{"id":29814,"date":"2024-06-27T21:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stevie-van-zandt-on-friendship-with-bruce-springsteen-that-isnt-an-act\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T21:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:03:29","slug":"stevie-van-zandt-on-friendship-with-bruce-springsteen-that-isnt-an-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stevie-van-zandt-on-friendship-with-bruce-springsteen-that-isnt-an-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Van Zandt on friendship with Bruce Springsteen: \u201cThat isn\u2019t an act\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-27\/Getty_BruceSpringsteenStevieVanZandt_062724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mariano Regidor\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>E Street Band<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Stevie Van Zandt<\/strong> has been friends with <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> ever since\u00a0starting out in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and he realizes a friendship like that is very rare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYou just don&#8217;t have that many friends for 60 years. I think the fact that it survived some ups and downs, it says something about our nature,&#8221; the rocker tells <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/steven-van-zandt-never-takes-his-nearly-50-year-friendship-with-bruce-springsteen-for-granted-exclusive-8669698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>People<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">. &#8220;The nature of the importance of friendship in general, which is what attracted me to being in a band rather than a solo show business person.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Van Zandt, who is the subject of the new documentary <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, currently streaming on Max, says\u00a0fans can see that friendship on display when they take the stage together.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFifty years later, how are we still playing to 300,000 people in one country in one week?&#8221; he says. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re communicating that friendship, which is real with me and him. When they see us on the same microphone, that isn&#8217;t an act. Nobody&#8217;s that good an actor to keep this act up for 50 years.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds, &#8220;I think that&#8217;s something that you cannot take for granted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bruce Springsteen and The E Street kick off a two-night stand in the Netherlands on Thursday. The tour returns to North America on Aug. 15 in Pittsburgh. A complete list of dates can be found at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brucespringsteen.net\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1 s2\"><strong>brucepsringsteen.net<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mariano Regidor\/Redferns E Street Band guitarist Stevie Van Zandt has been friends with Bruce Springsteen ever since\u00a0starting out in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and he realizes a friendship like that is very rare. \u201cYou just don&#8217;t have that many friends for 60 years. I think the fact that it survived<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stevie-van-zandt-on-friendship-with-bruce-springsteen-that-isnt-an-act\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}