Steven Van Zandt will miss a number of live performance dates with Bruce Springsteen and the E Road Band after having to bear emergency surgical procedure for appendicitis.
“Received a pointy ache in my abdomen, thought it was meals poisoning, turned out to be appendicitis,” the Sopranos alum, 74, wrote via Instagram on Monday, June 23.
Van Zandt seemingly received sick after the band’s Saturday, June 21, present in San Sebastián, Spain, and acquired therapy there. The group is scheduled to play once more within the metropolis on Tuesday, June 24.
“Received fortunate with an distinctive hospital in San Sebastian,” Van Zandt wrote on Monday. “Operation was an entire success and I’m hoping to get again on stage for at the very least one of many reveals in Milan. Thanks all for all the great vibes. See you quickly.”
Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt on stage in 2024. Taylor Hill/WireImage
Following the E Road Band’s second date in Spain, the group is about to move to Germany for a Friday, June 27, live performance earlier than stopping in Milan, Italy, on Monday, June 30, and Thursday, July 3.
Van Zandt has been a guitarist in Springsteen’s band on and off since 1975. His most up-to-date tenure started in 1999.
“You simply don’t have that many associates for 60 years. I believe the truth that it survived some ups and downs, it says one thing about our nature,” Van Zandt instructed Folks final yr. “The character of the significance of friendship basically, which is what attracted me to being in a band reasonably than a solo present enterprise particular person.”
He went on to notice that he doesn’t take his friendship with Springsteen, 75, “as a right” in any case these years. “Fifty years later, how are we nonetheless taking part in to 300,000 individuals in a single nation in a single week?” he instructed the outlet. “I believe we’re speaking that friendship, which is actual with me and him. Once they see us on the identical microphone, that isn’t an act. No person’s that good an actor to maintain this act up for 50 years.”
Springsteen skilled a well being scare of his personal in 2023, suspending a collection of tour dates after he was identified with peptic ulcer illness. Final yr, he revealed that the sickness meant he couldn’t sing for a number of months.
“You sing along with your diaphragm. , my diaphragm was hurting so badly that once I went to take the time to sing, it was killing me, so I actually couldn’t sing in any respect, you understand?” he stated throughout a March 2024 interview on SiriusXM’s E Road Radio. “And that lasted for 2, three months, together with only a myriad of different painful issues.”
He added, “It took some time for the docs to say, ‘Oh, no, you’re gonna be OK.’ At first, no one was fairly saying that, which made me nervous, you understand?”
Springsteen has since recovered and returned to touring in March 2024.