[/quote]One of the times I have seen Bruce live Maaike..was the Tom Joad Tour in 1996. By himself onstage..just him and his guitar...in a 2500 seat theatre. We were about 10 rows back..dead center..felt like I could have reached out and touched him. He did the acoustic..blues cover of "Born in the USA"....the way it was meant to sound.
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I believe that Born in the USA record, although it contains some of his best compositions, has not dated as well as his previous recordings, due to the extensive use of synths. And the original demo recordings of some of these tracks (found on Tracks 4CD set) are more powerful, despite or maybe because of being just a guitar and a voice. I guess Nebraska sales, no matter how good for an acoustic album, were not what CBS wanted. And perhaps Springsteen thought that if he had a message to convey, it would reach more ears with a pop/rock instumentation.