These guys were our local band in Bethesda, Md. in the late '60s. Coffee houses (remember those?) and community centers on Friday or Saturday with Grin and some other local artist. The Lofgren family lived 12 houses down the street from me. Went to high school and jammed with Tom but older brother Nils was always on the road. Nils used to play a Strat with an upside-down neck left-handed, like Hendrix. He would be playing blistering lead riffs and do a standing back flip on stage without missing a note. Unreal how spoiled we were back then in the quality of our music and musicians.
As good as Nil's is had he not got that call from Bruce to come up to Jersey for an audition...he would have been just another starving musician. Grin's drummer is (or was) working at the record store in Catonsville, Md.
Are you joking? Even before he joined Springsteen he was hardly a "starving musician." Was immensely popular in Europe and a respected session player. Hell, he was considered for joining the Rolling Stones before Ron Wood. And as for "Grin's drummer," his name is Bob Berberich and he is a local legend in the DC area, having performed with several of our greatest groups and is still performing today in addition to running his record store with his wife (another local legend) and daughter in Frederick, MD. Your comment reminds me of that scene in the Woody Allen movie where he pulls Marshall McLuhan out from behind the sign board to tell some blowhard that he knows nothing about his work. You apparently know about as much about Nils and Grin.
These guys were our local band in Bethesda, Md. in the late '60s. Coffee houses (remember those?) and community centers on Friday or Saturday with Grin and some other local artist. The Lofgren family lived 12 houses down the street from me. Went to high school and jammed with Tom but older brother Nils was always on the road.
Nils used to play a Strat with an upside-down neck left-handed, like Hendrix. He would be playing blistering lead riffs and do a standing back flip on stage without missing a note. Unreal how spoiled we were back then in the quality of our music and musicians.
I'm listening to several tracks of this record and have to say it is a very pleasing record!
Excellent record
474 "views." People don't know what they're missing.
Agreed!
As good as Nil's is had he not got that call from Bruce to come up to Jersey for an audition...he would have been just another starving musician. Grin's drummer is (or was) working at the record store in Catonsville, Md.
Are you joking? Even before he joined Springsteen he was hardly a "starving musician." Was immensely popular in Europe and a respected session player. Hell, he was considered for joining the Rolling Stones before Ron Wood. And as for "Grin's drummer," his name is Bob Berberich and he is a local legend in the DC area, having performed with several of our greatest groups and is still performing today in addition to running his record store with his wife (another local legend) and daughter in Frederick, MD. Your comment reminds me of that scene in the Woody Allen movie where he pulls Marshall McLuhan out from behind the sign board to tell some blowhard that he knows nothing about his work. You apparently know about as much about Nils and Grin.
Before Bruce he worked with Neil Young and was in his great backup band Crazy Horse