Re: Bruce at Glasto
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:30 pm
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.
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.