A week before, all proceeded as usual with his little life outside the E Street Band. A week before the official tour announcement, all received a call from Boss. And there’s no telling him not to. The faithful guitarist Steve Van Zandt was obviously available. “In all my professional commitments, I have what I call ‘Clause Springsteen’. It is inviolable, “said Max Weinberg. Drummer invoked it, of course. Bassist Gary Tallent, the only founder of the E Street Band still in the group, postponed unapologetic promotional concerts of his first solo album and guitarist Nils Lofgren changed the dates of his tour so nothing collided with something much more important .
4 December 2015, which the E Street Band knew a week in advance was made official: taking advantage of the launch of the Ties that Bind: the River Collection luxury box edited to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the historic the River , Springsteen launch would an American tour dedicated to the album. Tour that Springsteen deemed necessary not to be long absent from the E Street Band – will edit this year a solo album without her collaboration in concerts in the promote. Digression that jumped the Atlantic and arriving now Portugal. The concert will mark the return of Bruce Springsteen at the Bela Vista Park, home of the Rock in Rio Lisboa, four years after signing a memorable concert there. In 2012, despite the presence in poster of a legend like Stevie Wonder, the performance of Springsteen crowned himself as the highest point of the festival – in 2014, returned to the same stage for a surprise appearance at the Rolling Stones concert at the same festival.
In 2016 there will be no room for doubt. Will not be the Hollywood Vampires, of supergroup covers , icons nu-metal Korn, pop the bouncing Maroon 5 or the Bahian also jumpy, Ivete Sangalo, the shade Springsteen. It is virtually impossible for this to happen. Bruce Springsteen, the voice of the American consciousness, the rocker with a spirit of mission, the old passionate kid, still and always, by the power of rock’n’roll, the man who turned into song larger than life glories, tragedies and the important trifles of life every day continues to 66 years the author of some of the most exciting concerts, inspiring (and long) that this can offer us. And somehow, it all started on the album that gave motto this tour. The River : the album arrival adulthood, the album in 1980 for its narrative coherence, the aesthetic range and the world tour of 150 dates that followed its release, turned Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in a mass phenomenon.
contrary to what happened in the American part of the tour, Bruce Springsteen does not interpret the River in full in Europe. He did not in Barcelona at the Nou Camp, did not in San Sebastian, at Estadio Anoeta, the two dates leading up to the arrival in Lisbon. But is this record which naturally makes up the most generous part of the alignment. Complemented with other classics such as Badlands , Born to Run , Glory days , Born in the USA , or Because the night , the song that offered Patti Smith, and Purple rain , in honor of Prince, the truth is that little is lost in the narrative of the album arc in 1979 Bruce Springsteen delivered to the publisher under the title the Ties That Bind – album disc only – to soon change your mind and return to the studio. “When I heard him, and have used this word often, it was not ‘big’ enough. It was comprehensive enough not. Not included enough. I reached a point where we wanted to include everything he had done, from the festive stuff to my character studies, and found that could successfully make an album at a time, “Springsteen said in an interview with Backstreets , which for three decades covering the musician’s activity. The goal, when turned back to the original decision was not “do a double album,” he added. Was to make an album “better.”
In a long article that made the cover of Uncut , journalist Jason Anderson followed several dates American tour Springsteen, making this account run in parallel with the recording of the story the River , extended for 18 months of feverish creativity – “We would spend together 24 hours a day, certainly five days a week,” recalled drummer Max Weinberg – before the publication in October 1980. the album quickly reach sales of more than one million copies in the United States, while songs like Hungry heart or Fade away became ubiquitous on the radio.
in the article, Anderson is finding many viewers with dozens of Springsteen concerts in the curriculum. Find some who attended the original tour The River , people for whom these songs were his life and at the same, a light of hope in those years, yesterday and today, of precariousness and severe economic crisis. With The River , the rock’n’roll celebration of youth in running and hauntings of Darkness at the Edge of Town were gathered in one. The rock as a celebration, the Stones and Chuck Berry, and laments the disinherited of Hank Williams or Johnny Cash’s life. Full Circle: between the feast of Sherry Darling and the anxiety of The river between pop palpitation Hungry heart and the desolation of Point blank between the
No surprising that many in the United States and abroad – Springsteen fever has spread rapidly across Europe – have been revised that music and those songs. Springsteen was 31 years old when the album was released. In the current concert tour that took in late January in Madison Square Garden in New York, he went back in time. “The subtext of The River was the time,” he told the audience that ran the room. “Time to flee. And so you enter adulthood, the clock starts ticking and you have a lot of limited time to do your job, create your family and try to do something good. “
Thirty-five years later, it all seems far away. But the world has not changed so much as imagined and the music of Bruce Springsteen with the E Street Band at his side – including pianist and multi-intrumentista Patti Scialfa, Springsteen’s wife, who missed the previous passage by the Rock in Rio to “get to care for the children “- changed even less what is essential
After the Stereophonics and Xutos & amp.; Kick hit the main stage, after hearing The Sunflowers, Keep Sharp Razors and Black Lips on the Vodafone stage, Bruce Springsteen will go up the stage to play more than 30 songs over more than three hours. The band will be lower than in 2012 – this time, for example, no more blows than the saxophone Jake Clemons, nephew of saxophonist historic Clarence Clemons – and tour reports give concert has virtually no breaks, no major explanations, no comments to the political situation, as happened previously.
This the River in even greater version than the original, or complemented with other songs from his discography, it seems contain all the necessary speech. Confirming this Thursday night at Bela Vista Park in Lisbon, from 23.45.
No comments:
Post a Comment