Lines expected.
The mainstream media displayed much shock, over the weekend, when it was revealed that iconic blue-collar troubadour Bruce Springsteen’s surfboard was headed up to Cleveland, Ohio to be placed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Surprise and consternation as highlighted by Microsoft News report:
Surf’s up at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
No, we’re not talking about a Beach Boys exhibit. It’s Bruce Springsteen’s surfboard that’s now on display at the Rock Hall, which reopened to the general public on Jan. 17 “with proven health and safety precautions in place to protect staff and guests,” according to a Hall press release.
The Springsteen surfboard is very bizarre and weird though part of other new artifacts, including a Cleveland Cavaliers rock-themed City Edition uniform; outfits worn by Harry Styles, Laura Jane Grace, and Jidenna, Maline Moye’s guitar, and more.
Etc.
What the lamestream media clearly does not know is that Springsteen and his E-Street Band grew up in the surfing paradise of Asbury Park, New Jersey, my favorite town east of the Mississippi, and let’s quickly revisit BeachGrit’s award-winning trip to the Home of the Pork Roll.
Brilliant, no?
And in any case, Springsteen who made his name at The Stone Pony, lived in a surfboard factory with many members of the E-Street Band and was even managed by Challenger Surfboard’s founder-in-chief Carl “Tinker” West.
“We were from Freehold and there wasn’t any surfing there, but it was the surfers who worked at the surfboard factory who got the band into surfing,” Springsteen said of those heady surf years.
Jeff Salmon, of nearby Ocean Township, is making a film of Springsteen’s surfing roots and added, “They’d go surfing pretty much every day of the week. Asbury Park, Long Branch – they’d be at the beach surfing and then go to clubs at night.”
Very cool and we, as a community, should be honored to count The Boss amongst our kind.
Do you have a favorite Springsteen song?
Hungry Heart?
I don’t know how you cannot like Hungry Heart.
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There was a time when pretty much anything Mark Richards did, I too needed to do. I heard MR was a big Springsteen fan I jumped right in. Took a minute but there is a vast library once you get past the pop stuff.
Seriously tho, who wears a long leg short arm wettie? #yeastieboys in concert
Yeah but that was early 80s New Wave. There was a lot of interesting stuff in that era that was heavy on synth like Devo. By the mid 80s it was all limp wristed shit like Huey Lewis and the News and the theme songs from Beverley Hills Cop and Ghost Busters.
The Ghost of Tom Joad
State Trooper. Not my fave but favorite deepish cut.
Can we please have the dims?
Anything with mid 80s synth has dated really badly.
Even though it was absolutley huge at the time, most of born in the USA now sounds as shit as Billy Joel.
To be fair to Bruce, pretty much everything from that era sounds shit.
tramps like us were born to run
Endured four hours
Of Tbe Boss to get a girl
And I got the girl
Thanks buddy…I would have done that if I knew how
There is actually a live version I like more
This one?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
All you have to do is just copy and paste the link
Thanks again, nice version
I have a live 1980 version, tempe
It appears the uneducated may be beyond educating…I tried for an hour but couldn’t make it work
The harmonica intro to The River is a genuine work of art
“Then I got mary pregnant, and man that was all she wrote”…kind of the ode to my life
I can handle your right wing antagonism, but you went to far with this
Lost in the Flood… obviously
is Travis Barkers dignity on display?
Gone long ago. The MTV show where he was with his misso was the spot I gave on him.
Different dresses for different stresses.
I’m on fire. 2 and a half minutes of musical perfection. https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Beat me to it!
Blatant rip off of a far superior song and video.
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
They sound entirely different Negs
TO: Bruce Springsteen @<brucespringsteen.com>
FROM: Billy Joel @<billyjoel.com>
RE: “Uptown Girl”
Dear Mr Springsteen
It has come to my attention that the music from your song “I’m on Fire” is a cleverly disguised sample/copy of my previously published copyrighted song, “Uptown Girl”.
It possibly may be an inadvertent action on your part as the hot blonde in the music video did cause much confusion, especially after I married her.
Currently I am embroiled in litigation with the estate of the late Elmer Fudd who also misappropriated my music for his version of “I’m on Fire”, a version of which I very much prefer to yours.
As you may know, I hail from the Bronx and we don’t take too kindly to Jersey boys like yourself stealing our chicks or plagiarizing our music.
Warm Regards
Billy Joel
I’m dwiving in my car,I turn on the wadio!
Wait a second–you gave a downvote?!? The shame.
Debasing yourself for old man music. Never would have guessed.
I could continue trolling, but I like you too much.
Gotta say though that Springsteen is music for old Mal riders, hardly what the kids are listening too.
I was going off Chas’s lead. I do remember here in the States when Born in the USA hit the radio. Captured a moment for sure. That song, Jump by Van Halen, Purple Rain as an album, Thriller, and Madonna. 1984 had some music.
Southside Johnny and The Asburry Jukes- is better way than The Boss, IMO, (I wouldn’t down vote BS, but he’s a little schmaltzy)
https://m.youtube.com/watch…