“Bruce goes, ‘Man, you’ve got a lot of twang.’ I said, ‘Too much?’ And he said, ‘Ah, you know…’” Joining Bruce Springsteen's post-E Street Band group, Shane Fontayne had the unenviable task of filling the shoes of Stevie Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren

Shane Fontayne (left) and Bruce Springsteen performing onstage at Nassau Coliseum in 1992.

Ironically, in the song that helped take him from mere rock stardom to international giga-stardom, you can hear the restlessness that led Bruce Springsteen to – at the absolute height of his commercial success – dramatically change artistic gears.

“I get up in the evenin'/And I ain't got nothin' to say,” “Man, I'm just tired and bored with myself” are some of the lines he sings in Dancing in the Dark, the point of the spear of his blockbuster 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A.