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“Mighty Max” Weinberg feiert heute seinen 61. Geburtstag !!!

Sachel Maxwell “Max” Weinberg erblickte am 13. April 1951 in Newark, NJ das Licht der Welt. Während seiner College Zeit trommelte er in diversen Bands (unter anderem “The Epsilons”) und verdiente sich erste Lorbeeren im Rock’n Roll Zirkus.

1974 las er eine Suchanzeige in der “Village Voice” und traf auf Bruce Springsteen, der nach dem Ausstieg von Vinni “Mad Dog” Lopez und Ernest Carter händeringend nach einen neuen Schlagzeuger suchte.
Seit dieser Zeit ist Max Weinberg fester Bestandteil der E Street Band.

Rock’n Roll Band needs a Drummer
No Jr. Ginger Baker’s
- Bruce Springsteen / “Village Voice”, 1974

Max Weinberg arbeitete neben Bruce Springsteen auch mit Meat Loaf (Bat Out of Hell, Dead Ringer), Southside Johnny, Ian Hunter, Gary U.S. Bonds, Bonny Tyler (Faster Than The Speed of Night, Total Eclipse of the Heart), Barbara Streisand, Darlene Love und Carole King.

Ferner veröffentlichte er in den 1980er Jahren ein Buch mit dem Titel “The Big Beat – Conversations with Rock’s Greatest Drummers”. Das Buch entwickelte sich innerhalb weniger Monate zum Verkaufsschlager und wanderte in den Vereinigten Staaten weit über 100.000 Mal über den Ladentisch.

Mehr Infos:

• Von den Castiles bis zur E Street Band
• Max Weinbergs offizielle Homepage

Am Samstag Abend stieg das Abschlusskonzert der “Light of Day” Konzertserie im “Paramount Theatre” in Asbury Park, NJ (wir berichteten hier und hier).

Wie bereits vermutet, kam Bruce Springsteen gegen Mitternacht als Stargast auf die Bühne und spielte mit seinem Freund Joe Grushecky ein zweistündiges Konzert. Zuvor performte der “Boss” mit Garland Jeffreys “Wild in the Street” und mit Willie Nile “One Guitar”.

Setlist mit Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers:

Incident on 57th Street (Acoustic)
East Carson Street (nur Joe Grushecky)
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Never be Enough Time
Adam Raised a Cain
Save my Love
Talk To the King
Atlantic City
Johnny 99
I’m not Sleeping
Because the Night (mit John Eddie, Garland Jeffreys & Willie Nile)
Waiting on a Sunny Day
Pumping Iron (mit Max Weinberg)
Light of Day
The Promised Land
Twist and Shout
Thunder Road (Acoustic)

Videos und Bilder:

Viele Bilder findet man hier: http://rring.shutterfly.com/514

NJ.com berichtet:

Bruce Springsteen plays fun, loose 2-hour set at Light of Day in Asbury Park on Saturday night
It’s a show fans lucky to be at the sold-out Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park on Saturday night will not soon forget.
Bruce Springsteen played for close to two hours with Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers at part of Light of Day 12 to benefit Parkinson’s Disease. Springsteen also played with two other artists and played a magical acoustic “Incdent on 57th Street” before joining Joe Grushecky and his band.
By the time, the show ended at 2:10 a.m., with the crowd singing along on an acoustic “Thunder Road,” fans walked away knowing they had just witnessed a great night of music. It was a fun, loose and determined Springsteen performing a 16-song set. He looked ready and set to begin his world tour with the E Street Band coming up in two months.
Bruce’s first appearance of the evening was when he joined Garland Jeffreys for “Wild in the Streeet.”
He later joined Willie Nile for a very powerful “One Guitar.”
Springsteen began his own set shortly after midnight on acoustic guitar.
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Mehr Infos:

• “Light of Day” auf stonepony.de
• Bruce Springsteen Setlists 1964 – 2012

Gestern Abend (9. November 2011) startete im “Beacon Theatre”, New York City, NY das diesjährige “New Yorker Comedy Festival” mit einer Benefizgala (wir berichteten bereits hier).
Neben Jim Gaffigan, Ricky Gervais, The Max Weinberg Big Band, Seth Meyers und John Stewart war auch Bruce Springsteen mit von der Partie. Der “Boss” eröffnete das Minikonzert mit “Open All Night”. Anschliessend folgten “Spirit in the Night”,  “Land of Hope and Dreams” und “Long Tall Sally”.
Ausserdem wurde Bruce Springsteens Gitarre für 160.000 Dollar versteigert. Das Geld wird der “Bob Woodruff Foundation” zur Verfügung gestellt, um hilfsbedürftige Veteranen zu unterstützen.

Setlist:

Open All Night
Spirit in the Night
Land of Hope and Dreams
Long Tall Sally

Video:

Ein Fernsehbeitrag findet man auf Yahoo!.

