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Clarence Clemons - Fair play to ye
Posted by PaddyH on 19 June 2011 - 1:36am.
One of the reasons I loved the E Street Band as a nipper and was involved in almost everything I found righteous - even turned up in The Wire.
God Bless.
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Ah fuck - So long, Big Man
Desperately sad news. RIP
Desperately sad news. RIP big man.
So the Big Man joins the band upstairs
God bless. Thoughts to friends and family.
I am more upset than any 41 year old from Hounslow has any right to be.
Planet rock
is a duller place today.
Thanks Clarence, RIP
A fundamental part of the soundtrack to my life has gone.
Farewell Big man.
Sad news.
First time I ever heard of him was when he was name-checked on 'Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town.' I always found that a really sweet moment. And, boy, could he play... Did Santa ever bring him that new sax, I wonder?
Rest In Peace.
Edit - Strange. Just reading on the BBC news site that he took up sax when given one unexpectedly for Christmas at the age of 9.
The biggest man you've ever seen
Sad news.
First saw the E Street Band in 1988 and haven't missed a show in Dublin since. It's funny - but apart from an occasional solo here and there, his role in the band has diminished in recent years. Certainly compared to the 70s and 80s. Yet I can't imagine the E Street band without Clarence Clemons.
It's the end of a wonderful era.
Wonderful sound
From that Sax - the E street band sound was his sax and the Bruce Springsteen sound was his sax. A great performer with a smile as wide as the state of New Jersey.Horrible news just when it looked like he was getting better.
RIP Big man
E Street will be a damn sight quieter without you.
Well, that's the end of the E Street Band then.
He's irreplaceable, for all sorts of reasons not least of which is he was the incarnate spirit of E Streetness.
There are all kinds of
There are all kinds of rumors that Springsteen is planning a big 2012 tour. And his statement about Clarence implies the band will go on:
It won't be the same without him, though. And I wonder if Springsteen will even try to replace him?
Too sad. Too soon.
Gimme a C - L - A - R - E - N - C - E....
Shit, shit, shit. This has made me feel more miserable than I would have imagined
Oh bollocks
Another icon goes. CC was more than the sax player, he balanced Bruce's fan hyperenergy as only a fucking big black dude in a fedora holding a tenor sax could. What a shame. RIP Big Man.
Saw him in Gothenburg June 85
Sad
Very sad. RIP big man.
another good 'un gone...
RIP Big Man
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Sad day.
Goodbye
R.I.P. Big Man,glad I saw you in Glasgow a few years ago.
Irreplaceable
This is such sad news
http://www.backstreets.com/clarence/
What a fantastic obituary.
Always well written, this emotional piece captures the Big Man's essence to the tee.
So sad
He,s been the big man to me since 1975 when I saw Bruce at Hammersmith.
Gutted
RIP Big Fella
Shed a tear
at the news and then smiled because that's what seeing him play always made me do. All over the world there'll be people playing Jungleland, Tenth Avenue, Born To Run and Thunder Road today. Forget the stupid 'all he could do was blow at full pelt' argument and listen to the last 60 seconds of this.
RIP Big Man
One of those people playing all those songs today
He's left one huge, unfillable hole.
Big love, Big Man - miss you already.
The Hepworth "Glory Days" doc from around 1986
Had a clip of Thunder Road from LA in 1985, below, but I can't embed it.
I must have watched it a gazillion times, and I love everything after about 4:15, where the split camera shot builds to the (clearly choreographed) knee slide and kiss. It makes me smile just to think that they would plan to do that.
Sad News
R.I.P. Big Fella
From 2 mins in
the story tells you all you need to know why he was so important. Last show of the last tour.
Seeing Bruce just won't be the same
without the Big Man there... RIP Clarence.
Oh and this one
Bob Lefsetz just posted a link to this clip
together with it's second part.
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/comment/reply/25954/433177
I hadn't seen it before but, having watched both parts, you can't tell me that, in their prime, the E Street Band weren't the best live act in the world.
Remember Clarence this way...
Lots of great memories watching from the crowd
RIP big fella
how about this one
Glory Days in Paris in 1985. Like the Thunder Road clip above, just great stagecraft that makes you happy to be alive
RIP Big Man
Big man, big shoes
Dammit. I was just watching him play trumpet last night. In Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977) he plays a bebop trumpeter. A lot more convincingly than De Niro as hyperactive bandleader.
http://youtu.be/QSCmBo3pn4s
End of an era
but memories of long forgotten yesterdays remain forever.
So long C
RIP - the real boss of E Street.
So long 'Nick'
I knew he had taken a turn for the worse when I was listening to 'The Wild, the innocent....' on Saturday. Side two seemed a very fitting tribute to Clarence. RIP
Can Bruce/E Street continue as a live entity?
I don't think he can. CC was integral to the sound and the show. I really don't think Springsteen would even contemplate a replacement.
Possibly more Seeger Sessions/Tom Joad type projects and tours in the future?
Too soon?
Well I can't imagine
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, Jungleland and most of the material from that period w\o him. 'When The Big Man joined the band" for obvious reasons