![]() ![]() The legend of that meeting and the formation of the band was the stuff of “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out”-an anthem of becoming that was part of the repertoire for four decades. “We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives.” Clemons played on that first album, “Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.” and, at a gig at the Shipbottom Lounge, joined the group that would be called the E Street Band. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew,” Clemons said many years later. The story, oft-repeated, is that one stormy night, between sets, Clemons wandered into the Student Prince and sat in, playing “Spirit in the Night.” ![]() The tenor saxophone player was a huge ex-football player with a King Curtis sound named Clarence Clemons. In the summer of 1971, when an ambitious Shore rat named Bruce Springsteen was playing at an Asbury Park bar called the Student Prince and writing songs for his first album, a band called Norman Seldin and the Joyful Noyze was playing at the Wonder Bar down the road. ![]()
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