Re: New issue of Backstreets....

Bluetele wrote:
> Don't forget page 55: "The 'valley of dry bones' also harkens back to the
> drean in 'Devils & Dust' of 'a field of mud and bone'---an image that fan
> Matt Orel connected with Ezekiel 37 even before hearing 'Black Cowboys.' In
> his paper *From Adam to Jesus: Springsteen's Use of Scripture,* Orel writes:
> 'Devils & Dust' turns Ezekiel's dream on its head: The dream is of dry
> bones, but the dreamer has no vision of reviving them. What rises from the
> bones isn't living people, but a smell---a smell of death. Without God's
> intervention, bones do not come back to life, and people killed in battle
> stay dead. Biblical visionscannot tell the troops of today that God is,
> indeed, on their side." Very cool to see Matt get a nod for that one, since
> he was first to bring the Ezekiel reading to the table.
>
> My own favorite quote is on page 10: "In addition to the canister with the
> Hammersmith film, the trove contained video from earlier performances, like
> the Central Park concert where Springsteen opened for Anne Murray in 1974."
> Based on that, I'm feeling very confident that I'm correct about the
> Jungleland clip in "Wings for Wheels" coming from the 08/03/74 show. I
> still haven't gotten my name mentioned in the magazine, though. I'm no Matt
> Orel... <g>

Thank God for that. One of me is too many already. ;-)

Well, that's pretty cool. I'm looking forward to whatever else is in
the article.
Not sure if I was the first to publish anything with the connection --
I'm pretty sure Jay Lustig in the Star Ledger made the same connection
pretty early on, as well. I had already composed my question for the
VH1 contest, and I thought it was a winner... then Lustig printed the
connection in the Ledger. For about a nannosecond I was actually
ticked at Lustig.

Obviously, the symposium paper, which really grew out of the VH1
question, came a bit later.

--Matt

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