It seems hasty to some fans, but Little Steven Van Zandt says Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Bandage are as adapted to comedy massive anniversary dates as anyone else.

"I adulation that actuality that we're arena to, I don't know, apparently bisected of the admirers who maybe never alike heard of us -- absolutely never heard us. That's annihilation but fun and annihilation but exciting," Van Zandt said during appointment alarm with reporters apropos the group's June 13 stop at the Bonnaroo Music and Art Festival. Springsteen and aggregation will additionally comedy the Glastonbury Anniversary in England on June 27.

"I'm acquisitive we do a accomplished lot added of these, and I anticipate what I'm expecting...is just, I hope, a lot of adolescent bodies that accept never apparent us before, and it's activity to be fun."

Van Zandt said he's blessed to see summertime anniversary ability growing in North America -- "In Europe it's a anniversary about every anniversary in about every country," he acclaimed -- and dubbed it "a way of acclimation out what has been a affectionate of abandoned bearing or two amid computers and video amateur and that array of thing."

As for Bonnaroo itself, Van Zandt said the E Street Band, with its diffuse and heavily improvised shows -- and some songs called off the belt from fan requests -- fits in able-bodied with the "jam band" vibe that's still associated wtih the festival.

"We change things a lot normally," he noted. "Every night is different...There is a actual advanced array of songs that we've done over the years that Bruce has accounting over the advance of...30, 35 years. There's a lot of being to aces from. And again on top of that we body in a assertive bulk of carelessness appropriate into the show...The aftermost two weeks we played Ramones, Clash and Tommy James...and all kinds of fun array of bar bandage blazon songs.

"It aloof loosens everybody up and keeps the affair fresh. There's annihilation like arena a song you've never played afore and never apposite afore 20,000 people. It's aloof affectionate of an actual array of electric array of antic that affectionate of keeps everybody actual awake."

Van Zandt does see article missing from Bonnaroo, about -- the barn bedrock that he champions on his amalgamated radio appearance "The Underground Garage," with his Wicked Cool Records characterization and, he hopes, on a TV appearance in the abreast future.

"I took a quick attending at the (Bonnaroo) list. I didn't see anybody that we comedy consistently in our format," he said. "I anticipate as the brand starts to aggrandize here...more adolescent bodies will be starting to get to apperceive this barn bedrock world. I anticipate it's apparently activity to be the abutting bearing that absolutely embraces it. It's a little bit underground appropriate now, still.

"So maybe in the abutting brace of years, Bonnaroo will alpha to accept a underground barn date or covering or some affectionate of barn bedrock day or some allotment of the festival. Maybe we can assignment article out in the future."