{"id":15047,"date":"2019-12-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2023-01-01T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T20:56:27","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-state-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/22\/roll-of-the-dice-state-trooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: State Trooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I don’t know if it’s even really a song or not… it’s kinda weird.'”\u00a0 –Bruce Springsteen, 1982<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 1981, Bruce Springsteen was listening to a lot of Suicide, the punk pairing of Alan Vega and Martin Rev.<\/p>\n

Almost a quarter of a century later, Suicide would inspire “Dream Baby Dream<\/a>,” one of Bruce’s most optimistic covers and one of only a handful Bruce ever recorded in the studio. But long before that, they inspired the most harrowing song in Bruce’s catalog, the spine-tingling, hair-raising “State Trooper<\/a>.”<\/p>\n