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00:20mean I feel wonderful you know it's beautiful we got we got the whole crew
00:23hero I love we set out to do a very difficult job which is to tell you know
00:28just part of this this story of Bruce Springsteen and we're very lucky to have
00:32him and have his support and I'm very lucky now to be here with you know with
00:39my my family in the film and my family my folks and my friends I grew up with in a
00:44city that I love and yeah I feel very very proud very excited it was tough it
00:49was tough in the beginning but you know what he's such a good writer and it's
00:53the same as being an actor you know if you if you have good words in front of
00:57you and the story is clear and the sentiment is clear something good will
01:02will happen whether you can sing or not if you can sing a song honestly it's
01:08gonna connect and and and I think I was able to to sing a stuff with enough
01:12honesty that it made sense well I mean I you know it's funny when I started this
01:16thing the first song I learned to play or and sing was Nebraska it's the first
01:21song on the album the title track and and the song that stuck with me the most is
01:26reason to believe which is the last song last song on the album and we're we're
01:30just bringing it to a finish but reason to believe is my favorite song yeah of
01:35course I mean I remember recording my father's house for the first time in
01:40Nashville at RCA and I called my father I called my father right after I mean so
01:45much of this movie is about a young man longing for connection with his father and
01:50he didn't know how to get it he didn't know how to start and he's telling that
01:54story in his music so yeah I thought about my father a lot absolutely WMMR
01:59in Philadelphia how are you doing man Vanzette so by Disciple of Soul one of
02:04the greatest documentaries going from that into this one of the best here's
02:07thank you thank you yeah Bill Tech did a wonderful job on that and Scott Cooper
02:11did an amazing job on this really so it's what it's a masterful work of art so we
02:16love you in Philadelphia man take care enjoy the show about Bruce Springsteen fans
02:21that they may not understand that they might get a better idea of in the film so
02:25often we're told not to meet our heroes because they'll disappoint us but Bruce has
02:31exceeded my expectations at every turn he's a man who is one of great humility
02:38and grace he is incredibly generous and supportive and when my house burned in the
02:45recent California fires Bruce took my wife and my kids and me and moved us into his
02:51house and helped us get on our feet that's who Bruce Springsteen is real quick
02:55with Jeremy Allen White portraying Bruce was there a particular part where you
02:58were filming that you just said damn he's got it day one until the day we wrapped
03:03because even though this isn't a performance about mimicry or imitation it's
03:10about how do we embody who Bruce Springsteen is during his most vulnerable and
03:14painful chapter of his life and for my 10 bucks Jeremy knocked it out of the park
03:19we're talking with Jeremiah Freitz of course drummer and co-founder from the
03:23Lumineers composer for this movie I've been kind of hearing some of the questions
03:27and answers that you've been given being a Jersey boy yourself this is quite a
03:30moment for you it's huge man I mean growing growing up in New Jersey I lived
03:34there for 24 years knowing Bruce obviously I feel like I learned how to drive in New
03:39Jersey growing up to Bruce would listen to Bruce on the radio and we actually
03:44recorded all the orchestra orchestral stuff that I wrote the score at the
03:48power station here in New York City and that's actually the studio where Bruce
03:51recorded and wrote many of his biggest hits even in the movie deliver me from
03:56nowhere there's a lot of scenes actually in the power station so to be at the New
04:00York Film Fest you know we recorded all the songs in New York two Jersey boys it's a
04:06it's pretty like surreal did they give you or did you get your hands on any of
04:11Bruce's guitars or anything like that no unfortunately I had to supply my own
04:15instruments but that actually leads to an interesting anecdote Bruce used what's
04:19called a TAC 144 for the making of Nebraska it's this kind of like shoddy old
04:25consumer grade at the time it was cool but it was pretty cheap also the time I ran
04:30thanks to this brilliant idea from the music editor Jason Reuter who I worked with
04:34on this film we ran some of the pianos the glockenspiel some of the vibes through
04:38the TAC 144 which is what of course Bruce used to make Nebraska so it was cool it
04:43was kind of a cool way to interject something from Nebraska through my
04:49original ideas trying to sort of I never wanted to mimic Bruce's style obviously
04:53because it's impossible there's only one Bruce I also didn't want to ever sound
04:57like him and I didn't want people when they're here in the score to think it was
05:02like a Diet Coke watered-down version of Nebraska nor did I want to make a score
05:07that was trying to steal anyone shine so one instrument in particular was this
05:12instrument called firewood which is a nickname of my upright piano because it's
05:16such a bad piano it's basically only good for firewood and I felt like that was the
05:20perfect instrument to sort of have as a call and response as an echo to Bruce's
05:26vulnerability in the way Nebraska sounds I mean you hear all the blemishes
05:30unfinished lyrics apparently but he what became a happy accident he led with
05:35intention and said no this is the record and he fought tooth and nail as you're
05:40seeing the film to get that vision across the finish line so for me as an
05:44artist not only in the band but as a composer it was like the inspiration was
05:49was endless. Brent Porsche of 93.3 WMMR in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, right I mix them up
05:56it's okay well that's a Bruce City if there ever was one an MMR is a Bruce
06:00station yeah right so we have Warren Zanes joining us of course the author of
06:05Deliver Me From Nowhere I guess first and foremost to see your your literary work
06:11up on the big screen what does that mean to you and some of the vibes that you've
06:14been getting when you saw the the film so far yeah there's there was an amazing
06:18moment early in the process where I was with the director Scott Cooper and we sat
