Bruce Springsteen appreciation thread (1 Viewer)

[David Kronenbourg]

mixed feelings on the boss. he's a talented song writer but never really found a groove with him.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Darkness On The Edge Of Town and Tunnel of Love are all I need from Bruce.

 

[seanc]

Darkness On The Edge Of Town and Tunnel of Love are all I need from Bruce.

There was a performance movie of Bruce and the E-Street band on Sky Arts the other night. No audience, all the hits, nothing fancy. A bit meh, good and all, but what was it all for? Couldn't tell when it was from, but Clarence was there.

Anyway it ended with Darkness on the Edge of Town, which did indeed have me air-guitaring around the kitchen.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I'm going to put on DOTEOT now, sorry Jimmy Giuffre.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

His singing is pretty annoying, please proceed with the cancellation.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

for comparison...

The Cure: Robert Smith tells fans he is ‘sickened’ by Ticketmaster fees as US tour goes on sale

The frontman said that artists had no way to limit the ticketing giant’s fees but his band had declined to participate in the ‘greedy scam’ of dynamic pricing

www.theguardian.com

 

[ernesto]

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[Deadmanposting]

for comparison...

The Cure: Robert Smith tells fans he is ‘sickened’ by Ticketmaster fees as US tour goes on sale

The frontman said that artists had no way to limit the ticketing giant’s fees but his band had declined to participate in the ‘greedy scam’ of dynamic pricing

www.theguardian.com

It's only a tiny part of the argument, but rock shows used to be attended by teenagers and 20something lads, way back when
And they were priced so teenagers could afford them.
They were not targeted or priced at 40something middle class people. Those people were mostly off doing adult things. Now we do far fewer 'adult things', like I dunno dinner dances or whatever.
It's the same as the football has been for years.
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor.

Because we've made money overall, we've taken something that was youth culture and made it middle class, and expensive.
If we hadn't decided to hang onto our teenage identities for the rest of our lives - and need Instagram validation from our 40something peers that we were still not old, we're still happening or whatever - there'd be a lot less demand for these things.

I understand the argument about Springsteen being a greedy fucker - and I won't argue against that

But there's a part of this that's like complaining about being in traffic.
Yeah, you're in traffic, but you also are traffic.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

It's only a tiny part of the argument, but rock shows used to be attended by teenagers and 20something lads, way back when
And they were priced so teenagers could afford them.
They were not targeted or priced at 40something middle class people. Now they are.
It's the same as the football has been for years.

Because we've made money overall, we've taken something that was youth culture and made it middle class, and expensive.
If we hadn't decided to hang onto our teenage identities for the rest of our lives, there'd be a lot less demand for these things.

I understand the argument about Springsteen being a greedy fucker - and I won't argue against that

But there's a part of this that's like complaining about being in traffic.
Yeah, you're in traffic, but you also are traffic.

hmm - agree and disagree.

I would say both professional sport and the upper end of live music is now part of a fairly similar industry in terms of who they target as their customers

 

[Deadmanposting]

Sorry, I go on a bit. I know.