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...best way to rebuild my fan base and continue where I left off.”He now shares his music with the Harvard Square community three days a week. Gerard estimates that he plays about 85 percent of his own material, but also covers Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Ray Charles, and a singer-songwriter named Mary Gauthier, who once played the streets of Cambridge, but now plays in Nashville as a national act.In choosing a setting for his street performance, Gerard says that he was advised to play at Harvard, and, not knowing of any other suitable locations...
...Bruce Springsteen...
After albums about 9/11 and the Southwest, it was fair to wonder if the Boss would ever abandon big themes and return to big tunes. Here he has both. Springsteen notes the greed and apathy subsuming America, but the ever tight E Street Band generates enough optimism and heat that you believe him when he sings, "We're livin' in the future and none of this has happened...
...gonna go away. I think in the last 10 to 15 years, I've just been able to not let that person and that part of me be in charge--that guy is in the car, but we just don't let him drive. That's something Springsteen told me once, and it really works. He'll be talking in your ear in the backseat, but just don't let him get behind the wheel. And you can be proud of it. I've talked to the people that raised me, and I've thanked them for giving...
...more interesting - sometimes a little more agonizing, [but] sometimes more interesting." Interesting was an understatement: CBGB quickly became a scene in Manhattan; Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg and Paul Simon all rocked out to bands that were signing record deals left and right. Musicians like the Police, Bruce Springsteen and even Alan Jackson all graced Kristal's stage. CBGB became an icon and a brand...