“Bruce Springsteen’s Return to the Netherlands: A Brotherly Connection with Dutch Fans”

Next week The Boss will be back in the Netherlands and he will give two concerts in the Johan Cruijff Arena. He has been on stage in our country about 25 times, and in total he played no less than 625 on Dutch soil.

Thanks to Status Quo, Jaap Boots discovered Bruce Springsteen’s music. Although the British rock band has little to do with American rock singer, the music came on Jaap’s path in a record store. “In the record store at the S I saw an album by a white man with a guitar and a black man with a saxophone. I bought the record on the cover. At home I started with Born to Run, a dream song.”

A brother

“Springsteen touches your soul and tells you that you can have dreams”, is how Jaap Boots describes his love for Bruce Springsteen. In his songs, Springsteen sings about ‘the common hard-working man’, The American Dream. The singer, with a net worth of approximately $ 590 million, does not belong to that group. Jaap therefore considers Bruce a bit like a brother. “If your brother buys an SUV, you think, not my idea, but it is still your brother. You remain loyal to him. He also does a lot of charity, he supports many good causes.”

In 1996, Jaap bumps into Springsteen at the Albert Cuyp market, or so he claims. He tapped Springsteen on the shoulder and said…