A moment of silence
Maybe more than just a moment. Things just aren't going to be the same without the Big Man.
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Comments (7)
Just saw the news. A great loss for everyone.
Posted by portland native | June 18, 2011 6:46 PM
Profoundly sad news. It was a great run.
Posted by Bill McDonald | June 18, 2011 8:11 PM
I will never forget seeing the Boss and the Big Man in concert about 30 years ago. (Gosh, was it really that long ago?!) I kid you not, a FOUR hour show, just Bruce and the E Street Band, no warm-up band, just them. What an amazing show. What incredible performers. RIP Clarence.
Posted by Ex-bartender | June 18, 2011 9:35 PM
He helped make life a lot more enjoyable for me. Loved the music. All I can say is thank you.
Posted by Evergreen Libertarian | June 18, 2011 9:50 PM
Aw, phooey. But, his spirit lives on forever in the music.
Outside The Stone Pony, the legendary Asbury Park, N.J., rock club where Springsteen, Clemons and other E Street Band members cut their teeth in the 1970s, Phil Kuntz stopped to place a small yellow flower on a decorative white fence. Nearby, someone taped a handwritten sign that read simply "RIP Big Man."
"I'll never hear 'Jungleland' played live again, and that's a bummer," said Kuntz, 51, who had seen Clemons perform with Springsteen in excess of 200 times.
Caroline O'Toole, The Stone Pony's general manager, called it "a sad day for Asbury Park."
"He was 'the Big Man' but he was an even bigger man here," she said. "His presence was just enormous and unbelievable. No one who has ever played at our club in all the decades was ever like him."
AP story, from Asbury Park Press tonight --
http://www.app.com/article/20110618/NJNEWS10/110619001/E-Street-Band-sax-player-Clarence-Clemons-dies-
Posted by Mojo | June 18, 2011 10:55 PM
Jungleland
Filmed at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ. Sept. 19, 1978
[raw and very much alive]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH_NvYPBDY0
God bless you, Clarence. Still miss you, too, Danny.
Posted by Mojo | June 18, 2011 11:16 PM
Encore.
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Live In Phoenix 1978, AZ, US. ~ HD
"And...the King Of The World...'The Big Man,' Clarence Clemons!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qFdcHo7Z7w
Posted by Mojo | June 19, 2011 11:40 AM