Bruce (72 page)
Bruce’s studio collaborators, the producers, engineers, mixers, and remixers who helped hone his music were to a man eager to talk it all over, often in intricate detail. Here Mike Appel steps up again, and while he sweetly declined to speak on the record, so does Jimmy Cretecos. Jon Landau did his part here too, along with the open-hearted, passionate Chuck Plotkin and techno whiz and walking music encyclopedia Toby Scott, both of whom spent hours and hours describing precise details of Bruce’s recording work. Thanks also to Neil Dorfsman, Bob Clearmountain, Arthur Baker, Brendan O’Brien, and Ron Aniello.
The members of the extended Springsteen family opened their homes, hearts, and personal archives. Pam Springsteen shared her stories, photographs, and handmade videos in Los Angeles. Adele Springsteen invited me into her home and shared all her most precious memories and artifacts, with the help and often conspiratorial glee of her older daughter, Virginia Springsteen Shave. Thanks also to the other Zerilli sisters, Dora Kirby (RIP) and Eda Urbalis. Dora passed away while this book was in its final stages, but I left her quotes in the present tense because I’m convinced she’d find a way to come back and, as her nephew once warned on a different matter, “bop you on the friggin’ bean” if I left her out of the party. Big thanks also to Glenn Cashion, who tied together the larger family story; Frank Bruno; and among the more distant relatives, Robert F. Zerilli in New York City and Anne Springs Close in South Carolina, the latter for her genealogy of the Springsteen/Springs family.
Bruce Springsteen made it clear that the only thing I owed him was an honest account of his life. He welcomed me into his world, spoke at great length on more than a few occasions, and worked overtime to make sure I had all the tools I’d need to do my job. Thanks for that, Bruce. And for everything else, too.
The final word goes to my kids, Anna, Teddy, and Max, whose music,
light, and laughs give me all the hope I need. Thanks for sharing it all with me (and Mom too), and I can’t wait to see what’s next.
Oh wait. The real final word, and maybe the biggest thanks of all, go to my wife, Sarah Carlin Ames, for making it possible for me to go all in on this one, come what may. And for thinking up the title, too.
© ELIZABETH S. AMES
PETER AMES CARLIN
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall & Redemption of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson
and
Paul McCartney: A Life.
He has been a senior writer for
People
and a television critic for
The Oregonian
. Carlin lives with his family in Portland, Oregon.
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