“Yeah, I guess Alan Vega was more of a performance artist than a singer-songwriter,” Springsteen told me. “And we shared that interest in early rock and roll. The ’60s is a whole different ball of wax. The fundamental nature of the roots of where I come from is pre-’60s. The E Street Band itself. After ’64, we’re not that influenced by psychedelia and all that kind of music. We’re kind of rooted in blue-collar, 1950s aesthetic. I was always sort of just a circumstantial hippie; the few years that I lived that lifestyle, it was just, I got thrust into it. By life. But I connected with Alan on a
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