Valid points, all of them, but the fact is that Bruce Springsteen and Asbury
Park will be
forever linked for so many reasons.
I see people taking their photos all the time in front of the Stone Pony, and I
tend to think
that the only reason they do so is because of it's connection to Bruce.
I've told this story before, but a few years ago I was working at the German
MTV music
video awards in Hannover Germany.
I was wandering around the location, which was the Worlds Fair where it was
being shot,
and proudly wearing my "Vaccarro Guitars" shirt which features the name "Asbury
Park, NJ"
I can't tell you how many people stopped me to ask about the shirt, and 2
really nice
women actually offered to buy the shirt right off my back. They kept asking if
I knew Bruce
and all sorts of related questions. And this happened to me many times.
Many of us in AP have said for years that AP is completely ignoring the concept
of music
tourism as it relates to Bruce and the rich musical heritage that pretty much
put the city on
the world map for many people.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "sandpiper15" <sandpipe...@...> wrote:
>
> Your points in the second half of your post are valid, but I'm not
> sure I see a connection between those points and the city "blowing"
> anything in the context of the Hall of Fame exhibit.
>
> If you look at the Hall's Web site, there is no announcement. And the
> Associated Press article was noticeably short and devoid of
> detail. "Rock Hall officials today couldn't disclose any specifics
> about what the exhibit will include, except to say it's a work in
> progress." So all anyone knows for sure is that there will be an
> exhibit, and it is tentatively titled ''From Asbury Park to the
> Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen''
>
> Since the arc of both his "life" and "music" began not in Asbury
> Park, but rather Freehold (and, to a lesser extent, Middletown and
> Sea Bright) it seems like based on the title alone the city has
> already come out ahead of the game - at least in terms of PR.
>
> If I were a resident of Freehold, however, I think I'd be a little
> miffed.
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jack Pitzer" <hinge98@> wrote:
> >
> > The city blew it again.
> > Yesterday a major exhibit was announced for the R n R Hall of
> Fame... a Bruce exhibit.
> > Of course AP will be a part of that exhibit.
> > And here we are with our most well known and recognizable export,
> with nothing.
> > And what do we get?
> > A boardwalk with mostly failing high end retail, acres of empty
> parking lots, and the ugly
> > piece of crap C8 part 2 destined to mar the landscape for an
> indefinite time.
> > I guess that's what we get when we allow a company who focuses on
> malls and retails to
> > guide our destiny.
> >
>
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