>>>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.
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>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).
If you were repeatedly subjected to the very loud caterwauling coming from his room, you'd describe it a bit differently. Think Marines v. Noriega.
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>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.
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>Classy of them to play "Thunder Road" in tribute. (A song which contains its own tribute, to Roy Orbison).
They played a great cover of No Quarter in NJ, but no luck here.
