Vini Lopez of his debut album, "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.". Together with Danny Federici, Garry Tallent, Clarence Clemons and David Sancious, Lopez was a founding member of what eventually became the E Street Band. It was also around this time that Clive Davis first gave Lopez his "Mad Dog" nickname. By 1973 they had recorded a second album with Springsteen, "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle". Other recordings from this era featuring Lopez would later be released on "Tracks" and "18 Tracks". Lopez would leave the band in controversial circumstances. However this was not the last occasion that
Asbury Park station the construction of an extension of the New York and Long Branch Railroad (NY&LB), a subsidiary of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Pennsylvania Railroad. The NY&LB began as a railroad between Elizabethport (in Elizabeth, Union County) to Long Branch, finished in 1875. The railroad was extended through the city of Asbury Park on July 7 to Sea Girt. However, the station at Asbury Park was built on land donated by the Ocean Grove Campmeeting Association, a part of the Methodist Church. The new station was built for the purposes of serving both Asbury Park and Ocean Grove.