{"id":87425,"date":"2026-07-04T16:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=87425"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:48:27","slug":"the-promised-land-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-promised-land-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Blow away the dreams that tear you apart&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/springsteen-promise-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87429\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/springsteen-promise-cover.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/springsteen-promise-cover-395x400.jpg 395w, http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/springsteen-promise-cover-768x778.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Den r\u00f8de Ford Galaxie: Elvis er lige d\u00f8d, Springsteen er i Nevada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hvor kom Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s monolit &#8216;The Promised Land&#8217; fra? Wikipedia fort\u00e6ller kort den konkrete baggrund for det stolte, m\u00e6gtige, trodsige amerikanske stykke musik:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wikipedia: <em>&#8220;The Promised Land&#8221; originated through a trip to&nbsp;Utah&nbsp;and&nbsp;Nevada&nbsp;on August 16\u201320, 1977, with photographer Eric Meola (who shot the&nbsp;Born to Run&nbsp;cover) and guitarist&nbsp;Steven Van Zandt. After flying to&nbsp;Salt Lake City&nbsp;and renting a red 1965 Ford Galaxie, the group set out towards Reno, Nevada, Meola looking for photo ops, Springsteen to see some of the places he envisioned in his dreams. He was also upset, because one of his heroes, Elvis Presley, had just died. Springsteen &#8220;wanted to take every single side road that we could in Nevada&#8221;, according to Meola. On the trip, they slept in the Galaxie, saw the wilderness and got caught in a thunderstorm.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Bruce Springsteen - The Promised Land (The River Tour, Tempe 1980)\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XRdNwHmUiiQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Versionen af &#8216;The Promised Land&#8217; her er fra <em>The River<\/em>-touren i 1980, optaget i Tempe, Arizona. E Street Band spiller den aften &#8211; som kotumen var de s\u00e6soner &#8211; s\u00e5 fornemt helhjertet, at selv Sugar Miami Steve har taget beret og fint t\u00f8j p\u00e5. Bitters\u00f8dt i dag at overv\u00e6re s\u00e5dan en performance af netop den sang, for alt hvad der siden er sket med det forj\u00e6ttede land i baghovedet. Springsteen og E Street Band spiller den stadig n\u00e6sten ved hvert eneste show, men nu mere som et idealistisk billede fra en anden tid, en f\u00e6lles arv af styrke og modstandskraft.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-promised-land-4\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-promised-land-4\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hvor kom Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s monolit &#8216;The Promised Land&#8217; fra? Wikipedia fort\u00e6ller kort den konkrete baggrund for det stolte, m\u00e6gtige, trodsige amerikanske stykke musik: Wikipedia: &#8220;The Promised Land&#8221; originated through a trip to&nbsp;Utah&nbsp;and&nbsp;Nevada&nbsp;on August 16\u201320, 1977, with photographer Eric Meola (who shot the&nbsp;Born to Run&nbsp;cover) and guitarist&nbsp;Steven Van Zandt. After flying to&nbsp;Salt Lake City&nbsp;and renting a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-promised-land-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s videre <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blow away the dreams that tear you apart&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-promised-land-4\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-promised-land-4\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-rocknroll","category-turneliv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}