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Everybody had a band: not only Springsteen and Southside, but also Miami Steve, Vini ("Mad Dog") Lopez (who played drums on Bruce's first two albums) and Garry Tallent (now bass guitarist for the E Street Band). They all would appear at a dive called the Upstage Club for $15 a night, work from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., then party together, play records and adjourn till the next afternoon, when they would meet on the boardwalk to check the action and talk music. For sport everyone played Monopoly, adding a few refinements that made the game more like...
...Springsteen would work most days from 3 p.m. to 6 a.m., and sometimes as long as 24 hours, without stopping. Only occasionally did things go quickly. For a smoky midnight song called Meeting Across the River, Springsteen just announced, "O.K., I hear a string bass, and I hear a trumpet," and, according to Landau, "that was it." Finally the album came together as real roadhouse rock, made proudly in that tradition. The sound is layered over with the kind of driving instrumental cushioning thai characterized the sides Phil Spector produced in the late '50s and '60s. The lyrics...
ELIOT: James Madilena, bass, and Georgeann Peterson, piano. Eliot House Library...
CLEMONS PLAYED with Springsteen on his first two albums; hearing him again conjures up images of the loose, everybody-plays-three-instruments exuberance that is lost in Born to Run. Only Clemons and Garry Tallent, the bass guitarist, remain from the "E Street" group, and Tallent no longer fools around with tubas and accordians--the brass players on Born To Run are pros, on loan from other studios. What makes Born To Run frustrating to listen to is the lingering suspicion--no, firm conviction--that with the spunk of his original group, Bruce Springsteen would have produced a great record...
...seems to have settled on the automobile metaphor as the primary archetype of Jersey adolescence--after all, exhaust fumes probably account for his vocal grittiness. Songs like "Thunder Road" rumble, muffler-less, with pounding guitars and bass...