Bruce Springsteen News

Das „Rolling Stone Magazin“ hat einige Details zur neuen Thom Zimny Dokumentation „The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town“ verraten.
Der Film verbindet Studio Aufnahmen mit aktuellen Interviews – unter anderem mit diversen Bandmitgliedern, Danny Federici und Patti Smith. Ausserdem kann man Bruce Springsteen und Little Steven van Zandt beobachten, wie sie Songs einstudieren und im Studio arbeiten.

Rolling Stone Magazin schreibt:

Details Revealed About New Springsteen Documentary
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The doc combines the studio footage — previously unknown to fans — with present-day interviews with main members of the band, including Danny Federici before he passed away. (Patti Smith is also interviewed in the movie, discussing how she co-wrote „Because the Night“ with Springsteen.) „What really struck me about these interviews is the vivid sense of recall that they have,“ says Powers. „You don’t get the feeling that these are the same old stories they’ve polished up for the press all the time — especially with Springsteen. He gave long interviews for the film and just about everything he says is really interesting.“
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Die Dokumentation feiert ihre Weltpremiere am 14. September auf dem „Toronto Film Festival“. Bruce Springsteen wird bei der Vorführung ebenfalls anwesend sein. Anlässlich einer Gala in der „Roy Thomson Hall“ wird sich der „Boss“ den Fragen des amerikanischen Schauspielers Edward Norton stellen.

The Star.com berichtet:

Actor Edward Norton will interview rocker Bruce Springsteen onstage at TIFF next month, Rolling Stone reports.
The event hasn’t been confirmed by the Toronto International Film Festival, but Springsteen is expected to be in town for the Gala world premiere at Roy Thomson Hall of The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, a documentary of the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding his landmark 1978 album. The date of the Gala hasn’t yet been announced.
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Eine TV-Ausstrahlung ist am 8. Oktober auf HBO geplant (wir berichteten hier). Ferner soll die Doku als Zugabe der “Darkness on the Edge of Town Box” beiliegen.

Mehr Infos:

• Toronto International Film Festival “TIFF” / Offizielle Homepage
• Thom Zimny on IMDb
• Little Steven: “Darkness Box an Weihnachten” / Stonepony.eu

Am 13. August erscheint in Europa die „Bruce Springsteen Collection 1973 – 1984“. Dabei handelt es sich um eine CD-Box Set mit den ersten sieben Springsteen Alben:

• Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
• The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
• Born to Run
• Darkness on the Edge of Town
• The River
• Nebraska
• Born in the U.S.A.

Die Sammeledition kann auf amazon.de oder im Stonepony.de Shop vorbestellt werden.

Produktinfos:

Bruce Springsteen’s first 7 albums. Original albums in mini-LP jacket replicas presented in a lift-off lid box set. 5 top-20 albums. Over 70 classic iconic tracks including the hits Born To Run, Dancing In The Dark, Cover Me, I’m On Fire and Born In The USA. Greetings From Ashbury Park N.J. / Darkness On the Edge Of Town / Nebraska / The wild, The Innocent Ande The E-Street Shuffle / The River / Born In The USA / Born To Run

Mehr Infos:

• Bruce Springsteen Alben & Lyrics
• Bruce Springsteen Veröffentlichungen in Deutschland

Thom Zimnys Dokumentarfilm „The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town“ wird im kommenden Monat auf dem „Toronto International Film Festival“ zu sehen sein. Das bedeutende Filmfest beginnt am 9. September und interessierte Zuschauer haben am 14. September die Möglichkeit, einen genaueren Einblick in die Arbeit von Bruce Springsteen zu erlangen.

Der Film soll als Zugabe der „Darkness on the Edge of Town Box“ beiliegen. Ein genauer Veröffentlichungstermin ist derzeit leider nicht bekannt. Das Bruce Springsteen Management hat aber verlauten lassen, dass die Box in Kürze erscheinen wird.

ShoreFire Pressemeldung vom 4. August 2010:

Statement About „The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge Of Town“
Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau Management, and Columbia Records are working on completing a new package related to ‚Darkness on the Edge of Town,‘ which will include the new Thom Zimny film „The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge Of Town.“ Further details will be announced when they are finalized.
„The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge Of Town“ will premier September 14 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Infos zum Dokumentarfilm „The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town“:

The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town Thom Zimny, USA
World Premiere
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town takes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for the recording of their fourth album. Grammy and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny has collaborated with Springsteen on this documentary, gaining access to never before seen footage shot between 1976-1978, capturing home rehearsals and recording sessions that allow us to see Springsteen’s creative process at work – Quelle

Mittlerweil hat der amerikanische Sender HBO angekündigt, die Dokumentation schon am 8. Oktober ins Programm zu nehmen.

