Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Then it was back on the road. In three almost sleepless days, Willwerth monitored Springsteen and his E Street Band through their smash opening at L.A.'s showcase Sunset Strip theater, the Roxy. "It was a good education," he recalls, "in the life and times of a road musician...
...other ways, however, he is the dead-on image of a rock musician: street smart but sentimental, a little enigmatic, articulate mostly through his music. For 26 years Springsteen has known nothing but poverty and debt until, just in the past few weeks, the rock dream came true for him. ("Man, when I was nine I couldn't imagine anyone not wanting to be Elvis Presley.") But he is neither sentimental nor superficial. His music is primal, directly in touch with all the impulses of wild humor and glancing melancholy, street tragedy and punk anarchy that have made rock...
...nothing simple to hold on to. He was discovered by Columbia Records Vice President of Talent Acquisition John Hammond, who also found Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and Bob Dylan, among others. Hammond knew "at once that Bruce would last a generation" but thought of him first as a folk musician...
...SIXTIES ARE DEAD AND GONE but no one is content. Whenever the subject seems buried for good, some writer, film director, musician, or journalist feels compelled to dig it up for further dissection. The corpse is now mutilated beyond recognition...
...London Madhouse Company of course has no such tear-jerking Horatio Alger story. It was marketed from the start by the slick professional Playbillpublicity machine, and it has in fact played with phenomenal success in several countries. Still as we watch the red-faced clownish musician attempting to play a dozen battered instruments taped around a bedframe, we can recapture some of the extemporaneous, frantically amateurish flavour of a uniquely American institution that traces its origins to the days of Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo...