Marianka Campisi/Derrick Rossignol
Growing up in the aughts, Brian Dunne was a kid out of time. The second child from his father’s second marriage, he was raised by a Vietnam veteran who played Vietnam era rock (CCR, The Animals, etc.) around the house. The milieu of his hometown — 90 minutes north of New York City, “a real ‘cops and firefighters’ town,” he says — was working class, but most kids his age were still listening to The Strokes and The White Stripes. Dunne, meanwhile, was sneaking off to the local video store to rent Bruce Springsteen’s Video Anthology/1978-88. He was specific...
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