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Springsteen's Toronto Session

It's odd that a guy being filmed in a scene that will be viewed by millions of people in theaters or one who has performed on a stage at the Super Bowl can be more comfortable in those situations than being one-on-one in front of a comparatively small audience for a live interview.  Tuesday night (9/14) it happened to Bruce Springsteen and actor Ed Norton at the Toronto Film Festival.  Both were out of their element and while the interview did not seem all that comfortable for either of them, it did produce some interesting moments.  Bruce credited Bob Dylan's Highway 61 as the first record that gave him a sense of '...what my country felt like' and credited Dylan for having '...the courage to go places others didn't.'  In talking about his own Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Bruce reminded people that it was delayed by a drawn-out legal battle with his manager, and said he went into it determined to find purpose for his work that would give it a meaning beyond his desires for girls and trappings of success, which was why he selected '...the 10 toughest songs I had' for the album.  Norton asked Springsteen, who was there for the premier of The Promise, the documentary about the making of the 1978 album,  what recordings by others he would most like to see the making of documented on film. Bruce fired off Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys and Highway 61 Revisited.  He closed the session by saying that his '...long conversation with my fans has been the most valuable experience of my life', and thanked people for riding shotgun with him throughout his long journey out of the swamps of Jersey.
NJ.com

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