"Mighty" Max Weinberg is the drummer for the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, love-making, earth-quaking, Viagra-taking, testifying, death-defying, legendary E STREET BAND! The E Street Band is an American rock band, and has been musician Bruce Springsteen's primary backing band since 1972 (Max joined in '74). The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band played the Spectrum 35 times (2nd most of any band).