Pressemeldung:

Springsteen Documentary to Be Shown on HBO
HBO  has announced plans to show “The Promise: The Making of ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town,’ ” a documentary that follows the making of Bruce Springsteen’s fourth album, Variety reported.
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Mehr Infos:

• Toronto International Film Festival „TIFF“ / Offizielle Homepage
• Thom Zimny on IMDb
• Little Steven: “Darkness Box an Weihnachten” / Stonepony.eu

Neuigkeiten rund um Bruce Springsteen und die E Street Band gibt der derzeit kaum. Wenn man den Gerüchten Glauben schenken kann, soll der „Boss“ aktuell an „Tracks Volume 2“ (Release: 2011) und der „Darkness on the Edge of Town Box“ (Release: Weihnachten 2010) arbeiten.

Rolling Stone Magazin schreibt:

Bruce Springsteen is rolling out a deluxe version of his classic 1978 disc Darkness on the Edge of Town  this fall, and, according to E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt, the set will feature at least ten outtakes – and possibly more … weiterlesen

Einige Mitglieder der E Street Band haben sich anderen Projekten zugewandt.

Garry Tallent hat im Frühjahr ein neues Album mit Jim Lauderdale eingespielt. „Patchwork River“ wurde am 11. Mai 2010 veröffentlicht. (Mehr Infos und Bestellmöglichkeit gibt’s auf Amazon.de)

Countrymusicnews.de schreibt:

Exzellente Songs – Songs, die alle irgendwie auf der Grundlage von 40 Jahren Rock, Folk, Blues und Country basieren. Ein Destillat, das mit der herrlichen, an den frühen Neil Young erinnernden Ballade „Far In The Far Away“ vielleicht seine schönste Geschmacksnote entwickelt … weiterlesen

Nils Lofgren hat mit Marvis Staples und Robbie Robertson den Song „Will The Circle Be Unbroken“ zum neuen Jerry Lee Lewis Album „Mean Old Man“ beigesteuert. Der Silberling wird am 7. September 2010 erscheinen und kann schon jetzt auf Amazon.de vorbestellt werden.

Jerry Lee Lewis – „Mean Old Man“ – Tracklist:

1. „Mean Old Man“ w. Ronnie Wood (written by Kris Kristofferson)
2. „You Can Have Her“ w. Eric Clapton/James Burton
3. „Dead Flowers“ w. Mick Jagger
4. „Middle Age Crazy“ w. Tim McGraw/Jon Brion
5. „Rockin‘ My Life Away“ w. Kid Rock/Slash
6. „You Are My Sunshine“ w. Sheryl Crow/Jon Brion
7. „Swinging Doors“ w. Merle Haggard/James Burton
8. „Hold You In My Heart“ w. Shelby Lynne
9. „I Really Don’t Want To Know“ w. Gillian Welch
10. „Railroad to Heaven“ w. Solomon Burke
11. „Sweet Virginia“ w. Keith Richards
12. „Roll Over Beethoven“ w. Ringo Starr/John Mayer/Jon Brion
13. „Bad Moon Rising“ w. John Fogerty
14. „Please Release Me“ w. Gillian Welch
15. „Whiskey River“ w. Willie Nelson
16. „Sunday Morning Coming Down“
17. „Will The Circle Be Unbroken“ w. Mavis Staples/Robbie Robertson/Nils Lofgren
18. „Miss The Mississippi and You“

Max Weinberg hat bekanntlich dem Talkmaster Conan O’Brien den Rücken gekehrt und tourt derzeit mit seiner „Big Band“ durch die USA.

Ausserdem wurde bekannt, dass sein Sohn Jay Weinberg mit der aus New York City stammenden Hardcore Formation „Madball“ an einem neuen Album arbeiten soll.

Drummagazine.com schreibt:

Suddenly news about the world’s most famous drumming son, Jay Weinberg, is all over the place. Today we heard that he has accepted the drum chair with the NYC hardcore outfit Madball. Expect al helll to break loose. Singer Freddy Cricien said, “I’m very excited to have Jay on board … weiterlesen

In der Londoner „Snap Gallery“ findet ab dem 3. August bis zum 4. September 2010 eine Ausstellung mit Fotografien von Eric Meola statt. Der Künstler zählt zu den bekanntesten Fotografen unserer Zeit und zeigte sich unter anderem für das Buch „Born to Run: The Unseen Photos“ verantwortlich.

