Archive: Springsteen
Six Questions (And Then Some) For ... Nils Lofgren
"Bullets Fever -- happens to me every year!" Long before Nils Lofgren joined the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, Earth-quaking, booty-shaking, Viagra-taking, history-making, etc.-etc., legendary E Street Band, he was Bethesda's boy wonder -- a teenaged prodigy with his own, soon-to-be-acclaimed band, Grin, and a memorable side gig, playing on Neil Young's...
By J. Freedom du Lac | October 8, 2008; 08:59 AM ET | Comments (1)
Bruce At The Super Bowl: Game On
Bruuuuce! And we don't mean Isaac. (Gerald Martineau/TWP) The NFL and NBC confirmed on Sunday what had been long rumored on the Backstreets: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be the next Super Bowl halftime show headliners. Glory days, indeed. The high-profile performance by the one of the...
By J. Freedom du Lac | September 29, 2008; 07:55 AM ET | Comments (33)
Sorry, Conventioneers: No Bruce For You
There's been plenty of speculation (wishful thinking?) in recent days that Barack Obama supporter Bruce Springsteen is going to perform either just before or after Obama's speech in Denver on Thursday. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Sunday that it was a done deal: "Bruce Springsteen will follow Obama with a...
By J. Freedom du Lac | August 26, 2008; 08:04 AM ET | Comments (20)
Danny Federici: R.I.P.
Bruce and Phantom Dan. The longtime glockenspiel / accordion / organ / keyboard player for the E Street Band is gone. Federici had taken a leave of absence from the band in November to seek treatment for melanoma. But he returned for a coda on March 20 in Indianapolis,...
By J. Freedom du Lac | April 18, 2008; 10:35 AM ET | Comments (4)
More From The Chat: Getting Concertgoers Charged Up
Here's a post that I didn't have time to address in yesterday's Freedom Rock chat: Anyone who responds to one of those, "Is everyone having a good time? What? I can't HEAR you! Get LOUD, DC!" kind of stage exhortations is a chump. I am so much better than any...
By J. Freedom du Lac | November 14, 2007; 04:09 PM ET | Comments (4)
All Eyes on the Big Man
J. Freedom has already given a Cris Collinsworth-esque breakdown of both Bruce Springsteen shows at the Verizon Center, as you've surely seen by now. All the insights you could ask for, including details on Jann Wenner's socks. Monday night was my first ever Springsteen live experience and I wanted to...
By David Malitz | November 13, 2007; 12:17 PM ET | Comments (15)
Incident on 7th Street Redux
And the band played on. The second half of the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's double-header was a very slight letdown after Sunday's terrific opening salvo. Nothing wrong with Monday's performance, per se - just that the intensity seemed to be off early in the show. Less energy...
By J. Freedom du Lac | November 13, 2007; 08:35 AM ET | Comments (0)
The Price You Pay
Sister, can you spare a seat? And, umm ... are you hot? One of the great pleasures of Web surfing is stumbling across Craigslist postings in which music fans get down on their digital knees and grovel for concert tickets. Some, of course, do it much more artfully and amusingly...
By J. Freedom du Lac | November 12, 2007; 04:30 PM ET | Comments (0)
Meet the New Bosses: Indie Rock Finds Its Inner Bruce
Bruce Springsteen has been one of the world's biggest rock stars for more than three decades now, but he's never been seen as particularly hip. He was part of what the punks were rebelling against in the late '70s, was the ultimate stadium rock act in the '80s, and in...
By David Malitz | November 12, 2007; 12:09 PM ET | Comments (6)
Every Little Thing He Does Is Magic
In introducing the title track from "Magic" at the very much sold out Verizon Center last night, Bruce Springsteen said the tune is about how "the truth gets twisted into lies, and lies get twisted into the truth." In other words: A perfect song for Washington! "Hey," he said, "this...
By J. Freedom du Lac | November 12, 2007; 08:12 AM ET | Comments (0)
