Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA
By:"Geoffrey Himes"
Published on 2005-08-19 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA

When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, \u0093one, two, one, two, three, four,\u0094 followed by the droning synth chords of \u0093Born in the U.S.A.\u0094 Max Weinberg hit his drums with a two-fisted physicality that cut through the swelling chords. With a rolled-up red kerchief around his head and heavy black boots under his faded jeans, Springsteen looked like the character of the song, and from the very first line (\u0093Born down in a dead man\u0092s town\u0094) he sang with the throat-scraping desperation of a man with his back against the wall. When he reached the crucial lines, though, the guitars and bass dropped out and Weinberg switched to just the hi-hat. Springsteen\u0092s voice grew a bit more private and reluctant as he sang, \u0093Nowhere to run. Nowhere to go.\u0094 It was as if he weren\u0092t sure if this were an admission of defeat or the drawing of a line in the sand. But when the band came crashing back at full strength\u0097building a crescendo that fell apart in the cacophony of Springsteen\u0092s and Weinberg\u0092s wild soloing, paused and then came together again in the determined, marching riff\u0097it was clear that the singer was ready to make a stand.

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