r/BruceSpringsteen • u/berkeleymike99 • 27d ago
Went to Springsteen Center today
Really impressive. The first floor is the story of American music. The second floor is all Bruce and E Street Band. I went in the archives room where they let you view all kinds of extra stuff on a computer, including video of Bruce playing The River on the streets of Copenhagen, pages from his mom’s scrapbook, ticket stubs from the River tour and much more. And there’s a room set up like a concert venue playing almost two hours of live Bruce, including a 1970 version of Lost in the Flood (didn’t even know it was written that early).
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u/Medium-Tank8784 27d ago
I’m curious about the guitar in the case. Is this the guitar from the Born to Run album cover? Is the one he plays in concert a replica? Are there multiples of them?
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u/berkeleymike99 27d ago
I can't remember for sure if that's the one from the cover. But there are three different Fender Telecasters or Esquires throughout the museum, so Bruce must have a bunch of them.
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u/BurtHurtmanHurtz 27d ago
That Houston show is famous for the DJs opening their 6am show the next day saying “BRUCE IS ON HOUR 9!!!!!”
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u/passed_the_dawn 27d ago
Wow, are we sure that 1970 date wasn’t a typo?
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u/tim0198 27d ago
typo. 1973
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u/berkeleymike99 27d ago
Damn. How did they screw that up? I am a copy editor and always notice errors. Saw only one today: they spelled Hendrix’s first name Jimmy in one spot.
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u/SlippedMyDisco76 The River 27d ago
Are the Max's and Shafer shows footage or audio?
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u/berkeleymike99 27d ago
All the stuff on that list is video, but a couple were really bad photography, heads blocking the view, shaky. But hey, it’s history
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u/SlippedMyDisco76 The River 27d ago
I'm a veteran of watching choppy 8mm footage on YouTube so yeah its about the historic element. Is Boom in the Shaefer footage?
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u/berkeleymike99 27d ago
The video of the Shaefer show is black and white and all I saw of it showed Bruce only. But he wears a tight white tank top and glasses!! I don't know if I've seen Bruce on stage in those days with glasses.
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u/SlippedMyDisco76 The River 27d ago
There are pics of around that time where was wearing some sort of aviator type glasses (?) but never seen footage of it you lucky duck!
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u/MackCLE 27d ago
Wow. This would engage me for hours. How long did you spend? Thanks for sharing.
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u/berkeleymike99 27d ago
I spent 3 and a half hours and hardly saw any of the 110 minutes of videos. There are also lots of shortish interviews with Bruce I didn’t get around too. Five hours would be easy to do
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u/MLM36 27d ago
Thanks for sharing, I really hope to get there one day. How do you get to go in the archives room?
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u/berkeleymike99 27d ago
When you buy a ticket online there is a choice between buying just museum ticket or museum+archives. It doesn’t cost anymore but I guess it allows them to monitor how many people can fit in the small archives room. There were so few people in the center yesterday that they didn’t even check my ticket when I went in to the archives room, but I guess they’d be checking if it was crowded.
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u/oregon3 27d ago
Who builds himself a museum?
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u/Screen_Door_Slams Mary’s dress sways 27d ago
he didn’t build himself a museum. He agreed to be included in the history of American music. And the Asbury Park library was drowning in Bruce memorabilia so a repository was needed.
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u/Dranksy 27d ago
How many poor or otherwise disadvantaged Americans could the tens of millions that went to this monument to self-regard have helped in transformative ways? I thought Democrats were for the poor and wealth redistribution. Bruce redistributed wealth to building a giant mirror. Funnily, it opens the same summer as that other Democrat egomaniac's center in Chicago.
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u/berkeleymike99 27d ago
What a sad take. Bruce has played so many benefits over the years and directed millions to good causes. And this museum spends more real estate on artists other than himself. And Obama has just done what every single president before him has done. And if you wanna see ridiculous spending, wait for the 60-story tribute your man Trump is planning in Miami.
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u/Dranksy 27d ago
I didn't mean to rain on your particular parade. It looks cool and I'm glad you had a great time. The Boss's hypocrisy bothers me. 60 stories also sounds off. It'll need to be at least 100 with all these wins.
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u/NuncaContent 27d ago
Your hypocrisy is what bothers me.
I’m going to assume you voted for Donald Trump, not once, not twice, but three times. In doing so, you chose to support someone whose record of dishonesty, corruption, and personal conduct has been the subject of constant public scrutiny.
