Summer of 75. WMMS FM Cleveland broadcast it and I was riding in my friends ‘68 Super Bee. They went on to play it every Friday evening at 5pm to start the weekend for quite a while…
Where were you when you first heard ""Born To Run"?
It was 1975. I was on the floor of my childhood home listening to Syracuse University college radio station, WAER, on my Pioneer Sx-737 tuner. I was blown away from start to finish.
Prior to that release, music critic Jon Landau was quoted, "I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen".
Where were you when you first heard it?
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At the Banana Records shop in downtown San Francisco where I was working when it was released. One of the other people there was a big Bruce fan from his first two albums, so you can bet we heard 'Born To Run' a lot. I got to see him 3 times, the last on the 'Darkness at the Edge of Town' tour in '78; never owned any of his records. @rar1 - did you know that 'EJ Korvettes' stood for the 'Eight Jewish Korea Veterans' who created it? We had one in Maryland where I'm from (though we'd go to S Klein's more often). |
i heard the title track on am radio upon its release and was immediately struck by the four-note opening riff--it's one of the very few songs that embedded in my memory the first time i heard it (a couple of credence and byrds songs had the same effect). i've never been as over-the-moon about the whole album--"jungleland" is kind of a slog and the production always sounded over-compressed to me. @larsma, never knew that about korvettes. |
@thecarpathian - yeah, if you ever want to know anything useless that nobody cares about, I'm a great source! |
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