Bruce shares three kids with his wife, E Street Band member Patti Scialfa, and admitted it took him some time to find the right balance between his life as a rock star and as a husband and dad.(Music-News)
Springsteen's role at home couldn't have been more different than when he was on tour - and calling all the shots: "You get up when you want to. You go in the studio when you want to. You put your record out when you want to," he said.
But he realised he couldn't continue living that way once they had sons Evan and Sam, and daughter Jessica, who are now all grown up.
Springsteen explained: "You can say, 'I'm going to go away for three days, I'm going to go away for three months.' But if you know, 'When I go away for three months, it's bad when I come back... When I go away for three days, it's OK when I come back,' I better start going away for three days!"
"All we knew was that when we passed a certain point, it wasn't good for our relationship," he shared of how he and Scialfa eventually settled on the ideal touring schedule to suit their family.
"We started to split... into other and separate lives," Springsteen continued.
"The things that are destabilising my life, I don't want those as a part of my life now because they will poison me... And they will poison my beautiful love here, you know? And so we slowly figured all this out together," he reflected.
Episode seven of the podcast, Renegades: Road vs. Home Life, debuts on Spotify on Monday.
The latest episode of “Renegades: Born in the USA” podcast on Spotify, starring Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen and released on Monday, March 8, was out of this world
It was on the moon, actually. Springsteen explained what it was like playing a show while man was landing on the moon on July 20, 1969. (Mycentraljersey.com)
“In 1969, I was a 19-year-old kid playing in a bar in Asbury Park the night that they landed on the moon,” said Springsteen on the “Renegades” episode titled “The Loss of Innocence.” “We were like, '(Blank) the moon landing, man.'“
Springsteen was in the band called Child with Vini Lopez, Danny Federici and Vinnie Roslin at the time, and the club was called Pandemonium in the Wanamassa section of Ocean Township, a short drive down Sunset Avenue to Asbury Park.
Springsteen, who later became a space program buff, didn't “want to have anything with it,” he said. “At nine o’ clock we’re playing these (blanking) guitars and that’s all there is to it. So the place had about 50 people in it. Twenty-five wanted to watch the moon landing on television and 25 wanted the band to play.”
Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, a fellow Jersey guy from Montclair, walked on the moon during the mission.
“All we did was stand on stage,” Springsteen said. “They had the little black and white TV. The moon landing would start. People would run up to the band and go, ‘Play some damn music, man!’ And then we started to play and everybody around, ‘Shut the (blank) up, boys.’ ”
Roslin was ahead of the rest of the band when it came to the significance of the moment. He walked off the stage to watch the landing.
“He was right,” Springsteen said. “He walked off and that was the end of it, man. I look back ... and we were all idiots at the time, but it was funny.”
It was the end of the show that night, and the end of Child's run at Pandemonium. Lopez, aka “Mad Dog,” implored ownership to turn the TV off.
“Finally, Mad Dog had had it,” said Springsteen in his “Born to Run” memoir about the night. “He shouted into his microphone, 'If somebody doesn't turn that (blanking) TV off, I'm coming over and putting my foot through it.' "
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