Harbaugh Playing Drums at Springsteen Concert

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Numerous reports on Twitter that Harbaugh is on stage playing drums at the Bruce Springsteen concert (before Bruce has taken the stage).

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rob f

April 14th, 2016 at 10:27 PM ^

What music did your parents listen to? Only a guess, but wouldn't they be in their mid-to-late 40s, meaning they would have been teens during Springsteen's heyday? I know of Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Lawrence Welk, and other big-band legends because they are what my folks listened to when I was a kid. My kids know of The WHO, The Kinks, The Animals, The Doors, Sly &The Family Stone, Van Morrison, The Temptations, Marshall Tucker, Stevie Wonder, Mott The Hoople, even Leif Garrett, because those albums were among the many their mom and I listened to when they were little.

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rob f

April 14th, 2016 at 10:46 PM ^

did she listen to? Who did your dad listen to when you were a tyke? Surely your folks at least had the radio and/or CD player going in the car. BTW, there are a lot of baseball movies that are much better than "Field of Dreams" ( with all due respect to James Earl Jones).

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Wolverine Devotee

April 14th, 2016 at 11:00 PM ^

Aerosmith, Led Zepplin, Eagles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Boston, AC/DC. Those are the bands I know songs of by name just from the radio always being on those stations in the car as a kid.

There are tons of songs I know in hearing them that I don't really know who they're by since I've heard them on the radio. 

My step dad listened to the same stuff. 

I'm sure I've heard Springsteen stuff, I just couldn't name the song. 

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Mabel Pines

April 15th, 2016 at 8:11 AM ^

Friday the 13th??!?  What the hell, WD!!!  

/s  Don't get your knickers in a twist.  You know this board.  Also, you kind of made a blanket statement with your "no one people my age or younger know", so they have a right to respond to that.  

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M Dude in Portlandia

April 15th, 2016 at 12:04 PM ^

Damn, lyrics like these don't come along every day:

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody's out on the run tonight
but there's no place left to hide
Together Wendy we can live with the sadness
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
Oh-oh, someday girl I don't know when
we're gonna get to that place
Where we really wanna go
and we'll walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us
baby we were born to run

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charblue.

April 15th, 2016 at 12:08 PM ^

in the late 60's, It combined various music elements from R&B and Jazz, the soul roots of the South and were fed by the black migration to the north and midwest to Hitsville in Detroit, home of Motown and Chicago. political assasinaiton, the civil rights and equal rights movement, Viet Nam, the protest movement of the 60's, the hippy era, Woodstock, the shootings at Kent State, all became fertile ground for the sounds that you still hear today on the radio.

 

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Mr. Elbel

April 14th, 2016 at 10:45 PM ^

It's ok WD. You're not alone in not knowing Springsteen. I've learned more about him just from reading the comments on this thread than anything else, and even that isn't much. I too am very out of touch with pop culture. Half of that is being raised in a fundamental baptist pastor's home where I didn't even go to a movie theater until my junior year of high school and all of my music was screened through my parents' subjective Christian filter (not really trying to bring religion into it, it just is what it is). The other half is that I just don't care to attempt to learn about all these people well before my time just because they were important to people back then. If it interests me, I'll research it (like Bo or Ufer or classic movies). If it doesn't, then I'm not missing out on anything that I just don't care about. On the other hand, you really should try to not make absolute statements where you speak for an entire group of people, particularly "people my age." I'm 24, but us being out of touch a bit (or a lot) doesn't mean everyone is. We should speak for ourselves. I think that's why you're getting so much flak. Maybe without that statement in your first comment, people don't freak out as much. Just a tip for future reference.

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Sam1863

April 15th, 2016 at 5:25 AM ^

Well said - +1 for that.

And your reasons of "fundamentalist upbringing + it just doesn't interest me" make sense. My equivalent is much of today's music. I've got 30 years on you, and much of what I hear today doesn't interest me. It's not that I reject it with an old fart's attitude of "This stuff is automatically crap because it's new" or anything like that. It's more that I recognize that it wasn't written for me, nor does it speak to me - that I'm not the target audience for it. That's OK. Music has always been the voice of the generation in which it's created. I don't expect any new artist today to create something that appeals to a 55-year-old man. They probably wouldn't sell very much if it did.

But I do wonder sometimes how much I'm missing - if, in the middle of today's music, there isn't a gold nugget or two that would make me think, "Holy crap - this stuff is good!" It might take some digging, but it may well be there.

It's the same theory with old stuff - the stuff that was created before I was born. A few years ago, I found a CD of Ella Fitzgerald at a garage sale. I'd grown up knowing of her, and as a kid, I'd see her in TV specials, but I'd never listened to her with adult ears. So I bought it, took it home, and played it. Holy crap - that woman was fantastic! That voice rang like a silver bell, and there wasn't anything she couldn't sing - jazz, blues, standards, hymns, Christmas carols, whatever - and she was still doing it when she was a grandmother's age. So I began to get a real appreciation for music that was created before I was born, and like with today's music, it makes me wonder what else I'm missing.

Give Springsteen a shot. He's worth the time. And if he doesn't appeal to you, at least you'll know you tried. Happy listening.

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