{"id":29938,"date":"2024-07-17T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-17-2011-bruce-springsteen-honors-clarence-clemons-at-new-jersey-show\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T15:00:38","slug":"on-this-day-july-17-2011-bruce-springsteen-honors-clarence-clemons-at-new-jersey-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-17-2011-bruce-springsteen-honors-clarence-clemons-at-new-jersey-show\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 17, 2011: Bruce Springsteen honors Clarence Clemons at New Jersey show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-17\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, July 17, 2011 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At Asbury Park, New Jersey\u2019s Wonder Bar,\u00a0<strong>Bruce Springsteen\u00a0<\/strong>made a surprise appearance for a tribute to his late friend and\u00a0<strong>E Street Band\u00a0<\/strong>saxophonist\u00a0<strong>Clarence Clemons<\/strong>, who had passed away in June of that year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 45-minute set for 400 fans included soul classics as well as \u201cSavin\u2019 Up,\u201d which Bruce wrote for Clemons\u2019 1983 album with the\u00a0<strong>Red Bank Rockers<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clemons was a member of Bruce\u2019s E Street Band from 1974 until his passing in 2011 at the age of 69. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2012, Springsteen chose Clarence\u2019s nephew <strong>Jake Clemons<\/strong> to be the new E Street Band saxophonist. He has performed with them ever since and is currently on tour with Bruce in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, July 17, 2011 &#8230; At Asbury Park, New Jersey\u2019s Wonder Bar,\u00a0Bruce Springsteen\u00a0made a surprise appearance for a tribute to his late friend and\u00a0E Street Band\u00a0saxophonist\u00a0Clarence Clemons, who had passed away in June of that year. The 45-minute set for 400 fans included soul classics as well as<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-17-2011-bruce-springsteen-honors-clarence-clemons-at-new-jersey-show\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}