My wife and I shipped our Harley from the UK 'back home' in 2003 and travelled 3,500 miles in the US, for the trip of a lifetime, taking part in as many of the centenary events as we could, including the final Party. The trip cost us a fortune, so we were bitterly disappointed to find that the main final act was a fellow Brit - and not the most red blooded at that!

So we really envy those of you privileged to watch Bruce Springsteen this year. Along with ZZ Top he was on our short-list of preferred acts for 2003, but it was not to be.

 

You can have that Obama-loving "Jersey-boy". I'd boycot the 105th or that alone.."The Boss"..no thanks.

 

Oh come on, tell us how you really feel.

 

Who might that have been?

 

I couldn't agree with you more. I wouldn't throw a glass of water on that S.O.B. if I found him on fire on the sidewalk.
I couldn't believe it when I saw the MOCO booked him but then again with some of the **** they do lately I guess it shouldn't have surprised me.

 

Wow. Where'd all the communists come from on this board?

 

31 songs, three and a half hours--wish I could've gone. I disagree with his politics, but Bruce is da man when it comes to rock & roll. BTW, his "anti-American rant" before "Living in the Future" was his standard Magic tour spiel--about 20 seconds of how he's against renditions and warrantless wiretapping. Again, I disagree with him, but it ain't exactly the Dixie Chicks in my opinion.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band--the greatest American rock band of all time.

 

On the one hand Springsteen has some valid points about wiretapping, etc., I just can't get past his draft dodging and then turning around making a fortune waving the American flag all while low renting our servicemen. I don't always agree with the politicians but only scum attack the men and women who fight for our freedom. You couldn't give me tickets to see him.

 

Draft dodging? The man didn't run off to Canada, wtf is that about? Maybe he didn't run out and enlist, but I'm 59 years old, and I knew a bunch of guys back then who weren't real crazy about doing that. I did, but had a lot of friends who got deferred for one reason or another, didn't make them draft dodgers for crissake. I don't know how old you are, but I lived thru that time and that was one real unpopular war. About the only people in favor of it were the fkn politicians who didn't have to invest their son's lives in it. Don't get me started...

 

Springsteen's draft number came up and he went to his physical, which he failed. And I have never heard him utter or sing a disparaging word about United States servicemen. In fact, "Born in the USA" was a protest song about the sh1tty treatment our GIs got when they came back from Vietnam.

If you don't like his politics, that's fine. But there's no need to start making stuff up.