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It's too bad Danny and Clarence are not around to see this.

 

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By Tris McCall/The Star-Ledger The Star-Ledger
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on December 17, 2013 at  4:49 PM, updated December 17, 2013 at  6:11 PM

 

Ten E Street musicians will be enshrined in the hall. Two are deceased: Organist Danny Federici, who died of melanoma in 2008, and saxophonist and onstage foil Clarence Clemons, whose 2011 passing due to complications of a stroke sent shock waves through Springsteen’s fan base. Two others are no longer with the E Street Band: David Sancious, who played piano on Springsteen’s first three albums before leaving for a varied career as a frontman and complementary musician, and Lopez will enter the hall alongside Springsteen’s current bandmates: bassist and band cornerstone Garry Tallent; pianist Roy Bittan, whose ringing octaves are an E Street signature; guitarist and utilityman Steven Van Zandt; singer Patti Scialfa; top-gun six-string slinger Nils Lofgren and drummer Max Weinberg, long the heartbeat of the group.

Ten E Street musicians will be enshrined in the hall. Two are deceased: Organist Danny Federici, who died of melanoma in 2008, and saxophonist and onstage foil Clarence Clemons, whose 2011 passing due to complications of a stroke sent shock waves through Springsteen’s fan base. Two others are no longer with the E Street Band: David Sancious, who played piano on Springsteen’s first three albums before leaving for a varied career as a frontman and complementary musician, and Lopez will enter the hall alongside Springsteen’s current bandmates: bassist and band cornerstone Garry Tallent; pianist Roy Bittan, whose ringing octaves are an E Street signature; guitarist and utilityman Steven Van Zandt; singer Patti Scialfa; top-gun six-string slinger Nils Lofgren and drummer Max Weinberg, long the heartbeat of the group.

 

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on December 16, 2013 at 11:39 PM, updated December 17, 2013 at  1:01 AM

 

Bruce Springsteen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. It took 15 years, but the E Street Band will soon, finally, join him there.

The band will be given the Award for Musical Excellence, a special award for sidemen, at the April 10 ceremony at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

 

http://www.nj.com/entertainmen..._fame_inductees.html

 

Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, Cat Stevens and the E Street Band will also be inducted April 10 at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

 

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Originally Posted by scoper:

Any idea which members are getting included? Vinny and Dave? Patti? Susie?

I don't know. I'm not sure the Hall of Fame knows.  when you go to their site, you are able to click on the new inductees.  Below is what you get, a biography of the band: 

 

I think since it is an ever changing entity onto itself, the individual members are only recognized as part of the whole.  We'll see who shows up at the induction ceremony?

 

Bruce Springsteen formed the E Street Band in 1973, after he landed a recording contract with Columbia Records. Springsteen played with the musicians who became the E Street Band in various Asbury Park–based groups in the late 1960s and early 70s. The first lineup of the band – Garry Tallent on bass, Danny Federici on organ, David Sancious on piano, Vini Lopez on drums and Clarence “Big Man” Clemons on saxophone – logged many miles on the road, helping to establish Springsteen’s legendary reputation as one of the greatest performers in the history of rock and roll. In 1974, drummer Max Weinberg and pianist Roy Bittan replaced Lopez and Sancious, and in 1975, during the recording of Springsteen’s breakout album Born to Run, “Miami” Steve Van Zandt, who Springsteen had known since he was a teenager and who had been in a number of bands with Springsteen, joined the fold on guitar. That lineup of the band backed Springsteen on three of his most critically acclaimed and beloved albums: Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River, and backed him live as he moved from clubs to stadiums. 

When Steve Van Zandt left to pursue a solo career in the early 1980s, singer Patti Scialfa joined on vocals and Nils Lofgren, one of rock’s greatest guitarists, joined on guitar, and the band backed Springsteen on his explosive worldwide tour in support of Born in the U.S.A. in 1984-85. Springsteen did not work with the band for much of the 1990s, but reunited them in 1999 in a version that included both Van Zandt and Lofgren. The band has been together ever since, and despite the loss of Federici and Clemons, retains a distinctive sound and unparalleled reputation for live shows.

Through various incarnations, the “mighty men and women” of the E Street Band, as Springsteen calls them, have provided a unique and powerful sonic template for Springsteen’s music, combining British invasion guitar-driven rock, the joy of 1950s rock and roll and the drama and dynamics of soul music. They are showmen of the first order, and have more stamina than any rock band in the history of the music. 

- See more at: http://rockhall.com/inductees/...sthash.WQw04PGn.dpuf

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Originally Posted by tattooDad:

Finally.

