BACK ON E STREET; SPRINGSTEEN FEELING NEW KINSHIP WITH MEMBERS OF LONGTIME BAND.Byline: Steve Morse Steve Morse (born July 28, 1954 in Hamilton, Ohio) is an American guitarist, best known as the guitarist for the Dixie Dregs and the current guitar player in Deep Purple. Morse's career has encompassed rock, country, funk, jazz, classical, and fusions of these musical genres. Boston Globe Bruce Springsteen is ecstatic ec·stat·ic adj. 1. Marked by or expressing ecstasy. 2. Being in a state of ecstasy; joyful or enraptured. [French extatique, from Greek ekstatikos, from about the way his reunion tour with the E Street Band is going. ``I'm the happiest I've ever been with the band,'' he said after his last show in Boston last week. ``I think they're playing better than ever. Everybody came in with a great attitude, and it's stayed that way.'' Sitting backstage at the Fleet Center in a workingman's T-shirt and jeans, Springsteen added that ``everybody knows their roles and has improved their playing.'' He also was thrilled to have guitarists Nils Lofgren and Miami Steve Van Zandt Van Zandt, a surname, may refer to: People
As for the future, Springsteen said there's ``a long road to go'' on this tour but hinted broadly when the question of whether he would record with the band was raised. ``For the past 25 years,'' he said, ``I've made band records and acoustic records. And I'll continue to do that in the future.'' Springsteen noted that any friction with the E Street Band, which had not been together in the previous decade as he pursued other projects, was overblown o·ver·blown v. Past participle of overblow. adj. 1. a. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations. b. by the media. ``I've always stayed in touch with them,'' he said. ``We've always remained friends.'' Springsteen's whole point on this tour, he emphasized, is to ``be right here, right now, in the present. That's why I ask the crowd, `Are you alive right now?' I'm interested in the present.'' His renewed closeness with the E Street Band (``I really feel I'm playing with the full band for the first time'') has enabled him to dig deep to play more than 70 songs on the tour, which already has entailed a European leg, then 15 shows in New Jersey and five in Boston. ``In New Jersey, we were also rehearsing an hour a day,'' he said, noting that helped them to work up more material. His renewed faith in the band has also permitted him to ``call a lot of audibles'' during a given show. For instance, at Friday's three-hour finale at the Fleet, he diverted liberally from his planned song list as the mood struck him. And his sense of experimentation was evident as he opened with the surprise hard-rocking ``Candy's Room,'' followed by ``Ties That Bind'' and ``Adam Raised a Cain,'' both of which had opened other Boston shows last week. To stack that trio together was purely speculative, ``but at the end of them, when I saw how the crowd reacted, I thought, `Wow, that worked.' '' What has also worked is a pattern of stacking ``Jungleland'' and ``Born to Run'' together on the encores. ``When we did that, things just exploded,'' he said. As for the noise of the audience, which sings along with a gusto GUSTO Cardiology A series of clinical trials that have examined a series of strategies to reduce the M&M of acute MI; the GUSTOs include: Global Utilization of Streptokinase & tPA for Occluded coronary arteries trial–GUSTO I; Global Use of Strategies that sometimes belies their years, Springsteen said: ``I've been amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. by the reaction. I looked out tonight, and it was so loud that I saw some people had their fingers in their ears.'' Springsteen is most pleased to be able to showcase songs from his turning-point album, ``Darkness at the Edge of Town,'' from 1978. As his manager, Jon Landau lan·dau n. 1. A four-wheeled carriage with front and back passenger seats that face each other and a roof in two sections that can be lowered or detached. 2. A style of automobile with a similar roof. , said, ``We're not doing a lot of the hits.'' Instead, they're featuring such ``Darkness'' tunes as the title track, ``Badlands badlands, area of severe erosion, usually found in semiarid climates and characterized by countless gullies, steep ridges, and sparse vegetation. Badland topography is formed on poorly cemented sediments that have few deep-rooted plants because short, heavy showers ,'' and ``The Promised Land.'' ``I thought when I wrote those songs that they'd be interesting to sing 20 years later. I really wondered what it would be like,'' said Springsteen. ``And now they're a large part of the show.'' While known as his own harshest critic, Springsteen admitted that he's pleased with his performance so far. ``I think there's more subtlety sub·tle·ty n. pl. sub·tle·ties 1. The quality or state of being subtle. 2. Something subtle, especially a nicety of thought or a fine distinction. in my voice now,'' he said, crediting his solo tour in 1996 (for ``The Ghost of Tom Joad'' CD) for that. ``And I still have the falsetto falsetto (fôlsĕt`tō) [Ital.,=diminutive of false], high-pitched, unnatural tones above the normal register of the male voice, produced, according to some theories, by the vibration of only the edges of the larynx. in my voice. Why it's still there is a mystery. Usually, I lose it because I'm singing so hard. But I think I've learned to sing better. I have more vocal range Human voices may be classified according to their vocal range — the highest and lowest pitches that they can produce. Vocal range defined The broadest definition of vocal range, given above, is simply the span from the highest to the lowest note a particular voice , and I'm really happy with that.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are touring together for the first time in over a decade. Daniel Hulshizer/Associated Press |
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