Bruce Springsteen arrives at private Toronto airfield for ACC show – some very astute autograph collectors manage to bag the boss
May 12, 2009 by Richard Budman ·
Bruce Springsteen and his E Street band recently hit Toronto, Canada on their current tour and if anybody should wonder the lengths a fan would have to go to get Springsteen’s autograph please read on…
We all know how touchy Springsteen gets with the sale of his concert tickets – you can only imagine how much he hates the thought of his signature being sold. Because of that, Springsteen does not often sign autographs, rarely in large crowds, usually personalizes, and when he chooses to sign – he tries to make damn sure he is not signing for collectors that might go on to sell his autograph.
Since the BOSS was arriving just hours before the Toronto Air Canada Centre concert – and was heading straight back to the airfield immediately following the show – the opportunities for fan interaction on this trip was going to be next to nil. The only real shot would be at a remote private airfield just north of Toronto where Bruce and the band was set to land just a few hours before the ACC show.
So our dedicated autograph collector and a few friends, aware of the place where Springsteen was set to arrive, headed out to the airport in the hopes of getting a few albums signed.
The smallish plane arrives and Springsteen is first off and sits in the front passenger seat of a car as the rest of his seven vehicle entourage get ready to make the thirty minute drive to the Air Canada Centre. As Springsteen waits in the idling car, it is then our small group of collectors approach – people in the same car as Bruce are quick to shout, “no autographs. no signing.”
But Springsteen rolls the car window down and mutters a “oh, you found me” and motions to the small gaggle of people to come over to his window where he preceded to sign a strict one autograph per person.
One female fan, clutching tightly her just signed Darkness on the Edge of Town album, couldn’t also resist asking Springsteen if he had any extra tickets to tonight’s sold-out show – Springsteen, not missing a beat replied, “what do you think, I carry them in my back pocket?”
The window rolled back up and the Springsteen-led line of cars and vans headed to the Toronto venue for the show.
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