Bruuuuuuuuuuce!!!!

It's hard to imagine now, since he's one of the biggest names in music today, but when I first started listening to Bruce Springsteen while growing up in New Jersey in the late 1970s and early 1980s,his name was just as likely to cause a debate as it was to elicit accolades. Hell, for a time there people spent a lot of energy debating who was better, Springsteen or Bon Jovi. I don't hear that argument so much any more.

Springsteen rocked the other night at the XL Center in Hartford. The theme of this tour is bringing rock back to the stage, and that's just what he did. From the opening "Badlands" through the closing "Rosalita," he had everyone in the place geared up for a good time. So what if he's almost sixty years old, the first time I saw him was almost 30 years ago, and there were a lot of people there with gray hair (not me) and their teenaged children, it was simply a great time.

Here's what one reviewer had to say.