Ep 33- Pulling Out Of Here

In this episode, you'll meet Bud, another longtime fan with a tall tale of discovering Bruce in the mid 1970’s. Bud posed as a Springsteen imposter on the Auburn University campus and came face-to-face with Bruce and the band before the show and was invited backstage afterwards.

Bud chose That One Lyric from a Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” in which the final lyric changed the trajectory of his life.

Bud and Marianne, with photographer Danny Cinch, at the Transparent Clinch Gallery in Asbury Park, NJ, 2022.

Article from the Auburn Plainsman school newspaper profiling Bud as “The Springsteen Imposter” May 7, 1976

8mm film of Springsteen performing “Born to Run” and “Thunder Road” at Auburn University, May 10, 1976

8mm film of Springsteen performing “Spirit in the Night” at Auburn University, May 10, 1976

We found an article detailing Bud’s first Springsteen show at the Stone Balloon Tavern in Newark, Delaware on August 13, 1974!