In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, Stevie Van Zandt recounts for the first time why he quit the E Street Band — and his big return.
Briefly, let’s leave emotion out of it and examine the balance sheet of this rather . . . incredible move.
Nils Lofgren, hired to do my guitar parts, got a very rewarding second career, or third career if you count Crazy Horse, which he well deserved.As Chadwick Boseman, playing James Brown, says in the excellent biopicafter he fires his band, “Five minutes ago you were the baddest band in the land; now you’re nobody.”Never, ever leave your power base.
By the Nineties, his solo career fizzled out completely, and he struggled to find a purpose. By his own admission, he spent much of the decade walking his dog and trying to figure out his next move. Everything changed when David Chase happened to come across his 1997 speech at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducting the Rascals. Chase was putting together a show about a New Jersey mob family and felt Van Zandt would be perfect for it, even though he’d never acted a day in his life.
Dreaming together, planning and strategizing, sharing the good times and the bad, suffering the undeserved wrath when bringing bad news that only you could bring because you were the only one who wasn’t afraid of the Boss. They were all part of the job. Of both jobs.Born in the U.S.A.,felt like a solo record, for starters. There were still great songs, but they were smaller in scope, with more personal lyrics. “And what’s up with that first song, ‘Ain’t Got You’?” I asked.
I wasn’t big on competition. But all due respect, shouldn’t we be ranked higher than the Spin Doctors?
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