{"id":36956,"date":"2025-06-23T22:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/steve-van-zandt-to-miss-e-street-band-shows-after-appendicitis-surgery\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T22:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:57:49","slug":"steve-van-zandt-to-miss-e-street-band-shows-after-appendicitis-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/steve-van-zandt-to-miss-e-street-band-shows-after-appendicitis-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Van Zandt to Miss E Street Band Shows After Appendicitis Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhen Bruce Springsteen and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/e-street-band\/\" id=\"auto-tag_e-street-band\" data-tag=\"e-street-band\">E Street Band<\/a> resume their European tour Tuesday night at the Reale Arena in San Sebasti\u00e1n, they\u2019ll be taking the stage without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/steve-van-zandt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_steve-van-zandt\" data-tag=\"steve-van-zandt\">Steve Van Zandt<\/a>. The guitarist recently underwent surgery for appendicitis, and will be missing the next few shows as he recovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cGot a sharp pain in my stomach, thought it was food poisoning, turned out to be appendicitis,\u201d Van Zandt wrote in a message to fans via Instagram. \u201cGot lucky with an exceptional hospital in San Sebastian. Operation was a complete success and I\u2019m hoping to get back on stage for at least one of the shows in Milan. Thank you all for all the good vibes. See you soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThis is an unusual situation, but it\u2019s not without precedent. In the spring of 2014, Van Zandt missed several weeks worth of shows while filming his Netflix series <em>Lilyhammer<\/em>. Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello took his place. And on Feb. 10, 2023, Van Zandt had to miss a show in Dallas when he tested positive for Covid. In that instance, Springsteen and Nils Lofgren covered his parts without additional help.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bruce Springsteen - Because the Night (Dallas TX - Feb 10 2023, 4k)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FsH2xuCb66Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cBefore the show I was like, \u2018There are things I need to remember to cover,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/nils-lofgren-e-street-band-crazy-horse-1234792540\/\">Lofren told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> later that year.<\/a> \u201cBut when you\u2019re out there it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh shit, this part Steven did. I better jump on that.\u2019 It comes to you, because we\u2019re a well-oiled machine that\u2019s used to hearing each other for hours and hours and hours on the road. So everyone stepped up and took care of each other to get it done. But it was a unique experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThat 2023 Dallas show was the first time that Lofgren and Springsteen were the only two guitarists onstage at an E Street Band concert since 1988. But it\u2019s likely to happen again now that Van Zandt is recuperating. And don\u2019t expect to see Morello parachute in to help them out. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/nils-lofgren-e-street-band-crazy-horse-1234792540\/\">2023 interview with <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, Morello said such a thing wouldn\u2019t be possible.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cOh, hell no!\u201d he said when asked if he could step in for Van Zandt at a moment\u2019s notice. \u201cI learned 250 songs for that tour [in 2014]. Maybe with the appropriate cheat sheet. Maybe. But no. I worked really, really hard to get ready for that, and it\u2019s been a few years. I mean, if they played \u2018The Ghost of Tom Joad\u2019 seven times in a row, I\u2019d be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bruce Springsteen  - Ghost of Tom Joad @ New Orleans Jazz Fest 5-3-2014\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PLMNtESZRBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn other words, Nils Lofgren is going to have his hands full on Tuesday. And since Van Zandt says he\u2019ll be back for the closing show in Milan at the latest, he\u2019ll remain quite busy June 27 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and June 30 when they play Milan for the first of two nights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThere are no gigs on the books after Milan, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bruce-springsteen-biopic-new-album-interview-1235367320\/\">Springsteen recently told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> he hopes to bring the E Street Band to Australia next year. He also said future tours will be much shorter. \u201cRather than do a 130-show stretch,\u201d he said, \u201cwhich we did this time because we had been off for six years, so I had to get back in touch with my audience, and it was fun playing with the band \u2026 in the future, I think we\u2019ll probably play more often and less dates.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/steve-van-zandt-appendicitis-surgery-1235370475\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band resume their European tour Tuesday night at the Reale Arena in San Sebasti\u00e1n, they\u2019ll be taking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}