Clemons' death leaves void for Springsteen 
The death of saxophone player Clarence Clemons ripped a hole in 
Bruce Springsteen's music and onstage life, taking away a figure who had
served him loyally for decades and never failed to add joy to the E 
Street Band's epic performances.It's not the first loss for the rock 
world's best-known and most accomplished backup band.The Video Door Phones
proceedings Tuesday in Abu Dhabi's Federal Supreme Court comes after 
international watchdog groups, including human rights groups, criticized
the arrests.Court officials say five activists have gone on trial on 
security-related charges. Keyboard player Danny Federici died in 2008 of
melanoma. Steve Van Zandt, Springsteen's youthful friend and closest 
partner, left for several years in the 1980s and was replaced on guitar 
by Nils Lofgren. When Van Zandt returned, Lofgren stayed.
Yet Clemons' loss cuts deeply into the soul of the band. His 
importance was acknowledged whenever Springsteen performed "Tenth Avenue
Freeze-out," when he sang, "We made that change uptown and the Big Man 
joined the band," inevitably followed by a wail of Clemons' sax and a 
roar from the crowd. The two men met in 1971 on the New Jersey bar band 
circuit, and when Springsteen released his debut album two years 
later,energy efficient air hand dryer  and HVAC units with non-ozone depleting refrigerant. Clemons left a more successful outfit for a new Boss.
Inevitably Clemons' introduction was the climax every night when 
Springsteen presented the individual band members to the audience, 
accompanied by a variety of regal nicknames like "Master of the 
Universe" and "King of the World."A makeshift memorial of flowers, 
candles and photos grew outside of the Stone Pony nightclub in Asbury 
Park, N.J., home turf where Clemons and Springsteen made frequent stage 
appearances through the years.
At the Clearwater music festival in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.During his
confirmation hearing, Thomas explained that he would identify with 
defendants: "So I can walk in their mbt on sale
and I could bring something different to the court." when she worked 
for him at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of
Education. on Sunday, the Drive-By Truckers took the stage for their 
show with "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" playing over the public address 
system. Singer Patterson Hood looked skyward and dedicated the band's 
set to Clemons.Last fall's release of "The Promise," which included a 
DVD of a 1978 Springsteen concert performance, underscored the central 
role of Clemons in the act. The two men were a marked physical contrast:
a bedraggled, slightly scrawny white guitar player and a 6-foot-5-inch,
270-plus-pound black man with a sax ¡ª known simply as the Big Man 
¡ªwho would be intimidating if he didn't so often carry a smile.
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