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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE SACRED SIX PACK

Did Bruce Springsteen grow artistically from bad parenting? Here’s the real question: Did growing up with a dad who smoked ’em when he had ’em, and worked a six pack in the dark, make Bruce Springsteen who is today? His old man was hooked on Camels, or Marlboro’s, or Winstons,  and liked to cool them […]

HOW TO GET UP AND GO

When you feel down, get up and go. Make the call. The best way to beat a down day is to get up and go. It may not change anything, how you feel, where you are, but just knowing you can do it, that you can get up and go, changes things. Call it a […]

FOO FIGHTERS THERAPY

Do the Foo Fighters Love the Northwest Or Is It A Touring Coincidence? From Walla Walla to The Gorge to Portland in a couple weeks? Yep, they like it here, they really like it. My boys hit the road from Portland to Walla Walla for Gentlemen of the Road. It sounded like a Traveling Wilburys […]

BABY BOOMER RESENTMENT, Con’t

The Beatles. For all the bands that go on forever, The Who, The Stones, Bob Dylan, why did we lose The Beatles so early? Baby boomer abandoned? Could be they burned so bright they went blind to our needs? Five years of top albums in the decade might do it. The Beatles had their five. […]

BRUCE: THE BOOMER BOSS @ 65

I was twenty years old 1n 1975 and living in South Philadelphia just over the border from New Jersey. A neighborhood woman named Mary Ann said she’s going to a Bruce Show, that I ought to go along. It wasn’t a date idea as much as it was a right of passage. A Jersey comet […]

BOOMER DENIABILITY: WE DIDN’T LIGHT THE FIRE

We Know Where The Matches Are Though. Believable generational research relies on strong academic studies, insurance statistics, and the federal census. This triumvirate of detailed minutia creates a colorless picture of the past. Instead of men in grey flannel suits, it looks like grey men in flannel, lines of them. Baby Boomer research is the […]