Why does new author clarence clemons see no end for the E street band?”
Tuesday marks the last show Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play at The Spectrum, which closes less than two weeks later. But Clarence Clemons — the band’s saxophone player and venerable Big Man — says he doesn’t think it will be the last time they will play their beloved Philadelphia. Because despite aging (Springsteen’s 60; Clemons, 67) and physical limitations (Clemons has had hip and knee replacement surgeries and back problems), Clemons says Springsteen ”just seems to be getting stronger and stronger.” ”So I guess the stronger he gets, the stronger we’ll have to become, just to keep up with him,” Clemons says in a telephone call Friday from Philadelphia, where the band is taking a few days off from its tour before shows Monday and Tuesday. ”So it’s an incentive to work, and it’s an incentive to keep yourself in good shape. And we seem to be getting stronger and stronger.” That wasn’t always the case, as Clemons writes in a new book, ”Big Man: Real Life & Tall
