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San Francisco, 1973: My friend Chip Monck had been hired to do the lighting and staging for the Columbia Records convention at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. He actually hired me to take pictures as they assembled the lighting structures and the big speakers, and in the end, of course, was the concert. It was quite a succession of really neat acts, and then suddenly this little punky kid comes out in a wifebeater and a scraggly beard and sunglasses, and I thought, "Who in the hell is that?" Well, I was documenting, so I had to take a few shots of each group, but I only took three or four pictures of him, because I didn't know and I didn't care who he was -- he looked like a punk to me. Of course, years later I said, "Oh, my God, that was Bruce Springsteen!" Good lord, if I could relive that day I think I probably would take a couple of rolls instead of a couple of shots [laughs].



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Kool

Dude! You rock Bruce!

March 04 2008 at 6:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mason younG

saw Bruce at 'Upstage'...in 1972, before "Steel Mill" (one of his early local bands) was upstairs from the Green Mermaid in Asbury Park, opened at midnite, closed at dawn...The Heart & Mind machine they called it...he was amazing then too...but 1976 at the Palladium in NYC - ultimate perfetion

November 16 2007 at 10:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply