45 years ago tonight, The Castiles, a high school band with Bruce Springsteen on guitar, played the Off Broad Street Coffee House in Red Bank, New Jersey. Jeannie Clark opened in the first of several times she would open for Bruce on into 1971. She was even a Zoomette for Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom, another of his pre-E Street bands. Jeannie Clark wrote these words about 45 years ago tonight: "The first time I remember really setting eyes on Bruce Springsteen was at the Off Broad Street Coffee House, where I sang often in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. I knew he had a high school band, The Castiles, that rivaled my band from Middletown, the Gross National Product. He appeared shy, alone, and mysterious. His hair was long, or seemed long to a girl fresh out of high school in the 60s. I hadn’t seen hair like that on a guy, except for Bob Dylan’s bass player, when I saw him perform at Rutgers University. I didn’t have the courage to walk up and talk to Bruce, although I sensed that he had a soul deeper than the GI I was hanging with, sitting with a group around a table." There were two shows that day/night, and the hand-drawn poster indicated admission was 75 cents:
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 04:20:14 +0000
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