My Concert Ticket Stubs: The Concert for Human Rights Now!1988 – Maple Leaf Gardens

     I remember I was living in Toronto at the time going to college, and like most kids do with their osap I spent it on other things rather than school. I was downtown doing nothing and heard this show was that night, walked up to MLG, bought a ticket and went by myself (I was lucky because the show had initially sold out in like 25 minutes so I guess after setting up the stage they had extra seats)… it was my one and only time seeing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Tom Morello to Join Bruce Springsteen on Australian Tour

   According to Rolling Stone Magazine Tom Morello will sit in on guitar with Bruce Springsteen on the upcoming Australian leg of his Wrecking Ball tour while Steven Van Zandt finishes filming for his television show Lilyhammer. Van Zandt will be back with the band on April 29th when Springsteen and company play Oslo, Norway.

  Morello is no stranger to playing with Bruce. The former Rage Against the Machine guitarist played on a few Wrecking Ball cuts ("Jack of All Trades," "This Depression"), and has joined Springsteen and the E Street Band on multiple occasions, including Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, last year at SXSW and the 25th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame celebration in 2010.

   In the past, Morello and Springsteen have teamed up for live renditions of "The Ghost of Tom Joad," which Rage recorded on their 2000 covers album Renegades. Morello is also set to perform before the Grammys at the MusiCares benefit, which will honor Springsteen this year.

R.I.P. "The Big Man" Clarence Clemons 1942-2011

     Just got the word that Clarence Clemons, the 
saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band died Saturday at a hospital in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 69. The cause was complications from a stroke, which he suffered last Sunday.