Word: springsteen
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...Bruce Springsteen is becoming a living legend. He has constantly been lauded by critics and fans alike and the ticket prices ($4.50, 5.50, 6.50) indicate his rise to regional super-stardom. As did Dylan (to whom he is often compared in competence as well as appearance), Springsteen began by playing the more intimate spots of the Boston area. Intimacy, unfortunately, must sometimes be sacrificed for exposure, thus being the reason for Springsteen's performance scheduled in the Music Hall. Tickets are available for the October 29 appearance at Minuteman, Mainline, Ticketron, and Soundscope. Also on tap will...
Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Springsteen. One Crimson reviewer thinks Springsteen's the answer to rock's current doldrums. Another says he's over-rated. Springsteen will be Bonnie Raitted tonight. (I thought twice before writing that.) Now that Raitt's moved to California, it becomes more imperative to catch her superb performances when you can. Tonight at the Harvard Square Theater...
...good example is "Kitty's Back" on E Street, which combines elements of Broadway, blues, barroom horns and raunch in a stunning tour of every emotion you would feel if you knew somebody named Kitty and she was back. But the best example is "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)", Springsteen's showstopper...
...ROSALITA" is a juicy, scat-sung Van Morrison-type song in which Springsteen wants to steal away his girl friend from her parents to spend what seems to be a life-long communal orgy in the hangouts of New York. The song builds up to a seemingly final crescendo with terrific fast loud chorus. Where can he go from here? But the music keeps on--you feel like shouting. Then all of a sudden it is happening, the entire band is standing up there in the studio, chanting "HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY"--it is like the Ohio State football...
LIKE SEX, even Springsteen at his best cannot completely satisfy, or inject rock with the popular meaning it had in the '60s. He offers only a partial solution, as long as we are listening to his albums or his performance and blocking out other thoughts. In talent, he probably offers more than most of the people who seemed central back then, but he cannot, after all, singlehandedly fetter the forces of production, detail the freight train of history. He should end up being a big success. Nevertheless he is a good person to have hanging around...