Distant Connection - He has

Distant Connection - He has a band and a website...

...so why is that unusual?

The person behind the site - Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez - has exactly one claim to fame: Bruce Springsteen fired him from the E Street Band in 1974, replacing him with "Boom" Carter and then Max Weinberg. Listen to any of Bruce's old records, especially 1974's "The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" - Lopez is distinguished by having less natural sense of rhythm than any drummer in modern rock history.

"Steel Mill" is an old metal band of Springsteen's, from the late sixties. It played its last gig in 1971, if I remember correctly.

This may be a record for flogging a tenuous connection...