Bruce takes us all home safely, we hope…
The first time I ever heard of Bruce Springsteen was freshman year at Penn State. Some kid from New Jersey brought up the name in a conversation, bragging that this Springsteen guy was going to be the biggest thing in rock and roll since Dylan and the Beatles.
Right, I thought. Because those Jersey guys would NEVER exaggerate, especially about Jersey things.
Then “Born to Run” came out, and they went and put the guy on the cover of Time magazine, and then on Wednesday the guy turned 60. Some other stuff may have happened in between, but I’m getting too old to remember.
(By the way, this guy shares a 9/23 birthday with Springsteen, and he’s pretty damn cool in his own right.)
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Normal
September 25th, 2009
3:03 pm
Didn’t Springsteen write “Bush Did It”? That’s humor Mike, humor
jconservative
September 25th, 2009
3:10 pm
My wife & I just signed up for classes at the Tom Delay School of Dance.
Bet all of y’all are jealous!
Normal
September 25th, 2009
3:19 pm
Well, when it comes to that butt wiggling, please delay!
Tom
September 25th, 2009
3:21 pm
I’m headed out to my nearest beauty supply store. Ya better be thankful thet BushDrunk’s CIA is out that, pertectin ya!!
Taxpayer
September 25th, 2009
3:21 pm
Here’s another one of Bruce’s tunes.
joe matarotz
September 25th, 2009
3:35 pm
He was great until he released “The River”. Since then, it’s been ALL downhill.
Mrs. Godzilla
September 25th, 2009
3:41 pm
Bruce…..all the great memories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsJsjaYm03E
stands for decibels
September 25th, 2009
3:42 pm
Here’s another one of Bruce’s better ones.
I had hoped that this tune would cease to resonate as it once did.
Alas, we’re still left asking that awful question.
whistling dixie
September 25th, 2009
3:45 pm
Bruce turned sixty the other day…holy cow! How in the hell did we get this old?
To Bruce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjF1bG5LUcs
GEORGE AMERICAN
September 25th, 2009
3:49 pm
NOTHING GOOD HAS EVER COME OUT ON NEW JERSEY – YANKEE HEAVEN!!!
I’LL TAKE HANK JR. AND C.B.D. ANY DAY.
every mothers son
September 25th, 2009
3:55 pm
George American … I think you meant C D B as in Charlie Daniels Band…Right?
If that clown was playing in my own back yard I would watch the cooking channel instead….YUK!
AmVet
September 25th, 2009
3:58 pm
Like so many others his debut stuff was arguably his best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iwz5uslQEM&feature=related
and lots of people thought it was these guys who penned it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7wk7n0i1EM
GEORGE AMERICAN
September 25th, 2009
4:03 pm
every mothers son
YEAH THE COOKING CHANNEL – YUK!!! TOO MANY FAT BROADS GETTING FATTER.
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
September 25th, 2009
4:09 pm
This loser is one addled moron. Southside was much bigger in the early 70s. This guys has been creatively dead since born to run.
RW-(the original)
September 25th, 2009
4:15 pm
Enter your comments here–
These Friday night music threads are pretty hard to stomach when it’s Dylan or Springsteen. Either one of them has the same affect on me as a two handed chalkboard scratching.
Midori
September 25th, 2009
4:21 pm
I was stationed in Germany during that time and saw Bruce in Frankfurt.
memories………………..
Pogo
September 25th, 2009
4:21 pm
I don’t know Bill, Darkness on the Edge of Town was pretty good, though a bit dreary. After that Bruce bit it big time. I do however think the song “Glory Days” may be very applicable to many of the 60’s progressives who hang out here. “Oh to live on, Sugar Mountain” so to speak.
AmVet
September 25th, 2009
4:24 pm
From the Jersey shore to the Midwest to LA, it was all about that long haired music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXhq5V2zE_4
and from some fellow Midwestern boys that Tricky Dick labeled as public miscreants! (Yes, boys and girls, Republicans have always been losers.) I damned near wore this record out…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkVjd1fJMME
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
September 25th, 2009
4:25 pm
Springsteen is a whiner, hence the liberal adoration.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
September 25th, 2009
4:27 pm
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.
Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it “Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold.”-Politico
Eye was booooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnn in dee USSR, eye means, A.
Public Option's Doing Swell
September 25th, 2009
4:27 pm
Twitter for music streams.
Track all your music across web and share–tracking 20 music sites and counting
http://www.twones.com/welcome
http://blog.twones.com/
Public Option's Doing Swell
September 25th, 2009
4:29 pm
Sen. John Ensign received a note from his former hooker and her husband demanding 100 more grand from his momma.
Public Option's Doing Swell
September 25th, 2009
4:30 pm
Prison medical care is close to the medical care Kyle and Ensign are trying to arrange for you.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
September 25th, 2009
4:31 pm
As Obozo and his Code Pinko flunkies dither-
Five American soldiers have been killed in a wave of attacks across southern Afghanistan.-TimesOnLine
Um, #$@% or get off the pot, please.
Kamchak
September 25th, 2009
4:32 pm
Great Coltrane Jay!
I should know the other guys but I don’t. Any ideas on who they are in that performance?
AmVet
September 25th, 2009
4:34 pm
More of that sweet harmony to PO our local yokels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1DGcD1sro&feature=PlayList&p=C293BB4C76F143D1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=20
and more of that seditious music
http://www.brewerandshipley.com/Songs/Tarkio/FiftyStates.htm
Brad Steel
September 25th, 2009
4:37 pm
Wyld Hytler,
Your pining for the good ol’ days of Born to Run is heartbreaking. Typical stuck-in-the-past conservative stupidity. You can’t adapt or evolve.
