Noticias e información en castellano sobre Bruce Springsteen

noviembre 2009

Jon Landau confirma la caja Darkness y un DVD de la gira reciente

Jon Landau, mánager de Bruce Springsteen, confirmó recientemente en una entrevista para la revista Rolling Stone (publicada el 19 de noviembre) los planes del artista para 2010: se editará un DVD de la gira Working on a Dream, y también la esperadísima caja conmemorativa del álbum Darkness on the Edge of Town.

En distintos foros de internet ha circulado la noticia durante meses, y se especula con que existen filmaciones de distintos conciertos de esa gira de 1978 (Phoenix, Madison Square Garden, Passaic, Houston y Winterland), uno –o varios– de los cuales será/n elegidos para publicación.

Landau afirma en la entrevista que esos son los únicos planes para 2010 de los que puede hablar por el momento. «La caja Darkness está lista en un 93%. Es absolutamente fantástica y nos queda sólo concentrarnos en unos toques finales pendientes de completar». Se prevé que dicha caja incluya el disco original en estudio, remasterizado, un DVD documental sobre la creación del álbum, y al menos un DVD con un concierto de la gira (la rumorología apunta a que se podría estar considerando editar dos versiones de la caja, una con un concierto, y una caja mastodóntica con varios conciertos, aunque nada está confirmado por el momento).

Sobre el DVD de la gira Working on a Dream comenta que «estamos barajando varias opciones para el DVD de esta gira. Lo editaremos relativamente pronto, pasadas las fiestas navideñas».

Y mientras Landau deja todo abierto y sin detalles específicos, el debatido futuro de la E Street Band ha quedado más que claro con las recientes declaraciones en varios medios de algunos miembros de la E Street Band y del propio Springsteen.

Steve Van Zandt a Rolling Stone: “Siempre me da miedo parar. Piensas ‘¿si paramos podremos arrancar esto de nuevo?’ Tras uno o dos años sin gira estás en la falda del Everest mirando hacia arriba y pensando ¿cómo llegaremos hasta allí arriba? Me sorprendería si no continuamos, y si me preguntas a mí si creo que continuaremos seguro que te diré que sí. Se trata sólo de cómo estaremos todos físicamente, empezando por Clarence supongo. Quizá él tenga fantasías sobre su retiro, pero con tantas ex-mujeres, lo dudo».

Clarence Clemons en su Tweeter: «La gira terminó y estoy de nuevo en la playa. Se ha hablado de retirada: es falso. Dios mediante volveremos y estaré más fuerte que nunca».

Bruce Springsteen a Billboard: (pregunta) ¿parece esto el final de la E Street Band? (respuesta) «No. Ni siquiera pensamos en eso. Lo único que me vino a la mente fue hace una década, cuando cumplí 50, estando sobre el escenario en Philadelphia, y me di cuenta ‘OK, éste es exactamente el sitio donde quiero estar ahora mismo. Y no lo cambiaría por nada’. Y te das cuenta de que hay un final. Estamos tocando para un público que nos sobrevivirá. Hoy habrá una semilla para un nuevo público que sobrevivirá a la banda. Y llegas y ves 35 años de un tren que va por la vía a toda velocidad y tú estás en la parte delantera del mismo. Esperamos muchos, muchos más años en gira, tocando y disfrutando».

November 22nd: Buffalo

Bruce Springsteen said goodbye to the Working on a Dream tour (but not to the E Street Band!) in Buffalo with a historic performance. 34 songs in 3 hours and 27 minutes of pure joy and ecstasy. A memorable night that exceeded any expectactions. The performance of Bruce’s debut album Greetings from Asbury Park NJ was superlative, but right after it ended the show never went down an inch, it grew and grew and grew in intensity, featuring a big variety of songs and a buch of rarities.

The highlights of the show (there were probably too many!) were a beautiful «The Angel» (with an unknown viola player), a magnificent «Growin’ Up» which included a long story about the day Bruce met Clarence, a crazy version of «Spirit in the Night», plus a devastating «Lost in the Flood» that let us completely stunned. Best ever version? Probably. Bruce’s and Max’s work at the end of the song (and the whole band, indeed) was simply mesmerizing.

