Honoring Bruce Springsteen (1)

Bruce Springsteen was the last to be honored, by a funny speech from The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. Stewart told a story about how as a young bartender in New Jersey, he'd play Springsteen every night in his 1976 Gremlin on his ride home after work. He said that when you listen to Springsteen, "You aren't a loser. You are a character in an epic poem...about losers." He praised The Boss for "emptying the tank" with every performance for his audience, and love for his art, family and country. After a thank you to Bruce for his work from Vietnam Veteran author Ron Kovic, John Mellencamp, Indiana's answer to Springsteen, performed his own rendition of "Born In the USA." Ben Harper and Jennifer Nettles did a scorching duet of "I'm On Fire", Melissa Etheridge belted out a great cover of "Born To Run", Eddie Vedder a mellow but passionate acoustic performance of "City Of Ruins", and Sting ended the tribute with "The Rising", backed up by a gospel choir, which got the whole building on their feet and singing.

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[canfor5]

ALWAYS worth  a replay!! The Boss Rules! Jon Too!

[wpfairbanks]

Bruce Springsteen is perhaps the only person capable of making Obama not the coolest person in the room.

[Foolrain89]

@seans10 and your point is...oh thats right non existant, first stewart was an asshole for being rich from the start. now he's an asshole because american authors don't write about rags to riches stories similar to his? would a better america be where despite talent and hard work you can never get ahead of the curve or hard times? My mistake I forgot the real American dream was to work hard and go no where

[seans10]

@Foolrain89 I don't recall Tom Joad attending an Ivy League university or heading up the NYSE. Damn, where was Steinbeck to chronicle this tragic American story?

[02steviewonder]

@MrRazorblade999 Hell yeah :) Jack Black and Phillip Seymour-Hoffman were too...

[02steviewonder]

@Maphimi Using a Bruce Springsteen song written in honour of 9/11 and with the help of many other singers... Bruce is the Boss. Sting is great, but there's no comparison.

[Maphimi]

STING is the real boss, because he just nailed the entire audience with his performance

[Foolrain89]

@seans10 yea stewarts father left him and to this day has no contact with his son. I mean him and his brothers are a couple of assholes being raised by a single mother on a public school teacher salary. I mean they were dumb enough to work hard go to school and succeed. What a couple of douches who were actually raised in jersey and worked hard in life to get where they are....

[sublime01161]

@Howsurcroch fuck obama

[Howsurcroch]

go obama!! lol

[MrRazorblade999]

Was that Meryl Streep in the audience?

[seans10]

Stewart is from an elite NYC jewish family. He went to an Ivy league university. His father was a physics professor. His brother is the head of the NYSE. I doubt Stewart ever felt like a "loser" in the sense that the characters in Springsteen's songs do. If anything, Stewart, despite his superficial liberalism, has much more in common, in every real sense, with the people who forclose on the the home than those foreclosed upon. But, shit, you have to play along, I guess.