But when I’m talking to people it’s just, whatever.
I don’t blow my own horn – well, I do blow my own horn but it’s on stage. “When Bruce first did it, I was so embarrassed. “I have to work overtime.”Ĭlemons laughed. “It’s a hard job,” deadpanned Clemons, during a telephone interview from Big Man’s West, a music club he owned in Red Bank, NJ. In 1982, I asked the Big Man if he saw it that way. “King of the World? Master of the Universe?” It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the Big Man – on saxophone!” “Master of the Universe, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall refineries in a single bound. “King of the World,” begins Springsteen, with all the melodrama he can muster. “Ladies and gentlemen,” announces a raspy-voiced Bruce Springsteen from the stage of the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ. The Boss pauses while drummer Max Weinberg keeps the beat pumping and the momentum building.ĪUDIO: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ (No, I wasn’t there this comes from the bootleg recording.) All the members of Springsteen’s E Street Band have been introduced – save one. Let me take you to the 75th performance of the 1978 tour. You could certainly read that in, if you wish. I don’t if there was an overt or implicit racial message of “We’re all in this together, Black and white.” Could’ve been. On the album that would elevate Springsteen from “maybe the next Dylan” to superstar, the Boss leaned on the shoulders of his large Black friend, implying the intimacy of the relationship, personal and professional. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper.īut no: Clarence Clemons – or “C” as Bruce Springsteen liked to call him – towered above, literally and figuratively. You look at the legacy left by E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons and think: In the modern era, has ever a rock ‘n’ roll saxophonist who’s stood taller, prouder and been more integral to a band’s sound?Īrguments can be made: Junior Walker, the Bob Seger Band’s Alto Reed, the English Beat’s Saxa, Roxy Music’s Andy Mackay.
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