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"he's" is correct.

All I know about Bruce is if I hear "Born in the USA" one more time I'm going to hurl.

by ATinNM on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 12:18:21 PM EST
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He's not going to play it live, so don't worry.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 12:20:41 PM EST
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How can he not play it? It's his biggest hit.

AFAIK.

(& I don't know much about Pop Music)

by ATinNM on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 12:27:39 PM EST
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Biggest hit? No way. Born to Run has got to be a bigger hit.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 12:30:51 PM EST
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Hungry Heart and The River big too.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 12:32:00 PM EST
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Dancing in the Dark, Streets of Philly, etc, too.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 12:36:15 PM EST
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I just mentioned Born to Run, because it's, in my experience, easily the most popular of his songs. And to not like it is practically treason in this country.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 12:37:10 PM EST
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Brucie has said that he won't play it.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 01:04:29 PM EST
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I thought he'd said he won't play it outside the US.

It's a mis-understood song, the main lyrics expose the jingoistic seeming chorus as being sarcastic (ironic ?), but sadly all people hear is the apparent triumphalism. So it gets a good response in the US and probably can get a mixed one elsewhere.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 01:36:31 PM EST
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Thanks for the correction - it sounds logical. Though I doubt if the Finnish audience at the Tampere gig would have been less than ecstatic if he had played it. Even the PM (he was there with his betrothed) would have stood up and waved his arms.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 01:45:50 PM EST
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He may not have played it now, but he certainly played Born in the USA in the fairly recent Live DVD from Barcelona. From what I recall, he actually seemed to enjoy playing the song, too. (Anyway, I already had to go to Tampere for a project steering board meeting and for the Sauna Open Air the same week, so this Turkulainen decided he had seen enough of Tampere for one week ;-)

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 02:01:30 PM EST
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I prefer the Cheech Marin version: "Borned in East L.A."

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 02:36:17 PM EST
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"Dave's not here" n/t (none / 0)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 03:08:54 PM EST
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He's done a lot more than that, though.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 12:29:36 PM EST
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