There are just some things that you have to do. Singing along with a guy who wrote a song that could have taken a page out of your own life.... Gotta sing along man, Gotta sing along... Still singing along in 2024 🙂
Saw him live for the very first time a few months ago. Hearing the whole crowd go crazy as soon as he played the opening note and singing “show a little faith” is something that every music fan deserves to experience in their lives. Standing literally face to face right next to him and watching him chug a beer during Tenth Avenue was by far my top highlight of my 19 years of life
There is no song ever written like that and no I doubt that there will ever be any lyrics more profound and jaw inspiring as this one. Thank you BOSS!!!!
My very first concert was darkness tour San Diego sports arena. Bought the 9 dollar ticket night of the show and walked in. My life never was the same after that night.
I was there...The only thing I heard was the first 4 or 5 chords, that was it. I was in the floor about 25 rows back. Everybody was standing on the chairs. It was incredible.
500 seat Lincoln Hall, Camden County Community College in South Jersey, November 1974, all the tickets were 4 dollars. The crowd wasn't hoping to hear their favorites, it was all new and energetic like nothing we had ever experienced before- a three hour long lightening strike. They only had 2 albums, after that they made up the rest on the fly. ROSALITA JUMP A LITTLE HIGHER !!!!!
This is the answer to a question a lot of my friends who didn't know him were asking me back in 1976..."What's this thing about Bruce Springsteen that makes everyone crazy?"
I know what you mean. I saw three concerts on the Darkness tour, the first of which was Sept 30 at The Fox Theater in Atlanta. I had seen the Rolling Stones at the Fox about four months earlier (they were playing stadiums, except was a couple of small venues - the Fox holds about 4900). I left thinking, *knowing*, that I had just experienced the greatest the greatest rock & roll that had even been or ever would be. He made the Stones, who I had also seen in Oakland in 1969, the Who, who had seen both with, and after, Keith Moon, and *everyone* else seem ordinary. Like a huge sports event in which your team wins in the last ten seconds, over and over and over and over and over. Seeing Bruce Springsteen, live, even now when he's playing for four hours for a sold-out stadium is one of life's grandest experiences. But these 1978 shows were just Just electrifying.
@@conniejett2978 And so am I👍..Superlatives just don't do it the Justice it deserves! .Bruce Springsteen,aka"The Boss" and "The Big man"Clearance Clemons,may his soul&his retired Sax R.I.P...Producing magic of EPIC proportions. .I saw him play in London(The "Born in the U.S.A tour)many moon's ago&and once again at another venue in the UK "The Milton Keynes Bowl"..But the "B.I.T.U.S.A.concerts and this one take some beating.👍 And finally we all know they're have been plenty of fine singers&artists from a pretty endless line of genre's,for sure(in so many decades)but very few better"LIVE"performers,for drama,emotion, atmosphere,music quality&Lyrics,and for a unrivaled "Bang for ur buck"atmosphere!!👍✌️out.
Had the pleasure of seeing him 3 times over the last 30 years. Best money I've EVER spent. God bless The Boss. I pity the kids that haven't had the honor.
When Bruce remembered where he came from -- before he became political. I loved him so much! Fell in love when I was 10 -- back in 1981. I have seen him in concert 17 times (+acoustic shows in NYC) -- have only heard this played once or twice (my fave).
The old Boss, the music storytelling Boss, was absolutely a force of nature. I'm 63 and have seen him probably more times than years I've been alive. I stopped going around 2020
You people are unbelievable. Bruce's music was always political. How can you listen to an album like Darkness on the Edge of Town and not hear what he's singing about? And he even used to cover Woody Guthrie for God's sake! Sheesh.
@IMModusOperandi uh, excuse me? Ive seen him many,many times and it wasn't until up around 2017 that he began vocalizing he political crap. Yes, he's always been political however, over the years he's DEFINITELY alienated half of the people that made him Boss. Facts or feelings...
