| re: Steinman and Springsteen |
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Smeghead 02:01 am UTC 02/18/09 |
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re: Steinman and Springsteen - Willis 12:03 am UTC 02/18/09 |
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The Dream Engine (1969) was basically Neverland... Just without the names of Wendy and Hook and the Lost Boys...
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> > What do you think? Has jim, in need of a new song and in
> > lack of ideas, tried to make his own born to run for his
> > second album?
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> Yes, but I wouldn't think it was out of lack of ideas.
> With inspiration come emulation. I can just imagine Jim
> listening to Born to Run and thinking "that's a great
> album. I need an album like that". I doubt he was
> staring at an empty notebook finally shouting before
> deciding he's copy The Boss to get an album out. I'm
> definitely not calling Bad For Good a copy of anything,
> but probably was partially inspired by.
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> For me the moment the Boss/Steinman thing clicked was when
> I learned that Born To Run (the song) was also a version
> of Peter Pan. I'm bad with timelines, what came first
> Born to Run or Neverland? That might answer how much of
> Jim's work may be inspired by Springsteen.
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