Rate Your Music score: 3.41 out of 5!
Look out any window, Bruce, and you'll see it's raining.
I saw Bruce and his band play at Riverbend back in 1988, and they put on a good show. But let me tell you about the weather that day. The Extreme Weather Watch website shows Cincinnati got almost 3 inches of rain that day - second-highest of the whole year. That was in a year with 40 inches. The average back then was 39. (It's 42 now.)
That was our "drought." Seriously, our local media called it that.
Every. Single. Day.
That was all they talked about. I have no idea why.
There is credible scholarship of a 1988 drought covering much of the country. But trust me, that drought didn't come here. Understand? I'm particularly steamed at our local media because I developed a rash that lasted for months from sitting on the rain-soaked grass at Riverbend. According to these outlets, that didn't happen, because there was a "drought" here. These sources were essentially climate change deniers.
But Bruce and his Range could be counted on for quality music. Some of my high school classmates weren't mature or intelligent enough to appreciate it, so that's one of the reasons I enjoyed it. These schoolmates also showed rapidly expanding paranoia. Their paranoia and weak intellect was a bad combination, and I hate it so much.
When I went back to school for sophomore year, I took art. Sometimes, the teacher turned on the radio for us to listen to. My pals and I kept goofing off by dancing around and lip-syncing to the songs on the radio in a hilariously exaggerated fashion, often using art supplies as a microphone. "Look Out Any Window" was one of the first songs we did this with. It might have been the first.
Look out for the big boys tellin' you everything you're gonna do!
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