Springsteen on what made him what he is

Bob-Dubery

Nice article at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-festivals/9148006/Bruce-Springsteen-How-I-Became-The-Boss.html

With some great quotes and insights. Elvis Presley was “the first modern 20th century man, creating fundamental outsider art that would be embraced by a mainstream popular culture”. Soul was “blue collar music with the gritty determination of the blues, the church, the earth, the sex soaked heavens. It was music of sweaty perspiration that drenched a man's shirt.”

studmissile

Playing the riff of the Animals' version of Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Springsteen demonstrated how he turned it into his own classic song, Badlands. “Listen up youngsters,” he joked to the assembled musicians. “This is how successful theft is accomplished.”

Fascinating, Thanx!

Squonk

I still don't get Springsteen and I have tried....

Bob-Dubery

Squonk, I actually "got" the Boss via his darker, more subdued albums (well I would, wouldn't I?) Nebraska and Tunnel of Love.

Then I saw him in concert in 1988 - images from that performance still burn vividly in my memory. An amazing performance.

studmissile

Definitely Nebraska and Darkness On The Edge Of Town.