#steven van zandt

[90smovies]

#The Sopranos #James Gandolfini #Michael Imperioli #Steven Van Zandt #Tony Sirico #90s

[mittland]

i 🖤 girls

#i love that old man #auuughhhh we're bruceposting lads #bruce springsteen #steven van zandt #this is from yesterdays show in san francisco

[lisamarie-vee]

#lynn goldsmith #bruce springsteen #steven van zandt #rock and roll hall of fame #1970s

[brucespringsteencomments]

#pebu1001 got fed up with their shit #bruce springsteen #steven van zandt #vid #personally i just want to see an hour of this #this is you never can tell in leipzig 2013

[odistole]

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Out In the Street (The River Tour, Tempe 1980)

#happy new year folks #bruce springsteen #e street band #little steven #steven van zandt #clarence clemons #danny federici #the river tour #out in the street #third gif is literally just bruce going boing boing #what a hot mess #80s

[thesoldiersminute]

THE SOPRANOS Season 1 | Episode 12 - "Isabella"

#sopranosedit #the sopranos #sopranos sunday #michael imperioli #steven van zandt #uservita #usertree #userrobin #usermikey #userbrittany #tvedit #userstream #useraurore #userklaudia #userreh #userharmony #userquel #tuserjen #tusermary #my gifs

[nadja-antipaxos]

Clarence and Bruce being the cutest during “Rosalita” at The River Tour, Tempe, 1980.

#bruce springsteen #clarence clemons #the e street band #scooter and the big man #steven van zandt #garry tallent

[immethi]

Jake Clemons auditioning for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, based on an excerpt from Born To Run (2016).

A companion piece - sort of - to [this] comic I did.

#bruce springsteen #jake clemons #steven van zandt #clarence clemons #e street band #fanart #comic

[pedroam-bang]

The Sopranos (1999-2007)

#1999 #2007 #film #series #TV show #television #mafia #The Sopranos #Michael Imperioli #Christopher Moltisanti #James Gandolfini #Tony Soprano #Steven Van Zandt #Silvio Dante #Tony Sirico #Walnuts #Paulie Gualtieri #Steve Schirripa #Bacala #Bobby Baccalieri #Satriale's Pork Store #Kearny #New Jersey

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

#steven van zandt

[tedhead]

😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

#i was thereeeeeeseseeeeeeee #bruce springsteen #steven van zandt

[90smovies]

#The Sopranos #David Chase #James Gandolfini #Lorraine Bracco #Edie Falco #Michael Imperioli #Steven Van Zandt #Robert Iler #Tony Sirico #Jamie Lynn Sigler #Dominic Chianese #Nancy Marchand #Vincent Pastore #90s

[ohwell-thathurt]

Steven Van Zandt, october 18, 1985 (interview)

#steven van zandt #bruce springsteen #e street band #the sopranos #silvio dante #he's so pretty #i love this interview #i mean look at the man and tell me he's not incredibly good looking #little steven

[lisamarie-vee]

#no nukes #1970s #bruce springsteen #little steven #steven van zandt #rock and roll hall of fame

[brucespringsteencomments]

#yeees little steven fans rise up!! #bruce springsteen #steven van zandt

[krispyweiss]

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio, April 21, 2024

As he led the E Street Band through “Twist and Shout,” Bruce Springsteen betrayed a roached voice much as John Lennon had when the Beatles cut their version 60 years earlier.

But, like Lennon’s, Springsteen’s voice benefitted from its battered state - conveying joy and conviction, not exhaustion.

The house lights were on and the heart-stoppin’, pants-droppin’, hard-rockin’, Earth-quakin’, booty-shakin’, love-makin’, Viagra-takin’, history-makin’ - legendary - E Street Band had already been on stage for three hours April 21 as it played its twice-postponed-in-2023 gig inside Columbus, Ohio’s, Nationwide Arena to close the U.S. leg of its 2024 spring tour. Springsteen, who at 74 retains the energy and voice - acrobatic with guttural growls and falsetto cries - of a much-younger man, was sweat-soaked, his tie tucked into his blue shirt, his vest now removed, returned alone to close the show with an acoustic version of “I’ll See You in My Dreams.”

Death is not the end, he sang, while proving the life-affirming nature of live music.

Though the band could’ve phoned it in, the expanded 18-piece - augmented with four-voice choir and five-piece horn section - instead brought a loud hailer, opening the 30-song, 185-minute set with a grimy version of “Youngstown,” the first of a handful of tour debuts that included “Streets of Fire” and “I’m Goin’ Down.” That some songs were slowed by a quarter-step seems to have been the only acknowledgement of age.

So, if these guys are actually taking Viagra, it isn’t because of on-stage impotence. The band is so hot that even relatively weak songs like “Bobby Jean” and “Dancing in the Dark” are splendid in the moment.

A few scattered empty seats did nothing to temper the raucous atmosphere inside the hockey arena. Fans hoisted signs - “I’m Mary, thanks for all the songs” was among the best - and Springsteen sung a line of “Thunder Road” to a woman who’d been dancing furiously in front of the stage all evening, causing her to light up like a strobe. Though there was no crowd surfing during “Hungry Heart” - dude is 74, remember - Springsteen did go into the audience during “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” as images of late E Streeters Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici shone on the house video screens.

Back on stage, the living celebrated being alive. Steven Van Zandt played a guitar emblazoned with the Ukraine flag during “No Surrender.” Fellow guitarist Nils Lofgren spun like the Tasmanian Devil as he unspooled his “Because the Night” solo. And Jake Clemons served as Springsteen’s saxophone-blowing foil and conjured Uncle Clarence’s spirit throughout the night, thus garnering some of the crowd’s loudest adulation.

One of those moments came during a religious-experience rendering of “Spirit in the Night,” when Clemons sat on the stage and Springsteen literally leaned on his bandmate. The music temporally settled before exploding like a supernova and the climax. This was the greatest E Street moment Sound Bites has witnessed since the Band reunited for the 1995 Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“Last Man Standing,” with Springsteen on acoustic accompanied by trombone, was a nod to his earliest bandmates, all gone now. “Trapped” was a singalong on the choruses. “She’s the One” borrowed the Bo Diddley beat. “Wrecking Ball” transformed the arena into the charismatic church of E Street. “Rosalita (Come out Tonight)” found the group mugging and celebrating with the faithful on a small chunk of stage that jutted into the general-admission pit. And the vaunted “Detroit Medley” once again demonstrated that if you have rock ’n’ roll in your life, your life has the potential to be heaven at any given moment.

Grade card: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Nationwide Arena - 4/21/24 - A

See more photos on Sound Bites’ Facebook page.

4/22/24

#bruce springsteen #bruce springsteen and the e street band #steven van zandt #nils lofgren #neil young & crazy horse #jimmy cliff #2024 concerts #the beatles