führte ein Interview mit E Street Band Gitarristen Nils Lofgren. Natürlich wurde auch Clarence Clemons überraschender Tod (wir berichteten hier) angesprochen.
Nils Lofgren bestätigte, dass nicht nur die Fans, sondern auch alle Bandmitglieder in tiefer Trauer sind. Auf die Frage, wie es mit der E Street Band weitergehen werde, antwortete Lofgren, dass es noch zu früh sei, um über dieses Thema zu sprechen.
Clarence Clemons’ death still rings …
“Nobody is doing good. The devastation is sinking in and is getting deeper.
“It’s such a terrible, devastating loss,” Lofgren added. “In addition to standing next to him on stage, I had a close personal relationship with Clarence off stage. We spoke every week.
“He had three hip operations. Two knee operations. All kinds of surgeries,” Lofgren said. “I had my hips replaced from all the jumping around.”
As for Clemons’ stroke, he says, “It was a really awful thing that took us all by surprise. We’re dealing with it the best as we can.”
Lofgren, who has a busy solo career and a new CD out later this year, has been playing solo shows.
“Afterwards, I always go out and sign CDs for the fans. I almost didn’t want to go out this summer. I knew everyone would be talking about Clarence.”
“But I did go out and commiserate with everybody,” he says. “This is also devastating for the fans, who use the body of work from the band and Bruce as a landscape for their lives.”
Lofgren can’t answer the question on the mind of all Bruce fans: Now what?
“I think everyone is way too heartbroken,” he says when asked about the future. “It’s an impossible, inappropriate subject. I know fans wonder.
“Honestly, I’m too grief-stricken for it to even be a topic. It’s too soon for it to be a topic for us. I just can’t go there.”
Ask him how Bruce is doing now and he says, “I don’t want to speak for anyone. This has to be ten times as devastating for Bruce.” …
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