Despite speculations about his retirement, Bruce Springsteen’s guitarist teases upcoming tour dates.
The band isn’t slowing down anytime soon, especially after a spectacular end to their most recent tour at Wembley Stadium on July 27th, where they sent 90,000 fans into utter ecstasy.
Springsteen, who is currently 74 years old, had an incredible performance that demonstrated his agelessness and continued dominance on stage.
To the joy of his devoted worldwide fan base, Springsteen has increased rather than decreased his touring schedule in the manner of a rock legend.
Although the tour’s European leg may have come to an end, there’s still hope! Following a brief hiatus, the band will begin touring North America in August and play numerous shows throughout the continent in the following few months.
Not only that, but Springsteen has already revealed that he will be returning to Europe in 2025, presumably stopping in Marseille, Prague, and Milan.
The dependable guitarist and all-around rock ‘n’ roll consigliere for Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, is savoring every second of it. Van Zandt fits right into the yearly pattern of traveling to Europe in the summer and North America in the winter.
He sounds like Bruce Wayne, “I think we can play every summer for evermore, man.”
“It’s great that the Stones are still performing. Because, dude, we’re still the new kids on the block as long as they’re around. I’m fine with that, then.”
Van Zandt talked candidly about the uncertain future of their concerts with The Telegraph.
“You never know,” he said. We have been treating every event as though it were our last for the past fifty years. However, the audience remains, and it appears that they are growing younger each year.”
It’s evident that these New Jersey icons still find great joy in performing in front of sizable audiences.
Springsteen and the E Street Band’s live performances are still their lifeblood, despite their somewhat slower studio production. Van Zandt is at this stage of their career where they are at their most visible in Europe.
“I don’t see the end anywhere in sight, to be honest, especially in Europe, where we’re bigger than we’ve ever been,” he said.
However, things haven’t always gone as planned. Springsteen’s discovery of peptic ulcer disease in 2023 forced the cancellation of several shows; this setback only increased The Boss’s gratitude for his time performing.
In an interview with SiriusXM, Springsteen described the traumatic event that prevented him from singing.
“You sing with your diaphragm,” he remarked.I was so uncomfortable that even trying to sing was killing me due to my excruciating diaphragm pain.”
Springsteen said, “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,” saying the forced break was a difficult time for him.
But like a real rock warrior, he came out stronger, prepared to wow audiences one more time.
It has a dynamic that is similar to Van Zandt’s parallel existence on The Sopranos as Silvio Dante, who always handled highs and lows with grace.
While Van Zandt and Springsteen ruled the world of rock ‘n’ roll, Tony Soprano dealt with the underworld of New Jersey.
It’s clear that Springsteen and the E Street Band have no intention of hanging up their guitars as they get ready for another hectic tour.
