>>What a major bummer.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/arts/music/clarence-clemons-e-street-band-saxophonist-dies-at-69.html?_r=1&hp>>
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http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html>>
>>Clarence's solo starts about 4:40 in....
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9LMiqy3hfI>
>I ended up going to Phish this last Sunday (2 shows is enough thank you very much) and they played Thunder Road in his memory.
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>The atmosphere of the show is something else. Its like the yoots who missed out on the 60's hippie / greatful dead scene have found a home. The city let the fans setup a "Shakedown" street outside the venue where "vendors" sell food, beer, shirts, rocks ("crystals" to the faithful), smoking utensils, etc. Quite surprised the city ok'd that.
Did your son go with you? (Chris is too classy to brag about his kid so I will do it for him. His son is an ace guitarist).
I have not seen Phish myself. One summer when I was on vacation in Maine they played in some festival way the heck up north and it turned into a mini Woodstock, fans from all over. The exodus clogged I-95 all the way to the New Hampshire border.
Classy of them to play "Thunder Road" in tribute. (A song which contains its own tribute, to Roy Orbison).
