{"id":2443559,"date":"2019-04-29T17:31:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T23:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=828692"},"modified":"2019-04-29T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T23:31:24","slug":"bruce-springsteen-surprises-asbury-park-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-surprises-asbury-park-film-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Surprises Asbury Park Film Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fans at the Asbury Park\u2019s Music + Film festival had seen a lot of rare, mindblowing live Bruce Springsteen<\/a> footage by the end of Saturday night. In the city\u2019s old Paramount Theatre, where Springsteen has performed many times, they saw rare clips like a highly-charged performance of \u201cQuarter to Three\u201d from the Bottom Line in 1975, where Bruce got so caught up in the energy that he dropped his guitar pick, and a fan handed it back to him. There was a wild performance of \u201cWho Do You Love\u201d into \u201cShe\u2019s the One\u201d from the Tunnel of Love<\/em> tour that featured a truly astonishing display of public affection between Springsteen and Clemons \u2014 and their last-ever show together, performing \u201cGrowin\u2019 Up,\u201d in 2009. The audience also saw a long clip of the E Street Band<\/a> performing a soul medley at the Apollo in 2012, where Bruce climbed up the theater\u2019s pipes into get to the box seats, belting \u201cThe Way You Do the Things You Do.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the most incredible part of the night happened at the end, when the real<\/em> Bruce Springsteen walked out. The surprise happened after Christopher Phillips, the publisher and editor of Backstreets<\/em>, brought out Springsteen\u2019s director and archivist Thom Zimny, who curated the event, the Springsteen Archives<\/em>. Then Phillips introduced, simply, \u201cBruce.\u201d The crowd went nuts as Springsteen walked out in a red sweatshirt with the number five on it. He took a seat while waving, doing his best to calm them down. \u201cI\u2019ve lived many lives,\u201d he said when the applause finally died out. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen a lot of that stuff myself!\u201d<\/p>\n

Security was tight \u2014 fans had to place their phones into Yondr pouches,<\/a> which were unlocked at the end of the show. But they were treated to an insightful conversation with Springsteen about what it\u2019s like to watch your own musical evolution. Springsteen said that he\u2019s glad it exists: \u201cThe sad thing is we were superstitious about being filmed,\u201d he admitted of the band\u2019s early days, saying he thought, \u201cA magician should not look too closely at his magic trick. It\u2019s very strange in the beginning when you hear your actual voice coming back at you on tape, you don\u2019t like it. And when you see yourself on film, you don\u2019t like that either! You always think you\u2019re handsomer than you really are. You think you sound better than you actually do. So you got to get over that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phillips then asked Springsteen to comment on various chapters of his career that shown at the event. Springsteen reflected on playing the Bottom Line in 1975 just as Born to Run<\/em> was about to be released. The band played ten shows in five days, and  Bruce said they changed the band\u2019s dynamic entirely. \u201cWhen we came out of the Bottom Line, we were officially contenders,\u201d Springsteen said. \u201cFor better or worse, when we we weren\u2019t expected to be good, we were expected to be great<\/em>. And we did all we could to try to prove that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Springsteen talked about playing the Apollo in 2012, which was a night of firsts \u2014 the band\u2019s first time playing the soul capitol, the first with a reassembled lineup and their first without Clemons. Springsteen said he decided to perform a death-defying stunt when he messed up the arrangement to the Temptations cover. \u201cI had to make up for fucking up the whole thing,\u201d he said, explaining why he climbed stairs into the balcony and over a front-row railing as Patti Scialfa looked on, concerned.  \u201cNow that<\/em>\u2018s something we should put out,\u201d he said, turning to Zimny. \u201cI didn\u2019t know that was shot that well.\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing that is being released, according to Springsteen, is his performance at Jazz Fest in 2006, just eight months after Hurricane Katrina. The performance of \u201cMy City of Ruins\u201d with the Seeger Sessions Band was chilling. Springsteen recalled getting in a day earlier and touring the Lower Ninth Ward, seeing the devastation. \u201cRock & roll is best when there are high stakes on the table,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s when something much larger than yourself can occur. It\u2019s music that\u2019s meant to push up against things: Whether it be against troubles and hard times. It\u2019s lovely and fortuitous to be able to perform to [perform that service.] It\u2019s one of my top five ever live performance experiences ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Springsteen was not interested, however, in talking about new music. Though he had announced his first album<\/a> in five years earlier in the week, he did not take the bait when Phillips pivoted from a conversation about the genius of early E Street keyboardist David Sancious to the fact Phillips played on Springsteen\u2019s new album Western Stars<\/em>.<\/em> \u201cYeah David is on there,\u201d Springsteen said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have talk about it!\u201d<\/p>\n