In der Snap Gallery sind nun einige seiner Werke zu sehen.

Die offizielle Pressemeldung:

Darkness Visible: Photographs of Bruce Springsteen, 1975 – 1978
Photographs by Eric Meola from the Born To Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions
3rd August to 4th September 2010
Well what a treat and an honour it is to showcase Eric Meola’s rare photographs of Bruce Springsteen. Eric’s seminal work on Born to Run is well known to Springsteen collectors, whereas his photographs of Bruce from 1977-8 for Darkness on the Edge of Town have remained private. Many of these session photographs have never been exhibited, or offered for sale – until now. Ultimately, Bruce chose a photograph by Eric’s good friend Frank Stefanko to use as the cover photograph for “Darkness”, but Eric’s powerful work speaks for itself and when you see these images for the first time, you will be entranced. Eric’s trademark ability to capture rich detail and texture leap out, as does his incredible natural eye for composition.
This remarkable exhibition brings together a number of previously unreleased images that Eric created for Bruce Springsteen’s 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town, alongside photographs from Eric’s 1975 Born To Run shoot and other sessions with Bruce Springsteen. If you can’t make it to the show, don’t worry – we have included images on the website, with full details of edition sizes, prices and physical size options. Just click on the link to the right which says „The Collection“. We have also posted an expanded PDF version of the 12 page printed exhibition catalogue, and the PDF version includes a detailed and personal essay from Eric which you won’t find in the printed version, so please do check that out.
Both Eric and I are incredibly excited about this exhibition. On the eve of shipping the exhibition prints to me, he emailed me to say „All in all, I think this is the best set of prints I’ve ever done, and I’ll be very interested in seeing how some of them do. “ Well, he’s right – they are spectacular, and I think you are going to love them as much as we do.
Each image stands alone and tells its own story. There are many highlights – a few of my personal favourites are:

• Two fabulous 1977/1978 studio portraits, „Take ‘Em As They Come“ and „Living On The Edge“ deliberately blurred by Eric and shot on film with a beautiful visible grain
• “Rattlesnake Speedway”, similar in nature as well as mood to Eric’s long sold out limited edition piece “Darkness”
• “My Father’s House”, showing Bruce outside an ivy clad church ( if I had to pick one, this would be it )
• “Badlands”, a powerful landscape which echoes the lyrics of the song by that name
• The first colour photograph of Bruce Springsteen that Eric has ever offered to collectors, originally used on a very rare poster published in Billboard magazine to celebrate “Darkness” achieving platinum status
• Three new triptych pieces based around images from the Born To Run session, including one which is 86 inches wide. These work brilliantly on walls in homes and offices where furniture placement leaves a long horizontal wall space for hanging.

Here’s how Eric recalls that period: “Sometime in the middle of 1977, I became aware that a new album was being recorded, and I heard a few lyrics from it, including a song called ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town.’ When I first heard the words, I knew that ‘Wendy’ was gone. During that summer and into the fall, Bruce was holed up at the Navarro Hotel on Central Park South. I had been lucky with the cover shot for Born to Run. Lucky in terms of being at the right place at the right time. Yes, I had nailed it, but now there was a new album, and the sense that Bruce had to prove it again was palpable.
When we got together to discuss ideas, I brought along three books. One was Robert Frank’s The Americans. Two others were David Plowden’s Commonplace, and also Desert and Plain, the Mountains and the River. Although I knew that Bruce would be drawn to Frank’s book, Plowden’s work is an acquired taste for most people, yet one which resonated with me at the time, and which, in retrospect, is echoed in much of Bruce’s lyrics. The very title Commonplace speaks to ‘My Hometown.’ The photographs of barns, gas stations, fields, doorways, churches and interiors, in places like Red Cloud, Nebraska, are the kinds of places we pass by every day, yet seldom notice. After the grandiose, operatic Born to Run, I sensed it was time for bringing it all back home.”
We hope you have the opportunity to see this unique collection at our central London gallery. We are taking orders now for Eric’s prints, which are offered in very limited editions. If you would like to place an order, or if you have any questions, please get in touch.

Mehr Infos:

• Eric Meola – Offizielle Homepage des Künstlers
• Snap Galleries, London