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The Quixotic Goal of Complete and Total Springsteen Article Domination
I’m Working on a Dream
You may not have noticed from my articles, but I have a slight fondness for Bruce Springsteen. I am also at a point in life where many of my childhood goals are now frankly unattainable. For example, at 56 and with the vertical leap of a roll of carpet I acknowledge that I will never play center for the Los Angeles Lakers, nor will I likely ever become king of a small Eastern European country. With Bruce, however, opportunity still presents itself.
There is still a chance, be it ever so slight, that I could become a roadie for the E Street Band. Yes, I’m nearing 60 and amps are heavy, but I’m still 15 years younger than anyone in the band except Jake; maybe I can carry his saxophone. And once embedded with the crew, there is still the remote possibility that Garry Tallent could get stuck in a snowstorm before a show in Buffalo and Bruce could call on me to play bass at that night’s show (they would have to leave my amp turned off; like Stu Sutcliffe in the Beatles’ early Hamburg days, I can’t actually play bass).
Those are both longshots, I grant you. What is within my grasp has more to do with a pen and a laptop than a bass and amp: becoming the acknowledged chronicler of all things Springsteen. You see, when it comes to writing about…
