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Bruce has made some references to the hippie movement in interviews, speeches, and his autobiography. The general sense I got was that he felt rather distant from it for various reasons but still shaped by it to some extent. He called himself "half-hippie" at certain points, saying he felt split between the blue collar world and the hippie world.
He often emphasized that his influences were "pre-psychedelic": Late-50s and early-60s music (Roy Oribson, Elvis, Duane Eddy, Girl Groups). When he was making Born To Run, he emphasized these influences more.
Overall, I was curious about how he felt about the later 60s. Clearly he had a lot of musical development through The Castiles/Child/Earth/Steel Mill/etc/.
He's described himself as the world's biggest Rolling Stones fan. He loved the Allman Brothers. Of course he's a huge Chuck Berry/Orbison/Beatles too but I don't think his tastes are that different from other people and musicians of his era. He just one day or over time decided to start writing Dylan style poetry instead of Zeppelin guitar and the rest is history.
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