Thunder Road

I feel like almost we should have Bruce Springsteen in the background singing a song about Ray Pavlik and this bottle.

Forget Thunder Road.

This is the story of New Jersey right here.

I love that, Noah, but I'm not fully satisfied.

And what that is, Jay Armstrong, who was... a honors English teacher in the Philadelphia area.

He used, he now is a writer, but when he was teaching, he would give his students the lyrics to Bruce Springsteen's song, Thunder Road.

They would read the lyrics.

They would talk about the themes and imagery Bruce explores in the song.

I have to check Bruce-based.

Did most of those shows open with Thunder Road?

No, actually, just scrolling through Bruce Space, 10th Avenue was the main opener for most of those shows.

I think Thunder Road opened one or two, and then For You actually opened one.

And 10th Avenue was actually one of the few songs not shown.

I feel like among the 14 different songs, they could have put it in some kind of show order, in which case they only would have been missing 10th Avenue, Growing Up, and Sandy.

And it was just so strange to see him not playing guitar on Born to Run and having Steve take the solo part.

That was just totally wild.

How can they? But for now, before I let you go, I have to ask you the Mary question.

And what that is, Jay Armstrong, who was a honors English teacher in the Philadelphia area, He used, he now is a writer, but when he was teaching, he would give his students the lyrics to Bruce Springsteen's song, Thunder Road.

They would read the lyrics.

They would talk about the themes and imagery Bruce explores in the song.

Like a favorite mention of a song.

Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen talks about Roy Orbison sings for the lonely.

And that's me, girl.

And I want you only.

There's...

Thunder Road.

Come on.

Isn't it

This was for everyone to get a sampling of what Bruce had been up to for the 10 years.

I think they hit most of the high marks, certainly Thunder Road and Born in the USA, as I said earlier.

So it's hard to really criticize it 40 years later.

Now, of course, we should get to the construction of the box.

There are some things I would have changed or I would have liked to have been different, but 15-year-old Flynn really won't complain about this.

there's just an aspect of it.

And then it's, it sort of is, you know, returning to your youth that when I put it on the other day and I heard ladies and gentlemen, Bruce Springsteen, the street band and thunder road kicks in.

And I sort of went back to my dorm room and elder hall and you just, you close your eyes and it captures a moment in time.

Yeah

... is, um, it's the same thing I thought with this record and any record is, like, it's like the, the best songs on Bruce's records are not, I mean, listen, Born to Run is the shit, but, you know, come on, dude, there's Thunder Road.

Come on.

Man, but that is my favorite.