For the ones out there who are aware, in recent days there has been half alarm (which now appears to back) about a possible shift / shift Bruce concert in Rome, because concurrently (real or imaginary) with the World Swimming Championships taking place (in the face dell'intelligenzia) plants in close proximity with the Olympic stadium. And then the prefect had at first (ie, April 10, not when they announced the dates for Bruce ... oh well, oh, what do you want?, You see who was abroad over the past two months) denied permission for the concert elusive "public order". Except that he was playing in a nothing-little-bit-of-less-than Interior Minister Maroni, Bruce fan for years (better not stand up to ask existential questions about this it seems - and is, in my discretion - a real intellectual incompatibility, but oh well), saying that the concert would be made "forced", followed by other known and unknown, unsuspected more or less famous fans and the situation had become a national case.
Facendovela short, is a day before the news (reported only the messenger, to tell the truth), that the solution had been found in these terms - a lot of fun, thinking about the case of San Siro last year: concert postponed by half an hour. Now that Bruce is not what is called a punctual person I think is universally known, so that's probably what will happen.
Scene:
[July 18, at 3 pm. By plane, while flying in to Rome, Jon Landau sitting next to Bruce]
Jon Landau: "Hey, Bruce, then feel 'is what, have postponed the concert tomorrow at 9:30"
Bruce: "Oh yes? Okay ... Okay, but why then? "
JL: Well, there seems to be the world's swimming and did not realize that the two events tend to coincide ... "
B: "Ah, I see ... Well, then at 9:30 ..."
JL: "So we arrive on time for once ..."
B: "Why, is there any time that We are not on time? "
Jon Landau looks up to heaven.
[July 19, at 12 pm. Bruce knocks on the door of the room by Steve]
Bruce" Hey, you see the concert tonight postponed by half an hour "
Steve:" Okay, okay, no problem. But how is it that every time we play in Italy there are problems of time? Last year we were told to begin half an hour before, this time half an hour later ... "
B:" Ah, last year we had to start half an hour before? "
Steve raises his eyes to heaven
[July 19, at 7 pm. Jon Landau knocks on the door of the chamber Bruce]
Jon Landau: "Bru-uu-ce? Are you ready?"
(No one answers. Jon knocks again and again and again. Goes on for five minutes)
Bruce: "Oh, what a knock, so what?"
JL: "What, you were sleeping?? But the 7!"
B (yawning): "Oh yeah And oh well, you said that we have to start half an hour later, it takes two and a half hours to 9 ... "
JL (entering the room and began to pull his stuff out of the suitcase):" And the traffic where you put it? They told me that in this city is a mess to move the car ... "
B:" What will ... Two and a half hours are always two and a half hours, damn! "
JL:" Why, I do not want to say that you have everything ready? The lineup, the stuff that you enjoy in an Italian saying that the same people do not understand ... Seriously, Bruce, I can not grasp why go ahead with 'is history ... "
B (yawning): In your opinion, then we have to write on t-shirts that are made after every gig? "Hello, how are you?" (In Italian, nda). I do not like writing, if someone thinks the law then that person wearing it is taking my ass ... "
Jon Landau looks up to heaven.
[July 19, the Olympic backstage, dressing room, Bruce, at 9:25 pm. He is sitting with an acoustic guitar in his arms and a pen in his hand. On the table a sheet of blank paper. The band all around him. Jon Landau knocks on the door.]
Jon Landau: "So guys, are you ready?"
Roy: "As always"
JL (fixed): "What do you mean?"
Nils: "You think?"
(Jon makes a puzzled face. Speaker Steve)
Steve: "We're trying to figure out what to play, a bit 'of silence!"
JL: "What!? Again!? What the hell you did it in about an hour and a half that we have arrived!?"
Bruce (raises his eyes from the paper and watch Jon): "Jon, please, are undecided, do not put us too ..."
JL: "What-what? You Undecided?! And what, for heaven's sake? "
S:" If you order prosciutto or ham and cheese ... "
(all of them burst into laughter except Jon, who remains impassive)
B: "This was good, man!"
JL (shocked): "Seriously, Bruce, come on! It's almost 9:30 ... Indeed, look (showing the clock), are already '9:30 am! Now lift your ass in the chair and climb up the damn stage! "
B:" Hey, calm down man, I have yet to finish writing the lineup, and I have not decided make entry. "
JL (loudly):" Come, see a move to give you both the same you do not need anything, twists it ever! And make the usual entry, cabbage, do not understand why you should change the "
B (slyly): It has nothing to change that, I have to write the same. And I have to find something new with hang out, I can not do the same thing in three Italian cities, you're crazy? They remembered everything! do not want to look bad. "
JL (incazzatamente shocked): "... DO IT ', indeed, I give you' ten minutes, CLEAR? TEN-MINUTE-DELCAZZO (Italian made a" ten-minutes-fucking " nda)! Then I DO LIKE TO BE OUTSIDE the sacrosanct! I am tired of PAY FINES AND RIGHT THERE! GROW, goddammit! "
(having said that if she leaves, taking also kicked a box that was on the floor and violently slamming the door.)
S (staring at the door):" Uh, he was nervous or not? "
B:" So then he goes, he always does. So were we ...?"
R: "A Badlands ..."
B: "Yeah, right ..."
S: "But then I wonder why if it takes a lot ... In short, how will it a few minutes late? For once, we do not have a curfew ... "
B:" Ah, do not we? (Up) Be ', then there is then the whole' is fast! We eat something? "
whole band (except that Steve chuckles) raises his eyes to heaven.
And so the concert began at 10 pm.