From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!mes
Newsgroups: net.records
Title: Re: Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska - (nf)
Article-I.D.: zeppo.370
Posted: Mon Nov  8 10:23:27 1982
Received: Tue Nov  9 02:19:31 1982

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zeppo!mes    Nov  8 10:03:00 1982

"Bruce has always had an obsession for death and cars".....
Well, I can't understand where the death part came in, but it is clear
where the cars part began. BS grew up in Freehold, NJ in the late 60's
early 70's timeframe, and then (in fact, up to about 77 or so), the
only thing for a bored high school kid in Freehold to do was to go to
Asbury Park and raise hell on the "Circuit". The "Circuit" was a 2 mile
long oval that *everyone* went around and around on... that is, you drove
north on Ocean Ave to 6th and then west on 6th (which is where everyone parked
to watch those that were still moving) then south on Kingsly to 2nd, east on
2nd to Ocean again, and around and around ad nauseum. But you know - it was
fun! So you blew away a tank of gas in your 66 Dynamic 88 (as we had).. it
didn't matter.
Point is, this was "the corner hangout" for kids growing up in the central
Jersey area, and BS was (is?) really no different from any of us. It is
unsurprising that much of his music shows the love of cars and the circuit
atmosphere... 
             I, for one, miss that whole scene very much...and
             I'm willing to bet that BS does too.
                   Michael Sajor, zeppo!mes, BTL-Whippany NJ