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tance, but my children nowthink him, the lyrics, believe it or not,
I am a serious person. I met him are most important,
because his colleague Max Wein- Today, "values" are all the rage,
berg and Maxs wife Rebecca in- with political candidates claim-
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which I did. He plays drums for of them. Springsteen's fans say
Springsteen, who plays rock and his message affirms the right
rollfor punsts, of whom there are values. Certainly his manner does,
lets. For 10 shows in New Jersey, Many of his fans regarded me
herecenthsold 16,000 $16 tickets as exotic fauna at the concert (a
m the first hour, all 202,000 m a bow tie and double-breasted blazer
day. His albums can sell one mU- i3 net the dress code) and under
lie copies on the first day of took to instruct me. A typical
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Male fan: "He sings about faith
and traditional values."
Male fan's female friend, dryly.
"And cars and girls."
Male fan: "No, no it's about
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There is. not a smidgen of an- severance and family."
drony in Springsteen who, rocket- She: "And cars and girls."
ing around the stage in a T-shirt Let's not quibble. Cars and girls
and headband, resembles Robert are American values, and this
DeNiro in the combat scenes of lyric surely expresses some ele
"The Deerhunter.Thi3 is rockfor mental American sentiment: "Now
the United, Steelworkers, accom- mister the day my number comes
panied by the opening barrage of in 1 ain't never gonna ride in no
the battle of the Somme. The used car again."
saintly Rebecca met me with a Springsteen, a product of in
small pouch of cotton for my dustrial New Jersey, is called the
ears, she explained. She thinks I "blue-collar troubadour." But if
am a poor specimen, I thought. I this is the class struggle, its
made it three beats into the first anthem its "International"
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number before packing my ears, is the song that provides the title homilies with which he introdu- Someday mister I'm gonna lead a of drumming have led to five ten-
I may be the only 43-year-old for his 18-month, worldwide tour ccs them, tell listeners to "down- better life than this." donitis operations. He soaks his
American so out of the swim that "Born in the U.S A" size" their expectations his An evening with Springsteen hands in hot water before a con-
I do not even knew what mari- I have not got a clue abemt phrase, borrowed from the auto an evening tends to wash over cert, in ice afterward, and sleeps
juana smoke smells like. Perhaps Springsteen's politics, if any, but industry, naturally. It is music for into the am., the concerts lasting with tight gloves on. Yes, of course,
at the concert I was surrounded flags get waved at his concerts saying good-bye to Peter Pan: Life four hours is vivid proof that the whole E Street Band is rnak-
by controlled substances. Certain- while he sings songs about hard is real, life is earnest, life is a lot of the work ethic is alive and welL ing enough money to ease the
ly I was surrounded by orderly times. He is no whiner, and the work, but... Backstage there hovers the odor pain. But they are not charging as
young adults earnestly and recitation of closed factories and "Friday night's pay night, guys of Ben-Gay. Springsteen i3 an ath- much 83 they could, and the cus-
correctlv insisting that Soring- other nronlems alwavs seems fresh out of work TaJkinff shout Icte dramiPi mmseir tot e-Ty
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