NJ.com berichtet:

Bruce Springsteen’s guitar auctioned off for $160,000 at Stand Up For Heroes benefit
Bruce took the stage at 10:10 p.m. after being introduced by Jon Stewart as “If James Brown and Bob Dylan  had a baby.”
Bruce  began by telling a joke since the show was a New York Comedy Festival event. He messed up the semi-dirty joke and then did what he does best, perform.
Backed by the evening’s house band, The Max Weinberg Big Band, Springsteen opened with the Seeger Sessions arrangement of “Open All Night” with Joe Delia on piano.
This was a rousing version backed by the 12-piece horn section. This song had Springsteen fans up and dancing during the Seeger Sessions Tour in 2006 but the crowd at the Beacon was not the ususal Springsteen show crowd and very few people were up and dancing.
Bruce then told another dirty joke about a golfer which I can’t repeat here. It was pretty funny.
Up next was a great version of “Spirit In the Night” which featured saxophonist Mindi Abair of the latest version of the Max Weinberg 7.
Bruce jumped up on the speakers and then went into the crowd two different times, going back about 10 rows.
Bruce dedicated his third song “to all the men and women in uniform here tonight.”
It was an acoustic “Land of Hope and Dreams” which really resonated with the audience. He did this in Pittsburgh last Thursday also. Just Bruce with an acoustic guitar and harmonia and it was beautifully done.
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While trying to get the guitar to the veteran (who was on the other side of the audience)  Bruce took another guitar and did  a short version of Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally” which I thought when he started he was going to play “Open All Night” again.
Bruce then gave the guitar won in the auction to the serviceman and said, as he came back on stage “I got my exercise tonight.”
President Bill Clinton was a surprise guest, speaking to the audience earlier in the eveing for about five minutes talking about “the importance of laughter.”
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Mehr Infos:

• Stand Up for Heroes 2010
• Stand Up for Heroes 2009
• Bruce Springsteen Setlists 1964 – 2011
• “Stand Up for Heroes (Offizielle Homepage)

E Street Band Drummer Max Weinberg wird am 1. Oktober 2011 gemeinsam mit seiner Band “The Max Weinberg 7″, Bill Chamlin und Mindi Abair ein Konzert im “Poway Center for Performing Arts” spielen. Schon vorab wurde ein Interview mit dem Künstler veröffentlicht. Max Weinberg erzählt unter anderem von seiner Arbeit als Leiter der “Conan O’Brien Showband” und seinem ersten Treffen mit Bruce Springsteen. Zur Zukunft der E Street Band wollte sich Max Weinberg jedoch nicht äussern …

Hier ein kurzer Auszug:

Max Weinberg talks drums, The Boss & Conan
You might not expect the famed rock drummer from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band to quote jazz pioneer Duke Ellington in an interview. But Max Weinberg, who on Saturday opens the Poway Center for the Performing Arts’ new season and spent 16 years as the musical director on TV’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” is not a typical famous rock drummer.
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Where most of the other E Street members at the time were scuffling, along with The Boss, to earn a living, Weinberg was making a good salary drumming in the Broadway production of the rock musical “Godspell.”
“It was a big show, so I was making pretty decent money,” said the dapper drummer, who by day was then a business major at Seaton Hall University.
That all changed 37 years ago, when New Jersey native Weinberg successfully auditioned for the Springsteen-led E Street Band. The group’s breakthrough album, “Born To Run,” was still a year away. Times were hard.
“I took a huge pay-cut, but that was OK,” Weinberg said.
“When I auditioned for Bruce it was one of the most miraculous moments in my life. I’ve read where people with the Chicago Bulls or the New York Yankees would say how playing with Michael Jordan or Derek Jeter would raise your game, and Bruce is like that. He makes you do things you never thought you could so. So when I played with him that first night, in August of 1974, I found what I was looking for, in so many ways.”
Fondly introduced by Springsteen at concerts as “Mighty Max Weinberg,” the drummer simultaneously anchored and drove the E Street Band until it broke up in 1989. From 1993 until 2009, he did the same as the band leader and musical director for “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and, briefly, on the ill-fated “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.” He balanced his TV show duties with touring, after Springsteen reunited the E Street Band in 1999.
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There is no doubt Weinberg takes enormous pride in his contributions to the E Street Band. But the only time the otherwise affable drummer sounded evasive in a nearly hour-long phone interview was when asked if the Springsteen-led band would continue, in the wake of the June death of band saxophonist Clarence Clemons.
“One of the great things is that we stayed together, mostly intact, Of course, we’ve lost two crucial members in the last few years, (keyboardist) Danny (Federici) and Clarence,” Weinberg said.
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Mehr Infos:

• Max Weinberg: “There is a great deal of sadness”
• Von den Castiles bis zur E Street Band
• Max Weinberg – offizielle Homepage

E Street Band Drummer Max Weinberg wird am kommenden Montag und Dienstag (27. und 28. Juni 2011) mit dem ehemaligen CHICAGO Mitglied Bill Chamlin im “Dakota Jazz Club” in Minneapolis, MN auftreten. In einem Interview mit dem “Minneapolis Star Tribune” erzählte der 60jährige, dass wegen Clarence Clemons Tod eine sehr harte Woche hinter ihm liegt.

