Bruce at Glasto

[max_tranmere]

Christopher Biggins on drums? lol. That's Max Weinberg, the same drummer Bruce has had in the E-Street Band for nearly 40 years (although he 'dispensed with their services' briefly in the 1990's). I remember seeing Bruce and the guys live on the 'Born In The USA' tour at Wembley Stadium in 1985. I was yet to take my O-levels at school, and had never been to anything like that before. I remember Clarence was wearing a suit, and a pair of black wrap-around sunglasses, blasting away on his sax to that mammoth Wembley Stadium crowd. Mr Clemons was more subdued at Glasto at the weekend - but then he is 67 now! (I saw Bruce 3 more times over the following 10 years).

Great show on Saturday and Bruce and the band have received so much praise from pretty much every other artist there. He was probably the only person at the entire festival to use a harmonica, and it really added to the tracks where he used it (like The River for example). It may inspire other artists to incorporate a harmonica into their music. The instrument experienced a brief comback for a couple of years after U2 made it popular again on the huge selling Joshua Tree album, and subsequent tour, in the late-1980's.

[Dave Wells]

I was at that gig at Wembley and did you know that we (well us anyhow coz we were down the front) got on the 75-85 Album cover.

[andy at handiwork]

Dont shout. Its very rude to write a whole posting in caps. And as it happens I bow to no man in my liking for Bruce and his entourage, having been a fan for all of those 35 years. I still say Weinburg looked like Christopher Biggins, which is not a criticism of his stick weilding, and that CC looked totally out of it. I was unaware he'd had surgery. The lighting WAS very poor, and the sound WAS at first very mushy. And, on tv at least, he didn't do Rosalita.

[andy at handiwork]

FFS I know who it was. I merely thought he was looking like CB. Christ where's everybody's sense of humour gone?

[Jonone]

I'm with you there Reggie. Jo Whiley is sickening. She and Zane Lowe treated the question of 'Where do Blur go from here?' with a seriousness and gravitas more befitting Obama's death in office, that's after Whiley had got over her flashback to the mid 90s and Britpop and how privileged and honoured she felt. Total bullshit ! And of course every band was 'great'.

It's a delusional fantasy the bastards want you to share !