22 Apr 2011
With all the kerfuffle about the release of every scrap of information related to the making of Darkness on the Edge of Town and The Promise, I wanted to wait and avoid the rush, to tell people about a book that deserves not to get lost in the Springsteen Shuffle.
Canadian photojournalist Lawrence Kirsch has collected candid photos of Bruce and the E Street Band and writings about the Darkness tour from fans all over North America: their recollections and reviews. Reading about shows in cities other than those I saw in New York was the best vicarious living I’ve done in a long time
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Some of the entries are as poetic as Springsteen’s songs, some are from kids who were too young to get to the shows on their own, some are from journalists, some from people who knew about Bruce way before the historic 1975 shows at the Bottom Line (and yes, he really did run up onto the amps and leap off, and yes, we were standing on the chairs screaming and rocking, even though we were supposedly cool, jaded music bizz people).
Some of the writing by “ordinary” people is better than the professional contributions, and some of the most poignant stories are from a farm girl in Iowa, a teenaged guy whose lifelong friend was killed, and the art school kid who designed the marquee for the band’s legendary Capitol Theatre appearance. The thread is always Springsteen’s emotional impact on them. You know that those concerts are memories they’ll take to their graves, and you just might recognize yourself in one of these stories.
Sprinkled throughout the book are anecdotes of running into Springsteen or miraculously being introduced to him in strange ways, and I have no doubt they’re all true. Outside the context of my work in the music business (which accounted for meeting Bruce backstage at the Bottom Line and in the Record Plant during the making of Darkness), I also encountered him on 57th Street on his way from the now extinct 42nd Street Sam Goody Record store, carrying a little brown paper bag containing a 45 (record, not gun), which I now wish to hell I’d asked him about; and on his way to a hamburger joint off Eighth Avenue. You just never know.
The pictures are all action shots, some of him in what I call “the gone zone,” when he’s singing and playing and absolutely transported elsewhere. Many shots are of Bruce interacting with audience members. The ecstatic looks on everyone’s faces, their sheer joy at seeing and hearing him, especially in close quarters when he bopped on down to the very edge of the front apron or jumped into the audience, is the legacy he’ll leave, long after the sound fades. My hat’s off to Lawrence for this huge labor of love, because god knows he’s not getting rich from it. You can see more material for the project on the book’s website: www.TheLightinDarkness.com
