Where were you when you first heard ""Born To Run"?


It was 1975. I was on the floor of my childhood home listening to Syracuse University  college radio station, WAER,  on my Pioneer Sx-737 tuner. I was blown away from start to finish. 

Prior to that release, music critic Jon Landau was quoted, "I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen".

Where were you when you first heard it?

judsauce

I bought many great records in Korvette's. Two off the top of my head are The Doors first album and Mountain Climbing. Oh, and the first one i bought was Meet the Beatles. Can't forget that one.

My high school parking lot and I immediately hated it. It sounded like he was singing (shouting?) out of time with the music.

 

I should have said in my post above that it gives me no pleasure to badmouth Springsteen's music. He seems like a very cool guy and great person. But have you seen him on stage with Roy Orbison in the Black & White Night movie? Bruce, dude, calm the f down. Remember, the movie is about Roy, not you.

 

Thank You for setting the record straight

I agree OP 

"@zx10  I have to be honest, I don’t really like most of "stinkstien" either. Probably about 6 songs all told."

But, seems as if free speech only works, unless it doesn’t fit your narrative. 

Now as far as the Album goes I was a rising senior in High School and already had Greetings from AP...and The Wild The I..&...... My two all time favorite Springsteen Albums . I went to see them in the summer of  1975.   July 25th  from what the internet tells me and he played a few songs from Born to Run. I had been hooked a year earlier on his music and have seen his band and the Rolling Stones way more than any other band , except for my sons :) . Saw him the following year at Penn State. I was still in HS but my sister invited me up for the show.

I have a CBS Half-Speed Mastering of Born to Run and will need to play it tomorrow.  I did fade from being a crazy Bruce Fan by 1982 for some reason. However, I have seen him several times since as his shows are legendary.

 

EJ Korvettes Was my Favorite at the King of Prussia Mall and my girlfriend worked there two years later and got me in when there was a new shipment of music which she knew I appreciated. I still remember her telling me that I needed to listen to Supertramp and brought me a copy of Crisis what Crisis. It was a few years old at the time but I was hooked!

 

Still not sure where exactly I was when I had heard the song, but likely driving in the car somewhere.  A 1965 Ford Galaxy 500, white. The battery once flew into the fan while rounding a corner once.