Springsteen gives props to Mike & Social D and their faithful ???community???.

[backroadmotel]

Go to the link below and choose the second audio clip where Bruce talks about his favorite bands, which include Mike and the Boyz.

Springsteen makes a great point about how some bands are able to give certain audiences a community, a place to belong, bound by songs of common experiences and struggles both good and bad.

To have Mike and Bruce together on stage would pretty much set performance standards so high, nothing else would ever come close. (well, maybe a dozen strippers or so showing pictures of me having sex with them might come close, knowwhatImsayin?)

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdail...and-new-bands/

[Kematter]

That was cool.

Thanks Boss.

[99tolife]

i told you guys bruce know good music!

[wolfpits]

Dont get me wrong, I love Bruce, but GOOD LORD I wish this guy would just shut up. He has got to be the worst interview I have ever heard. He managed to say about a minutes worth into 5 minutes and the other 4 minutes was "um um and and um um". Fuck, enough already!

[SaintofCircumstance]

Dont get me wrong, I love Bruce, but GOOD LORD I wish this guy would just shut up. He has got to be the worst interview I have ever heard. He managed to say about a minutes worth into 5 minutes and the other 4 minutes was "um um and and um um". Fuck, enough already!

<font size="2" face="verdana, arial">haha, do a phoner with ness sometime. by the time you cut all the uh uh uh, and half sentences he repeats over and over, you get about 30 seconds of material for every 4 minutes of tape. the good ones are usually like that [img]smile.gif[/img]

[99tolife]

haha all the greats are just like that. They're great speakers when they are talking to an audience through a microphone but one-on- one interviews are a different story.

[jen415]

All the Springsteen talk has made me start listening to his albums I grew up with again. I'm dating myself but the only time I saw him as I think 1985. I was in junior high and the show was within a week or so of the Born in the USA release date. It was awesome, but about 6 months later that album was everywhere, and I got burned out of the new clean shaven American hero Bruce. Would love to see him again but paying 75.00+ to see any band in a sports arena isn't my thing. Can't blame him for being popular though.

He's released practically another career's worth of music since I stopped following him. Can anyone recommend some good stuff post Born in the USA?

[Love_Pain]

Yeah, Wolfpits, I was gonna say the same thing. I'm with you, it's a lot of stuttering and stammering, but Mike Ness is the same way. When you've lived the life of a badass, people respect you enough to shut the fuck up and deal with it so they can hear what you have to say.

[yeahsure]

I always figure when a rock star has trouble being "eloquent" in an interview, that's a sign that the guy (or girl) is the real deal and not some media-savvy, uber-polished smoothtalker. Plus, their interviews are basically just a curiosity in the end. What really counts is the eloquence the artist captures in the lyrics, and when it comes to Bruce and Ness, they have no peers. (At least in this fan's humble opinion.)

[mattSF]

Originally posted by jen415:
He's released practically another career's worth of music since I stopped following him. Can anyone recommend some good stuff post Born in the USA?

<font size="2" face="verdana, arial">all of them...depends on the mood. I like Devils and Dust, Tracks/Lost Tracks, and Ghost of Tom Joad, because it gives me the same feel like Darkness & Nebraska and Tracks gives the earlier work context...surprisingly why some of the material is left off the studio albums. Rising is hard for me to listen to for obvious reasons, but it's good. Lucky Town is uplifting like SLRR. Human Touch and Tunnel get played, but it tends to focus of the harder aspects on relationships. Springsteen's songwriting abilities ranks up there for me.