PHOTO BY ANDREAS LASZLO KONRATH
Bruce Springsteen on the cover of Time magazine.
President Trump comes up several times in a new interview with Bruce Springsteen by Eric Cortellessa in Time magazine.
“He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for,” Springsteen says, at one point. “If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”
Regarding the recent E Street Band shows in Europe, in which Springsteen featured message-filled songs such as “Land of Hope and Dreams,” “Rainmaker” and Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom” — making the show less personal and more political — Stevie Van Zandt says that Springsteen “got pissed off enough to want to change the theme.”
Springsteen says: “If I’m going to stay true to who I’ve tried to be, I can’t give these guys” — meaning Trump and his allies — “a free pass.”
Regarding other subjects … Springsteen says “Of course!” when asked if he will tour with The E Street Band again. “I just want to keep going,” he says. “I want to make records that deal with subjects people haven’t heard me deal with yet.”
He also says he plans to release Tracks 3, featuring more unreleased tracks from his vault, in two or three years, and that it will include his cover of Dylan’s “I Want You.”
In another portion of the interview devoted to politics, he says that “We’re desperately in need of an effective alternative party, or for the Democratic Party to find someone who can speak to the majority of the nation. There is a problem with the language that they’re using and the way they’re trying to reach people.”
The Time issue will be on newsstands, Oct. 3, but in the meantime, you can read the interview HERE.
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