Bruce Springsteen the E Street Band. Earlier bands include the Rogues, the Castiles, Earth, Child, Steel Mill, the Sundance Blues Band, Dr Zoom and the Sonic Boom, and the Bruce Springsteen Band. In October 1972 he formed a new band for the recording of his debut album "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.", which became known as The E Street Band, although the name was not used until September 1974. Suki Lahav who was born on a kibbutz in Israel played violin with the E Street band as an unofficial member during live shows in the 1970s. The E Street Band performed on
Badlands (Bruce Springsteen song) progressive rock and album-oriented rock radio airplay at the time, and classic rock airplay since. The song has appeared on eight Springsteen releases: "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "Live/1975–85", the 1995 "Greatest Hits", "", "Live in Barcelona", "The Essential Bruce Springsteen", the Wal-Mart-only 2009 "Greatest Hits", and "Collection: 1973-2012". "Rolling Stone" editors rated "Badlands" to be Springsteen's second-greatest song all time, behind only "Born to Run," and consider it to fit the definition of a rock anthem derived by The Who guitarist Pete Townshend, in that it is "praying onstage." According to contemporary musician Jackson Browne, "Badlands" is "cool