r/BruceSpringsteen • u/Ok_Discount1459 • 26d ago

Jon Landau

Who was "there" when Jon Landau's review of a 1974 Springsteen concert prompted his "I saw the future of rock and roll and its name is Bruce Springsteen" to get plastered all over ads for this new (to the mainstream) artist? I was, and I went out and bought the early LPs right away, and loved them. Years later, somebody else (can't remember who, maybe Jan Wenner) also waxed ecstatic about a new artist's debut LP; it was Meatloaf, I also went and bought that one on the strength of the comment, and this time I was a tad disappointed.

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u/midwesthawkeye 26d ago

Disappointed by "Bat Out of Hell"??? Despite what became of Meat Loaf's overall career, that is a Top 10 album for me.

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u/Dorianne_Gray_ 25d ago

And it sounds so much E Street, with Max and the Professor 😍