It’s only an hour from New York, but feels a world away. His 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park thrust the town – and its pushers, peddlers and conmen – into rock’n’roll imagination. This town is best known for fostering the state’s most beloved export: Bruce Springsteen. Sea myst floats off the Atlantic, toward attractions like the pinball museum and its life-sized fiberglass Elvis.Īsbury Park’s long history of false starts at redevelopment, in many ways, allowed these groups to continue to live in the 1.5 sq mile town, bordered by more affluent and conservative stretches of beach. It’s bordered on the east by a kitsch-filled stretch of boardwalk along the Atlantic.Įven on a cloudy day in the middle of the week, the air smells vaguely of hotdogs and funnel cake (a calorie bomb of fried dough covered in icing sugar). The stage was flanked by stacks of old guitar amps (they’re just for decoration), and an after-work crowd nodded along.Īsbury Park is a seaside town, part of Jersey shore, where working-class surfers, artists, musicians, gay men and women and African American culture mixed for decades. “I live just over the river in Philly,” he said, and traded out another guitar before sinking back into the music. “It’s good to be back,” Vile told the crowd.
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