Taking a Trip Back to Thunder Road...

Flipping channels on cable before going to bed tonight. I came across a concert of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band from 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. The show was to support the Born to Run album. Talk about bringing back memories. Somewhere in the labyrinth of boxes in our basement I have that album on vinyl. 1975. I listened to that album so many times I cannot even try to count them. Funny how we forget things like that. It has been years since I have heard any song off of that album. I long ago lost interest in Springsteen's later music. When I turned on VH1 Classic and heard Thunder Road it brought chills to me. If you are old enough think back to 1975 and imagine your growing interest in the opposite sex. Hey, I was not quite a teenager yet so it was an important time. Then listen to Thunder Road again.

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
you hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win.

I bet every person of a certain age did not just read those lyrics. They sang them and had the music playing in their head! Talk about putting an image in a young boys mind. Funny how I forgot all of this. Ok, it has been 32 years. A lot has happened since I first heard that song. Since I first heard that album. It always amazes me how music can resonate so deeply into our psyche. And then gets buried away for years. I wonder now what other classic albums I have stored away in my mind just waiting for the right moment to reappear...