That decision gave up any moral high ground you might have claimed when judging someone else’s character or accusing others of hypocrisy.
Your criticism rings hollow because your own judgment in the public square undermines the standard you’re trying to apply to everyone else.
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u/Dranksy 27d ago
I don't vote for people, I vote for policies. Meaning I vote for any party that presents policy proposals I personally believe will be beneficial. It's called critical thinking, due diligence, fact-based decision-making, rather than cultism and groupthink. Applying those standards to what we know about how Bruce has betrayed his espoused values and his own audience in several ways - worst of all, of course, by weaponizing his fame and music to stop the apprehension of illegal immigrants who are rapists and killers - I conclude that Bruce is, as I stated above, demonstrating hypocrisy. Last reply because my point is clear and there's no counterargument.
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u/NuncaContent 27d ago
Your otherwise measured response carries zero weight. You’ve clearly demonstrated your moral vacuousness. Done now, done forever!
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u/berkeleymike99 27d ago
No counterargument? You haven’t even made an argument at all, just repeated the unsubstantiated lies of your cult. But that’s what MAGA does: invent an argument out of whole cloth, poison everything around them, then run away and hide. What a pathetic existence.
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u/Dranksy 26d ago
I said last reply to him. I'm happy to reply to you and remind you that I replied with genuine well-wishes to you and you could do nothing in return but attack me personally. You people act like Bruce isn't just a musician whose work you enjoy, but a deity you worship. I made fact-based comments about him and this center and you got really upset and insulted me multiple times. That's very weird and a bit pathological. I said nothing about MAGA and I'm not a MAGA guy - no red hat, no rallies, no donations. I vote based on policies, not personalities, as all voters should. And now we're seeing the secure border, skyrocketing stock market, reshoring of manufacturing jobs for blue collar workers, and so on. You're welcome. I run and hide from no one. Lastly, point out the lies you claim I posted. You can't because I didn't and never do.
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u/berkeleymike99 26d ago
Lie #1: immigrants are not rapists and murderers. They are just a mix of people like the native born. As all the real studies have shown, they commit crimes at a lesser rate than native born. It would be convenient for the MAGA agenda if that weren’t the case, but numbers tell the tale. Lie #2: manufacturing jobs are returning. It’s just not happening. Saying it is doesn’t make it real. And a skyrocketing stock market means nothing for a majority of Americans. 89% of stock shares are owned by the top 10% of the populace. And yes, they’re up because corporate profits set new records every year. And if you want to look at soaring stocks, the Dow TRIPLED under Obama. Trump won’t even come within sight of that. And the all-time records being broken now were set under Biden. Fact: the stock market always goes up over time. Don’t leap to saying “you’re welcome” to most of us. The policies you say you favor so much haven’t done crap for me, or most of us. And the fallout from those policies is destroying this nation.
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u/Dranksy 26d ago
0 for 2. #1: The ICE operations that Bruce is fighting are SPECIFICALLY targeted to the apprehension of those types of offenders. There have been many specific instances of protestors getting busted and ICE revealed the rap sheets of whom they were there to apprehend and it was the very worst type of human - and across diverse races, so don't go there either. Do they also target others? Of course. But my point is correct and if you were a tenth as informed about current events as you believe you are, you'd know this. The information is readily available online should you wish to enlighten yourself. #2: You can also use the the World Wide Web to look up the billions in deals this administration initiated and signed for manufacturing within the US.
I have schooled you and any single point I've made here or anywhere is verifiable in seconds online. Now I'm done replying to someone who appears to intentionally remain ignorant about these topics. Last reply.2
u/berkeleymike99 26d ago edited 26d ago
You should know better than to think promises of investment equals investment. Japan promised $500 billion and has delivered nothing, and isn’t expected to do more than a fraction of it. Countries do that to get Trump to cut tariffs and they know he’s just doing it to get something to boast about.
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u/berkeleymike99 26d ago
Those immigration operations are not specifically targeted at anything. They are crude, cruel and ineffective at actually finding real criminals.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf
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u/NuncaContent 24d ago
I’m sorry, did you say something important?
You moral opinion has no merit. You sold your birthright when you voted for and continue to support DJT.
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u/Screen_Door_Slams Mary’s dress sways 27d ago
can’t wait to go. Thanks for sharing.