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Bruce Springsteen vs Bono
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Never mind as you know you are wrongTo be fair i think Bruce refers to the title 'the boss' in a sarcastic, ironic manner also.
He is referred to the Boss because when the band started out first, he used to take the takings at the door and split the pay between them so the band started calling him the Boss. It then stuck. People who don't know that usually think it has to do with him being such a great musician, he just happened to have become a major act after being known as The Boss.
I'd read that Jon Landau (his manager for all you non fans aka weirdo's!!!) gave him the title?? Not sure though. Bruce is very loyal though, he always attributes a lot of his success to The E street band and even when he went solo in the 90's he gave each member a 'redundancy' present of 2 million. I'd call him the boss after that too !!!0 -
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alan dunne 27 wrote: »Overrated's a heavy word but he's certainly been pushed to the moon since The Rising came out. I think some people forget the late early 90s when he "tried to write happy songs" and no one was interested
It slightly pisses me off when people refer to him as The Boss in some sort of sarcastic ironic jab. He was the boss of the E-Street band as in the main guy running the show - or at least that's my understanding of it
He's hardly the boss of music or any other sort of higher powerNO! The mans a legend. He can do no wrong! Especially after seeing him last year.
To be fair i think Bruce refers to the title 'the boss' in a sarcastic, ironic manner also.
Have you listened to the Seegar Sessions? Excellent. Its what got me into his music.Never mind as you know you are wrong
I'd read that Jon Landau (his manager for all you non fans aka weirdo's!!!) gave him the title?? Not sure though. Bruce is very loyal though, he always attributes a lot of his success to The E street band and even when he went solo in the 90's he gave each member a 'redundancy' present of 2 million. I'd call him the boss after that too !!!
From BBC News!
"The defiantly blue-collar Springsteen, meanwhile, dislikes his moniker, The Boss.
"In the early days when he and the E-Street Band played gigs in small venues, it was Bruce's job to collect the money and pay the rest of the band," says Mr Delahunty. "This led them to start calling him The Boss, a nickname which has stuck."
I hate bosses," Springsteen has complained since. "I hate being called the Boss." "
So there.
Oh and here is the link to the piece. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7829013.stm0 -
alan dunne 27 wrote: »Ah yeah, I got an aul chuckle at the NFL press conference
"Who chooses the set list Bruce?"
"Well, erm, me...ye know, I'm the boss"
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alan dunne 27 wrote: »And there's about a milliion albums since then that are rubbish but they're touted as being a "return to form/the return of U2" and all the fanboys rush out and get em and defend Bono to his death
Utter bullsh*t. As for your previous comment about the last half dozen albums being "return to form", well considering they only released four studio efforts since Achtung Baby, with Zooropa being forgiven as it was recorded and released while still on tour realistically. Pop was really seen as the dive turkey, while All You Can't Leave Behind was seen as the return to form.
Do I agree? Not entirely, much as i enjoyed AYCLB, Atomic Bomb was self indulgent tripe with about two good songs on the entire album. Do music journalists need to grow a set? Some do, do half of the posters here that bash Bono (including you, alan) need to get their heads out of their ass before they go bashing their keyboards and passing off their opinion as actual fact, such as your last two recent posts regarding U2?
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ShawnRaven wrote: »Utter bullsh*t. As for your previous comment about the last half dozen albums being "return to form", well considering they only released four studio efforts since Achtung Baby, with Zooropa being forgiven as it was recorded and released while still on tour realistically. Pop was really seen as the dive turkey, while All You Can't Leave Behind was seen as the return to form.
Do I agree? Not entirely, much as i enjoyed AYCLB, Atomic Bomb was self indulgent tripe with about two good songs on the entire album. Do music journalists need to grow a set? Some do, do half of the posters here that bash Bono (including you, alan) need to get their heads out of their ass before they go bashing their keyboards and passing off their opinion as actual fact, such as your last two recent posts regarding U2?
Absolutely!
Some of my post(s) included hyperbole
I despise Bono . It's something I think I can perhapd only get across in person without being banned from the internet.nipplenuts wrote: »
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DESPISE Bono !!! Jeez thats a bit harsh isn't it ... what did he ever do on you!alan dunne 27 wrote: »Some of my post(s) included hyperbole
I despise Bono . It's something I think I can perhapd only get across in person without being banned from the internet.
Very good
I think your jealous he's a millionaire rockstar with several mansions, a pretty wife and kids and has the respect of the music industry and politicians .... oooooooooohhhhhh!!0 -
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fair enoughY'think new albums by each anything to do with it?
belated welcome to boards.
kings of leon
coldplay
ac/dc
Franz ferdinand
snow patrol
killers
etc etc
lots of new albums around
just always seems to be about bruce and bono from what i've seen
I must try mix it up a little
And thank you for my welcome:)0 -
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alan dunne 27 wrote: »Some of my post(s) included hyperbole
I despise Bono . It's something I think I can perhapd only get across in person without being banned from the internet.
I don't agree with a lot of Bono's sh*te outside of the music industry either, but despise is a little harsh, fact of the matter is, U2 produced some great music while we were producing utter sh*te like Boyzone, The Cranberries and even f*cking Dana.
But i don't ever see bashing threads on Delores and Dana, it's kinda pitiful really.
Your comments are based because you "despise" one member of a four piece band is somewhat pitiful, and tragic. Now Alan we've had good debates and conversation before (so you know none of this is personal), but some of your comments were just based out of personal preference, which there is nothing wrong with.
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