This post is meant
a.) to establish a "immidiate-response-to-comments" doctrine for this blog (Dont't rely on it, though, as I change my doctrines on an almost daily basis.)
b.) to thank commenter Don for the pointer to "springsteen + seeger" - youtube vids and
c.) to try out youtube's "Blog Video" feature
(Update: It works! I only had to fix the entry title.)
My last Springsteen session was 17 years ago. Looks like "the boss" deserves a second chance.
In the video, Bruce Springsteen, addresses the audience in Indianapolis by saying:
We are few, but we are mighty!
Applies for this blog as well, me thinks.
5 comments:
Don,
thanks again for the pointer. And I agree with your statements re Springsteen, Cash & patriotism. We have a big fat patriotism debate right now in Germany, because of the soccer thing. That's another topic for another day, as MM would say ;-).
Check out this new performance of Bring Them Home by the Boss.
Here's a recent interview. The Boss gives some arrogant answers to some stupid questions. This time I like arrogance.
Don,
I admit "arrogant" is not the right word. I just did not know how to better describe the way he laughed. Anyway, I think this kind of "arrogance" was appropriate, althought it did not come across as so sympathic for my ears, but that is just my opinion.
Anyway, I like Springsteen. Both his politics and his music, incl. 'The River' and 'Born in the USA'. Ron Reagan abused Born in the USA, but I still like it. Great work out music.
Thank you, Don.
I respect that too.
It is my understanding that her name is Natalie Maines, because she is not so mean.
But she can be angry. She acknowledged once that her "ashamed to be from Texas" comment was made when she was performing in London during a Europe tour right before the Iraq war and that she was surround by angry war protestors all the time, i.e. you can blame her comments on us Europeans ;-)
Anyway, I think the debates were pretty heated and her comments let to some tough reactions ("traitors" etc) and it all got blown out of proportion.
I got the feeling the Chicks are now trying to benefit from it all by making a political album for the first time. However, I have not really looked into all these issues, thus I might be wrong.
Thank you for this discussion, gentlemen! Very entertaining.
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