What do you bring to the SJ.com table?

Just three?

He started off in The Castiles in high school.

Then he moved onto a short-lived band called Earth.
That band evolved into Child.
Child changed its name to Steel Mill when they found out there was a band in NYC also called Child.
He left Steel Mill and formed Dr. Zoom & the Sonic Boom which played only five or six dates before that band evolved into the Bruce Springsteen Band.

 

God.

 

I bow to your knowledge of all things Bruce, EStreet

 

Chuck Norris /soooo 2006.

 

But what would cause Clarence and Bruce to fight?

 

Don't be so quick to bow. I might be forgetting about a band between the Castiles and Earth. 8)
The scary thing is I have bootlegs of all of those early bands except Earth. Only problem is I've slacked off and haven't upgraded my Castiles boots from cassette to CD yet. The Steel Mill stuff is amazing as it is rocked so much harder than anything Bruce has done since. Steel Mill cut a three song demo for Bill Graham and then turned down his record offer because the advance was too small.

 

The last chicken leg?

 

No way. Bruce might be the boss, but Clarence gets the big piece of chicken.

Man can't be blowing that sax all night on a wing!

 

http://www.brucebase.org.uk/stories/090878.htm

Aug. 9, 1978 - The Agora, Cleveland, OH story told during Growin' Up:
And I remember....it was years later....I grew up, I came home from high school one day....the old man was sitting at the kitchen table with the old lady....and they´re looking pretty serious, they said ´Son, sit down, please".....so I knew I was in trouble ´cause they called me ´Son´....the other stuff they used to call me I can't say over the radio (chuckles) but, uh (chuckles) so, anyway, I sit down....and my mother, she does the talking, she's the Italian, right.....she says ´It´s time, we decided, me and your father, we decided you gotta stop fooling around with yourself´....how´d they know what I was doing in my room at night ?....they said ´You gotta get serious, it´s like (chuckles) it´s, uh....it´s time that you put that guitar down, that thing´s ok for a hobby but you´re never gonna get anyplace with that´.... and my father said ´You should be a lawyer because lawyers, they own the world´ and my mother, she said ´You should be an author, you should write books´ so....they said ´But we decided this is too big a decision, what you gotta do you gotta go over to the rectory, you gotta talk to Father Ray about your vocation, we set up an appointment, you gotta go over there in an hour´....´cause that's the thing they used to do in those days....so I go over to the rectory, oh, before I went over there, my father says ´Now, when you go talk to the priest, you tell him you wanna be a lawyer, you tell him you wanna be an author but don't you tell him nothing about that goddamn guitar....I said ´Ok, ok ´, I go over to the priest's house, I ring on the doorbell, ´Father Ray, this is Mr. Springsteen's son, I´ve come to talk to you about my vocation´ so he comes out and we start walking around the church and, uh, they all, the priests in those days, they all had like illusions of The Bells of St. Mary´s, they´d seen that movie too many times or something, they´re all doing Patrick O'Brien, is that his name ? Pat O'Brien imitations and like....we talked for a while and he says ´Listen, I decided ....that this decision is too big for me to make; what you gotta do you gotta go direct to God, you gotta talk to God about this....now, you tell Him you wanna be a lawyer, you tell Him you wanna be an author....but don't tell Him nothing about (a woman yells) what ? an interior decorator ? (chuckles) that's you ? (chuckles) but don't you tell Him nothing about that goddamn guitar´....I said ´Ok, ok´ so I figured I gotta go see God and all I have to go see Him in was my mother's Rambler, was all beat up, all smashed up, paint scraped off the side so I drive over to Clarence's house.....I say ´Clarence....I got the word, I gotta go see God tonight´, he says ´Well, you can´t go in that car.....´So what do you mean I can't go in this, it's the only car I got´, he says ´That thing is, thing´s ugly as hell, it's like, you think He's gonna see you in that car ?....there's gonna be guys up there with Montecarlos, Lincolns, Continentals, you think He's gonna notice you ?´....I said ´Ok, ok´ so I went down to Earl Shy....at the time it was 39.95, I went by the other day, I seen that Earl since upped it ten bucks (chuckles) but anyway, he does the car, midnight blue, I leave the windows down, he does the interior for free....if I had my brother in the back seat, he had done him free of charge too, it´s like (chuckles)....anyway, me and Clarence we drive out to see God, Clarence says he knows where He is.... so we get out there and I don't see nothing but this dark hill next to this cemetery....I say ´Clarence, uh....are you sure He´s up there ?´ (Clarence says something) ´You sure it ain´t (chuckles) you sure it ain´t, you sure it ain´t the other guy ? this is the right place ?´....and while I´m up there what ? ask him about ? the tape player that somebody stole out of your room´....so I had these two big questions I had to ask, about Clarence's tape player and what I´m gonna do with my life....so up the hill I go and it's dark and it's scary, all these noises coming out of the woods (cheers) and when I got to the top I realised that the place was packed, there was people all over the place....I'm walking around ....I bump into Kid Leo !.... go ´Kid, what are you doing ?´, he says ´Praying for more watts .....I gotta blast this baby all the way to New Jersey´....crazy man up there....so I find myself a quiet place, I kneel down, I say ´God, my father wants me to be a lawyer, my mother wants me to be an author but I got this guitar, you see ?´....and all of a sudden....I heard this thunder (Max pounds the drums) seen this lightning coming out of the sky....it was real quiet for a while....and then I heard just three words.....´LET IT ROCK !´....”

 

Nah.... Clarence gets his own roasted chicken. It's in the concert rider that the tour maanager gives to the venues.

 

God already knew how to play.

 

That's absolutely awesome.