Bill Chinnock - Dime Store Heroes
1980 Housekeeping
Bill Chinnock
Dime Store Heroes
Genre: Rock
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Queen of the Lower East Side
Ironbound
Would there be a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band without Bill Chinnock?
According to his Wiki entry he played in bands with Danny Federici and Vini Lopez and then, after getting really sick, he left that project and moved to Maine. Federici and Lopez would eventually start Steel Mill with Bruce and Bill came back and started a band that included Gary Tallent and David Sancious. But Bill got sick with Hepatitis. Tallent and Sancious would join with the Steel Mill guys to form other bands and, eventually, record Greetings from Asbury Park with Bruce.
Chinnock would find some success and win an Emmy for a song he wrote for Search for Tomorrow. But, one has to wonder. If illness hadn’t shaken Bill’s life and had he not been such a nomad in need of new locales and calm, would the BS&ESB have ever come to fruition.
And I wonder what kind of album Chinnock would have created had he been able to hold those guys together. Listening to “Queen of the Lower East Side”, I’m fairly certain he would have found the rock and the roll and maybe we would all be chanting “BILL!” At concerts.
I kind of want to hear Bruce perform “Baptized on 47th St.”
Probably not, thought.
This record should have been made in 1974.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/dime-store-heroes/373727736
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