"Bruce walks in with an acoustic guitar, plays his songs and everybody has a chance to give their input," Van Zandt told Forbes' Steve Baltin. "The old way" is how Darkness On The Edge Of Town, The River, and Born In The U.S.A. "We have an ongoing conversation and one of the regular topics is that if we do make another record, let's do it the old way," Van Zandt told Uncut. He simply played them solo acoustic and captured them on his iPhone just to make sure he remembered them.Īccording to Rolling Stone's Brian Hiatt, Roy Bittan's advice had deep implications for Letter To You and echoed what Steven Van Zandt had been telling Springsteen for years. So I intentionally did not demo anything." Springsteen did not touch the songs before he taught them to the band during the recording sessions. And suddenly, we don't have an E Street Band album. And then the band has to fit themselves into an arrangement. "And suddenly, I'm locked into an arrangement. "When I demo, I start putting things on to see if it works," he told Hiatt. Then you have to play 'beat the demo'." Springsteen knew that Bittan was right. So the first thing I said was, 'Great, now don't demo them.' Because when you demo, it's carved in stone. To hear that in the middle of all this he had written a bunch of E Street songs was terribly exciting. "He said, 'Yeah, I did it in about two weeks.' That wasn't the first time he had done something in a quick burst, but I was taken aback as he had been so involved with the Broadway show, the book, and this Western Stars project had been on and off for years. "He said, 'I wrote a whole bunch of songs for E Street,'" Bittan told Uncut's Peter Watts. Soon after he wrote the new songs, sometime during summer 2018 as Roy Bittan remembers, Springsteen met Bittan for lunch in New York City while he was performing on Broadway. These are ONE MINUTE YOU'RE HERE, BURNIN' TRAIN, and RAINMAKER. You try for seven years and you write an album in a week." However, at least three songs were written or partially written at least 15 years earlier. "The songs for the album were in the guitar that the kid gave me. I wrote a song in the living room." "Sometimes instruments have some magic in them," Springsteen told AARP's Robert Love. I just wandered around the house in different rooms, and I wrote a song each day. "All the songs from the album came out of it," Springsteen told Rolling Stone's Brian Hiatt. The guitar ended up sitting in Springsteen's living room for months, until he picked it up around April 2019. Former Castiles member George Theiss passed away on. The Springsteen On Broadway concert residency officially opened on and ran through. This took place "sometime before Theiss' passing" according to the former and "shortly after Theiss' death" according to the latter. "And I just took a quick glance at it and it looked like a nice guitar, so I jumped in the car with it." The Rolling Stone article and the AARP article give two conflicting timelines as to when Springsteen was gifted the guitar. "I said, 'Geez, you know, thanks,'" Springsteen told Rolling Stone's Brian Hiatt. It's very special." The guitar had no case and was made by a company that Springsteen never heard of. As Springsteen recounted to AARP's Robert Love, the fan told him, "Hey, Bruce, this is for you. In 2017 or 2018, when Springsteen was coming out from one of his Springsteen On Broadway shows, a young fan, from Italy Springsteen thinks, handed him an acoustic guitar. I had about two weeks of those little daily visitations, and it was so nice. I mean, I know where it came from, but at the same time, it just came out of almost nowhere. And then about a month or so ago, I wrote almost an album's worth of material for the band. "I've spent about seven years without writing anything for the band," Springsteen told Scorsese at one point. On, during the opening night of Netflix's third annual FYSEE event in Los Angeles, Springsteen sat down for a long conversation with director Martin Scorsese. The remaining nine were "recently written," as per the album's press release. Three of the album's twelve tracks are new recordings of unreleased songs that Springsteen wrote in the early seventies. I'm the last man standing now One, two, three, four! Go! You pack your guitar and have one last beer Somewhere deep into the heart of the crowd You count the names of the missing as you count off time Knights of Columbus and the Fireman's Ball Backed against the wall running raw and loud
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