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?
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.
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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.
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Like drrsutliff, the summer of 1975 in Cleveland listening to WMMS. Saw Springsteen that August in Akron (Cleveland show was sold out!). In the fall, every Friday pretty much every room in the Murray Hill dorms at Case Western Reserve University with a stereo would have the windows wide open, blasting WMMS as it announced the official start of the weekend and then played ‘Born to Run.’ Those were the days… |
Never understood Springsteen fanatics, as I never listen to his music, but I had a group(let's call them that) of friends from Chicago who loved Bruce and "Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band" and invited me to a B S show at the Uptown Theater in Chicago, in September, 78, a once beautiful movie theater space, converted to see concerts practically next door to the Green Mill jazz lounge, and a stones throw away from both the Riviera Theater and The Aragon Ball room, all live entertainment venues that I now live a couple of miles away from. Even a High end Audio dealer resides a couple of doors north. Yeah, I remember Bruce's concert where I thought he would never stop singing/performing; I think it went 4 plus hours, and the fans ate it up. It's a sad state that the Uptown Theater is in today, though, in dire need of repair. Probably not a good investment today to restore the space without government intervention money. It is on several historic lists, including being a Chicago Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was also named one of Landmark Illinois's ten most endangered Historic places. Someone with Bill Gates' money in the private sector could donate the money to bring this space back to life without batting an eye. Guess I got off subject. Bruce Bruce Bruce! |
