Weirdness

Thursday, March 31, 2011

John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band perform On The Dark Side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgloaS4NGyM

Great song.  Cafferty and his boys got a bad rep/rap at being Springsteen rip-offs.  But the truth is that they were out there on the East Coast at the same time, experiencing and witnessing the same things, and their sound grew up as naturally as Bruce's - in the same ecological nitch, as it were.  There were others - Flame, Billy Price & the Keystone Rhythm Band, the Iron City Houserockers, Edge City, Carolyn Mas, Ellen Shipley, etc.  You just don't hear about 'em because Bruce so totally dominated. 

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