<VV> Boss & Fender skirts (NO CORVAIR BUT LOTS OF GM!)

[Gary Swiatowy]

First time I heard "Born to Run", I was hooked.
But off the same Album, "Thunder Road", is my favorite.
Racing in the Streets is awesome!

But another one, "Ram Rod", goes away from GM
"She's a hot stepping hemi with a four on the floor
She's a roadrunner engine in a '32 Ford"

What can I say, other than my Corvairs, I'm a MOPAR guy!

Yeah, Bruce is a car guy!
Unfortunately, only seen him in concert once......what a show!
Well over 2 hours and we wanted more!

On  Sirius radio, there is a station called "E street radio"
All Springsteen!

AS far as politics...............
Well, anyone who bases their decisions on what a rock star or celebrity 
tells them to do should not be allowed to vote!

Gary Swiatowy



> From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Boss & Fender skirts (NO CORVAIR BUT LOTS OF GM!)
> Just got home - concert was great! Here is a brief summary of replies to
> what people said:
>
<snip>
>
> d) The reasons I liked his music then and like it now (he is still singing 
> a
> lot of the 70s stuff) are twofold: a) he sings about driving around the 
> USA,
> which is what I like doing; b) he sings about American cars, which are 
> what
> I like (Rick Norris got my favourite Boss tune wrong - it's not Born in 
> the
> USA but Racing in the Street, with Cadillac Ranch a close second).
>
> The video to I'm on Fire shows him under a Camaro (supposedly working on 
> it,
> but I think not...) and driving a T-bird - a bit corny I know (skip the
> first minute), but it's very old (1985), the song is great - and cars are
> cars:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LigOJstIDk
>
> Here's the first verse of Racing in the Street:
>
> I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396
> Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor
> She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot
> Outside the Seven-Eleven store
> Me and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch
> And he rides with me from town to town
> We only run for the money got no strings attached
> We shut `em up and then we shut `em down
>
> So there you have it - the reason I like the Boss is because he sings 
> about
> American cars and driving them. Especially Chevs.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
>
> P.S. And better still, as far as I know, he hasn't bought a Prius! As his
> followers are largely working class, blue-collar guys, he has to be very
> careful about being too overtly green and latte-sipping, so although he is
> Obama's ambassador on earth, I haven't heard him making any anti-car
> statements, for fear of alienating his core supporters. And he certainly
> sang a lot of the old car-related songs last night, even if he hasn't
> written any new ones for a while...