Everyone saw him... I saw him at UC Santa Barbara. Never heard of him. Two neighbors from New Jersey said it was a must to see him. So we plan to meet my neighbors up at UCSB. This was before cell phones, didn't know where we were going to meet our neighbors for the tickets, We found them, got out tickets in a small basketball gym, YOU KNOW THE REST. Thank you, Bruce, I stll talk about the concert.
I saw him the month before, 8/78 at MSG in NYC. Thunder Road is my fave Bruce song, out of so many faves! And this is my favorite version, especially with the intro!
This is the first live Bruce Springsteen song I ever heard live in 1978 way before internet came out I was buying bootleg videos at flea markets oh those were the days now the FBI pretty much shut all the stores that sold bootlegs they pretty much shut them all down in the late 80s into early 90s those were the days. I MISS them days. From Robert Schuhlein
I am not so much into Bruce Springsteen. But I have always had respect for him believing he totally deserves it. Thunder Road is one of the reasons why I am right.
Loved Bruce then....stopped listening that much after Born in the USA . A great commercial success but things were different. Inevitable for such talented people.
I love The Boss, but... I saw him on the first show of the Darkness tour, in Buffalo NY in the spring of 1978. It was at a small venue, a performing arts theater, like where you'd see a musical, maybe 2000 seats. But the opening of the show was very dry. It was before "Darkness" was released and it was as though he felt he just had to play the new songs for the critics. My memory - and this is of course over 40 years ago - is that it was about 40 minutes into the concert before they really cut loose, jamming a long version of "Spirits In The Night", and then it was high-energy from there on. The setlist I found online though says that Spirits In The Night was the 6th song but they played 3 songs from "Born To Run" before that, Badlands, Night, and Thunder Road. I can't argue with the setlist but I doubt I'd have this memory if they had played mostly songs I was familiar with. However, from what I've read, the tour ramped up after that.
Badlands *is* on Darkness (1978), but I know what you mean. We want to hear the old favorites. It's funny writing that about someone when he only had three albums out (with a total of 24 songs, plus a few he gave away like Because the Night and Fire) who now has about 20 albums, not counting the live albums (E.G. Barcelona, filmed in late summer, 2002, early on The Rising Tour, and released in late 2003) or Tracks (1998) which has 68 songs, many of which are gems, but for whatever unknown reasons Bruce didn't think they were good enough, or appropriate, for his "regular" albums. That first Buffalo show was on May 23, 1978, about 10 days before the album was released. When I attended my first show, about four months later, I had heard the Darkness album over a hundred times. He played six of the nine songs on and I loved every one of them: Badlands, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Promised Land, Prove it all Night, Racing in the Street, and Candy's Room, plus Because the Night & Fire. (I looked the set list up on the web site, "Greasy Lake, "The Ultimate Bruce Springsteen Tribute Page.")
Was a die hard Bruce fan since the '70's From CLEVELAND , Ohio where the radio stations here played his songs madly! (Especially WMMS) Saw him here and in LA several times....would never miss a concert! The "Working Man's Hero" gave me inspiration and hope! But now in 2023 I feel like a child who discovers that there really is no Santa Claus.....These outrageous ticket prices!!! Really??! Bruce has the power to stop this shit! But he chooses to remain silent, allow all this, and take in TONS of money that in reality, he really doesn't need! SO WRONG, bruh! You broke my heart and raped my soul!
Springsteen was great in '78! You just never knew what he was going to do. Genius lyricist, too! The E-street Band kinda reminds me of the Heartbreakers. Hard to imagine them without Bruce. Why the fuck would anyone Boo this performance?
Town full of losers, and I’m pulling out of hear to win! I first heard this live at MSG before Chicago in ‘76? and then again in ‘80 In Jersey. Amazing!
You tell this 28 year old kid that one day he'd grow up to sell his publishing for half a billion dollars, allowing for tickets to his shows to sell for 5 thousand a piece, let A-List celebs and politicians get first dibs to his exclusive shows, and require his fans to show proof of vaccination, and he'd have quit that night. O Bruce, where art thou?
