sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jan 13
th, 2014 at 12:37pm:
Teiz wrote on Jan 13
th, 2014 at 3:40am:
I'm very happy with High Hopes. After giving it several spins, I'd say 4 out of 5 stars. There's a pleasant warmth glowing off this one. I understand it's composed from a bunch of leftovers, but it doesn't sound like a bunch of loose songs and is larger than the sum of it's parts.
Now I'm curious if he attaches another US/European tour with this. I really like to hear these songs live.
So far just Australia and a show in South Africa. In an interview he said he's considering some U.S. dates.
Steve van Zandt is unable from April (after the SA/Oz/NZ tour) through June as he's in Norway filming 'Lillyhammer'.
I thought Bruce was very non-committal on US dates in the near future (ie this summer). While he acknowledged some markets didnt get a lot of shows (or any) he sounded like while he wanted to play there he didnt want to get people prematurely excited about it.
The impression I got from a recent interview with SVZ was that he has a shitload of recent songs that he wants to put out (Springsteen himself mentioned that he'd cut about 30 songs a couple of years ago but that when he wrote 'Easy Money' for the project it spiralled in a different direction completely and he ended up writing a new album which became 'Wrecking Ball')
I think its more likely he'll work on a new record at some point this year and then wait until it's out before doing a 'proper' tour.
the amount of projects in the pipeline at the minute are jawdropping. Remasters of the first two albums, a River box set, new songs, the album he was working on before 'Wrecking Ball', unreleased projects from recentd ecades that may end up on some 'Tracks 2' type release.
'High Hopes' is very good. The version of 'The Wall' on it is stunning. Still not crazy about the idea of reworking and releasing new versions of songs that have already been widely released, although saying that, they're good versions (especially 'American Skin').
Its a great time to be a Bruce fan, but for the sake of my wallet, I hope to fuck he doesnt play Europe until 2015.