January 8, 2007



Springsteen could tour this summer



By Zach Brokenrope

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band could have a new album out and a concert tour beginning as soon as this summer, according to Little Steven Van Zandt, a longtime member of the group.


Though today’s generation is likely to know Van Zandt from his role on HBO’s The Sopranos or his hit rock and roll radio show, Little Steven’s Underground Garage, he’s also a hardworking guitar player in The E Street Band.

Springsteen hasn’t released a new studio album with The E Street Band since The Rising in 2002, but Van Zandt said it’s not due to a lack of material.

Springsteen “always has a new record,” said Van Zandt, who’s been making music with Springsteen since the two were teenagers on the New Jersey shore.

“He’s the most prolific human being ever,” Van Zandt said about his friend. “It’s actually nauseating. It’s really irritating for a songwriter. He always has an album in his pocket. Always. And it’s always good.”

Van Zandt hinted that Springsteen and The E Street Band could have another new album soon.


“We haven’t really talked about it,” said Van Zandt, who said he’s filming The Sopranos until April.

“Summer of ‘07 would be a possibility for me,” he said, if Springsteen calls the group together. “We record very quickly and could have a record out within three months of getting the phone call.”

If The E Street Band goes on tour, said Van Zandt, he’ll continue to do his radio show from the road. An advance crew sets up recording equipment in his hotel room, he said.

Van Zandt said he would speak soon with Springsteen, who just finished a concert tour with The Seeger Sessions Band.

“He’s been touring all year, so he may want to take ’07 off,” said Van Zandt, “but we’ll be back.”

Hm, das Ding datiert zwar vom 8. Januar, aber interessanter wäre zu wissen, wann genau dieses Interview geführt wurde. Wenn ich mich richtig erinnere, müsste dieses Treffen zwischen Bruce und Steve, das er da am Ende andeutet, nämlich schon stattgefunden haben.

Van Zandt said he would speak soon with Springsteen, who just finished a concert tour with The Seeger Sessions Band.

Soweit ich mich erinnern kann war das Interview hier auch schon einmal Thema. Muss tatsächlich so um den Herbst rum gewesen sein. Habe jetzt aber keine Zeit zu suchen.

das war aber ein anderes Interview.

Ich wollte keine Unruhe stiften, da die Meldung aber auf den 8. Januar datiert war, dachte ich, sie wäre neu..

Ich erinnere mich noch eine Aussage unseres guten Silvio Dante nach der Rising Tour: "Wir sind wieder im Album / Tour Rythmus". Wollen wir hoffen, dass dieser Rhythmus endlich beginnt !

Van Zandt: New label for garage rock

Larry Mcshane | the Associated Press
Posted January 13, 2007

NEW YORK -- It's not as if Steven Van Zandt doesn't have enough to keep him busy.

There's his job as host of his nationally syndicated Underground Garage radio program, with more than 1 million listeners in 200 markets. And his position as head of his own channel on Sirius Satellite Radio. And his role as consigliere Silvio Dante on The Sopranos.

Oh, and he's a guitarist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.

Yet last month, Van Zandt added another line to his rapidly expanding resume: head of his own record label. In a deal with Best Buy stores, he rolled out the first six records on his rocking new label.

"I'm getting a little bored, you know?" 56-year-old Van Zandt deadpans in the Manhattan office that is home to his Wicked Cool Records.

Despite his relentless schedule, Van Zandt says, his involvement with the new label was total.

"Right now, it's 100 percent," says Van Zandt. "It's a very personal thing. It's my own taste, my own personality, and we're not pretending otherwise. We're not doing any marketing surveys.

"If I dig it, I'm going to try and support it."

Van Zandt sits in a sixth-floor loft, decorated with vintage movie posters (Barbarella) and pop-culture memorabilia (a Ramones lunch box). He's wearing a purple scarf around his head, well-worn jeans, and a shirt undone to mid-chest.

He's quick to laugh, but quite serious about this latest effort to resurrect old-school rock 'n' roll. Since starting his nationally syndicated radio show nearly five years ago, Van Zandt has become the Johnny Appleseed of garage rock, spreading his musical seeds from coast to coast.

It has worked, too.

Van Zandt estimates his program has introduced 150 new bands since then. Two of the newer groups are featured in the first half-dozen releases: Strange Magic, by the Charms, and Mastermind, by an Oslo, Norway-based all-female band, The Cocktail Slippers. The Chesterfield Kings, another show favorite, is also among the first releasing an album on Wicked Cool.

One of the label's staples is a plan to release four compilation albums per year under the title, The Coolest Songs in the World. Not surprisingly, the concept is a fixture on Van Zandt's weekly program.

"The label did evolve out of the radio show," Van Zandt explains. "There's a lot of bands these days. A lot of the bands came to us and said they needed a little help."

Van Zandt laughs when asked about comments Springsteen has made, indicating that he already has written half of a new album for the E Street Band.

"He's lying," Van Zandt says of his longtime friend. "He always has two albums in his pocket, OK? Always. If he's got a jacket on, he's got three albums. I wouldn't be surprised if we get that phone call soon. I don't know if it will be '07, but we will certainly make a new record."

Perpetually busy, Van Zandt is also shooting the final three episodes of The Sopranos.

"There's surprises," he says of the final season. "Oh, there's surprises. Leave it at that."
Quelle: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertai ... orl-caltop

Diese Aussage von Stevie wiederholt sich irgendwie in jedem Interview das er gibt....