TDS Time Machine | Rock Stars - Pt. 1
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What do you want me to say? What do you want me to say? My guest tonight, my favorite, legendary musician, new album is called Working on a Dream. He goes on tour with the E Street Band in the United States and Europe beginning April 1st. Please welcome to the program, Bruce Springsteen.
Soak it in, soak it in. Nice to see you. Good to see you too. My first question, could you sign this? This buddy of mine is Swedish, Jan, spelled J-O-N. You can do it later. No worries. It says here you're from New Jersey. Yeah. It's great to see you. How are you? Forty years with the E Street Band. Yeah. When we start rehearsal, we get everybody in a room and the guys that can stand get to go up front. The guys that sit there, they have to go in the back, you know?
What does Jon Stewart ask Bruce Springsteen about reuniting the E Street Band?
Is it like when I get together with guys that I knew when I was in high school and I was younger, we revert back to the age when we met? We've worked it out so we don't do that. So you can get things done.
It's much smarter that way.
Sort of there was a thing like when the band picked up again, that was one of the rules that we don't revert back to the age when we met. Because you've been back now, it's 10 years since the band is now back together. What is it, you talked about when you've been together that long and you've been playing together that long, it turns into something like love. Is that what this, is it love? Sure, it's love and hate, of course, you know. No, it's like, imagine it's the same four, six, seven people that you went to high school with and then lived with your whole life and you're 60 years old and you turn around every night and they're all still there. That's either going to be incredible or it's going to be your living nightmare.
And luckily in our case, it's almost always incredible, you know? And so... When you do the rehearsals, when you get together and you start rehearsing, at that point, is it all so natural? How do you work together? Because your shows are always so tight, but so joyous. How does that process work? We don't really rehearse. The rehearsal, we did that the last 40 years. So what we do mainly is we get together and you try to find... you try to find a show that you haven't done before that both sort of contains the history that you share with your audience, contains the new music that you've written, and contains some way to capture the moment that's occurring out in the world right now. You know, I think people come
that we've had an enormous moral, spiritual, economic collapse. People go to storytellers when times are like that. And our band was built from the beginning for hard times. That was the music we wrote. That was the way that we played. And so I think trying to sort of I think people are out there right now, they're looking for... The country's lost its moral center, which is something you've joked about and talked about over the... But it is true. It's almost... The only thing that can remind me of it is a bit post-Watergate, when there was a rootlessness to... And that's when you really struck a chord. Was that 74, 75? Yeah, and so it's similar to that in a sense that... that the idea of work and service to the public being a part of your work feels like it's been stripped away, that people drank a whole lot of their own Kool-Aid, that there was this subculture of people that basically brought down the country, and we're in the position to do that, and everybody out there is footing the bill.
So, and you've seen President Obama struggling to find where is the moral center of the argument he's making right now, you know? And it's hard to find. And struggling with the political, you know, that's the one thing that, you know, as an artist, you probably don't have the burden of is finding the politics. But how do you balance that with your audience? Because your audience is also, can be conservative, blue collar. They might reject some of the political arguments. Does that come into play? When they do that, they boo, you know? Now, when they do that, do you just pretend they're saying Bruce?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–1:45
2
What does Jon Stewart ask Bruce Springsteen about reuniting the E Street Band?
1:45–13:23
3
How does Bruce Springsteen describe balancing politics and audience expectations in his shows?
13:23–32:28
4
What inspired Questlove to make the documentary Summer of Soul and how was the footage discovered?
32:28–40:51
Speakers
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