One photographer captured Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band when they were in the 'minor leagues,' but little did she know the young artists would soon be superstars.
A new photo book called Springsteen: Liberty Hall shows the E Street Band in their early career days in Houston.Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are in town Tuesday night to play their first show in Houston in nearly nine years.Springsteen and an early version of the E Street Band played their first concerts in the Bayou City in March 1974 at a small concert hall downtown called Liberty Hall."It was so small," Nicki Germaine, of Liberty Hall, said.
Germaine had a front row and backstage seat to each of those four nights as a 26-year-old University of Texas graduate working as a photographer in Houston. "I went backstage to meet the band, and I was impressed by how serious and businesslike and quiet they were. It just seemed different to me," she reminisced. "Of course, that completely changed once they got on stage. It just exploded."Springsteen wrote the book's foreword.
"I think Bruce said it better than I did. It was a time when they were 'in the minor leagues before they made the majors,'" Germaine explained. Germaine ultimately left Texas for a career in real estate, so how did this book come to fruition after those photos sat tucked away for years?Tallent contacted Germaine in late 2010 to ask about those photos after the two hadn't connected in decades."I think we have a lot of common ground that a lot of people hope for," she said. "I'm a lucky woman. He thinks he's lucky too. So, that's the best part.
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