Re: babel-digest V2 #291

["Ron Jacobs" <rjacobs>]

> Date:          Fri, 22 Aug 1997 16:06:08 -0400
> To:            babel
> From:          Mike Rice <mrice>
> Subject:       Re: babel-digest V2 #291
> Reply-to:      babel-list

> "mass media and irony seldom mix well together - ask Bruce
> Springsteen who had rather different intentions behind Born in the
> USA than another redneck anthem."
> 
> If you really believe this, you need to read John Goodman's Mansion
> on the Hill, which reveals Bruce Springsteen has no ideas that are
> not those of his producer and Svengali, Jon Landau.  Goodman says
> the simple singer-songwriter from New Jersey, is, indeed, simple.
> 
> Mike Rice
> 
> 
Which is why he wrote some of his best stuff before he hooked up with 
Landau--Greetings for Asbury Park and The Wild, The Innocent, and the 
E Street Shuffle

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