Tone released a few more critically acclaimed, if not commercially viable, records before Mr. "It wasn't a question of would he hit or not, but how long would it take for people to recognize his talent." "Bruce was so creative, such a presence and so deeply into his music that you couldn't be around the guy and think nothing but death is going to stop him," he said. Springsteen, who had already achieved a certain level of fame in the small pond of central and coastal New Jersey, was considered the best gig in town. Springsteen at the Upstage and joined his band in 1970, he was all of 17 and a fierce guitar player in his own right. Sancious quit Manasquan High when he was 15 to try to make a life in music. "I didn't want to give it my spare time."Ī classically trained piano player, Mr. Sancious said recently over dinner at a Woodstock bistro. "I felt at the time I wanted to give my songwriting the same kind of focus and attention that Bruce was giving his," Mr. He has little regret over leaving the E Street Band for his own record deal just before the Springsteen Express pulled out of the station. Sancious, 51, now makes his home in Woodstock, N.Y., with his wife, Kieran, in a sprawling mountaintop estate that has a recording studio in the basement and several gold records on the wall. Sancious' childhood home at 1105 E Street in Belmar and Mr. Which is to say that one night in 1973 as the band returned home from touring in Texas, the van pulled up to Mr.
Without David Sancious, there would be no E Street Band. All those years, that was the first time I played with them in 30 years." "That was something, going back to play," Mr. Lopez to the drums and the band played "Spirit in the Night" as rain poured from the sky. A few hours later during the encores, Mr. "Then Bruce said: 'Hey, I've got a question I want to ask you. After a poorly attended performance at Villanova one night, he clashed with Mike Appel, the band's aggressive producer, and later came to blows with Steve Appel, Mike's brother and the band's road manager. Lopez, nicknamed "Mad Dog" because of his unpredictable temper, he was earning $85 a week and wasn't happy about it. Federeci and the current members Clarence Clemons and Garry Tallent - toured as they were recording "The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle." According to Mr. Springsteen didn't name the band right away.Īfter "Greetings" was released, the group - which consisted then of Mr. He needed musicians to record "Greetings," and so the E Street Band was born.
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Zoom and the Sonic Boom, which featured upward of 20 musicians plus two guys who inexplicably played Monopoly center stage, before finally scoring his own recording contract with Columbia Records. Springsteen soon broke Steel Mill up, then went through a few more bands, including Dr. Steel Mill toured briefly in California, where a critic at The San Francisco Examiner, Philip Elwood, declared he had "never been so overwhelmed by an unknown band." Even so, Mr.
The group was christened Child before dropping that name, adding Steve Van Zandt and reincarnating itself as Steel Mill, a tight unit that developed a fierce following at Monmouth College and beyond.
He's got charisma.' When he was done, Danny and I went up to him and said, 'Next set, let's us guys play.' And we did, and we made the band." Lopez recalled recently as he sipped a can of Budweiser in the kitchen of his house off a dirt road in Jackson.
"When I got to the top of the staircase, there was Bruce with the way he looked in those days, with the hair and suspenders with no shirt, playing away," Mr.
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