BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - BRILLIANT DISGUISE (BEST VERSION EVER, THE LEGENDARY ACOUSTIC CHRISTIC SHOW 1990
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The legendary, amazing and breathtaking
The legendary, amazing and breathtaking 1990 solo acoustic performances in support of The Christic Institute are among the most emotional and revealing of Bruce's career. The two shows in the Shrine Auditorium Nov. 16th and 17th 1990 featured Springsteen playing solo: not only on guitar, but – for the first time in many years – on piano as well. It was Bruce’s first public performance since dismissing the E Street Band and was the debut of four new songs, including “Real World.”
The other side to Springsteen's rocker persona is his skillful songwriting ability. His talent for detailed storytelling is legend. Bob Dylan referred to Bruce once as "the only guy who can block out a novel in four lines"...an exageration for sure, but the comment still bears some weight. This show was a chance for that other side to shine. Bruce, performed an intense, honest and emotional show, reworking some of his most revered classics and presenting some new songs as well as rarities from his vaults.
Brilliant Disguise is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 album Tunnel of Love. It was released as the first single from the album, reaching the No. 5 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart in the United States. Brilliant Disguise was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 1988 Grammy Awards.
The lyrics of Brilliant Disguise represent a confession of self-doubt on the part of the singer. The emotions expressed in the song include confusion, jealousy and anxiety about whether the singer's wife has become a stranger to him. The song deals with the masks people wear and the bitterness that can ensue when we realize the darkness that may lie behind those masks. The analogies to Springsteen's personal life at the time are evident: he had recently married then-model and actress Julianne Phillips, and the two would divorce in 1988. The references to marital problems are quite direct, as in the lyrics:
"Oh, we stood at the altar / The gypsy swore our future was right / But come the wee wee hours / Well maybe, baby, the gypsy lied."
The singer struggles to do things right, but it doesn't help. He can't trust either himself or his wife. Both he and his wife continue to play their roles – he of a "faithful man", she of a "loving woman", but the singer is nonetheless wracked with self-doubt.A key line towards the end of the song: "I wanna know if it's you I don't trust/Because I damn sure don't trust myself." It sums up the emotions that resonate throughout the song, and indeed the entire second side of the Tunnel of Love album. Springsteen himself wrote about the song "after '85 I'd had enough and turned inward to write about men, women and love, things that have previously been on the periphery of my work.
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