josie Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 (edited) I'm reading Bruce Springsteen's autobiography (excellent!) and this incident from 1968 caught my attention - other BC peeps might like it too: ... he pulled out an unstrung hollow-bodied Gibson with the longest neck I'd ever seen. I brought it home, cleaned it up and strung it. It was a strange piece. My guitar strings barely reached around its distant oversized tuning pegs. ... My Gibson only had one pickup and the frets were awfully far from each other, but the sound ... the sound said, BRING ON ALL COMERS! ... One night, some kid who knew his guitars shed some light on the "miracle" in my miracle Gibson. He walked up and congratulated me on the brilliant idea of stringing an old Gibson six-string bass with guitar strings and playing it as a solo instrument. I nodded coolly while thinking, "Holy sh*t ... it's a six-string bass!" I'd been soloing like a madman for months on a bass guitar! No wonder its sound was so thick and its fret board so impossible. It worked! Edited December 30, 2016 by josie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 I`m currently reading this book as well, and also laughed at this particular part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c60 Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Not sure if this is in his book - just got it for Christmas and haven't read it yet (I know, I know) but my guitarist's favourite tale (and it may or may not be true) is when a youthful Bruce and his band were engaged to play as Chuck Berry's backing band for a gig. A slightly nervous Bruce went up to Chuck and said "Good evening Mr. Berry, My name is Bruce Springsteen and me and my band are your backing band tonight. Could you give me some idea of what we're going to play?" Dear old Chuck looked him straight in the eye and said "Tonight, son, we're going to play some Chuck Berry songs" and stalked off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneyg42 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 10pm Channel 4 tonight, In His Own Words. Looks interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICbass Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Here's a nice Bruce Springsteen story... http://youtu.be/Kkf9n-WQ5Ik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mentalextra Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 [quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1483021295' post='3204179'] 10pm Channel 4 tonight, In His Own Words. Looks interesting. [/quote] I watched this and found it fascinating. Not at all what I was expecting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 You still haven't amended the spelling mistake in the title...it's driving me mental!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 I saw "In his own Words". It didn't make me want to buy the book but it was very interesting in its own right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josie Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 [quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1483102349' post='3204712'] You still haven't amended the spelling mistake in the title...it's driving me mental!! [/quote] Figured out how to do it, that's useful - thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 No, thank you... It was driving me crazy...glad you learned something though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuco Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 I recall seeing a clip of Springsteen rehearsing with Roy Orbison, working out BV's Springsteen nails everything thrown at him and even Orbison said some comment about him catching on quick. Monster musician. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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