BRUCE IS BACK BUT….
PHOTO: Bruce Springsteen by Andrea Munter
On the precipice of another international tour, Bruce Springsteen went on SiriusXM’s E Street Radio and had the following to say with host Jim Rotolo. “You sing with your diaphragm. My diaphragm was hurting so badly that when I went to make the effort to sing, it was killing me so I literally couldn’t sing at all, you know, and that lasted for two or three months, along with just a myriad of other painful problems. I was, during the course of it, before people told me, `oh no, it’s going to go away, and you’re gonna be OK,’ you know, you’re thinking like, hey, am I gonna sing again? This is one of the things I love to do the best, the most, and right now I can’t do it.
“…It took a while for the doctors to say [I’d] be OK. At first, nobody was saying that, which made me nervous, you know, and at the end of the day, I found some great doctors, and they straightened me out, and I can’t do anything but thank them all. Once I started singing, you know, you can rehearse singing, but your voice isn’t the same in rehearsal. You don’t have that edge of adrenaline that really pushes it into a better place…
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“I think we’re approaching [the tour now] like it’s a new tour. There will be some things from last year…that will hold over [like] some of my basic themes of mortality and life. Those things I’m gonna keep set, but I think I’m gonna move around the other parts of the set a lot more. So there’ll be a much wider song selection going on.” To that end, the band did Elvis Presley’s “Viva Las Vegas” in Vegas as well as “Roll Of The Dice” for the first time in seven years.