1977 Record Plant Sessions Flashback


Studio Bruce Springsteen

Studio Bruce

Hearing about the new documentary on the making of Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town album, I had a flashback:

In 1977 while Bruce was recording the record in Studio B at the Record Plant Studios in New York, I was working as director of publicity and artist relations at Hologram Records, the new label launched by the Record Plant. He was there day and night for so long that we joked about setting up a cot and renaming the room “Studio Bruce.” Yep, he’s a perfectionist. I don’t remember how long “Adam Raised a Cain” took to record, but I heard that line so many times, there’s a permanent groove of it in my brain.

This is how Bruce is: At the time, my youngest sister was in high school and my youngest brother was in grade school. Both were nuts about Springsteen. She took saxophone lessons because she wanted to be like Clarence; he memorized and played the guitar licks by ear.

One day I left a note for Bruce at the receptionist’s desk telling him the above and asked him if he could please give me autographs for them. I went upstairs to Studio A (or was it C?) where one of our acts was recording, and a while later I was paged over the P.A. system. Somebody was downstairs looking for me and wanted to meet me. I thought, who could it be? Everyone from the label is up here. I went downstairs and there’s Bruce standing alone in the lounge. He wanted to meet me and deliver the autographs personally.

Only they weren’t just autographs. He had written my brother and sister each a note: “I hear you’re a fan, thank you for your support, I’m glad you like the music,” etc. We tried to have a conversation, but that was when he was at the semi-articulate stage, and I was pretty amazed to be standing there toe-to-toe with the flash from Asbury Park (he’s not a lot taller than me, and I’m definitely not tall). So I think there were several minutes of “uh, um, er” between us

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. I’m sure I said “Thank You” a million times, he tried to get out a couple of sentences, but didn’t finish any, and then I think we sort of mumbled goodbye and went back to work.

A couple of odds and ends:

  • Engineer Jimmy Iovine was nicknamed “Shoes” because he always had some fabulous footwear.
  • A Bruce breakfast (not that it was morning or anything), ordered from a local deli: Rice Krispies and chocolate milk. The cute factor cracked me up.
  • The publicity photo session on the roof — I was so bummed that I was somewhere else at the time. But it shows how much time the band spent at the Record Plant; they didn’t leave even to get their pictures taken.

Kris Di Lorenzo

September 24, 2010

Kris Di Lorenzo published what was probably the first review of “Greetings from Asbury Park.” She started working in the music business as a publicist at International Media Associates, the first rock PR firm. Some of her archived articles can be found in the library at www.RocksBackPages.com, where she also maintains a music blog. Currently she is working on a one-woman show about a rock star on a farewell tour.

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