As we unpack another Choirboys 6 pack we learn from Mark Gable it
really is. Bruce Springsteen has captured it again, again and again.
Both with the live performance and in song. Emoting at the most
fundamental level – Im confused, Im lost, where do I belong….argh
somebody help me! “It wasn’t till I saw Bruce on TV for the first
time, performing a live version of Rosalita that my brain snapped”
– said Gable. “This is it man! Bruce wasn’t just good, he was
pure inspiration. And still is today!” Gable recalls Choirboys in
the early 80s, were doing ‘Born to Run’ in a place called The
Manzil Room, the coolest place in town. Springsteen at this point is
from the 70s and had fallen off the cool radar. Still we did this
song, not because it was cool or uncool but because it was at the core
of what Choirboys were and where we were from……. the other side of
the track. ‘everybodys got a hungry heart’ ‘Man Im just tired
and bored with myself’ ‘got a wife and friend in Baltimore Jack,
went out for a ride and never went back’ 'Cause tramps like us,
baby, we were born to run’ Springsteen is street. But not in a
cliched hair flick cock rock format…..and not in an over driven
formulaic and crafted pop sensation. Bruce lived and breathed IT and
he wrote about IT in a way that everyone could relate to. He elevated
us from our dreary Monday to Friday existence and took us to a place
full of wonder and amazement. A place we could revisit any
time……..any time we heard his songs again. So we join Choirboys on
the other side of the track as they travel down the road of
inspiration with a 6 pack of Bruce Springsteen - just begging to be
torn apart and brought back to life as Australian pub rock anthems.
Choirboys doing Bruce Springsteen…….making rock n roll great
again!
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