Talk About a Dream: The Essential Interviews of Bruce Springsteen Read Online Free PDF Page B

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    That’s all they have time for .
    How am I doing, fellas?
    That’s all the time they paid for .
    Must read, it says here at the bottom.
    Read that .
    These guys are gonna be mad. Akadama wines are imported … Oh, this part. And don’t forget to pass the Akadema [
laughter
] … They spelled it wrong!
    It is imported by Santori International. They used to be one of our sponsors. What better authority on wine than Bruce Springsteen to surprise us here. You’ve drunk a bottle of wine in your time, Bruce .
    No, I hate wine. You don’t like wine? Okay.
    Believe it or not, Bruce is actually here. I didn’t know if you were going to make it, Bruce. You didn’t seem too enthusiastic last night about getting out today .
    Yeah, it’s hard to tell.
    Well we are going to start off by playing the tune—you have not heard it yet on the radio .
    No I haven’t.
    One called “Born to Run.” Well, I’ve been waiting. I’ve had some calls on it, but just in case you came here today I thought I’d save it and play it. Go out into the hall and you can listen to it on the little radio—go ahead out there. All go out in the hall now. Now while Bruce can’t hear me [
laughter
] … No, Bruce can hear me. Bruce I hope you are out there. He hasn’t heard it on the radio. And there’s a thing about hearing a song in the studio it sounds a lot different than when you get it onto your little transistor radio. Everyone knows that out on the beach at Asbury you’ve got to hear it on the radio and that’s how you know how it sounds. So here it is, “Born to Run” on a small radio. [
Song plays
]
    “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen. I like it. How do you like it, Bruce?
    Do I get to do another commercial?
    No, not yet. So what have you been doing with yourself, Bruce? Making a new record?
    Yeah, yeah, make another album. Working on my band, working with my band. Trying to make it better. That’s about it. Going to Texas after tonight. I guess we go to Texas tomorrow.
    How you going? You going to fly?
    In the magic bus.
    You going in the magic bus huh? They got a spiffy green bus, I’ve got to say it’s real nice .
    Sort of
Exorcist
green.
    How long do you think it will take you to drive to Texas?
    I don’t know.
    When’s your gig?
    I don’t know that either.
    You don’t know where you’re going, but you know where you’re coming from, I guess. We have Max [Weinberg] and Roy [Bittan] with us here. And Garry [Tallent] also. Max and Roy, the new guys on the block. Say hello. [
Shouts of hello
]
    That’s Max, and that’s Roy [
laughter
].
    Max is a drummer, and Roy is a piano player. I was telling you that people were concerned about what was happening with you and the band, and I can tell them that everything is working out fine including your new violin player .
    That’s Suki. The guy who does the engineering on the album, on our albums, Louis Lahav, that’s his wife. And she’s a girl, she did all the voices on “Sandy.” She sings all the background on “Sandy” on the
Wild, the Innocent
album. She’s been playing with us for two, three weeks. It sounded nice.
    Come on in, Garry. Garry is one of the old guys. He’s been around for a while. All sorts of folks here today. We’ve talked, not here on the air, a lot about what Bruce is into and how long it’s taken for Bruce to break out nationally and it’s gotta happen soon .
    Why, why.
    You don’t care too much, huh .
    Uh, you know.
    You’re pretty mellow about it, I guess. But the people who are enthusiastic about you really want it to go real big so everybody will know about you. Do you want everybody to know about you, Bruce?
    I don’t think about it that much, about that aspect of it. What happens now is when you are doing gigs like last night, which is really nice, really nice gig, the audience was a