Bruce (84 page)

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In a nutshell: the effect Bruce wanted depended on one of the venue’s own spotlight operators, and he wouldn’t report for the show for another couple of hours.

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Whose ability to keep the show running smoothly in very unsmooth circumstances, along with his preternatural ability to produce, say, twenty-five cups of hot coffee and pieces of pie, all on china with nice silverware, at two in the morning in response to someone else’s spontaneous joke, have long made him legendary throughout the music industry.

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“I sure use the word ‘great’ a lot when I’m talking about Bruce, don’t I?” he adds a bit sheepishly.

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Although, of course, she did, even after her first husband died in World War II before he could lay eyes on the son she named Frank Bruno Jr.

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Carlin, Peter Ames.

Bruce / Peter Ames Carlin. —1st Touchstone hardcover ed.

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1. Springsteen, Bruce. 2. Rock musicians—United States. I. Title.

ML420.S77C37 2012

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