{"id":2445930,"date":"2019-07-02T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=854794"},"modified":"2019-07-02T11:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T17:13:08","slug":"flashback-bruce-springsteen-plays-a-stripped-back-thunder-road-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-bruce-springsteen-plays-a-stripped-back-thunder-road-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bruce Springsteen Plays a Stripped-Back \u2018Thunder Road\u2019 in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The E Street Band<\/a> keyboardist Roy Bittan turns 70 years old today. He joined up with Springsteen right before Born to Run<\/em> was recorded in 1974 and has played a pivotal role in his career ever since, even staying with him on the Human Touch<\/em> tour in 1992 when the rest of the group was fired. \u201cIt was a harsh situation at that particular moment,\u201d Bittan told Rolling Ston<\/em>e in 2015.<\/a> \u201cI kind of always described it to myself like there was a plane crash and I was the only survivor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Springsteen\u2019s loyalty to Roy Bittan is easy to understand. He\u2019s a musician with incredible range and skill, popping up on everything from David Bowie\u2019s Station to Station<\/em> to Meat Loaf\u2019s Bat Out of Hell<\/em>, Stevie Nicks\u2019 Bella Donna<\/em>, Bonnie Tyler\u2019s Faster Than the Speed of Night<\/em> and Peter Gabriel\u2019s Peter Gabriel II.<\/em> (Check out this 2015 interview with Bittan<\/a> where he talks about 10 of his favorite non-E Street Band sessions.)<\/p>\n

Many Springsteen fans first noticed Bittan on the Born to Run<\/em> tour where the show would sometimes begin with Springsteen and the keyboardist alone onstage playing a stripped-down rendition of \u201cThunder Road.\u201d That\u2019s the version of the song that opens the Live 1975-85<\/em> box set and they resurrected it on select shows on the 2012 Wrecking Ball<\/em> tour. Here\u2019s a video from London\u2019s Hyde Park on July 12th, 2012 where they bring it back.<\/p>\n

Springsteen himself turns 70 on September 23rd, but that\u2019s not going to stop him from recording an E Street Band album later this year and, if he sticks to a plan out outlined a few months back<\/a>, bringing the band back out on the road next year. As always, Bittan will be along for the ride.<\/p>\n

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The E Street Band keyboardist Roy Bittan turns 70 years old today. He joined up with Springsteen right before Born to Run was recorded in 1974 and has played a pivotal role in his career ever since, even staying with him on the Human Touch tour in 1992 when the rest of the group was […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 21:08:30","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}