Zandt offered the example of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Mr. Van Zandt's music had that effect on fans, musicians and record producers and still does.
It featured Lopez on drums, Danny Federici on organ and accordion, and Steve Van Zandt on bass.
Today, Mr. Van Zandt's cult status stems partly from his terse poetic purity and luckless-troubadour personal story.
Mr. Van Zandt recorded five albums between 1968 and 1972 that never managed to earn him widespread recognition.
Finally, Van Zandt pulled him aside and told him they were in Michigan.
Hoping to keep the momentum going, Van Zandt conceived of the current show.
For Van Zandt, keeping them together for Broadway was his expression of gratitude.
" A Van Zandt rendition of the latter song closes "The Big Lebowski.
Despite Mr. Van Zandt's gentle good looks and soothing voice, stardom eluded him.
Haunted by her death, Mr. Van Zandt returned to Texas and continued to compose, recording sporadically in the 1980s and '90s.
Van Zandt kept in touch and in 1997 his efforts to get them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame paid off.
The material released on the new CD set was first discovered in 1996, as part of Mr. Van Zandt's original 1971-72 session tapes.
Last year Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) released Lilyhammer, a dramatic comedy series following a New York gangster (Steven Van Zandt) seeking safety in Norway.
"The musical depth is astounding when you get into it, " says Van Zandt, who runs his own record label and hosts a radio show.
The push to really reunite The Rascals began three years ago when Van Zandt and his wife, Maureen, were being honored at a cancer fundraiser.
The Texan singer and composer Townes Van Zandt died in 1997.
In the years since his death in 1997 at age 52, Mr. Van Zandt has become a mythic figure to many roots and alternative-country artists.
E-Street Band member and "Sopranos" star Steven Van Zandt appeared to be the only celebrity in the building, but that didn't diminish the intense atmosphere.
President Van Zandt has given some thought to these ominous possibilities.
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"This was a classic, textbook situation, " said Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI negotiator who worked with the hostage rescue team repeatedly before retiring in 1995.
In a humorous speech, complete with a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, Van Zandt brought down the house: "To sound that black, you had to be Italian, " he joked.
Some of the band members held manual jobs to make ends meet: Van Zandt worked construction, Lopez put in time at a boatyard and on commercial fishing boats.
The band may have inadvertently kick-started Van Zandt's acting career.
Van Zandt, formerly a law professor and dean at Northwestern.
Forty-eight years later, Van Zandt has found a way to repay The Rascals by taking the original four-man band to their biggest and most unlikely stage on Broadway.
Before the benefit, the four members of The Rascals had just three days of rehearsal the first time they'd played together in decades and Van Zandt was blown away.
"I don't want to say this was routine, but this is what negotiators and team members train to do all the time, " added Van Zandt, president of Van Zandt Associates, Inc.
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