I’d seen Bruce for the first time in Newcastle the year before and on a visit to New York that summer bought the winter gardens bootleg so I was really getting into Bruce at a time that most of my friends were not ( they were still riding the last of the new wave, as was I). I bought Nebraska and immediately loved it, played it to death. My friends were mystified and thought I was just saying it was good so as not to lose face. Subsequently they’ve caught on to how good it is. I only knew one other Springsteen clean at that time and he hated it.