Bruce Springsteen Talks Early Rock with Little Steven

From David Hinckley, New York Daily News blog:

If you like Bruce Springsteen or just like music of the 1960s, you should tune in WAXQ (104.3 FM) Sunday night, 10-midnight, for the third part of Bruce’s conversation with his pal Steve Van Zandt on “Little Steven’s Underground Garage.”

It’s a sort-of-chronological chat that started two weeks ago with Bruce’s earliest rock ‘n’ roll influences and finishes up this Sunday with Bruce talking about how the music was changing in the late ‘60s just as he was getting serious about making his own music with his own bands.

Jimi Hendrix, for instance, got his attention. As did less-remembered bands like King Crimson.

It’s interesting that the better and more successful a musician becomes, the more he or she talks about where the music came from. From Keith Richard, Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan to Eddie Vedder and John Legend, they’ll all tell you what they do didn’t come out of either nowhere or just their own heads.

The Springsteen conversation is particularly interesting because like everything else he does, Bruce plunges into it. He’s articulate and he’s got a great memory. Plus he and Steven have been pals forever and while we've seen them sing a lot (above), we've never eavesdropped on a real conversation before.

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