Zimny and Springsteen talked about their working relationship. While Zimny often searches through the archive for Springsteen material, Springsteen\u2019s detective work is simpler: he goes on YouTube a lot. He also takes inspiration from odd places. Shortly before filming a complete performance of Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em> in 2009, Springsteen saw a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie on TV. He thought was \u201cfilmed excellently\u201d and  he phoned Zimny past midnight, asking him to take a look for inspiration. Springsteen gave more straightforward directions to Zimny for the recent Springsteen on Broadway<\/em> film, saying they didn\u2019t want to take too many risks because \u201cthe Broadway show was going so well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Springsteen showed he could be self-critical. Commenting on a performance of \u201c4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)\u201d from 1974, he admitted, \u201cI thought I was going to fall asleep at any moment! The tempo I put it at couldn\u2019t have been any slower\u2026.I went to the bathroom and I came back and I was still playing!\u201d He was more sentimental talking about the meaning of that song. \u201cThings had just started to happen, so it was a goodbye song,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a goodbye song to Asbury Park. I love this memory: the last night Danny [Federici] played with us, I said, \u2018What do you want to play?\u2019 He said, \u2018Well I want to play \u2018Sandy.\u2019 The song is about the end of something wonderful, and the beginning of something different. So that song said , in the moment I was just about to leave Asbury, I knew my life was going to change\u2026and so it was the very very resonant song in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The night wrapped with Springsteen reflecting on the last show he played with Clemons, in 2009, in Buffalo. \u201cI had never saw that before. It\u2019s lovely to have the story of me meeting Clarence, when is completely true. All of the events actually happened. It\u2019s lovely to have that story. Our lives were never the same again. I miss the big man.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Asbury Park Music + Film Festival<\/a> was full of one-off moments for hardcore music fans. The festival, entirely for charity, benefits kids in the challenged community, providing them with musical instruments, education and scholarships. \u201cIt\u2019s so important to us that the students in Asbury<\/span> Park<\/span>, one of the great music cities in the country, get the strongest music education possible,\u201d said Eric Novod, the director of education at the Lakehouse Music Academy in Asbury Park<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing this collaboration truly make a difference in students\u2019 lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other major highlight was The Bob Dylan<\/a> Archives,<\/em> which Sony Pictures Classics Co-Founder and Co-President Tom Bernard called \u201cthe coolest event in the fest \u2013 always has been, always will be.\u201d (Full disclosure: the studio is also releasing a documentary<\/a> of which I\u2019m a producer.) Dylan\u2019s manager, Jeff Rosen, showed up with a hard drive full of rarities from one most important vaults in all of music. Rosen, reclusive like his boss, was out of sight of the audience, introducing each clip with historical context. He began with the 1963 Newport Folk Festival; a 22-year-old Dylan plays \u201cNorth Country Blues\u201d surrounded by fellow musicians, including banjo player Clarence Ashley, who was scoring hits as early as 1928 \u2014 Rosen noted that Ashley looked a little nonplussed by Dylan\u2019s performance. There was \u201cHard Rain\u201d from the TV show Quest<\/em> in 1964, where Dylan played the song on what looked like an old western set, sitting down on a cot for the final verse.<\/p>\n

There was rare color footage from 1966 by D.A. Pennebaker. Dylan, in a checkered navy suit, sang \u201cIt\u2019s All Over Now, Baby Blue\u201d \u2013 a different person than the \u201cHard Rain\u201d clip, completely relaxed, playing with the phrasing, drawing out words. Rosen showed footage of later in the show \u2014 Dylan with a Telecaster, trading wiry licks with Robbie Robertson for \u201cBaby Let me Follow You Down.\u201d There was a soulful live \u201cGoing Going Gone\u201d from 1976 and stunning gospel footage (\u201cWhat Can I Do For You\u201d from 1980). But the highlight came when Dylan did Empire Burlesque<\/em>\u2018s \u201cTight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)\u201d at New York\u2019s Supper Club, where Dylan played four shows in two days, warming up for MTV Unplugged<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The professionally-filmed show has been sought after for fans for years, and it\u2019s clear why: Dylan was all smiles, swaying as he noodled on the acoustic guitar,  crooning the song, stripped of its Eighties sheen, with deep feeling. The event also featured a long-lost commercial for Love & Theft<\/em>, Dylan playing cards with Ricky Jay before the game turns into a brawl, and \u201cCry a While\u201d from 2002 Grammys. While Dylan was stone-faced as he growled the blues stomper, guitarist Larry Campbell couldn\u2019t help but smile when the band hit an explosive turnaround. Here\u2019s hoping Dylan will continue his Bootleg Series<\/em> for a long time and put out some of the treasures shown in Asbury.<\/p>\n

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