Who Is On Tour With Bruce Springsteen?
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 2023: The band members
For their first tour in 6 years, Bruce Springsteen and E Street band will be accompanied by their usual team of musicians, many of them long time band members. This vocal group has been performing with Springsteen for over four decades and has been performing in the lengthy, more than three-hour shows. Well, before we talk about what the Bruce Springsteen Tickets 2023 Tour will include, let us see who will perform on the stage mostly.
On Guitar: Steven Van Zandt is a guitarist and singer who rose to fame with his membership in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
Steven Van Zandt, who is known by his stage name Little Steven, has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1975. He is not only a talented musician, but he was Springsteen's childhood friend from New Jersey, and this fact gave him an extra value for the band's history. He also occasionally sings, even though his primary role is that of a rhythm guitarist and sometimes a drummer. His doo-wop style could not be more fitting for the songs Bruce Springsteen provides from the heartland rock genre. When he is not on the road with the E Street Band, Van Zandt is fronting his own musical ensemble called Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul.
On Guitar: Nils Lofgren
From playing with Neil Young and his own group Grin, Lofgren signed to the Boss in 1984 and is the most enduring E Streeter after Springsteen. Dubbed for his uncanny ability to swap between acoustic and electrical guitars during concerts, Lofgren's light guitar riffs and solos provide a good foil for Springsteen's intense on-stage performance. Apart from guitar, Nils is known to sometimes use piano and accordion too in his songs.
On Piano & Organ: Roy Bittan is another keyboardist who has been seen with the E Street band, but his contributions to the sound of the band has been significantly more than merely providing keyboards.
Professor" Roy Bittan gives the E Street band a classically trained, cerebral touch to its keyboard player. Born in Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, New Jersey, Bittan was learning jazz and blues piano as a young man; he began performing with Bruce Springsteen's group in 1972 and formally joined the E Street Band in 1974. He has many piano solo parts in many Bruce Springsteen popular songs for concerts, which brings emotion to the song. Apart from recording and touring with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Bittan has also been involved in other works, such as the production of other albums, including those from David Bowie, Tracy Chapman, and Ian Hunter.
On Bass: Garry Tallent
Hired as the very first musician for Bruce Springsteen's touring ensemble in the early 1970s, Garry Tallent remains the musician with the longest E Street Band tenure under Springsteen. Originally an accomplished tuba and upright bassist from jazz groups on the Jersey Shore and far beyond, Tallent transferred to electric bass guitar at Springsteen's insistence and then solidified with Max Weinberg's drums as the foundation of the E Street Band's sound. He also keeps himself occupied outside of E Street, working as a producer and an additional musician for several artists in Nashville.
On Drums: Max Weinberg
Following the tryouts, Max Weinberg, who was Conan O'Brien's bandleader, secured the E Street drummer role after being selected by Bruce himself in 1974. Weinberg has been the foundation to those long, intense Springsteen shows you share a triangle with, which last anywhere from 3 to 4 hours for the past 49 years. When the New Jersey-born and raised man first joined E Street, he had jazz and big band experience under his belt, having performed with Sinatra and Elvis.
On Saxophone: Jake Clemons
The son of a brass player in the SNL's band who replaced the legendary E Street Band's saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who died in 2011, Jake Clemons is now following his uncle's footsteps. His first time on stage with Bruce Springsteen was in 2012 and he became the full-fledged member of E Street Band in 2017. Like his Big Man uncle Mick Avery, Jake Clemons takes a turn at a sax for some furious riffs that send such iconic songs as Born to Run and Jungleland into the seventh heaven. Every night I get to witness him perform some numbers on the very saxophone that Clarence performed in front of audiences for years.
On Percussion & Vocals: Soozie Tyrell This talented singer also performs in many Broadway shows and musicals and she is also involved in various acting projects.
A talented singer-songwriter, Soozie Tyrell began her association with Bruce Springsteen as a violinist and occasional vocalist in 2002 but formally became a member of the E Street Band in 2007, where she also plays guitar, keyboards, percussion, and provides backing vocals. She layers high-pitched vocals and violin, offering Souther-infused twangs to Bruce Springsteen's boisterous choruses. Tyrell sings her country rock and folk pop songs with her own band the rest of the time when she is not on the road with Springsteen.
On Trumpet: Curt Ramm
Among these musicians, there is Curt Ramm, who has often collaborated with Bruce Springsteen, though he is not one of the core E Street Band members but will act as a trumpet player in the 2023 tour. They first toured together on the 1992/1993 world tour to promote Human Touch & Lucky Town. He has also performed as a trumpet player on studio albums for various artists, some of whom include Elton John and Leonard Cohen, among others. In turn, his trumpet solos will give a soulful edge to E Street classics such as Tenth Avenue Freeze Out.
The position of a legendary boss is still tenable.
Bruce Springsteen, while he surely relies on his storied E Street Band to bring his most complex musical ideas to life on stage show after show, is still very much the bandleader. What can be said is that Springsteen's great songwriting, passionate singing, and his own guitar playing after 50 years, to say nothing of the incredibly tight band he has, appear to demand and get the best performances night after night. Bruce Springsteen was born and raised in New Jersey, going from playing small Jersey shore bars to taking football stadiums worldwide, not to mention that he makes everyone else on stage look even more brilliant.
This is in reference to their 2023 E Street Band Tour.
After more than five years of relatively modest concert activity, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band are gearing up to bring their energetic live performances to concert-goers across North America, Europe, and the rest of the world in their 2023-2024 tour. It is probably going to be the same 2 to 4-hour marathon shows that consist of some of Bruce's biggest hits as well as some deeper album cuts that Bruce fans are used to seeing. For core E Street members such as Van Zandt, Lofgren, and Weinberg, who are little over 70 years old, this could be their final long tour, and therefore, it is a chance to go out in glory with their brother in arms.
