How serious is E Street Band speculation?
Many readers of this blog have written regarding my post on Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's performance at HSBC Arena on Sunday.
The blog entry headed "Greetings From Buffalo, N.Y." shared information announced via Backstreets.com that Springsteen and the band would be playing their first record, "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J." in its entirety during Sunday's show.
I mentioned that this fact feeds "rampant speculation" that the tour-ending Buffalo gig might be the final performance by the E Street band as we've known it all these years. Speculation is not fact, obviously. It's merely specualtion, and you don't have to dig deep to find it - from the Chicago Sun Times to Rolling Stone, to fan message boards, people are discussing this very topic, and many of them seem to believe this could be the end.
A story in this Sunday's Buffalo News hashes out the entire subject -- based on interviews I did recently with E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren; author and Springsteen scholar Lawrence Kirsch, who wrote "For You" and "The Light In Darkness;" -- and explores many other facts leading to the conjecture that the Buffalo show could be their last. Look for my piece on the cover of the Spotlight section in this Sunday's Buffalo News.
