E Street Band Bass, Book & New Springsteen Tour!
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As you may know, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are opening their new US tour today: the Land of Hope and Dreams tour.
Bruce describes the tour as follows: "The tour will be a celebration and defense of the US Constitution, freedom, and the sacred American dream, which is under attack."
In celebration of opening day of the tour, I want to share this on the podcast. I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the original and longest members of the E Street Band, Garry W. Tallent - the bass player and OG of the E Street Band. I talked with Garry about this history with Bruce and the band, and about the upcoming tour.
Along with Garry, I had the incredible good fortune to interview photojournalist extraordinaire Nicki Germaine. Back in 1974. Nicki had the amazing opportunity to document, in photographs, the now-legendary Liberty Hall shows, right before the album Born to Run hit.
Those photos remained buried for nearly 50 years - until now. Nicki has published a remarkable book, "Bruce Springsteen - Liberty Hall." And friends, let me tell you - it is a treasure!
But don't take my word for it. Let me quote E Street drummer, the mighty Max Weinberg, who said, "From the first picture, I felt like I was breaking into Tutankhamen's tomb and finding the treasure."
I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed interviewing Garry and Nicki.
To purchase Bruce Springsteen - Liberty Hall: www.springsteenlibertyhall.com
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirshner. |
| 0:15.8 | Today, Glenn speaks with Gary Talent of the East Street Band about their new tour with Bruce Springsteen. |
| 0:22.3 | This is Justice Matters. |
| 0:26.0 | Here's what you've been missing on the Stephanie Miller Happy Hour podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | Ola, Carlos. |
| 0:33.5 | Ola! |
| 0:34.6 | Sure, I'm feeling like I'm stuck on a crappy seat on Greyhound on a cross-country |
| 0:38.1 | trip but it can't get off. I'm stuck on a middle seat on a flight to Russia. |
| 0:43.3 | Oh God. Democracy is just like, oh, let me off. I want to feel. I have, you know what |
| 0:48.0 | I have Stephanie, I have democracy derangement syndrome. I keep harping on focusing on |
| 0:53.1 | what's happening to democracy. That's just me. Yeah. You know what it is? We're standing by watching the frogs and boiling water going, no, the water's okay. The water's okay. It's not fascism. Yeah. Every day it's something new. Bella said it again, that, you know, they didn't know they were World War II started when it started. Like, you know, this pretty much is kind of World War III. |
| 1:11.4 | We're in it. |
| 1:11.9 | We're soaking in it. |
| 1:14.1 | Subscribe to the Stephanie Miller Happy Hour podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stephanie Miller. |
| 1:18.5 | com or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Hey all, Glenn Kirshner here. |
| 1:33.6 | Okay, friends, so as you may know, Bruce Springsteen and the East Street band are opening their new U.S. tour today. |
| 1:42.3 | It is the Land of Hope and Dreams tour. As Bruce describes it, the tour will be a |
| 1:51.0 | celebration and defense of the U.S. Constitution, freedom, and the sacred American dream, which is under attack. |
| 2:02.0 | And friends, in celebration of opening day of the Land of Hope and Dreams tour, I want to share this. |
| 2:08.8 | I had the stone cold pleasure of interviewing one of the original and longest members of the East Street band, Gary W. Talent, the bass player and |
| 2:21.0 | OG of the East Street band. I talked with Gary about his history with Bruce and the band and about |
| 2:28.9 | the upcoming tour. And along with Gary, I had the incredible good fortune of interviewing photojournalist extraordinaire, Nikki Germain. |
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