BIG MAN IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big Man is back.

E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons is taking the stage again!!!!!!

The stage "always feels like home. It's where I belong," Clemons said after performing Saturday night at a Hard Rock Cafe benefit for Home Safe, a children's charity.

"I am the bunny, baby!" he said gleefully, evoking the drum-pounding rabbit from the battery commercial.

E Street blood brothers Steven Van Zandt and Max Weinberg sat in as Clemons sang and wailed his sax through a raucous rock 'n' roll party. Clemons flashed his million-watt, seen-it-all smile as guys in sports jackets and women in cocktail dresses climbed out of the frenzied crowd and gyrated onstage.

"The main attraction for all of us is Clarence Clemons," Weinberg said earlier on the red carpet.

"God will give you no more than you can handle," Clarence said in the interview. "This is all a test to see if you are really ready for the good things that are going to come in your life. All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.

"I'm always preparing myself for Bruce's next tour. I never get too far ... away from that," said Clemons.

If it happens, as he hopes, in 2011, "I'll be ready."