Little Steven: E-Street Band to decide future soon

[bobbyw24]

NEW YORK — Steve Van Zandt says Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band will get together over the next couple of weeks to discuss how the band will proceed without Clarence Clemons. The saxophonist died in June following complications from a stroke.

Van Zandt said the band, which has periodically toured and recorded with Springsteen since 1972, will never be the same without Clemons. But then he added it wasn't the same after keyboard player Danny Federici died in 2008.

Clemons provided the band with its trademark horn sound apparent on such hits as "Blinded By the Light," ''Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," and "Jungleland."

"That's a void we will never replace," Van Zandt said.

But the E-Street band guitarist feels they will still play music until the end because he says: "That's what we do."

http://online.wsj.com/article/APcd62edea05064dfda0562e822ac77fb2.html

 

[bobbyw24]

Is It All Over for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band?

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to discuss group’s future

E Street Band to Discuss Future: The fate of the E Street Band could be decided soon. Bruce Springsteen and the band are setting up meetings over the next few weeks to discuss the future of the group in the wake of the death of Clarence Clemons, guitarist and backup vocalist Steven Van Zandt told the Associated Press. Clemons, the long time saxophonist for the band, died from complications of a stroke in June. Clemons’ signature sound was behind songs like “Jungleland” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out.” “That’s a void we will never replace,” Zandt said. In 2008, the band lost keyboard player Danny Federici. [AP]

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/09/23/is-it-all-over-for-bruce-springsteens-e-street-band/

 

[Zippyjuan]

It certainly won't be the same without Clarence. I think maybe they will change the name of it - the Bruce Springsteen Band perhaps?

 

[bobbyw24]

It certainly won't be the same without Clarence. I think maybe they will change the name of it - the Bruce Springsteen Band perhaps?

Yep like in the early 70s