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...Presley or the pretentious saunterings of Mick Jagger. When he wasn't dancing, he ran or shuffled around the stage, twitched spastically (like a less ferocious version of Joe Cocker), and clowned around with the other members of the group, especially saxophonist Clarence Clemmons and guitarist "Miami Steve" Van Zandt. Dressed in matching broad-lapelled white suits, black shirts, and white fedoras (the kind of outfits you see on men who wear ruby cluster pinky rings) Clemmons and Van Zandt looked like bouncers at an Atlantic City nightclub who wouldn't want to let the likes of Springsteen...
...while he was still finishing high school, Springsteen began forming bands like the Castiles, which did gigs for short money in a Greenwich Village spot called the Cafe Wha?. He met up with Miami Steve Van Zandt, current lead guitarist of the E Street Band, around that time. "We were all playing anything we could to be part of the scene," Van Zandt recalls. "West Coast stuff, the English thing, R&B and blues. Bruce was writing five or ten songs a week. He would say, 'I'm gonna go home tonight and write a great song...
...bars, playing easy-listening rock, but Springsteen and his pals disdained them because, as he says simply, "we hated the music. We had no idea how to hustle either. We weren't big door knockers, so we didn't go to New York or Philly." Adds Van Zandt, who lived on a dollar a day: "We were all reading in the papers how much fun rock 'n' roll was-it seemed like another world. We didn't take drugs. We couldn't afford any bad habits...
TOWNES VAN ZANDT--The best thing about Townes Van Zandt is his name. They should name a city after him just so you could see that name on signs and post offices. His style reminds me of Spider John Kerner, mostly because I don't like it. But fans of pretty good guitar playing, a sincere, if somewhat marble-mouthed voice, and Nashville's combination of James Taylor and white blues will...
TOWNES VAN ZANDT--Through Sun. Jan. 27 at Passim. Call 492-7679 for info...