Springsteen autobiography*

Yeah, I love Bruce like he's my brother older teenage brother's best friend, but that's just plain lazy.

 

Well, it beats "King of the Supermarket".

 

I came I saw I concurred.

 

In some ways, his public persona is calculated with a controlled narrative. Will he really open up and be brutally honest about his life and career? It isn't all pretty.

 

While I'm looking forward to this, I'd much rather have Garry Tallent tell his story. Fingers crossed this is a "Marsh Free" edition of the story.

Can't wait to find out who they have lined up for the audio book version.

 

I'll probably do the audio version. I hope he does it himself. Or Ben Stiller

 

Sounds like a great read already. I'm interested in how he feels about the high quality of those two albums released together and then the often poor reception that they originally received. Must have been frightening. I love some of that material.

 

Bruce, that title has already been used by, um, Dave Marsh.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/03...rsh&qid=1455281912&ref_=sr_1_8&s=books&sr=1-8

Marsh has already written four Springsteen books in total. With Marsh and Jon Landau hanging around, I am not super optimistic the real, unvarnished Bruce will emerge in this book. Peter Carlin's book, Bruce, will remain as the best bio. That's my prediction.

 

hopefully he goes easy on the pictures. The books in the box sets just seem to be a photo-dump

 

I'd buy that book. Garry Tallent and I were born on the same day, and we both played bass. He's a teeny bit better-known than I am.

 

Agreed. For instance, I have no idea what your middle initial is!

 

I hope he wrote it himself. He's certainly intelligent enough. But writing songs and writing books are two different things, and I hope Jon Landau or Dave Marsh didn't write it based on notes or "interviews."
Either way, I don't expect anything really earth-shattering or mind-blowing or any new information from out of left-field, and as in the case of his music,it wouldn't surprise me if the really interesting stuff is left "off" the released product.

But I hope I'm wrong.

 

I thought the same thing....

 

Shout-out...Frank Stefanko, "Corvette Winter", 1978.

 

Marsh. Ugh.

 

Lynn Goldsmith's "memories" of him in her book Rock and Roll Stories were interesting. Hardcover payback coming?
He wrote a children's book?

Who knew?

 

Any news about the audio version?

 

There will be an audio version for sale -- here's a link to the CD version:

https://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Bru...=1469119635&sr=8-2&keywords=bruce+springsteen

but it has no info on whether Bruce reads it or not. I certainly hope so...

Anyone have any info?

 

I had seen quite awhile ago it was to be read by Bruce. I don't see that anywhere now. Maybe the tour extending has eaten up the time he would have used to do that. Too bad, if that's that's the case.
I bought Townshend's bio and had begun to read it before I discovered Pete was reading the audio version, so I bought that and began again, it made huge difference to hear his reading of it. His tone, inflections, etc. made it not only more enjoyable but more informative, as well.
I hope that Bruce can carve out enough time to do the reading.

 

For what it's worth, not that it'll stop the avalanche of cynicism that this place regularly is these days, Mike Appel just said in an interview that Bruce has been calling him up and grilling him for details about things that went on when Appel was his manager. All indications I've heard are that Bruce wrote it himself. It makes sense to me - he's pretty single-minded when it comes to creative things.

 

I read "Bruce" a couple of years ago. I especially liked reading about his early days as an aspiring musician in Asbury Park in the 60s-70s. Not sure what I can expect from him telling the stories. I hope is not too concerened about his 'ordinary guy' image. Ordinary guys don't fill up stadiums with a hundred thousand people around the globe. He is not ordinary at all.

 

A poster on the Backstreets BTX forum is stating that the word on the street is that the story in the book only goes as far as Born To Run...

I certainly hope that's not the case since I'm mainly interested in the story for everything that's happened with the band since the Born in the USA tour ended.

And they used a Darkness era photo for the cover which doesn't match the contents if it goes through the Born To Run album/tour...not that that probably matters.

If it only goes through BTR and at 500+ pages...we might see an entire chapter with "Douglas begat Bruce...and Bruce begat Evan, etc...."

 

Pathetic? Tough crowd I guess. I liked Pete's book very much. I agree that is was surprising that he was very honest about his personal life. Pete is lucky to be alive today.

 

A focused time period (through BTR) is more appealing to me as a reader. I like that era. It could be interesting reading Bruce's writing at length about Steel Mill, the local music scene, Hammond, Appel, the 3 albums, the different band lineups, and whatever else he writes about for that time. At 500 pages, I'm already overwhelmed!

 

At 500 pages, I am gonna need a lot of pics!