2023-05-14 11:25:15
During his previous European tour, spring-summer 2016 season, Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band played at the Accor Arena in Paris on July 11 and 13. On the first evening, the sound system, stage lights and projections on screens had failed. For ten minutes, nearly 20,000 members of the public sang, with the help of drummer Max Weinberg to keep the tempo, and Springsteen and his troupe took the time to walk around the pit, before the concert resumes. Great keepsake for present.
It is in a place with twice the capacity, Paris-La Défense Arena, in Nanterre, this Saturday May 13 – this time without technical problem -, and Monday May 15, that the guitarist, singer and author – American composer and his formation of about twenty members (with wind section, four choristers, etc.) stop over during their international tour. She started on 1is February in the United States, passes through Europe from April 28 to July 25, before returning across the Atlantic from the beginning of August to mid-December.
Gigs sold out for weeks
An observation, at the end of this first of two concerts (full for weeks) in France: Springsteen has stalled a choice of songs almost identical to that which prevailed each evening in the United States or even during the first European dates in Barcelona and Dublin. This is verified on the official website Brucespringsteen.netwhere within a short time of two or three days after the curtain goes down, every full Springsteen and E Street Band 2023 Tour concert goes live and can be purchased for a fee ($14.99-$39.99 [13,70 à 36,55 euros]depending on the quality of the digital files).
On forums, fans have said they are a little disappointed that Springsteen does not change his repertoire more, only slipping in from time to time a difference or two in the course of the concerts. And to recall that, during previous tours, the surprises and the changes were much more numerous, Springsteen also responding regularly to requests from fans in the public, who write titles on cards brandished, including certain songs lost on B sides of 45-rpm.
The authenticity of a first time
What they have lost in spontaneity, Springsteen and the E Street Band are replacing with undeniable efficiency, playing the same themes night after night, placing pretty much the same solos – especially saxophonist Jake Clemons, who has replaced Clarence Clemons, who died in 2011, present in Springsteen’s band since 1972, just like bassist Garry Tallent. It could be construed mechanically, but for Springsteen, the instrumentalists and the backing vocals, the rock dive can’t be fake. It is played with a real joy in surpassing oneself, with the authenticity of a first time.
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