It seems there will be a single from Tracks, at least in Europe. The A-side will be "Sad Eyes". No B-side has been announced yet, but we can only hope that it will be "The Fever" as Bruce himself indicated in the interview he did on the Charlie Rose show in November. The single will probably be released in the beginning of 1999. No date has been set yet. If you can't wait that long you can order the rerelease of the "My Hometown"/"Santa Claus" single at Backstreets. Read more

   

If you have too much money and are crazy about other people covering Bruce songs, you should check out Des'ree's new album Supernatural which features a version of "Fire". Read more

   

Unlike what we wrote on this spot yesterday, Bruce did not go home to the States in anger. There was indeed a problem in Holland, but continued his European tour as scheduled by flying to Spain where today he gave an interview in which he said he would play in Spain before the summer... Read more

   

For those of you who didn't hear it yet, Bruce won his legal battle against a record company who thought they owned the rights to some of Bruce's early songs. They didn't. Read about it on SonicNet. Read more

   

Bruce played the following songs at the Amnesty International concert last night in Paris: The Ghost of Tom Joad Born in the USA Working on the Highway No Surrender (courtesy Julien Denoulet) The doors of Bercy opened at 5:30 p.m. We arrived in the arena to see the end of the soundcheck. As soon as I'd found my seat, guess who's coming on stage? Yep, Bruce himself! He said hello to everybody, picked up his guitar and since there was already a lot of people in the building, he gave us a real performance of 'Born in the USA'. It couldn't start any better! Now the show: After a short speech from one of the sponsors, Bruce, Tracy Chapman, Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour (the four 'survivors' from the 88 Amnesty tour) came in to sing 'Get Up, Stand Up'. After that, Gabriel remained onstage to introduce Bruce. Unfortunately, his performance was perturbed by a lot of technical incidents. Here's the setlist: - The Ghost of Tom Joad: the sound was a little bit muddy but it wasn't really annoying. It was much faster than during the accoustic tour. Great version, I really think it could work with a band. - Born in the USA: Halfway through the song, the sound broke down. Bruce tried to change guitars but it still wasn't working. So he had to leave the stage for a minute while the technicians were repairing. When he came back, you could see he was pretty irritated. He started the song again and he gave everything that he had. The song was much better than on Wednesday night with a lot of guitar point. The highlight of his set for me. - Working on the Highway: Bruce picked up an other guitar, started strumming... to realize his guitar was totally out of tune!! So he had to fix that up and began the song. I guess from that point of the show, since there wasn't a whole lot of Bruce fanatics, he prefered to stick with well-known material. - No Surrender: with harmonica solos. Pretty nice, and more related to the event than 'Working...'. No technical problems on this one. Strangely, Bruce was reading the words on a sheet. When he finished the song, he said goodbye and left the stage. Bruce was followed by...the Dalai Lama (no he didn't play anything}. He gave a short speech, in which he said that as a monk, he didn't understand that dance very well, but he was happy to see all these smiles on our faces. Bruce came back later on to introduce - in French, risky job but he did it well - Peter Gabriel. Best performances last night were Chapman, Gabriel & N'Dour and Radiohead. Overall it was a great night. I don't know if opening the show was an advantage. It was very early (6 p.m) and 40% of the arena was empty, all the lights were on (I don't know if it was intended but it got darker with each performer, maybe the television wanted to give the impression that it was an outdoor show), add this to the technical problems and you have mixed feelings about Bruce's appearance (Even if his playing and singing was great, as usual). But it was still nice to see him onstage. Read more

   

Bruce's tour plans had hardly been revealed before rumors of where and when had started to circulate. One of the more curious ones is that he will perform at the Midtfyn Festival in Denmark in July. This would be his first festival appearance probably since the Steel Mill days. Let's hope Bruce is not considering changing his principle of not playing those types of events. Read more

   

(Courtesy of Dominique) Bruce gave a 15 minutes interview on French show Nulle Part Ailleurs on channel Canal+. He spoke mainly about Tracks and his younger days. After a short break, he played a live and bluesy acoustic version of "Born In The USA", on the 12 strings guitar and a glass bottleneck. Bruce should arrive on stage at the Amnesty concert around 2300 CET on Thursday. No word about what and how long he will play there. Read more

   

Greasy Lake was featured last night on ZDTV's Internet show "Internet Tonight". It will be repeated today. Check out your local TV schedule. Also see what they wrote about us on their site. Don't miss it! Read more

   

Jon Landau Management released the following statement today: Bruce Springsteen Planning Worldwide Tour with The E Street Band to Begin Summer 1999 Jon Landau Management has confirmed that Bruce Springsteen intends to begin a worldwide tour with The E Street Band in the summer of 1999.The concerts will mark the first time since 1988-89's "Human Rights Now! Amnesty International Tour" that Springsteen and The E Street Band have embarked on a major series of performances.All additional details will be announced after the first of the year. Earlier in the day in an interview for a German radio station, Bruce made a semi-official announcement of a tour. Bruce reached Berlin today on his brief European promotion stint and was interviewed by Radio Eins. To the obligatory question of the prospects of an E Street Band reunion tour, Bruce said the following: "We've been talking about it and I've spoken with the guys pretty recently, and I think part pf putting [Tracks] together was a nice sort of reconnection for everybody. And, hopefully, I'm gonna have a good announcement for my fans pretty soon. You know, we're still working on it, and those people that have to iron out -- you know, everybody's got their own lives now and different jobs, and so people in the process are sort of trying iron those things out. But, hopefully, very soon I'll be able to announce something that makes fans happy." This is as close to an official announcement we can get. Don't think for a second that this statement wasn't planned and well thought-out. All that is left now is to wait for the real announcement, which could come any day now and certainly before Christmas. Read more

   

The online music magazine Wall of Sound is passing on rumors of an E Street Band tour kicking off in Europe in April, or Scandinavia to be more specific. If this is indeed true - and with all the indications we're getting from everywhere, we are inclined to believe so - an announcement is expected before Christmas. Perhaps even next week during Bruce's press tour to Europe. Read more