An interview with, and profile of Springsteen guitarist, solo artist, producer, activist, and Sopranos star Steven Van Zandt.
With The Sopranos in mind, I was thinking about the last Springsteen/E Street Band tour in '99-'00, and thinking to myself, "there is no way that guy in the scarves and bandanas playing a mean guitar and jumping around onstage with Bruce and the boys is "Silvio," the scowling, jowly mobster. But he is - must be a pretty damn good actor. I interviewed Steven Van Zandt in 1998:…
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126 - R. Zimmerman
Wow, that's funny. Anyone who would get bent out of shape by that quote -- which makes perfect sense in the context of the interview, by the way -- is probably still ticked off about John Lennon insisting the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.
This forum belongs in the Internet Troll Hall of Fame, by the way. The guy with his panties in a was over Springsteen being Jewish is just priceless. I've got ten bucks that says he still lives at home -- any takers?
If I advertise a specimen jar with the foreskin from Springsteen's briss for sale on eBay, how much do you think I could get for it? :-)
127 - R. Zimmerman
Oh, and van Zandt took to wearing a head scarf because he was thrown through the windshield in an auto accident, and his hair never grew back properly due to the scarring on his scalp:
But by all means, keep ridiculing him for it. Ignorance and malice love to keep one another company.