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...years and countless albums and groups later, I feel so twisted, so confused and maze-mad; "Rock'n'Roll Nigger" Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen and Lou Reed slip through the rock world of packaging-marketing-publicity and make me want to tear down buildings like I did when I first heard The Who and The Stones (but their music--ah, the beauty of it--consumed that urge...
...self-flagellatory type, you just missed Springsteen, the Electric Light Orchestra. Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Seger and The Atlantics. If you are depressive-suicidal, I was just kidding. They were never in town...
...artificial stimulation of any kind required, either. Using drugs to get up for a concert is for Springsteen "like coming onstage on crutches." He will, however, listen to some good music before a show (Buddy Holly is a current favorite). "It's like an actor watching Brando in Waterfront before he does a scene," Springsteen says. "It just gives you a sense of what the possibilities are, where you can take them, and a sense there's a lot to live...
...Springsteen leaps into an audience, playing with them, strutting and joking, he cuts up like a star. Yet he also cracks self-deprecating jokes during performances and just recently defaced his own billboard above Sunset Strip with a can of spray paint. His myths are in his music, not in his life. The Jersey shore he sings about is becoming universal territory, and his mentions of Asbury Park are greeted with home-town cheers everywhere. But he remains wary of celebrity, recalling, "When I was a kid, what mattered to me more than the performers was the power...
...each show, Springsteen will drop to one knee in front of the mike and yell with the sort of mock melodrama that cloaks an almost literal truth, "I'm just a prisoner . . . of rock 'n' roll!" In the audience, his fellow lifers laugh and cheer, delirious inmates in the same cell. Of all those prisoners, though, only the Boss holds...