Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clarence Clemons and Bruce Springsteen during Bruce Springsteen at Madison Square Garden, 2000 at Madison Square Garden in New ...

This story originally appeared in the Asbury Park Press on Dec. 25, 2011. The "Big Man" Clarence Clemons is perhaps best known as the towering saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.

The change was made uptown when the Big Man joined the band. But bass player Garry Tallent had already crossed the tracks of Asbury Park before Clarence Clemons joined the E Street Band. His story is ...