Word: springsteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Roy Brittan, former Bruce Springsteen pianist, and Sid McGinnis, recently on guitar with Peter Gabriel, guested on Making Movies, it's likely they might appear on the road...
...itself, between the raffishness of the old days and the calculated worldliness of McDonald's songs and his goose-down singing voice. "The Doobies are one band!" he shouted from a concert stage last year. Now, instead of yelling at the audience, he jumps down into the crowd, Springsteen style, and romps among them. Like our old friend Paul Free, he has also had his shoulder-length hair shaped into some thing more modish, just right for the group's appearances on the Dinah Shore show and their own celebrity golf tournament. The Doobies' management has already...
Hold Out is a new chapter in Browne's continuing autobiography in vinyl, and a step beyond the nebulous genetic tradition of which turn-of-the-Seventies stars like Browne, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen found themselves strange bedfellows: Satyric Rock. Streetwise and nastily loveable, satyrs Lyricize an exultation of vestigial virginity, actual and metaphoric; on flipsides, however, they generally lament anti-climactic or foiled attempts at deflorestation...
STEVE FORBERT'S ALBUM Jack Rabbit Slim is Bruce Springsteen street music thrown into a Barry Manilow package of syrrupy cliches. Forbert has the formula, the solo instrumentals, the rough voice and the street subjects, but these components lack Springsteen's raw spontaneity and power. Where Springsteen bursts with energy and originality Forbert wallows in the listless and trite...
This album comes as a complete disappointment after Forbert's first effort, Alive on Arrival, an invigorating and unself conscious album that successfully bears comparison to Springsteen and even early Dylan. In songs from Alive like "Going Down to Laurel" and "Settle Down" Forbert is an unharnessed storyteller, combining spirited music and effective ballads...