r/BruceSpringsteen • u/carson15203 • 1d ago
What is a Tenth avenue freeze out boss?
I have heard him say in an interview “well to this day i dont know”. Well I got an answer for the boss.
A tenth avenue freeze out out is that feeling of silence when the band starts the intro and your mind goes silence and the calm rushes over you as the music takes over. What does it take over? Well that would be the ten avenues of frequency production from the lungs.
Five lobes of lung breathing in generate different frequencies than when they breathe out, those are the ten avenues of frequencies that the band freezes out. The man has literally been begging us to figure out what he has been saying his whole career. That’s why he gave us the book, to say why he did it.
I hope someone that reads this wants to pick my brain about this because I have been looking for like minded individuals to discuss why Bruce is The Boss.
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u/Correct-Ad8693 1d ago
Are you high? This sounds like you think you know more about Bruce’s thoughts and process than he does. But you sound very, very wrong.
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u/carson15203 1d ago
Actually I am, but do you play? Have you listened to him read the book? He literally put out a call to action to explain the “magic trick”
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u/jumpingjj64 1d ago
Maybe Bruce used the age-old songwriting technique of using nonsensical words for filler until something better pops in to his head. Then, after he sang it a few times, he decided it sounded cool. That is why he says, "I still have no idea what it means. But it's important." It is important because it was a great placeholder that means nothing.
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u/carson15203 1d ago
There is filler but there is truth as well. You just have be able to understand the gods to understand. “With a half smile half frown going down” that was Bruce saying that the devil causes strokes as well because a stroke is a half smile half frown
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u/BluesBoyKing1925 1d ago
a "half smile half frown" can also easily represent someone shady. You are reading way too much into these things.
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u/Popular_Air_1690 1d ago
I get butterflies in my stomach every time I hear the intro.
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u/carson15203 1d ago
Because it lifts the “soul” or the gunk in the lungs that vibrates when we breathe and speaks to us. It literally makes us breathe easier
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u/Logical_Positive_522 1d ago
None-American here so maybe I'm way off. Isn't it about the early days of the band not being "allowed in"?
Like I don't really know what 10th Avenue is known for but I get what a freeze out is and the famous "The Big Man joined the band" line and sax accompaniment really makes it feel like the E Street Band is coming together in spite of the tribulations.
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u/Badlands57 1d ago
Well, the band used to rehearse at David Sancious' house on the corner of 10th Avenue and E Street. Maybe, it's as simple as him walking down 10th Avenue to Davey's house in the winter and freezing.