In May 1974, noted music writer Jon Landau wrote what became one of the most famous lines of rock criticism ever: “I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.”

But two years earlier, Phil Giambalvo, now a resident of the Greenbriar Oceanaire adult community in Waretown, was there at the very beginning of the Boss’s professional recording career.