Van Zandt had a single request for the director: 'Try and explain my life to me, will ya?'
His face and neck, which have a white cast, are slathered with what appears to be sunscreen as he takes in the brilliant late afternoon inthere Thursday in what was a return trip after two shows at the stadium during the first year of their massive, ongoing. Since February 2023, Springsteen and the band have played their way through North America and Europe twice. They’re currently headed for a third time.
“He had been asking to do something with me for decades and I just ... kept turning him down,” he says. “It was a trip because it seemed like all those people really wanted to talk about Stevie,” says Teck, joining the Zoom call from Los Angeles. When Springsteen first met Van Zandt, he was wearing a huge paisley tie, the Boss recalls in the documentary.Little Steven’s personal style — an assortment scarves, open shirts, vests and groovy prints that make him look like a swashbuckling pirate of rock ‘n’ roll — would become an instantly recognizable signature of his onstage presence.
But the director also follows Van Zandt’s long history of collaboration with Springsteen, whose manager and producer Jon Landau appears in the film. “They were such a gang, a group of men to be reckoned with,” Vedder says of the band in the film. “They scared me.” That got Van Zandt thinking about his place in the world and the megaphone he had as a performer. Teck includes footage of him performing in Germany in 1984 and apologizing to the crowd for his government’s arrogance and his people’s ignorance.When he was in South Africa doing research, he witnessed a cab driver swerve to hit a Black man.
“It occurred to me that I had blown my life,” he says in the film, talking about his regret over departing the band.Van Zandt drew together rappers, rockstars and R&B singers at a time when MTV was not playing videos from many Black artists.
His song “I Am a Patriot,” which sings the praises of freedom and truth over party, has been embraced by Jackson Browne so much that people often think he wrote it. Vedder also covered the song with Pearl Jam.
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