It’s official: Big Man, the 368-page autobiograhy written by Clarence Clemons (with help from Don Reo), will be published on October 21st by Sphere. The legendary E Street Band sax player will tell all about his life and musical career. The foreword to the book has been written by Bruce Springsteen.
This is the design for the hard cover:
The house at 7-1/2 West End Court in Red Bank, New Jersey, where Bruce Springsteen lived between 1974 and 1975 is now on sale. You can get a piece of real history for only $299,000. This is the house where Springsteen wrote the songs for his classic album Born to Run, a house that is featured on the DVD documentary Wings for Wheels. Read the full story at the Red Bank Orbit website.
Jay Weinberg was the drummer in the E Street Band last night. The last August show started with «No Surrender», and it seems it wasn’t as intense as the most recent shows. Clarence missed a few cues, and later on Bruce had to stop both «Rosalita» and «Girls in their summer clothes» to have the band start them again.
A few unusual songs, like «Rendezvous» and «Atlantic City», made it onto the set list, and the sign requests brought «Summertime Blues», «Two Hearts», «Surprise Surprise» and «Because the Night». «Hungry Heart» was again the song that closed the show.
from Hyde Park, 28 June 2009, pro-shot:
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It is usual for Springsteen to start a 2-night stand with a good show, followed by a great 2nd show full of changes and surprises. Well, Mansfield already had a great show on its first night.
Last night’s show had tons of changes, premieres and surprises, all with a hi-energy performance. «Night» and «Badlands» opened the set with fury, followed minutes later with a great «Saint in the City».
«Murder Incorporated» and «Johnny 99» were as hot as usual. The tour debut of «Independence Day» came next, and then an instrumental «(Love’s Like a) Heat Wave«, the great 60’s hit from Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, during which Bruce picked up the sign requests.
And those signs brought «You Never Can Tell» (for the second time in the tour after its debut in Bilbao), «I’m Goin’ Down», «Janey, Don’t You Lose Heart» and «Prove it all night».
«The River» was added before Jay joined the band for the rest of the night. The encores were extra-long, with 9 songs, opening with «Girls in their Summer Clothes», featuring Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphy’s during «American Land», finishing with «Twist & Shout», and then adding three more songs out of the blue: «Hang on Sloopy», «Growin Up» and «Hungry Heart».
foto: Benidorm 2009, copyright Daniel Villanueva