“It’s hard to believe now, but Bruce Springsteen almost didn’t reach stardom.”
At Slate Magazine, Louis P. Masur tells the fascinating history of The birth of Born To Run.
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“It’s hard to believe now, but Bruce Springsteen almost didn’t reach stardom.”
At Slate Magazine, Louis P. Masur tells the fascinating history of The birth of Born To Run.
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I saw him perform in the early 70’s. He’s wasn’t exactly a phenom yet, so he played the smaller Music Hall at the convention center in Tucson. Frankly, at the time, I thought all his songs sounded an awful lot alike, and I got rather bored before the show was over. I was far more impressed by the warm-up performer (Stan Getz maybe?). So, honestly, I can see how The Boss almost wasn’t. Obviously, he improved and expanded his repertoire. However, I never went to another of his shows, so I can’t say. I do understand that he has millions of adoring fans now.
Anyway, while writing this, I keep thinking that the warm up performer may not have been Stan Getz, but rather a certain jazz flute player. Unfortunately, I can’t think of his name. I can’t find him on the internet, either, and it’s driving me bonkers. Maybe someone else out there knows who I mean. He had an album cover (early 1970’s) with a hand emerging from a shoulder (instead of a head) and that hand is gripping a silver flute. (This picture takes up most of the cover.) I think his name is something like John Windham, but I could be confusing him with John Wyndham, the author who wrote an intellect-shaping Sci Fi book I read when I was about 11 (per my father’s suggestion). It was: Re-Birth (U.S. title), better known by his British fans as: The Chrysalids. Any help?