For Max Weinberg's 'Tonight Show' Band, Jet Lag Now Part Of Job

For Max Weinberg's 'Tonight Show' Band, Jet Lag Now Part Of Job

When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Izod Center in the New Jersey Meadowlands on May 21, there was one musician conspicuously absent: Max Weinberg, the group's drummer for more than three decades.

As Mr. Springsteen tore into his opening number, "Badlands," Mr. Weinberg was on another stage 3,000 miles away, pounding his drum kit through a dress rehearsal of "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien," in advance of its debut last Monday on NBC. The following night Mr. Weinberg boarded a red eye for the East Coast so he could rejoin his E Street band mates, however temporarily, for the second show of that New Jersey stand, which fell on a rare night off from his new duties.

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