"Well, I got THE guitar..." - For BORN TO RUN @50, Bruce & all living BTR-era E Streeters, reunited!
- Letters To You
- Sep 8
- 1 min read
September 8, 2025
Okay, as you might have heard already, the hands-down (or is that hands raised by all those little pretties?) biggest highlight of The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music's series of events celebrating Born to Run @50 occurred on Saturday, with onstage insights and performances from Springsteen himself, reunited with ALL of the living members of the E Street Band - past AND present members - involved in the creation of the album: Roy Bittan, Ernest "Boom" Carter, David Sancious, Garry Tallent, Stevie Van Zandt, and Max Weinberg. They were accompanied in their performances by Eddie "Kingfish" Manion, ably filling in for the late, great Clarence "Big Man" Clemons, of course, and Springsteen played his now-legendary, now rarely played Fender Esquire/Telecaster hybrid guitar, the very same one featured in Eric Meola's brilliantly beautiful cover-photo for Born to Run.
Other highlights of this weekend, as well as the week leading up to it, weren't too shabby, either. Letters To You folks were there for it, of course, and someday soon - we don't (exactly) know when - we'll walk in the sun and have MUCH more to share about all of it, along with more photos, once all of our contributors get finished catching our breaths and collecting our thoughts. Stay tuned!
