Ernest Carter

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Ernest "Boom" Carter is an American drummer, who was a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band for six months in 1974.

He played a number of concerts during that stretch and was the drummer on the recording of the classic song "Born to Run". Future E Street drummer Max Weinberg later said that Carter devised a jazz fusion part on that record that Weinberg could never reproduce in concert, and eventually stopped attempting.

Carter left the E Street Band along with pianist David Sancious to form the band Tone. He continues to perform regularly with some of the San Francisco Bay Area's finest talent.