Tuesday, August 30, 2016
I probably shouldn't say this, but I suspect Bruce Springsteen's memoir is probably going to be kinda dull. Seriously, do you think he has stories he hasn't told in the songs? He's been a professional musician since he was what, 16? There was no down-and-out phase in his life, he has always lived clean, and he isn't likely to dish on other people. In fact, I'll take this further: At some point Bruce ran out of his own stories, and has been trying to be a rock and roll John Steinbeck ever since. I mark that point as arriving at The River, and I haven't found any Springsteen record after Nebraska to be all that interesting.
// posted by Bill @ 4:28 PM 
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Bruce ran out of his own stories fairly early. One of my English professors had been a guitarist in Steel Mill, Springsteen's early band that had one album released. Sandy, of 4th of July Asbury Park fame, was his girlfriend, not Bruce's. Or so he claimed.
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: 12:11 PM
Now that's a pretty good story. Bruce Eaton booked Bruce and the E Steet band pretty early on, when he was at Hobart and William Smith. He has some good stories about that. Maybe what is needed is an oral history rather than a memoir
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