Years later, he performed a song with them in concert. Springsteen considers the band one of the best in the business, but he believes their catalog is underrated.
In 2012, Springsteen joined The Rolling Stones onstage during a New Jersey concert to perform “Tumbling Dice.” He said that joining the band in rehearsals the day before was thrilling. Not only were they one of his favorite bands, but he thought of them as one of the best of all time.
“The next night we did it for twenty thousand thunderstruck New Jerseyans in Newark,” Springsteen wrote in his book Born to Run. “It was a thrill but it didn’t have the mystic kick of the night before, when I got to sit in, in that little room with just those four guys, the GREATEST GARAGE BAND IN THE WORLD, in my small piece of rock’ n’ roll heaven.” (Cheatsheet)
During the conversation, where stars are asked to pick out eight songs they simply couldn’t live without, Springsteen noted his love for bands like The Beatles and The Four Tops as well as Marvin Gaye and James Brown, who sat nicely among the aforementioned idols. It’s clear that the sixties truly shaped Springsteen. (Faroutmagazine)
Springsteen says: " It’s a warm moment in the interview as Springsteen remembers a tribute to the band’s founding member, “I would use my mother’s hair clips to pin my hair down, then I would sleep on it exactly right, because I had Italian curly hair so I would pin it down until it was as straight as Brian Jones’.”
He’s still a Stones fan to this day, but ‘It’s All Over Now’ had a more poignant role in Springsteen’s life, saying it “held a special place for me because when I got thrown out of my first band, I went home that night and I was pissed off, so I said ‘All right I’m going to be a lead guitar player’. And for some reason, that solo felt like something I might be able to manage. I put the record on, and I sat there all night until I was able to scrape up some relatively decent version of Keith’s solo. It was a very important record for me as it was the first solo I ever learned.”
Bruce Springsteen also is just one of several notable names coming together to celebrate pioneering music writer — and Detroit native — Dave Marsh. (Metrotimes.com)
May 6, Little Steven and Jackson Browne will chat with Rock & Rap Confidential associate editor Danny Alexander and on May 8, Bruce Springsteen and Nona Hendryx will join in conversation with senior director of music at NPR in Washington, D.C., Lauren Onkey.
Marsh, 71, the celebrated activist, author, and founding member of Creem magazine — who may have coined the term "punk rock," who absolutely played the Who's "I Can't Explain" 23 times in a row during his stint at a college radio station (which got him fired),
“Dave has always been a tireless advocate of justice, human rights, and rock n roll,” Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello has said of Marsh. “His pen and voice are an important player in the history of the music we love and the struggle for a more just and decent world.”
