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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Bruce Springsteen on line 1
With a Bruce story, in NJ, you pretty much have heard it all. And yet, here’s a new Bruce story. Just a great article by Jay Lustig of NJ.com on the 18-yr old who plays drums as a sub on the E-Street Band:
Jay says he got a call from Springsteen in January or February. “He said, ‘Jay, as you know I have this band. And in the band, we have the world’s greatest drummer, who has a scheduling conflict. And when I asked him how we could resolve it, he gave me your name and number.’”
Not 100% cool, but pretty cool. Jay, the kid, is actually the son of the “world’s greatest drummer” of the E Street Band. But, read the article. Let me give you some snippets:
“I remember I went to see the Rolling Stones when I was like 5, and all of a sudden I’m walking out of the bathroom with Mick Jagger, and it’s like, ‘No big deal, not a problem,’ “ says the 18-year-old son of drummer Max Weinberg.
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“He’s killing on the drums,” said his proud father in a phone interview Monday, before a show in St. Paul, Minn., “and I’ve already stolen many, many of his licks.”
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One of Jay’s biggest challenges came April 29 at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia. Springsteen decided, before the show, that he wanted to play “Kitty’s Back.” Jay had never played the song with the band before, or even rehearsed it.“That’s a very complicated song, and Jay said, ‘I can do that,’” says Max. “He wrote out a little chart for himself that explained to him .Â¥.Â¥. basically it was a roadmap of the song. And he played it perfectly. I couldn’t believe it. That was one of our big show-stoppers, and we don’t play it very often, and without even ever playing it with the band, just by listening to it and learning the arrangement, he played the whole thing as well as I could play it.”
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“Bruce and the E Street Band, that’s a benevolent dictatorship,” he says. “You follow the Boss: What he wants is what you do. But with a band like (the Reveling), it’s very democratic. We all have a say, we all bring stuff to the table.”
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