BON JOVI Pay Tribute To The E STREET BAND's Clarence Clemons With 'Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out'; Live Footage Available
June 23, 2011, 13 years ago
BON JOVI paid tribute to the E STREET BAND's saxophone player Clarence Clemons on Sunday night in Denmark with a performance of the Bruce Springsteen classic, 'Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out'. Footage is available below.
Clemons suffered a stroke on June 12th and passed away on June 18th. He was 69 years old.
Following is Jon Bon Jovi's intro to their tribute to The Big Man:
“A long way from here, back in our home state of New Jersey, we lost a pillar of the rock n roll community today. Woke up to hear that Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band had passed. The Big Man had gone up to heaven to play for the Big Man upstairs.
The only thing bigger in stature and status was probably the size of the guy’s heart. He was always kind, always had a kind thing to say, no matter if we were going to see them or he was coming to see us. The Big Man will be missed forever. But the legend of the E Street Band with Clarence Clemons will always live on."
Jon Bon Jovi followed up with a message on Facebook:
"It was important to us to honor our friend Clarence Clemons. His passing is a sad loss and we wanted to honor him, his bandmates and his many friends. Our performance of 'Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out' was from all of us."
