>> could be a bit of a hypocrite, you know, if you're consistently evoking the ideas of young people, of bouncing off the ideas of young people, taking young people's money and putting it in your pocket, you know. and really what you are is you're a middle-aged family man. and it's only the hypocrisy that i'm worried about. >> bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of rock 'n roll by going back to basics. >> using elements from the past that were kind of being discarded at that point. >> using a sound that was not what was on the radio and was not what was mainstream rock. >> bruce springsteen created his own counter-culture. it just speaks exactly to the american spirit. you couldn't hit it on the head