Those alone were worth the trip and the show, but there were tons more. The initial «Wrecking Ball» (sounding better than ever) followed by an inspiring «The Ties That Bind», and the fun crowd-surfing on «Hungry Heart». And then the world live debut of the superb «Restless Nights», upon Stevie’s request as it was his birthday, plus a great «Surprise, Surprise», again dedicated to Stevie after guitar tech Kevin Buell brought a b/day cake onstage.

The requests section included «Merry Christmas Baby», «Santa Claus is Coming to town», the rare «I Don’t Wanna Hang Up My Rock’n’roll Shoes» (need he say more?) -last performed with the band in Saginaw, Michigan in 1978-, inmediately followed by a rockin’ «Boom Boom» and a megapowerful «My Love Will Not Let You Down». Moments later, Steve shone again with his vocals on «Long Walk Home», and after the usual «The Rising» and «Born to Run», Springsteen added an extra one to the main set, which ended with a tremendous «Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out» («the history of the band»).

Was that enough? Not for Bruce, who went on as if he never really wanted to leave that stage. Encores arrived, with more surprises and lots of energy to spend yet. A beautiful and fast-paced «I’ll Work For Your Love» opened the encore set, followed by «Thunder Road». By the time he got to the fabulous «Higher and Higher» (with Willie Nile as guest), there was no way to stop Bruce, who finally closed the set, the show and the tour with a fantastic long version of John Fogerty’s «Rockin’ All Over the World», with thanks to all his fans from every country in the world, and him naming every name of everyone in his crew and finally saying: «We appreciate you coming out to see The E Street Band. So we’re gonna say goodbye, but just for a little while, a very little while, because, because… I like it, I like it, I like it», and then resuming the song again to a glorious end.

photo: copyright 2009 Raul Nieto

See complete set list completo de Buffalo.

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22 de noviembre: Buffalo

Bruce Springsteen dio en Buffalo uno de esos conciertos que ocurren cada mucho, mucho tiempo. En breve esperamos publicar un largo artículo sobre estos conciertos finales de la gira.

Ver set list completo de Buffalo.

Foto: 2009 Raul Nieto

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22.10.2009 HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY

Wrecking Ball +
The Ties That Bind
Hungry Heart
Working on a Dream
Blinded By the Light
Growin’ Up
Mary Queen of Arkansas
Does This Bus Stop at 8nd Street?
Lost in the Flood
The Angel *
For You
Spirit in the Night
It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City
Waitin’ on a Sunny Day
The Promised Land
Restless Nights
Surprise, Surprise
Green Onions
Merry Christmas Baby +
Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town +
(I Don’t Want to) Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes
Boom Boom
My Love Will Not Let You Down
Long Walk Home
The Rising
Born to Run
Tenth Avenue Freeze-out +

I’ll Work For Your Love
Thunder Road
American Land +
Dancing in the Dark
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) +
Higher and Higher **
Rockin’ All Over the World

+ con / with Curt Ramm
* con / with intérprete de viola desconocida / unknown viola player
** con / with Curt Ramm & Willie Nile

Nov. 20th: Baltimore

After a great concert in Nashville, Springsteen offered in Baltimore the penultimate show of the tour, where he announced that he would take a break but would return in the future because «we’re shutting down for a little while, but we will see you in the future, further on down the road, because we have miles to go before we sleep!» (Steve Van Zandt said recently in an interview that he saw no reason to quit and the band would keep playing together in the future).

This was the first time that Bruce played in Baltimore since 1973, and he celebrated it with an enthusiastic and powerful show, full of energy and 3 hours and 20 minutes in lenght, one of the longest of the tour so far. The usual and excellent full performance of the Born to Run album was followed by «Waitin ‘On A Sunny Day» and «Spirit in the Night», plus many spectacular moments: the instrumental «Green Onions» made its debut on the tour and was played while Bruce collected sign requests. And those brought «Santa Claus Is Coming To Town», «The E Street Shuffle» and a splendid «For You», with Bruce solo at the piano.

The pace did not come down and a wave of unstoppable rock came next, with Springsteen going full speed with «Radio Nowhere», «My Love Will Not Let You Down» and an exciting «Long Walk Home», with Van Zandt exploding his most soulful side with some terrific vocals. A request for «Ramrod» opened the encores, which included a rare and welcome «Land of Hope and Dreams» and the usual encores, for a total of 8 songs, ending with «Higher and Higher», always impressive, and the added bonus of «Glory Days».


See complete set list for Baltimore.