Greg, Your "Running With Bruce Down Thunder Road" piece is fantastic. Memories and details as these--the Jaguar vs. Galaxy race; genesis of the "Born To Run" guitar sound; lending Bruce your Roy Orbison Greatest Hits L.P.; etc.--are legends not widely known in the Springsteen fan community.
On another note, I recently read your name being dropped in two Springsteen texts. One was in Ryan White's Album by Album book, in which Mike Appel, describes himself to Crawdaddy as "John The Baptist, heralding Bruce's coming into the world", etc. The second mention is in Clinton Heylin's, E Street Shuffle, where he writes, "Thankfully, Crawdaddy's ex-editor Paul Williams and current editors Peter Knobler and Greg Williams were almost in competition to see who could be more effusive about this New Somebody (Bruce)". Your work and passion continue.
I'll be sharing this site with two people tomorrow, thinking of more to add.
Great article about Bruce, just love to read your early connections to rock stars. I’m wondering if you still have any connections to Bruce, or if he still remembers your stories of his early career?
The Bruce stories are priceless, and since I live right around the corner from Asbury Park, the locations are familiar.
Greg, Your "Running With Bruce Down Thunder Road" piece is fantastic. Memories and details as these--the Jaguar vs. Galaxy race; genesis of the "Born To Run" guitar sound; lending Bruce your Roy Orbison Greatest Hits L.P.; etc.--are legends not widely known in the Springsteen fan community.
On another note, I recently read your name being dropped in two Springsteen texts. One was in Ryan White's Album by Album book, in which Mike Appel, describes himself to Crawdaddy as "John The Baptist, heralding Bruce's coming into the world", etc. The second mention is in Clinton Heylin's, E Street Shuffle, where he writes, "Thankfully, Crawdaddy's ex-editor Paul Williams and current editors Peter Knobler and Greg Williams were almost in competition to see who could be more effusive about this New Somebody (Bruce)". Your work and passion continue.
I'll be sharing this site with two people tomorrow, thinking of more to add.
Good stuff, man. Bruce is one of my all-time favorites.
You mean I breathed the same smoke in the hallowed back room of our Fifth Avenue office?
If I could go back to that room again, to quote another bard.
Excellent piece! I look forward to the weekends and these profiles, love the backstories. Keep up the wonderful work.
Great article about Bruce, just love to read your early connections to rock stars. I’m wondering if you still have any connections to Bruce, or if he still remembers your stories of his early career?
Wonderfully and passionately written. Indeed a memory worth sharing; thank you for doing so.