People usually think this song is about: Being uber patriotic. But it's really about: Casting a critical and mournful eye on America and its involvement in war. Listen to the opening chords of this Springsteen rock classic and you can't help but have visions of patriotic fist-bumping on the Fourth of July.
In 1972, at age 18, Bob Taylor began working at American Dream, a guitar making shop owned by Sam Radding, where Kurt Listug was already an employee. When Radding decided to sell the business in 1974, Taylor, Listug, and Schemmer bought American Dream and renamed it the Westland Music Company.
In 1951, Fender offered the first mass-produced solid-body Spanish-style electric guitar, the Telecaster (originally named the ' Broadcaster '; 'Esquire' is a single pickup version) the first mass-produced electric bass, the Precision Bass (P-Bass).owever, the sale also led to a reduction of the quality of Fender's guitars while under the management of cost-cutting CBS. Several cosmetic changes occurred after 1965/1966, such as a larger headstock shape on certain guitars.