Re: quibble

[jackthecat]

He's been playing that butterscotch '52 type telecaster since the
beginning.....
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From: Thomas Christian <gorimbaud>
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Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 12:55 AM
Subject: RE: quibble


> Regarding Springsteen, I do remember he was a big
> deal (growing up in NYC mid-70s), and saw him in
> '78 at Palladium AND MSG later in the same year.
> Both Springsteen and Patti were getting pretty good
> WNEW-FM coverage at the time, although Patti's was
> somewhat diminished by her offending NEW's sensibilities
> w/her "you can't say fuck in radio free america" during
> a harry chapin hungerthon a year or so earlier.  DJ
> Vince Scelsa loved Patti's stuff, and recall him playing
> BTN 4 times in a row one May afternoon when it first came out.
>
> As a sidebar to Bruce, the first time I saw Patti was
> at CBGB's 2nd avenue theatre (12.30.77)and remains to
> this day the most transcendant (sic) magical performance
> i have ever witnessed in person...It was Patti's birthday
> show, the fire marshalls pulled the plugs and closed the
> theatre down early due to overcrowding (leaving PSG to finish
> set acappella), and a duet with a telecaster (i think)
> toting Bruce Springsteen.  Recall Patti
> introduced him by saying she'd written a song with Bruce
> Springsteen (crowd chuckles), that it would be released
> the following year and would be a hit single (crowd roaring
> laughter)...laughed so hard at the thought of "our" beloved
> downtown Patti w/a hit single that didn't realize until
> a minute into the then-unknown song, that the clean shaven
> figure on stage was indeed Springsteen himself.  The following
> summer the song was all over new york (or, at least that's how
> i remember it).
>
>
>
>
> Thomas Christian
> gorimbaud
>
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