This lot is closed. Bidding ended on 12/10/2001.
His songs dish up gritty, streetwise characters like Go-cart Mozart, Spanish Johnny and young Scott with a slingshot, but when Bruce Sprinsgsteen cuts loose like a deuce and gets "on fire," his audiences recognize every character as the Boss himself -- the working-class rocker from the New Jersey swamps who turned the "Badlands" of yearning, despair and glory days gone by into rock and roll heaven for millions of fanatical fans. The essence of Bruce's appeal is that he's not a star but a hard-working stiff, and that image pours off the Boss like the sweat from his bandana-covered brow in this riveting 8" x 10" photograph of him in concert tearing into a guitar lick. It is signed by Bruce in blue Sharpie and the signature rates a 9.