{"id":491520,"date":"2019-10-22T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=902160"},"modified":"2019-10-22T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:27:16","slug":"watch-bruce-springsteen-talk-family-roots-and-keep-your-kids-grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-bruce-springsteen-talk-family-roots-and-keep-your-kids-grounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bruce Springsteen Talk Family, Roots and Keep Your Kids Grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bruce Springsteen<\/a> is not the first guitar player in his lineage. The singer recently visited \u201cSpringsteen: His Hometown,\u201d an exhibit at the Monmouth County Historical Association in Freehold, New Jersey, dedicated to, well, him. The exhibit traces his family all the way back to the Civil War.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most interesting thing is they had a small parlor guitar, which is what people played in those days, a small guitar,\u201d Springsteen told Jimmy Kimmel Monday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a><\/em>. The instrument apparently belonged to one of his relatives from the 1800s. \u201cSo, I\u2019m not the first guitar player in the Springsteens,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

While he said he is frequently seen in his hometown, Springsteen recently surprised fans<\/a> at a screening of his movie, Western Stars,<\/em><\/a> in Freehold. The film, co-directed by Springsteen and Thom Zimny, features home movie footage shot by Springsteen, including scenes from his honeymoon with wife Patti Sciafla.<\/p>\n

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Kimmel wondered if Springsteen\u2019s children were into the home movie footage and seeing him cheered on during concerts. \u201cKids don\u2019t want to go anywhere and see 50,000 people cheering for their parents. They would like to see 50,000 people boo their parents,\u201d the musician said with a laugh. \u201cOur kids have been relatively uninterested in the job that I\u2019ve done their entire lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the film, Springsteen brings up \u201cliving in good faith,\u201d which Kimmel asked Springsteen to expand upon. \u201cMaybe it means something different to everybody,\u201d he explained. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s just trying to stay on a straight, straight track and with honest transactions between the people that I care about and the people that I meet every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it can take you a while to get there, I mean the film is basically about the journey that everybody takes in their definitions of freedom,\u201d he continued. \u201cWhen you\u2019re young, it\u2019s all about going where I want to go, doing what I want to do, I\u2019m going to be who I want to be, and that\u2019s OK for your twenties. But somewhere in your thirties, it starts to catch up with you and your definition of freedom has to expand to include family, your civic life, you know, community that you\u2019re involved in. And if it doesn\u2019t, you\u2019re kind of, you get stuck out in the cold you know? Really out in the cold.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that his job can also stunt that kind of growth. \u201cI mean what I do, they still call \u2018playing.\u2019 You know? It\u2019s not really called working, it\u2019s called playing. So that journey, I think for people maybe in the arts, period, certainly in the music business, it can be a bit of a go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Springsteen also spoke of moving back to New Jersey in the mid-Nineties to help ground his kids. \u201cWe had a 80-member Italian-Irish family, and that was the way that I grew up, so I wanted my kids to have that sense of a bigger world than the entertainment world. I wanted them to see people that did a lot of other things, be around people who would shape them, and they would have a lot of options,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Beyond his family reflections, Springsteen also reminisced about his first-ever gig in a college town in Pennsylvania, where he opened up for Cheech and Chong after he released his first album. \u201cI came out and we played about five songs,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI thought it was going really good. I was sitting at the piano and somebody tapped me on the shoulder and said, \u2018That\u2019s enough.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bruce Springsteen is not the first guitar player in his lineage. The singer recently visited \u201cSpringsteen: His Hometown,\u201d an exhibit at the Monmouth County Historical Association in Freehold, New Jersey, dedicated to, well, him. The exhibit traces his family all the way back to the Civil War. \u201cThe most interesting thing is they had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-491520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 04:05:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}