“I find myself both happy and sad with the news of the next tour. Life goes on and I’m certain Bruce will bring great joy to his fans worldwide. It will be highly emotional and heartbreaking when the moment comes for the iconic sax solos we all know so well. I suspect we will sing them as one. That will help.
“But it won’t change the fact that Clarence is gone. A great force, a deep powerful feeling, a larger than life presence will be missing. You can’t replace the un-replaceable.
“I keep expecting to see his name appear when my phone rings. I miss him more than I could have imagined. A great emptiness exists in my life and that feeling will stay with me until the end. Some days are worse than others and all this excitement brings me face to face with the hard truth.
“The last time I saw Clarence he talked about this tour and how much he was looking forward to it. He realistically thought it would be his last. He talked about all the fishing we would do in the Keys when the road ended. It ended sooner than anyone planned.
“He had been through so many surgeries in recent years, all in the name of being strong enough to play. New hips, new knees, a mostly metal spine and a pacemaker were the major procedures, but there were plenty of minor ones. He could walk with his canes but every step was painful. But he was determined to keep moving because a Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band show without him was unthinkable.
“So now we come face to face with the unthinkable. There will be many, many shows without him. And, of course, there will be none without him. But there will be something new in those evenings to come. Something beyond the sadness that came with Danny’s passing. Something intangible that Clarence took with him when he left.
“Within the celebration that is a Bruce concert will be a great void and we will all feel it when the time comes to say his name. Death is the unmentioned presence in every celebration of life and it will be part of our common experience as we gather together to sing in the darkness. Sing loud.”
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