HOME: Under the Boardwalk.

AGE: Innocent (but he's learning).

PROFESSION: Surviving the hype.

HOBBIE S: Humming "Double Shot Of My Baby's Love" by the Swingin' Medallions while bobbing for hermit crabs.

LAST BOOK READ: It's Too Late To Stop Now by Jon Landau.

QUOTE: "I've seen the future of rock 'n' roll. It's Kraftwerk. Now leave me alone, pleeeez."

PROFILE: Last accomplishment notwithstanding, Bruce can jive with the baddest of them. A whirling dervish on a last chance power drive, he wraps up the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies in records as dense as the Jersey air; now if he could only wrap up his new album...

BEER: Boy Howdy!