The Ghost of Tom Joad is massive in every sense. But, just like diplomacy, you don’t have the capacity to understand it.
Public Option's Doing Swell
September 25th, 2009
4:37 pm
The US has no troops to send to Afghanistan, and no other country feels like being there either. Looks like Andy is on its own.
Congras to another Dem in the Senate. Sen. Paul Kirk (D-MA) was just sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden, to serve in the Senate until the Massachusetts special election in January. As always in election litigation, the courts ruled against Repubs in Mass. trying to stop this.
AmVet
September 25th, 2009
4:38 pm
RW, don’t go away mad…
Maybe the original revolutionary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xIulyVsG8
and the theme song for And and his posse commode-atatis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9852hq0W0
Soothsayer
September 25th, 2009
4:39 pm
Housing Crash to Resume on 7 Million Foreclosures, Amherst Says
Public Option's Doing Swell
September 25th, 2009
4:40 pm
Kyl: ‘I Don’t Need Maternity Care.’ Stabenow: ‘Your Mom Probably Did’
Just before the Senate Finance Committee wrapped up for the long weekend, members debated one of Sen. Jon Kyl’s (R-AZ) amendments, which would strike language defining which benefits employers are required to cover.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) argued that insurers must be required to cover basic maternity care. (In several states there are no such requirements.)
“I don’t need maternity care,” Kyl said. “So requiring that on my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy more expensive.”
Stabenow interrupted: “I think your mom probably did.”
The amendment was defeated, nine to 14.
Here’s the deal. The Repubozos want to micromanage the pregnancy. But they don’t want insurance companies to pay for the care, and they are fine with throwing the baby in the dumpster after delivery.
Soothsayer
September 25th, 2009
4:43 pm
The economic downturn will likely cost as many as 25 million people their jobs by end-2010 as the unemployment rate nears a record 10 percent in the OECD group of countries, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Normal
September 25th, 2009
4:43 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-ddJL86zs&feature=related
I like!
every mothers son
September 25th, 2009
4:45 pm
Kamchak … Probably – Piano; McCoy Tyner – Bass; Elvin Jones
Coltrane always had the best. I always enjoyed Johnny Hartman as his vocalist.
AmVet
September 25th, 2009
4:46 pm
One of America’s great treasures and yes, like me, rabidly anti-Republican:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGNdpnYYEkQ
from later in his career but still a jaw dropping talent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5d2C4g88b0
Soothsayer
September 25th, 2009
4:46 pm
Spain’s Answer to Unemployment: Go Greener Leader in Renewable Energy Considers Subsidies, Mandates to Build Industry
Soothsayer
September 25th, 2009
4:51 pm
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health interests fund senators
Kamchak
September 25th, 2009
4:53 pm
A slowed down version of “The E Street Shuffle”
(please work youtube.)
AmVet
September 25th, 2009
4:56 pm
Normal, sweeet…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TVhlCm-NR8&feature=related
and as Jeff Spicoli said: All I need are some tasty waves, some cool buds and I’m fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5brvUsNP4A8&feature=related
Kamchak
September 25th, 2009
4:58 pm
every mothers son
Thanks. I seem to remember that Jay put up a video of Johnny Hartman some weeks ago–and yes Coltrane was playin’.
AmVet
September 25th, 2009
5:03 pm
Some of that very sweet early bubble gum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXq81-cGJr4
and his first hit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTgTHFS5CLo
Normal
September 25th, 2009
5:08 pm
Another anti Repulican…this one is for you Mike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fXaC07X5M8&feature=related
Normal
September 25th, 2009
5:11 pm
I like this cover too…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_tJnj2j5kI
Normal
September 25th, 2009
5:12 pm
…and then, the original…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwCBh0z3Hs&feature=related
Pogo
September 25th, 2009
5:14 pm
It is easy for extremely rich musicians to be liberal AMVET. A grand in taxes to them means nothing. A grand in taxes to the average American is a burden. The real coup is that they identify themselves with “Regular” Americans and you saps fall for it. It’s easy to be liberal when you are rich.
What about Al Gore backing a company that builds hybrid cars which only the “rich” can afford (90 grand per car) and these car’s will be built in Finland? No American union jobs, just money for another Capitalistic company wanting to make money. Funny thing is, this company also just got a 500 million dollar grant from us American taxpayers to develop a car that is targeted for the rich. This global warming thing is great, isn’t it? And Al is making more and more every day off of it. If I didn’t know better, I would swear that Al is an evil, capitalism loving charlatan. Wouldn’t you Amvet?
every mothers son
September 25th, 2009
5:15 pm
now this is what I call music…………………………………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvB6rrnzDM8
AmVet
September 25th, 2009
5:18 pm
Normal, from that same stunning record. Let me fill your cup…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j79wjIB46A0&feature=related
and the only song I can think of that has a killer 2 plus minute instrumental opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GDIkb5CDUY&feature=related
Normal
September 25th, 2009
5:20 pm
Every Mothers Son, I’ll match ya with this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNc1yLGPug&feature=related
AmVet
September 25th, 2009
5:22 pm
So go listen to your cornball country or anything else.
Here’s one you’ll love, up and down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HqqrvMQjg
Dusty
September 25th, 2009
5:23 pm
ARghhhh..Friday night music!! Why does Bookman have to torture us?
THEN….we get the Chinese water torture of tunes, ever body’s got one…like .that sweet bar in west podunk that had two sax players that sounded like tomcats fighting and one had bubble gun stuck on his shoe and purple was plutarch and every minute was the best music ever in ol’ Podunk Motorcyle Mob Molestor Club!! Here’s a recording!! You’ll love it!!
AArrgghhhh..I think I will go play with Kyle and Jim. …They’re NICE!!!….