Rock & Roll Series#9 Bruce S.:Blinded by the Light Traditional Cache

We hope you enjoy this series and think that it rocks! BYOP. The series is in no particular order. We enjoyed the creativity as a family to match some of our favorite bands to geocaching locations. The cache location somehow relates to a band’s song title. Most will be obvious so we hope you have fun and sing along as you cache the series away.Please respect the cache location. PLEASE, as always, watch for desert creatures, especially the venomous variety. 

In many ways, Bruce Springsteen is the embodiment of rock & roll. Combining strains of Appalachian music, rockabilly, blues and R&B, his work epitomizes rock's deepest values: desire, the need for freedom and the search to find yourself. All through his songs there is a generosity and a willingness to portray even the simplest aspects of our lives in a dramatic and committed way.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/bruce-springsteen-20110420#ixzz2zIWTpA1o 

Album: Greetings from Ashbury Park, NJ.  Released Janaury 1973.

Although Bruce Springsteen's original never charted, Manfred Mann's cover version topped the Billboard singles chart. Mann told Rolling Stone he was a better interpreter of other people's songs than a writer of his own. "If you listen to Springsteen's 'Blinded by the Light,' I've taken out words; I haven't been very honest to the original at all." When he replaced the line "cut loose like a deuce" with "revved up like a deuce," many misheard it as "wrapped up like a douche." Years later, Springsteen joked about it on VH1 Storytellers. "I have a feeling that is why the song skyrocketed to Number One,". Source: song stories;rollingstone.com.

Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat 
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat 
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round 
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing, the calliope crashed to the ground 
Some all-hot half-shot was headin' for the hot spot, snappin' his fingers, clappin' his hands 
And some fleshpot mascot was tied into a lover's knot with a whatnot in her hand 
And now young Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand 
And some bloodshot forget-me-not whispers, "Daddy's within earshot, save the buckshot, turn up the band" 

And she was blinded by the light 
Cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night 
Blinded by the light 
She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright