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Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his work with the E Street Band, Springsteens recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful albums, Born to Run and Born in the U. S. A. find pleasures in the struggles of daily American life. He has sold more 120 million records worldwide and more than 64 million records in the United States, in 2009, Springsteen was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient, in 2013 was named MusiCares person of the year and in 2016 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He married Patti Scialfa in 1991, and the couple have had three children – Evan James, Jessica Rae and Sam Ryan, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen was born on September 23,1949, at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, New Jersey. He was brought home from the hospital to Freehold Borough where he spent his childhood and he lived on South Street and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry, Springsteen said his mother, Adele Ann, a legal secretary and of Italian ancestry, was the main breadwinner. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a town near Naples and he has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full-time, she took photos for his Human Touch, Lucky Town. The Springsteens are among the early Dutch families who settled in the colony of New Netherland in the 1600s, raised a Roman Catholic, Springsteen attended the St. In a 2012 interview, he explained that it was his Catholic upbringing rather than political ideology that most influenced his music and he noted in the interview that his faith had given him a very active spiritual life, although he joked that this made it very difficult sexually. He added, Once a Catholic, always a Catholic, in the ninth grade, Springsteen transferred to the public Freehold High School, but did not fit in there either. Former teachers have said he was a loner, who wanted nothing more than to play his guitar and he completed high school, but felt so uncomfortable that he skipped his own graduation ceremony. He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out, Springsteen grew up hearing fellow New Jersey singer Frank Sinatra on the radio. He became interested in being involved in music himself when, in 1956 at the age of seven, in 1964, Springsteens mother bought him his first guitar for $18. 1964 was also an important year for Springsteen, having seen The Beatles appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, thereafter he started playing for audiences with a band called the Rogues at local venues such as the Elks Lodge in Freehold. In 1965, Springsteens mother took out a loan to buy her 16-year-old son a $60 Kent guitar, in the same year, he went to the house of Tex and Marion Vinyard, who sponsored young bands in town. They helped him become the lead guitarist and subsequently one of the singers of the Castiles
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E Street Band
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The E Street Band is an American rock band, and has been musician Bruce Springsteens primary backing band since 1972. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. S, Bonds, Darlene Love, Southside Johnny, The Grateful Dead, Santana, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Tracy Chapman, Lady Gaga and Aretha Franklin. The E Street Band was founded in October 1972, but it was not formally named until September 1974, Springsteen has put together other backing bands during his career, but the E Street Band has been together more or less continuously since its inception. The original lineup included Garry Tallent, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Vini Mad Dog Lopez, the band took its name from the street in Belmar, New Jersey, where Sancious mother lived. She allowed the band to rehearse in her garage, ‘Bruce’ tourists to the area often mistakenly believe the house was on the corner of E Street and 10th Avenue, perhaps due to the song Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out about the bands beginnings. The Sancious house was at 1107 E Street with the garage squeezed between the house and the southside fence, Springsteens debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N. J. appeared in 1972, and the bands first national tour began in October 1972. Sancious, even though he played on the album, missed that first tour and it was not until June 1973 that he began appearing regularly on stage with the band. In February 1974, Lopez was asked to resign, and was replaced by Ernest Boom Carter. A few months later, in August 1974, Sancious and Carter left to form their own jazz band called Tone. They were replaced in September 1974 by Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg, violinist Suki Lahav was briefly a member of the band before leaving in March 1975 to emigrate to Israel. Steven Van Zandt, who had long associated with Springsteen and had played in previous bands with him. This lineup remained stable until the early 1980s when Van Zandt left to pursue his own career and he would later rejoin the band in 1995. In June 1984 Nils Lofgren was added to replace Van Zandt, Springsteens future wife, by 2002, the band also included Soozie Tyrell. Tyrell had earlier worked with Scialfa touring with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, whether Tyrell became as full-fledged a member as the others remains unclear. When asked about the lack of mention in a release prior to the Magic Tour, Springsteen just said in response. Springsteen stated at the time, Danny is one of the pillars of our sound and has played beside me as a friend for more than 40 years. We all eagerly await his healthy and speedy return, Federici made his only return to the stage on March 20,2008, when he appeared for portions of a Springsteen and E Street Band performance at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Federici died on April 17,2008 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Springsteens album, Working on a Dream, is dedicated to him
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Max Weinberg
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Weinberg grew up in suburban New Jersey and began drumming at an early age. He attended college planning to be a lawyer but got his big break in music in 1974 when he won an audition to become the drummer for Springsteen, Weinberg became a mainstay of Springsteens long concert performances. In 1993, Weinberg got the role as bandleader of The Max Weinberg 7 for Late Night with Conan OBrien, Weinbergs drums-driven jump blues sound and his role as a comic foil prospered along with the show, giving him a second career. In 1999, Springsteen re-formed the E Street Band for a series of tours and albums, in 2009, Weinberg moved to the short-lived Tonight Show with Conan OBrien as leader of Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band. After that ended, he began touring with his own ensembles, Weinberg continued playing with Springsteen, and in 2014 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band. Weinberg was born to a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey to parents Bertram Weinberg, an attorney, and Ruth Weinberg and he has three sisters, Patty, Nancy and Abby. He grew up in Newark as well as in the suburban towns of South Orange. The young Max was exposed to early on, attending Broadway shows weekly from the age of two and liking the big sound put forth by the pit orchestras. He then liked the rhythms of country and western music and he knew he wanted to be a drummer from the age of five, when he saw Elvis Presley and his drummer, D. J. Fontana, appear on The Milton Berle Show in April 1956. Decades later, Weinberg said, I think anybody who wanted to develop a life in rock n roll music had a moment and that was my moment, and Fontana became a major influence on him. Weinberg started actually playing at the age of six and his first public appearance came at the age of seven when he sat in on a bar mitzvah band playing When the Saints Go Marching In. The bandleader, Herbie Zane, was the act for bar mitzvahs and weddings in the area, he was impressed with young Weinberg. Weinberg thus became a child star, drumming in a three-piece mohair suit. He would later say that the Jewish concept of seder, meaning order, witnessing his father lose two summer camps in The Poconos impressed upon him the fragility of economic success and led to a strong work ethic. When the British Invasion hit in 1964, the Beatles and their drummer, Ringo Starr and he began playing in local New Jersey rock bands, playing the music of The Rolling Stones, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, and The Young Rascals. While a member of The Epsilons, he played at the 1964 New York Worlds Fair and he attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, there he knew Leigh Howard Stevens, who would become a famous percussionist in his own right. Weinberg graduated from Columbia High in 1969, another band he was in, Blackstone, recorded an eponymous album for Epic Records in 1970. Weinberg first attended Adelphi University, and later Seton Hall University and his general goal was to become a lawyer, but he was still most viscerally interested in a music career and kept his drum set in his car in case any chances to play arose
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Clarence Clemons
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Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. also known as The Big Man, was an American saxophonist, musician and actor. He was reported to be 65 tall, hence his nickname, from 1972 until his death, he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteens E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone. He released several albums and in 1985, had a hit single with Youre a Friend of Mine. As an actor Clemons featured in films, including New York, New York. He also made appearances in several TV series, including Diffrent Strokes, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons, My Wife and Kids. Together with his writer friend Don Reo he published his semi-fictional autobiography told in third person, Big Man, Real Life & Tall Tales. Clemons suffered a stroke on June 12,2011, and died of complications from it on June 18, Three years following his death, Clemons, along with the rest of the E Street Band, was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born in Norfolk County, Virginia, Clemons was the son of Clarence Clemons, Sr. a fish market owner and he was the oldest of their three children. His grandfather was a Southern Baptist preacher and, as a result, when he was nine, his father gave him an alto saxophone as a Christmas present and paid for music lessons. Clemons later switched to saxophone and played in a high school jazz band. His uncle also influenced his musical development when he bought him his first King Curtis album. Curtis, and his work with The Coasters in particular, would become an influence on Clemons. As a youth Clemons also showed potential as a football player and he played as a lineman on the same team as Art Shell and Emerson Boozer and attracted the attention of the Cleveland Browns, who offered him a trial. Clemons also tried out for the Dallas Cowboys, however, the day before, he was involved in a serious car accident which effectively ended any plans of a career in the National Football League. He would eventually be inducted into the universitys Athletics Hall of Fame on February 24,2012. He also performed with Daniel Petraitis, a New Jersey and Nashville legend and these sessions were eventually released in 2007, by Truth and Soul Records as Let Me Be Your Man. While at Maryland State College Clemons also joined his first band, The Vibratones, while still playing with this band he moved to Somerset, New Jersey, where he worked as a counselor for emotionally disturbed children at the Jamesburg Training School for Boys between 1962 and 1970. The story of how Clemons first met Bruce Springsteen has entered into E Street Band mythology, the E Street Shuffle with a monologue about how they met and the event was also immortalized in Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
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Ed Manion
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Ed Manion, also known as Eddie Kingfish Manion, is an American saxophonist who plays both tenor and baritone sax. He is a member of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, The Miami Horns and Little Steven. As a solo artist he released his own CD titled Follow Through in 2004, Manion attended Berklee College of Music after graduating from Lakewood High School in 1970 and as a youth played in several bar bands on the Jersey Shore. These included Lazarus who recorded an album in Nashville on the Shelby Singleton Label in 1970, The Dark Side and Little Joe and the Kokomos. It was while playing with these bands along with his late night jamming at the infamous Upstage Club in the sixties that he first met Southside Johnny. In 1976, together with trumpet player Tony Palligrosi, he auditioned and joined the Asbury Jukes and he subsequently became a permanent member of the bands horn section – The Miami Horns. He is featured prominently on the album Hearts Of Stone, playing a sax solo on the track I Played The Fool. In the early 1980s, Manion was also featured on Van Zandts solo album, Men Without Women and he provided another baritone sax solo on the track Forever. On 2/1/09 Manion performed and played baritone sax as part of a 5 piece horn section with Bruce Springsteen and he has also toured and recorded intermittently with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. He first toured with Springsteen in August 1976 during the Born to Run tour, during the Born in the U. S. A. The subsequent Tunnel Of Love Express tour of 1988, did feature a horn section much more prominently. Manion together with Rosenberg, Pender, Spengler and Mario Cruz, sometimes referred to as The Tunnel Of Love Horns and they also made occasional guest appearances during the Human Rights Now. From 2012-2014, Manion was part of the E Street Horns appearing on the Wrecking Ball World Tour, between 1991 and 1994, Manion was also a full-time member of The Robert Cray Band and played alongside B. B. King, Albert Collins and John Lee Hooker. Together with trumpet player Mark Pender, they played and arranged horns on the Grammy-nominated Cray album, Shame + A Sin. S
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Tom Morello
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Thomas Baptiste Tom Morello is an American musician, singer, songwriter, actor and political activist. He is best known for his tenure with the band Rage Against the Machine, as of 2016, Morello is a member of the supergroup Prophets of Rage. Morello was also a musician with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. He is also known for his solo act called The Nightwatchman. Morello is also the co-founder of the political activist organization Axis of Justice. Born in Harlem, New York, and raised in Libertyville, Illinois, Morello became interested in music and he attended Harvard University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies. After his previous band Lock Up disbanded, Morello met Zack de la Rocha, the group went on to become one of the most popular and influential rock acts of the 1990s. He is best known for his unique and creative guitar playing style, Morello is also noted for his leftist political views and activism, his creation of his side project The Nightwatchman offered an outlet for his views while playing apolitical music with Audioslave. He was ranked number 40 in Rolling Stone magazines list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, Tom Morello was born on May 30,1964, in Harlem, New York, to Ngethe Njoroge and Mary Morello. Morello is of Italian and Irish descent on his maternal side and his father was a Kenyan participant in the Mau Mau Uprising, and served as Kenyas first ambassador to the United Nations. Morellos paternal great-uncle, Jomo Kenyatta, was the first elected president in Kenyan history and his parents met in August 1963 while attending a pro-democracy protest in Nairobi, Kenya. After discovering her pregnancy, Mary returned to the United States with Njoroge in November, when Morello was 16 months old, Njoroge returned to his native Kenya, and denied his paternity of his son. Morello was raised by his mother in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, there he attended Libertyville High School, where his mother was a U. S. history teacher. She was the teacher for Toms classmate and fellow guitarist Adam Jones, of the band Tool. Morello sang in the choir and was active in speech and drama club. Morello developed leftist political leanings early, and has described himself as having been the only anarchist in a high school. In the 1980 mock elections at Libertyville, he campaigned for a fictitious anarchist candidate named Hubie Maxwell and he also wrote a piece headlined South Africa, Racist Fascism That We Support for the school alternative newspaper The Student Pulse. Morello graduated from school with honors in June 1982
