Letter #2 Did You Really Have A Pet Dinosaur?
Dear Bruce, When I was a kid of about ten years old I was in a record shop, always an adventure by the way, and I was going to buy your debut album 'Greetings From Asbury Park N.J.' and the guy behind the counter was having a conversation with a customer about you. Now, I know it's rude to listen in on what other people are talking about but something the customer said really struck me and more than forty years later it still makes me chuckle for my childlike naivety in believing what adults say. The customer said something like, "Oh, that Bruce Springsteen is a bit like Dylan in that he has a Thesaurus by his side when he writes" . I have to confess I had no idea what a Thesaurus was but it sounded kind of like a dinosaur! I bought the album and was trying to imagine how a pet dinosaur could help you in your songwriting! I tried really hard to figure out if there was any dinosaur references in the lyrics but not having a lyric sheet and Google decades ...