06:23with John Landau Bruce Springsteen and Scott read through the script and at the
06:31end we got a good response from both those guys and John looked at Scott and
06:37said well Bruce made the record Warren wrote the book now it's up to you that
06:44took the burden off me and from that moment I got to watch Scott Cooper live up
06:49to that and go beyond it and taking from the record and from the book something
06:57and creating even more and it's it's been it's been profound for you how far back
07:05those are your fandom of Bruce Springsteen go it goes back to the preteen
07:09years so my I'm the youngest of three and my brother got the wild the innocent the
07:14East Street Shuffle then we got the debut after that out of chronological order
07:20then when I was 18 playing in a rock and roll band at the rhinoceros club in
07:27Greensboro North Carolina Bruce Springsteen came and jumped on stage with
07:31us so I'm from being a fan to meeting my hero being unable to speak and then years
07:38later to sit with him and talk about this story that then became a movie so cool so
07:44was it was there any moment or any part of the book that either Scott or Bruce
07:48just said no we're not doing that you know what it's been and this I'm not
07:53giving you the party line here Bruce Springsteen has been so remarkably open
07:59and he gave Scott whatever Scott needed and at the end of the day he said make
08:08your film so it was full support but it was also creatively he gave Scott
08:14a lot of kind of freedom so I never once saw Springsteen saying not that what
08:21was it like channeling Steven Van Zandt for the for the big film here well I had
08:25the opportunity to meet him which was amazing so as my channeling in channeling
08:30him having breakfast with him once morning I was able to pull a lot of
08:33insight that he was so gracious with his time and gave me so much you know insight
08:38into his relationship with music and the East Street Band and and and how it all
08:44kind of came to be you know what aspect of Steven's personality did you kind of
08:48focus on his musicianship because he's all music he's like an encyclopedia of
08:53music knowledge and that's why he's that he's really the arranger for the East
08:57Street Band and he's the one who kind of puts everything together and his
09:00relationship with Bruce that's like a brotherly bond I have a twin brother so I
09:05know that feeling and I could see that even though they're not related by blood
09:08they're just as much brothers as he and my brother and myself are did you find
09:12that vibe with you and Jeremy Allen White when you guys were up on stage or
09:15simulating the performances yeah you know Jeremy Allen White is incredible in
09:18this and he really had the weight of the world on his shoulders with this role so
09:22you know I wanted to give him his space but there was a moment in the very
09:25beginning when we first met he came up to me put his arm around my shoulder in the
09:31middle of the power station recording studio and it just made me feel so
09:34at ease because it it indicated to me that he understood the relationship
09:39with Bruce and Stevie and that's what I wanted to give him you know so as actors
09:44we want to support one another and so I wanted to make sure I I I could give him
09:48as much as I could from that perspective yeah if I feel like there's a lot of
09:51popular pictures that you see of little Steven and Bruce together as
09:54they're kind of leaning into one another kind of feeling that brotherly bond
09:57together absolutely yeah yeah yeah so this movie it's not about Bruce's
10:02relationship with the e-street band so much it's about a very specific period of
10:05time in his life when he was figuring out who he who he really was as a
10:09musician and as a person to some degree so that's what this story focuses on but I
10:14think audiences are really gonna love it I can't wait for you to see I can't wait
10:17to see you in a man thanks for talking to us Janie Kenizzaro right on man thanks
10:20man congratulations excuse me Trey WMMR in Philadelphia how you doing man you
10:27guys did a hell of a run this year at the man thank you you know you were my
10:30station growing up yeah absolutely my first experience with radio so cool so
10:35cool always loved WMMR thank you so much I remember being in third grade only WMMR
10:42well we're friends of course with the Preston and Steve show and Casey boy who's a
10:45big fan of yours tell me about your fandom of Bruce Springsteen and of course this
10:49great event rat well along with WMMR my first concert was Bruce Springsteen I
10:54saw him in 1978 I was 14 my sister had to take me I saw him at Jadwin gym in
11:01Princeton incredible show absolutely it's crushing and speaking of incredible
11:07shows you guys got your run that you just announced of course Madison Square
11:10Garden through New Year's man always a fun time always a fun time I think that'll
11:14be we'll end on show number 91 at the Garden at the end of that so clearly we
11:21like playing there we love you in Philadelphia like you love us at WMMR
11:25thank you Trey for taking time to speak with us bring back the old spectrum so
11:27that's right thank you Trey appreciate it Brent Porsche of 93.3 WMMR in
11:33Philadelphia how are you I'm good we love you in Philly just wanted to say hi so
11:37tell us about your fandom of Bruce Springsteen and his music oh well forever
11:41forever dancing in the dark was just still brings tears to my eyes you know do
11:47you have an album that you go to if you want to hear something in the USA always
11:50yeah yeah excellent a lot of different ones but that's the one that that does it
11:55for me choosing Jeremy Alan White who's standing to the side here to play Bruce
11:59what do you think did I just walk past him and didn't know it as happens when you
12:04get old so oh sorry you take it out okay so I just want to look at him because I
12:11think he's coming on to the show cute view well thank you for taking some time
12:15to speak with us in Philadelphia for pulling my coattails you got you got
12:21good drink
12:27to hear what do you think what you guys asked me to hear something about
12:35certain things that I understand already
12:38because I think there was several things that I did last year here at some of my
12:41I remember I was like well don't buy it in my Oderk
12:44part of something that I was you Brittany good or not
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