@The Imposter I think it's crucial and healthy to keep this secondary perspective. This is a great piece of writing, the author did an excellent job intertwining Bruce's answers into his text. Maybe if we had only seen this in Q/A format, we wouldn't' have been so smitten. Of course, the article is promotional with the intent to push sales.
We know Bruce was, and apparently still is, focused on his past. Reading this article I felt he has now pushed his recently favored theme - the time comes to us all - to the limit. There are parts of this interview where it seems like a cross from Bruce talking in the present, and Bruce answering from behind the grave.
Am I the only one to take what Bruce says in interviews with a grain of salt? He has a story to tell, a personal brand to promote and an album to sell. I think he makes his answers up to fit the picture he wants to paint. Who knows when and how he wrote these songs?
I'm with you on this. Bruce is a savvy professional. While I'm sure he is sincere with what he is saying during interviews, he is also keenly aware of his audience. And despite being a gazillionaire, he still has a product he'd like to sell. So some embellishments are to be expected....IMO.
That said...the interview still has me a bit excited for this E Street album....which is the primary goal when an artist gives an interview on the eve of a new release. I hope I'm not disappointed.
This is a story to savour because it touches on so many things. I copied it into Word and will dissect it paragraph by paragraph.
It shows once again that Bruce is a really wise man, has learned a lot during his lifetime, has reflected on it and is sure of many things. Being unsure of some just shows you're wise!
(He came from such an unpromising background, had little learning and a problematic upbringing. His father might just have been one of those gung-ho Trump voters, switching from voting Democrat to seeing the Great White Hope in the charlatan from Queens.)
Loved that. Great read. And man, it sounds like we still have a lot of new music (even 'old' new music) to look forward to... And that's a really good thing.
QUOTE: There’s a reference in there to churches and jails, and I ask if it’s a nod to a similar line in “Jungleland.” Springsteen laughs. “That line has been tickling my brain since we recorded the record,” he says. “And I wasn’t sure where I heard it! You just reminded me where I heard that line before.” UNQUOTE
Either Bruce is just having a laugh here, or otherwise for the first time probably ever I'm glad for the teleprompter onstage because without it who knows what nonsense we would've been listening to live in the Reunion era.
Some of the songs were written waking around the house, because of that Italian guitar, others were already there, but they recorded them all live in 5 days. Or no?
@Mario Brega I also got lost. The songs announced in the WS era are not the same as Scorsese's? I understood that everything came from the same creative attack.
@Tom Joad it‘a a confusing one, and loads can affect an artist’s choice to shelve an album - I’ve read that the 1994 ’hip hop’ album was shelved due the success of Streets of Philadelphia resulting in Greatest Hits, for example.
Neil Young’s recent release of 1974’s shelved Homegrown is a case study showing not all shelved albums are bad - it’s a masterpiece of an album and classic 70s Young, it’s just that he didn’t want to release such an open album at the time and he shelved it and chose to release Tonight’s the Night, instead
Some nice backstage footage from the photoshoot!!!
@The Imposter I think it's crucial and healthy to keep this secondary perspective. This is a great piece of writing, the author did an excellent job intertwining Bruce's answers into his text. Maybe if we had only seen this in Q/A format, we wouldn't' have been so smitten. Of course, the article is promotional with the intent to push sales.
We know Bruce was, and apparently still is, focused on his past. Reading this article I felt he has now pushed his recently favored theme - the time comes to us all - to the limit. There are parts of this interview where it seems like a cross from Bruce talking in the present, and Bruce answering from behind the grave.
Am I the only one to take what Bruce says in interviews with a grain of salt? He has a story to tell, a personal brand to promote and an album to sell. I think he makes his answers up to fit the picture he wants to paint. Who knows when and how he wrote these songs?
This is a story to savour because it touches on so many things. I copied it into Word and will dissect it paragraph by paragraph.
It shows once again that Bruce is a really wise man, has learned a lot during his lifetime, has reflected on it and is sure of many things. Being unsure of some just shows you're wise!
(He came from such an unpromising background, had little learning and a problematic upbringing. His father might just have been one of those gung-ho Trump voters, switching from voting Democrat to seeing the Great White Hope in the charlatan from Queens.)
Loved that. Great read. And man, it sounds like we still have a lot of new music (even 'old' new music) to look forward to... And that's a really good thing.
QUOTE: There’s a reference in there to churches and jails, and I ask if it’s a nod to a similar line in “Jungleland.” Springsteen laughs. “That line has been tickling my brain since we recorded the record,” he says. “And I wasn’t sure where I heard it! You just reminded me where I heard that line before.” UNQUOTE
Either Bruce is just having a laugh here, or otherwise for the first time probably ever I'm glad for the teleprompter onstage because without it who knows what nonsense we would've been listening to live in the Reunion era.
Ok, I read the interview. Loved it.
I do seem to spend a lot of time these days with my eyes welled up....
When the album is out, we'll be play this game...
Connect the song with the appropriate room.
Some of the songs were written waking around the house, because of that Italian guitar, others were already there, but they recorded them all live in 5 days. Or no?
@Mario Brega I also got lost. The songs announced in the WS era are not the same as Scorsese's? I understood that everything came from the same creative attack.
Bruce talking about “lost albums“
makes me anxious. I mean, if they’re bad, sure, Lee them hidden but don’t mention them. If they’re good, why on Earth would you be sitting on them?
I can read the article and I've saved it to Word if anyone wants it?