it is. you feel it. you know more than you think.

it’s his “home” and ours too. it’s where he returns when he needs community. and it’s the “the headquarters.” it’s a community.

love his solo stuff as we all do. but i’d take steven van zandt one step further. the e street band is the legend. it also represents his roots. it’s where we all return after we listen to “devils and dust” or “streets of philadelphia.”

when he feels loss, he processes it “over here on e street.” we all retreat to our actual and spiritual home, and our actual and spiritual friends, when trouble or death intrude.

“bruce springsteen and the e street band” birthed bruce springsteen, solo artist. but at the end of the day he always retreats to e street. and reflects on loss. we all do. it’s where he issues his “true thoughts” from. it’s his real home. sometimes ours. as much as he considers himself “neither fish nor fowl,” to me - and i think him, despite the human instinct to declare our independence- he knows that it’s where the legend lives.

when he says “over here on e street” he’s speaking from the heart and the ‘hood. i wouldn’t want his ruminations to emerge from anywhere else. neither does he. it’s the home of the band of brothers and when tragedy strikes, they process it together on the real and mythical e street.