Results tagged ‘ Jungleland ’  (Clarence Clemons' saxophone solo
in "Jungleland")  Today's blog headline goes out to the Indians'
resident iTrac vision training specialist Jason Stein, also
known in these parts as the "Master of Self-Promotion."   Stein
and I don't see eye to eye on, well, anything, and not just
because he's taller than me. One of our many arguments yesterday
centered on music. He claimed that Bruce Springsteen's
"Jungleland" (referenced in yesterday's blog headline) has a
superfluous saxophone solo, while I claim that the solo is the
greatest saxophone solo in rock history (granted, it didn't have
a heck of a lot of real competition for this honor, but it's an
honor, nonetheless), and, therefore, integral to the song's
beauty.   Stein's contention was that he listens to music for
the lyrics, and he said the simple fact that you can't "quote" a
saxophone solo in my blog postings is proof enough that the
musical interludes don't matter.   So, out of pure spite, I'm
sticking it to Stein with Th