates of his in the 60's and 70's have said they were in awe of his focus towards music, which he didn't want to lose by clouding his mind. In the 90's, he joked that maybe he should have tried some in his younger days. Blinded By the Light was not about drugs. He was heavily influenced by Dylan at the time and he tried to put as many rhymes and images he could in the song ala Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues."

In the intro to The River in No Nukes, he does say the song is for his brother-in-law and his sister. That doesn't mean it's completely biographical, and he doesn't use her real name (Ginny).

"I come from down in the valley
where mister when you're young
They bring you up to do like your daddy done
Me and Mary we met in high school
when she was just seventeen
We'd ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green

We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we'd ride

Then I got Mary pregnant
and man that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
and the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers no wedding dress"

Sorry, IMO it's pretty weird when there's a connection in many of his early songs with Mary (or Wendy and Sandy but he never tells you a song written about Wendy or Sandy is dedicated to his sister and brother-in-law). Listen, this has nothing to do with conservative or liberal opinion. It's a freudian connection, subconscious in nature perhaps.

As for no-drugs: I find it hard to believe. Even some famous "conservative" rockers that claimed no drugs later admitted they took drugs. I mean, Asbury Park was hippie heaven. The whole scene was sex, drugs, and rock. Are you telling me The Boss sang in shore clubs without even a contact high? I am totally amazed!

The topic was Bruce's politics and music. IMO Concerts are overall good, but I went to a bad one at Veteran's Stadium 1985. His life is better than the Osbornes but it isn't always as it is spun by his handlers. And he sounds like an idiot when he makes political stands.

BTW, worst concert I attended was Ozzy Osborne in 1986 with Queensreich opening at Long Island. But I must say, Ozzy didn't make me feel bad for the oppressed peoples around the world as he drunkenly mumbled his songs under an enormous menacing demon head...Ozzy's a drunken lech not a RUDE socialist! There's a difference. LOL

Oh, I'm having fun. I am taking this very lightly I hope you all are too. But that Mary thing is freudian, i'm telling you, it's freudian.