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jenkThe PDA-with-headphones was worth the $3 if only so you can hear more of the music the various exhibits are talking about. Note it's mostly for the long-term stuff (Northwest music, Guitar Gallery, Milestones, the Hendrix gallery) not the smaller / traveling shows like Beatlemania & Springsteen.
The interesting thing about the Springsteen exhibit, for me, wasn't the particular items they had. Really the only thing they had that I hadn't seen or heard before was some of the photographs - specifically some of the alternate cover photos from Tunnel of Love were new to me, and some of the photos Pam Springsteen took for The Ghost of Tom Joad that hadn't been used. If anything, I was surprised by how much was on display that's in my house - books from The River, Tunnel of Love and Born In The USA tours, lyric book from the Live boxed set, Charles Cross' coffee table book, videos. Many of the photos in the exhibit are included in books I own. So in that sense, nothing much new.
What the exhibit did do was tell a story about how Bruce uses cars & highways in his music as metaphors for life. In Born to Run the car and the highway are a way out, a way to become something else, or at least get away from what you don't want anymore. The message is still there in later albums...but it becomes more nuanced. Change, transition, growth - all still there. But instead of always being positive change, there's more shades of gray. And it's hard to live on the road permanently.
A couple quotes that stuck with me....
The door's open but the ride it ain't free - Thunder Road
The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes - The Ghost of Tom Joad
The interesting thing about the Springsteen exhibit, for me, wasn't the particular items they had. Really the only thing they had that I hadn't seen or heard before was some of the photographs - specifically some of the alternate cover photos from Tunnel of Love were new to me, and some of the photos Pam Springsteen took for The Ghost of Tom Joad that hadn't been used. If anything, I was surprised by how much was on display that's in my house - books from The River, Tunnel of Love and Born In The USA tours, lyric book from the Live boxed set, Charles Cross' coffee table book, videos. Many of the photos in the exhibit are included in books I own. So in that sense, nothing much new.
What the exhibit did do was tell a story about how Bruce uses cars & highways in his music as metaphors for life. In Born to Run the car and the highway are a way out, a way to become something else, or at least get away from what you don't want anymore. The message is still there in later albums...but it becomes more nuanced. Change, transition, growth - all still there. But instead of always being positive change, there's more shades of gray. And it's hard to live on the road permanently.
A couple quotes that stuck with me....
The door's open but the ride it ain't free - Thunder Road
The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes - The Ghost of Tom Joad
