What They Said
“Bruce Juice Rules – Rock On !” – Vini Lopez
Legendary E Street Band drummer, Vini ‘Maddog’ Lopez, whose licks are immortalised on Springsteen’s first two albums, gave an E Street injection to Bruce Juice , penning:
“Bruce Juice Rules. Rock On !- Vini Maddog Lopez – E St HoF 2014“
– referring to Bruce Springsteen’s induction of original E Street Band members Vini Lopez and pianist David Sancious into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
Vini Lopez played with Springsteen for seven years from 1968 – 1974 and has also guested with the E Street Band several times since then, in 1989, 2003, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
“Good luck Bruce Juice!” – Jake Clemons
Jake Clemons of The ‘E’ Street Band, pictured in front a silhouette of his uncle Clarence on a Bruce Juice poster, gives a thumbs up to the new band and pens a good luck note to the Bruce Juice sax player.
A message and a challenge from Stevie van Zandt to ‘Bruce Juice’
“Hello ‘Bruce Juicers’ – Stevie here!
Congratulations on all that early ‘70’s stuff. It is fun!
But I have a recommendation . . .
I suggest you check out the second disk of ‘Tracks’, which has a lot of my personal favourite stuff, and it’ll give you a whole new thing to rehearse.
Cos I know you’re getting, you know – You got the other stuff down.
So have some fun, with, you know, ‘Loose Ends’, and ‘Where here the bands are’, and, you know, all that other good stuff that we never play!
All right, see ya.”
The band subsequently took up the challenge, playing around a dozen songs from ‘Tracks’.