Life in the Interstate Propeller Set: The Mild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuttle:
Wings Over Buffalo
By Charles Ribakoff
Note from Charles: Many of my friends (and some not for the first time) thought it was a little over the top, if not flat frigging nuts, when I went to Buffalo for the night for the last show on the Springsteen tour. As always, truth is stranger than fiction. This is, more or less, the truth.
While a bad idea is an orphan, a good idea always has many proud parents. But this good idea could only come from my friend, Crazy Harry. Crazy Harry is the most rabid Springsteen fan I know, and my money’s on him for All World.
This rock fan stuff can take you towards the obsessive, and on through to the other side. Nick Hornby just wrote a terrifically funny novel, Juliet Naked, about Duncan, a depressed middle aged man living in the north of England who has devoted himself to the brief and obscure career of Tucker Crowe. Tucker, whose publicity was such as posters proclaiming “Cohen x Dylan x Simon= Crowe”), made a few cult records ...