{"id":635741,"date":"2024-09-10T05:52:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T02:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-celebration-of-live-bruce-past-and-present\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T05:52:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T02:52:52","slug":"watch-a-celebration-of-live-bruce-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-celebration-of-live-bruce-past-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Celebration of Live Bruce, Past and Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dd23cc57de\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dd23cc57de\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-celebration-of-live-bruce-past-and-present\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Celebration_of_Live_Bruce_Past_and_Present%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Celebration of Live Bruce, Past and Present&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-celebration-of-live-bruce-past-and-present\/#%E2%80%9CA_Celebration_of_Live_Bruce_Past_and_Present%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Celebration of Live Bruce, Past and Present&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Celebration_of_Live_Bruce_Past_and_Present%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Celebration of Live Bruce, Past and Present&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Celebration_of_Live_Bruce_Past_and_Present%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Celebration of Live Bruce, Past and Present&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    When Bruce Springsteen stands onstage, staring out at the crowd, or with his head bowed, and cocks his guitar behind him, that pose is now as iconic as that of the young Abraham Lincoln holding an ax over his shoulder. It\u2019s a mythic image of American nobility. In \u201cRoad Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,\u201d we follow Springsteen, in his first concerts since the pandemic, as he reconnects with his fabled band and they rehearse for six days and go out on a tour that will take them from the U.S. to Europe, from 2023 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    All of this is intercut with grainy footage of Bruce performing in the \u201970s and early \u201980s. At this point, we\u2019re so accustomed to the older, statelier Bruce that when we see some of the earlier clips, it\u2019s almost shocking to register just how much he moved around onstage. He <em>bopped<\/em> in a way that was crazy and flamboyant. It\u2019s pointed out in the documentary that the key reason he originally recruited his buddy Steven Van Zandt to be the band\u2019s guitarist was so that he \u2014 Bruce \u2014 could liberate himself from holding a guitar. That\u2019s how much Bruce, in his heyday, liked to dance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Bruce doesn\u2019t move like that anymore. But at 74, he\u2019s the picture of hard-won vigor, and the surly beauty of his youth has evolved into a kind of statuesque huskiness. He now resembles Robert De Niro with a touch of Ben Affleck; his face looks, at certain angles, like something you might see on the side of a silver dollar. Yet he\u2019s as stubbornly alive as ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Now that Springsteen and the E Street Band, the musical blood brothers he has played with for half a century, are in their golden years, the meaning of what they\u2019re doing has changed. They still <em>sound<\/em> fantastic\u00a0\u2014 crisp and tight and rockin\u2019 and vibrant. Nothing about the E Street Band is weary or wobbly or slow; their sound is ageless. Yet the man fronting them has always had the desire to share the song of himself, and that means that Bruce now sings in a way that\u2019s timeless but that also acknowledges time. There are moments when what he\u2019s singing about is the darkness on the edge of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But only moments. What you hear in \u201cRoad Diary\u201d is the life force of Springsteen as an artist. He plays a number of new songs, but the fact that he\u2019s been playing the old ones for as long as he has only adds to their layered majesty. I was struck by that when Bruce unleashes the guitar solo in \u201cProve It All Night,\u201d a song released in 1978. Back then, when you went to a Springsteen show, a lot of the mania \u2014 the ecstatic cries of <em>\u201cBruuuuuce!!!,\u201d<\/em> the collective reveling in the three-hour-plus immersion \u2014 cohered around the feeling that Springsteen was, more or less, the last of the larger-than-life classical rock stars. His music was right down the center of the plate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Now, when I hear that guitar solo in all its blistering fury, and watch Bruce screwing up his face to play it with maximum intensity, it sounds like what it is: a form that has faded from the center. Yet the solo seems to be saying that as long as Springsteen can take a guitar and make it sound like <em>this<\/em>, rock \u2018n\u2019 roll lives. This is music that erupts right past nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cRoad Diary\u201d starts with Bruce getting the band back together, and I must say: They\u2019re quite a mutual-admiration society (not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that). They have a sense of drama about honing their sound back to midseason form that seems a tad overstated. True, they haven\u2019t played together for six years. The film\u2019s director, Thom Zimny (who co-directed, with Bruce, the intimate 2019 Springsteen performance documentary \u201cWestern Stars\u201d), interviews each of them, and when they talk about how sluggishly paced the songs are at first, we think, \u201cDon\u2019t worry about it. You\u2019ll get up to speed.\u201d There are now rock nostalgia tours in which the bands haven\u2019t played together for 30 years. The E Street Band, even from the \u201crough\u201d first rehearsals, sound like a spangly well-oiled machine, and they know these songs in their bones. And Bruce, if anything, has only gotten more polished and organized. He irons out a set list, of 25 songs, that add up to a story he\u2019s telling \u2014 of the past and the present, of youth and age \u2014 that\u2019s as meticulous in its meaning as a novel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A music doc should certainly celebrate its subject. I\u2019ve never seen one that didn\u2019t. But in \u201cRoad Diary,\u201d there\u2019s a whole lot of effusive celebration going on. Bruce talks about how much he loves the band, and how great they all are, and how great the additional members are (the jazz\/funk horn section, the soul choir, the percussionist Anthony Almonte), and they all talk about how much they love Bruce, and how miraculous it is that they can all be doing this after 50 years. I don\u2019t doubt a word of it, but the 99-minute movie didn\u2019t need to keep reminding us. Springsteen is too resonant and classy an artist to need a music doc about him to ever feel, in its positivity, like an infomercial, and this one occasionally does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But you can forgive that. These guys (and girls, notably Springsteen\u2019s wife of 33 years, Patty Scialfa, who reveals in the movie her diagnosis of early-stage multiple myeloma), have earned the right to salute their longevity and the bliss they bring out in each other. Their acknowledgment of the loss of band members Danny Federici and the great Clarence Clemons (who was replaced by his nephew, Jake Clemons, who does a good job but summons maybe half the sound that Clarence did) are stirring and sobering. (Onstage during the tour, Bruce sings the Commodores\u2019 \u201cNight Shift\u201d as a tribute to them. It becomes one of the concert\u2019s showstoppers.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And their evocation of the perfectionism of the younger Bruce, who would order the band to vamp for several hours as he sound-checked every corner of an arena, tells you a lot about him. So do the stories about the band\u2019s early touring days, or about what it was like to hear Sam and Dave at a club in the early \u201960s. More than ever, you hear how much soul DNA is embedded in the E Street Band sound. At the end, Bruce, speaking to us in voiceover, says that he plans to just keep going, to play in concert \u201cuntil the wheels come off.\u201d Watching \u201cRoad Diary,\u201d you hope they never do. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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