 I'm not positive but I think I read somewhere that this may have been the first year they were technically eligible.

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From the time TD and I interviewed Nils:

 

 "Oh come on. A band like us, that’s still getting started – we’ve still got to do another 40 years before they will put us in the hall of fame."


"Okay, you’ve got to earn it," TD responded.


Then he went off: "How silly. I got to admit, I’m still the new guy in the band. I’ve only been there 27 years with Patti, but all those guys, rightfully so, I think it sticks in their craw a bit and it’s a sore spot. I don’t want to speak for them, but I sympathize with them and even though I’m in the band I don’t. … Look, I left record companies 16 years ago. I’m kind of like an off the grid guy that never had a hit record, just singing, playing, making records, and trying to stay engaged, and I have successfully stayed engaged and thrilled and grateful for my musical career and the people that show up. And just ‘cause it’s 300 people instead of 30,000 people, I don’t care. I want to give ‘em the best show I can possibly give every night.


"I think the E Street Band a long, long time ago belonged in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but look, there’s a lot of people who should be there that aren’t. I mean, Free should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Paul Rodgers’ first band obviously. It’s just politics and, you know, when they honor somebody I think that’s great, but when they forget to honor somebody, to me, I think it’s kind of the bureaucracy and politics of it. And I have a sense of humor about it. To me, I almost wear it as a badge of honor: Yeah, the E Street Band doesn’t belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fine. Come see us play. Tell me what you think. I don’t really care. Right now, as a planet, I’m a 60-year-old man and I’m not just a kid. I look around and we got a lot deeper problems than the E Street Band getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


"And I got to promise you that for 27 years, I can guarantee you that there has not been one second where that lack of notoriety has hurt us on stage in front of an audience. Not for one second has it hurt us. And so, maybe, I know it hurts the other guys’ feelings a little more, but to me, I see it as a badge of honor. Yeah, right, we don’t belong in the Hall of Fame. Of course not. Go talk to the guys in the tuxedos. I’m sure they’ll have a good reason why we haven’t made it yet."

The only formal criteria for the performance category is that an artist has to have had their first record 25 years ago. Stevie, John Landau and Dave Marsh have all been on R&R Hall of Fame Committees.

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Originally Posted by Oats:

The only formal criteria for the performance category is that an artist has to have had their first record 25 years ago.

So IF you would take that rule serious, what would that record be? "Live 75-85" which was released more than 27 years ago. Or "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" by Ronnie Spector & The E Street Band in 1977, more than 36 years ago...

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If You include Nils, when was his first record? 

 

That being said; it is just the criteria for an artist, who knows if that applies to sidemen?  They don't go into it on their site.

 

I've also heard that the band must be listed on the album and then they have to wait 25 years which would have made them eligible in 2011. (The Live 75/85 box set was released in 1986.)

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Originally Posted by Bobby_G:

The E Street Band are more worthy inductees than Hall & Oates, Cat Stevens and Peter Gabriel...combined

Besides that, Hall's partner can't even spell his name right.  there's no "e" in Oats!

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Originally Posted by Oats:
Originally Posted by Bobby_G:

The E Street Band are more worthy inductees than Hall & Oates, Cat Stevens and Peter Gabriel...combined

Besides that, Hall's partner can't even spell his name right.  there's no "e" in Oats!

 

Now that's funny....

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Originally Posted by Bobby_G:

The E Street Band are more worthy inductees than Hall & Oates, Cat Stevens and Peter Gabriel...combined

Don't agree with that. I'd much rather watch a Peter Gabriel show than an E Street band performance. The E Street band are a backing band, albeit a very good one,  but without Bruce up front would be nothing.

I first saw Hall and Oates at Convention Hall in Asbury Park in the 70s. 

 

Since 2008 John Oates has had a condo there.  I just threw that in there in case Mando was interested.

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Originally Posted by Mando:
Originally Posted by Oats:

I just found out which members are going into the Hall.  See my first post at the top of page one and there is also a link.

 

I wonder what Charlie and Soozie will be doing on their day off?

I was thinking the same thing. Charlie has played the same amount of tours as the two original members. 

Who's going to tell them that they are not in the band when they're up on stage playing that night.  I'm sure Bruce will think of something. 

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Sancious quit and Lopez got fired. A little odd that they are honored as members 4o years down the line when fully functioning Charlie and Soozie are not. What about "faith will be rewarded"? And if Sancious and Lopez are supposed to be members, what about Ernest "Boom" Carter, drummer on the "Born to run"-track?

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