Zu Clarence Clemons Tod am 18. Juni 2011 sagte Max Weinberg folgendes:

Weinberg was not in the mood to discuss the future of Springsteen’s E Street Band after the death of Clemons June 18 following a stroke.
“There is a great deal of sadness,” he said. “The depth of emotion springing from around the world at the news of Clarence’s death is just remarkable. It’s appreciated. It’s certainly well noticed by all of us who were so close to Clarence. It’s a monumental loss, personally, professionally — in every way. It’s stunning. It’s something that is really very difficult to wrap your head around.”
What did the Big Man mean to Mighty Max?
“Everything,” he said, and fell silent.
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Mehr Infos:

• Clarence Clemons Trauerfeier in West Palm Beach, FL
• Zum Tod von Clarence Clemons
• Clarence Clemons gestorben
• Clarence Clemons erleidet Schlaganfall

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Am 20. Mai 2011 besuchte Bruce Springsteen gemeinsam mit Tochter Jessica und Ehefrau Patti Scialfa die “Winsor Horse Show” (wir berichteten hier). Anschliessend flog Familie Springsteen nach Belgien, wo ein weiteres Internationales Pferderennen stattfand.
Möglicherweise wird der “Boss” bald nach Deutschland kommen, denn vom 15. bis 18. Juni macht die “European Young Rider & Junior Rider Tour” in 49170 Hagen (am Teutoburger Wald) Station.

Die Osnabrücker Zeitung berichtet:

Springsteens Tochter reitet in Hagen
Hagen. Sechs Wochen nach Horses & Dreams gibt es möglicherweise erneut Promi-Alarm auf dem Hof Kasselmann: Vom 15. bis 18. Juni macht die „European Young Rider & Junior Rider Tour“ beim Turnier in Hagen Station: Zum fünfkopfigen US-Team zählt Jessica Springsteen, die 19-jährige Tochter des US-Rockstars Bruce Springsteen.
Beim Start in England vor knapp zwei Wochen zählten der „The Boss“ genannte Musiker und Ehefrau Patti Scalfia zu den Zuschauern. Ullrich Kasselmann bestätigte gestern, dass Jessica Springsteen für das Turnier Mitte Juni gemeldet ist. Kenntnisse darüber, ob sie auch in Hagen von ihrer Familie begleitet wird, gibt es aber noch nicht. Der Turnierveranstalter: „Diese Informationen bekommen wir – wenn überhaupt – erst kurz vor Turnierbeginn.“
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CLARENCE CLEMONS
E Street Band Saxophonist Clarence Clemons trat am Mittwoch (25. Mai 2011) mit Lady Gaga beim Finale der Fernseh-Casting-Show “American Idol” auf. Der “Big Man” unterstützte Lady Gaga beim Song “Edge of Glory”.

MAX WEINBERG
Max Weinberg ist mit seiner “Big Band” immer noch auf Tour. Am 3. Juni spielt der ehemalige Bandlead der Conan O’Brien Showband anlässlich des “Blues Fest” in London (wir berichteten hier).

Infos:

THE MAX WEINBERG EXPERIENCE, LIVE AT BLUESFEST LONDON 2011
UNDER THE BRIDGE, SUNDAY 3rd JULY 2011
As the long-time drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band (1974-1989) Max Weinberg has performed for millions of people around the world and been featured at many prestigious events, including the 1993 and 1997 Presidential Inauguration Galas, the 1995 Grammy Awards and the 1995 Gala Concert for the dedication of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, where he rejoined his former group. Called “the rhythmic backbone of the E Street Band,” by Robert Palmer of The New York Times, Weinberg was invited to perform in the East Room of the White House in December 1996 and served as the music director for Comic Relief 8 starring Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Cited by the “Playboy”Pop and Jazz Music Poll (1985) and the “Rolling Stone” Critics Poll (1986) as Best Drummer, Weinberg has performed or recorded with some of contemporary music’s biggest names including Sting, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Barbra Streisand, Ringo Starr, Natalie Merchant, Pete Townshend of the Who and Meatloaf. Weinberg’s performances on the classic rock albums “Born in the U.S.A.” by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and “Bat Out of Hell” by Meatloaf earned him the distinction of having played on the first and second largest selling albums in rock history.
In 2009 Max debuted his ‘Big Band’ in the US, a bold, swinging 15 piece band that continues the traditions established by Max’s musical heroes, including Frank Sinatra, Count Basie and Buddy Rich.
We’re delighted that Max is bringing his new ‘Max Weinberg Experience’ to the first BluesFest London. It is sure to be a spectacular night from one of the greatest drummers in the world. – Quelle

NILS LOFGREN
Auch Nils Lofgren ist nicht untätig und tourt mit seinem Solo-Programm durch Nordamerika. Am 6. Mai 2011 spielte der E Street Band Gitarrist im legendären Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ. Natürlich gab er auch einen Springsteen Song zum Besten:

Im Juni 2011 kommt Nils Lofgren für einige Gigs nach England. Es sind Konzerte in London, Southampton, Cardiff, Liverpool und Sheffield geplant. Mehr Informationen findet man auf Nils Lofgrens offizieller Homepage: http://www.nilslofgren.com/.