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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.”
Van Zandt made the comments while attending Ocean’s Kingdom in New York, a new ballet with music by Paul McCartney.
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Please just retire, dawg.
No reason for them to retire. They still kick butt live. However, I’m not sure they replace Clemons. And if they don’t replace him, the songs will sure sound odd without the sax.
Why don’t you go play your Katy Perry album again and start counting the minutes until she vanishes from memory?
Can’t stand her either, dawg.
Happy Bday to The Boss.
If I needed another reason to kick myself for not going to the last tour…
Can’t wait. Clarence will be missed..No onwe will ever play the sax like him but The Greastest Band ever must go on
Happy Birthday Brue
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