1. WTMD aired this piece as part of our Friday Night Special Series.
2. I AM FROM NEW JERSEY..I GREW UP ON BRUCE. I weep openly during Thunder Road.
Ok ok ok. Over the top. But this is one hell of a documentary interweaving the story of the Born To Run (The most important album ever written) with its music. Interviews, narration, music all mixed together in the proper proportions to entertain and enthrall listeners for the full hour.
You see, music is about remembering certain times of your life. Millions of people, myself among them, can tell you the moment Born To Run changed their lives. This show gives us the opportunity to understand how this record was created and changed Bruce and the E Street Band's lives. These people are in your audience and they deserve to hear this piece. Every aspect is covered, the technical, the emotional, the personal, the public.
The production and mixing of this hour is superb. Music levels under the interviews are exquisitely placed, leveled. They move the story and add to the energy of the story. Without this level of production the piece would be much flatter. Music punctuates the story with exclamation points, question marks and you can even feel the semi-colons with the use of music in this piece.
YOU MUST AIR THIS PIECE no matter if you are music station, a news station...hell classical music stations should be airing this show! Through Bruce and like Bruce, it tells us the stories of our lives as captured on this record. This documentary moves me just as much as climax of Jungleland..."cause tonight we got style..."
This is no VH-1 documentary masquerading as public radio. It revolutionizes the way popular music documentaries are told on public radio. It's respectful, uplifting, intelligent, self deprecating, exacting.
The 30 Anniversary release of Born to Run has just happened. So you got a couple, three weeks, to get this on the air.
Review of Bruce Springsteen: The Story of Born to Run
Steve Yasko
Posted on November 26, 2005 at 04:22 AM
OK OK OK. Two disclaimers.
1. WTMD aired this piece as part of our Friday Night Special Series.
2. I AM FROM NEW JERSEY..I GREW UP ON BRUCE. I weep openly during Thunder Road.
Ok ok ok. Over the top. But this is one hell of a documentary interweaving the story of the Born To Run (The most important album ever written) with its music. Interviews, narration, music all mixed together in the proper proportions to entertain and enthrall listeners for the full hour.
You see, music is about remembering certain times of your life. Millions of people, myself among them, can tell you the moment Born To Run changed their lives. This show gives us the opportunity to understand how this record was created and changed Bruce and the E Street Band's lives. These people are in your audience and they deserve to hear this piece. Every aspect is covered, the technical, the emotional, the personal, the public.
The production and mixing of this hour is superb. Music levels under the interviews are exquisitely placed, leveled. They move the story and add to the energy of the story. Without this level of production the piece would be much flatter. Music punctuates the story with exclamation points, question marks and you can even feel the semi-colons with the use of music in this piece.
YOU MUST AIR THIS PIECE no matter if you are music station, a news station...hell classical music stations should be airing this show! Through Bruce and like Bruce, it tells us the stories of our lives as captured on this record. This documentary moves me just as much as climax of Jungleland..."cause tonight we got style..."
This is no VH-1 documentary masquerading as public radio. It revolutionizes the way popular music documentaries are told on public radio. It's respectful, uplifting, intelligent, self deprecating, exacting.
The 30 Anniversary release of Born to Run has just happened. So you got a couple, three weeks, to get this on the air.