Springsteen admitted that he feared he might never be able to sing againas Fox News report.
During a Thursday interview with SiriusXM’s E Street Radio host Jim Rotolo, Springsteen admitted that he had been concerned about his readiness to perform at a live show after symptoms he had experienced while battling peptic ulcer disease.
"Once I started singing, you know, you can rehearse singing, but your voice isn't the same in rehearsal. You don't have that edge of adrenaline that really pushes it into a better place and the thing when I had the stomach problem, one of the big problems was I couldn't sing."
"You sing with your diaphragm," Springsteen explained. "My diaphragm was hurting so badly that when I went to make the effort to sing, it was killing me, you know?"
"So, I literally couldn't sing at all, you know, and that lasted for two or three months, along with just a myriad of other painful problems."
"You know, I can't do it, and it took a while for the doctors to say, 'Oh no. You're gonna be OK.' At first, nobody was quite saying that, which made me nervous, you know, and at the end of the day, I found some great doctors, and they straightened me out, and I can't do anything but thank them all."
Springsteen, who performed in Las Vegas last friday, told Rotolo that making his comeback at the Footprint Center felt "so damn good."
The singer continued, "A wonderful crowd we had, and the band just played great, you know, and I thought they might be tired, you might be a little fatigued, you might be a little rusty. No. You know, the guys were just fabulous from first song on, and I felt great, and the whole band felt great."
