Tonight is the Kristen Ann Carr Fund’s “A Night To Remember” Gala in New York City.
Various items are up for auction, including a Telecaster signed by Bruce himself!
Click the link above to access the foundation’s website to learn more about the cause, and here to check out the items up for auction.
…Bruce grew tired of Steel Mill’s approach, and in early 1971 he let the band fold up, deciding to form a much larger group: ten pieces, with horns and girl singers. While rehearsing that band, Bruce decided to put together a group composed of everyone who wasn’t already in another band. That was Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom. It played three dates, one of which was as an opening act for the Allman Brothers. The membership changed nightly: “Somebody’d take a solo and we’d all fall down laughing,” Springsteen says. The group even featured a Monopoly table set up in the middle of the stage. “That was to give the people who didn’t play anything a chance to be in the band,” Bruce recalls with a laugh. “You know, so they could say, ‘Yeah, I’m in Dr. Zoom. I play Monopoly.’”
From Born To Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story, by Dave Marsh
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For those of you interested—here’s my question and Bruce’s response!
Our Sarah got to meet Bruce at the Sirius XM Radio event last night, and asked him a kick-ass question…
(Who else thought of Christopher Moltisanti from The Sopranos when he started talking about “the arc” of an album?)
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