i get the feeling some people may vent there hatred thru this thread,

i used to be in a band and that band used to play summer of 69. that was the first song i ever sung in front of a crowd. fuck i was cool. i might go see bryan.

I would go without hestitation if I got a free ticket, but I don't like him enough to want to pay.

For every track from "Reckless", I'm sure there'd be several more of the later suckier ones.

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Bruce was called "The Boss" b/c at the time no one could touch him - he was huge (musically, I don't mean that he was hung like a mule).

I got two free tickets to go to the Bryan Adams concert in about '92/3, when he played at the Mt Smart Supertop at what is now called Ericcson Stadium (where the BDO is). I took my girlfriend and it was a pretty strange experience. Totally, unashamebly romantic songs and a kind of cross-breed, hybrid form of middle-class westie audience: tight jeans blue instead of black, and nice leather tassles etc.

He seems to have gone downhill a little - earlier material was better written and suited the time it was released in, where as now, as he has weakened slightly so has his music become a little out-of-date and a little out-of-context. Oh well, what he does he does well (or did well) and, back in the day, I thought his show was pretty damn good. Get your parents a couple of tickets.