It's pretty simple, I amor Bruce's música because it spoke to the pain, the angst and the dreams I had when I was younger. Maybe that's why so many people amor his music. He told stories without being too literal and precise. He had a way of expressing hard to name emotions with his words and the music. No one could say as much with an "ooooh" as Bruce. He lived inside us all.
But then he got political, and overtly political. Why? He can have his views and even express them if asked, but I am so sorry he became a disciple and fawning fã of one side of politics, and joined the bandwagon of those criticising others simply for disagreeing with them. In my view this has been a mistake. Bruce stopped expressing the pain of Everyman and lost the amor of half his audience.
And the fact is that the people he lost are the people who he used to mean most to - those living hard, those feeling disaffected. He seemed to turn away from them to mix with those in the White House. This is terribly sad.
And sadder still is that the depth and the realness of his música has faded as he has joined the political sphere. There has been nothing like "Something in the Night" or "New York Serenade" in a long time. When was the last time he wrote a line with the passion of "I want to spit in the face of these Badlands?".
What I don't know is whether he chose to become party political because he felt the música leaving him, or if he has lost the música because he chose to take sides against those he used to give voice to. Maybe I'll never know but I now find it hard to watch Bruce talk about the world today. I feel he is just pretending to speak like a common man and now it's a guise to try to get us to follow his politics. I have returned to the early albums and that's where I'm going to stay, with the skinny, ruffled, desperate-eyed young man who knew that what really mattered was what's inside a person, not how they vote.
But then he got political, and overtly political. Why? He can have his views and even express them if asked, but I am so sorry he became a disciple and fawning fã of one side of politics, and joined the bandwagon of those criticising others simply for disagreeing with them. In my view this has been a mistake. Bruce stopped expressing the pain of Everyman and lost the amor of half his audience.
And the fact is that the people he lost are the people who he used to mean most to - those living hard, those feeling disaffected. He seemed to turn away from them to mix with those in the White House. This is terribly sad.
And sadder still is that the depth and the realness of his música has faded as he has joined the political sphere. There has been nothing like "Something in the Night" or "New York Serenade" in a long time. When was the last time he wrote a line with the passion of "I want to spit in the face of these Badlands?".
What I don't know is whether he chose to become party political because he felt the música leaving him, or if he has lost the música because he chose to take sides against those he used to give voice to. Maybe I'll never know but I now find it hard to watch Bruce talk about the world today. I feel he is just pretending to speak like a common man and now it's a guise to try to get us to follow his politics. I have returned to the early albums and that's where I'm going to stay, with the skinny, ruffled, desperate-eyed young man who knew that what really mattered was what's inside a person, not how they vote.
This ano marked the 100th anniversary of celebration of Fenway Park, so what a better way than to help keep this monotonous ano going than por have a legend like Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band play at Fenway Park!
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If you missed Bruce Springsteen and the Gang after the release of "The Rising" when they were the first música group to ever ROCK link in September 2003. You don't want to miss them this time around! The city has allowed Bruce Springsteen another great opportunity to show his fãs just how much he loves this city!
The caixa de escada, escada Sisters - San Francisco's all-gal old-time teardown - release a Springsteen single - Youngstown - a gorgeous rendition on fiddle, banjo, guitar, baixo and Hawaiian slide. The caixa de escada, escada Sisters chose Youngstown from a list of songs to learn for a live presentation of Howard Zinn & Anthony Arnove's Voices of A Peoples' History, 2009. It is a fantastic banjo tune, and tells a story familiar to fãs of Southern old-time music, and working people everywhere. The Sisters have been performing it ever since, and released it as a single at their Tenth Anniversary show at the Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA, Dec 12, 2010. Enjoy.
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