Yeah I definitely think that his Fall tour will be minimal but he'll hit some really huge venues. The Wrigley show has the potential to draw from Michigan, Wisconsin, St. Louis, and Indy areas.
Wound up getting tickets to both Buffalo and Cleveland. My seats for the show here are really good. Im about as excited as I can get for a concert....save U2 of course!!
They should play Jungleland evernight. On a giant screen behind them there should be pictures of Clarence with Bruce and the other members. A bit like Paul Macca plays Something with pictures of George.
I kind of like the idea of a horn section instead of a sax if theyre going to replace clarence with someone/something. If they have multiple horns they could play some other songs properly (10th ave, Meeting Across the River) and it would show that clarence cannot be replaced with one person.
Of course i'm on the record of saying they shouldn't replace him at all. I stand by that but what i just said is a decent second option imo
HORNS!
With the 2012 E Street Band tour fast approaching, one question has been foremost in the minds of fans. Well, other than "How the hell do I get a ticket?" Of course, we're talking about the great sonic void created by the passing of Clarence Clemons — a void which, in our humble opinion, would be hard for just one other mere mortal to fill.
On Friday, as reported by the Star-Ledger, WCBS radio's Wayne Cabot asked Nils Lofgren "if the sax would be gone from the group for good. 'Of course not,' replied Lofgren."
Now, thanks to Southside Johnny, who spoke to The Record about his decades-long relationship with Bruce Springsteen, we have the first solid indication in black-and-white that a horn section is in the offing:
And, [Southside] notes with a laugh, the musical cross-pollination that began decades ago is still going on — most recently, with Springsteen’s poaching of the Jukes' brass section.
“He's stealing my saxophone players to replace Clarence (Clemons, who passed away last year), so we steal from each other's bands occasionally.”
Springsteen has toured extensively with a horn section twice in the last 25 years: the Tunnel of Love Express tour in 1988, and the Sessions Band tour in 2006, each featuring a line-up that included Asbury Juke Eddie "Kingfish" Manion on sax. The other current sax player for the Jukes is Joey Stann on tenor, who has been playing with Southside and Gary U.S. Bonds since the early '80s.
Of course, it ain't official until it's official. But for anyone who's been longing for a full horn section to rejoin the E Street Band on tour since the Horns of Love... or since the greatness of '76-'77... or since the Asbury Park holiday shows... or since trumpeter Curt Ramm became a regular at the end of the Working on a Dream tour... this might be just the thing to chase away the blues.