I dunno, on his Best of Live 1975-1985 album there's a monologue where he's talking about his parents' ambitions for him, how they thought he "could get a little something, but what they didn't know was I wanted it ALL" (OK, the quote's from memory but that's the gist of it). Anyway, I'm not going to criticize someone as great as Bruce for earning the fruits of his success. I just saw him in Denver and loved every second of the show.
Why does his vocals always sound entirely different live than on the albums? It's like they used all those pre audio tune tricks to make his voice sound less like he swallowed hot lava.
They were all singing along in 78 and they are all singing along in 2023, unbelievable.
Best concert I’ve been to - Cardiff 2024, The Boss indeed
It's AMAZING! My first show was '84 and my last was '24. Bruce fans are the GREATEST.
There are just some things that you have to do. Singing along with a guy who wrote a song that could have taken a page out of your own life.... Gotta sing along man, Gotta sing along... Still singing along in 2024 🙂
One of the greatest songs EVER written!
Maybe the best?
No doubt!
No, it's the BEST song ever written!
Rolling Stone Magazine ranked it as one of the top 100 rock and roll songs of all time. That is still saying something!
Agreed
I came back to say this is the best live version ever. And I've seen him play this live so many times. BRUCE!!!
The opening gives me goosebumps every time. Play this at my funeral
Heaven is waiting down on the tracks.
Saw him live for the very first time a few months ago. Hearing the whole crowd go crazy as soon as he played the opening note and singing “show a little faith” is something that every music fan deserves to experience in their lives. Standing literally face to face right next to him and watching him chug a beer during Tenth Avenue was by far my top highlight of my 19 years of life
Poetry meets rock n roll. Tremendously poignant and powerful. It just doesn't get any better than this.
There is no song ever written like that and no I doubt that there will ever be any lyrics more profound and jaw inspiring as this one.
Thank you BOSS!!!!
You said it perfectly really that's one of best things I have ever heard said about this beautiful love song
YES!IF THE BAND IS HEALTHY IN Buffalo ? ONE MORE TIME!
The greatest Rock 'N' Roll song ever written! Period!
Hard to dispute.🥂
My very first concert was darkness tour San Diego sports arena. Bought the 9 dollar ticket night of the show and walked in. My life never was the same after that night.
I know Oscar, the same for me in Milan, june '85
I was there...The only thing I heard was the first 4 or 5 chords, that was it. I was in the floor about 25 rows back. Everybody was standing on the chairs. It was incredible.
I paid a scalper price for tix in Boston, 1980 ($25/ticket). Never regretted it.
Same for me…..Minneapolis 1978
500 seat Lincoln Hall, Camden County Community College in South Jersey, November 1974, all the tickets were 4 dollars. The crowd wasn't hoping to hear their favorites, it was all new and energetic like nothing we had ever experienced before- a three hour long lightening strike. They only had 2 albums, after that they made up the rest on the fly. ROSALITA JUMP A LITTLE HIGHER !!!!!
This is the answer to a question a lot of my friends who didn't know him were asking me back in 1976..."What's this thing about Bruce Springsteen that makes everyone crazy?"
I cannot think of a better song. ever.
Instantly take me back to 1978 cruzin in my Vega
If you were there in 78...you witnessed a rock and roll event never to be matched again
I saw him twice in '78 myself...the first time I had tenth row seats at MSG...
I'm obsessed with this song. No joke.
I know what you mean. I saw three concerts on the Darkness tour, the first of which was Sept 30 at The Fox Theater in Atlanta. I had seen the Rolling Stones at the Fox about four months earlier (they were playing stadiums, except was a couple of small venues - the Fox holds about 4900). I left thinking, *knowing*, that I had just experienced the greatest the greatest rock & roll that had even been or ever would be. He made the Stones, who I had also seen in Oakland in 1969, the Who, who had seen both with, and after, Keith Moon, and *everyone* else seem ordinary. Like a huge sports event in which your team wins in the last ten seconds, over and over and over and over and over. Seeing Bruce Springsteen, live, even now when he's playing for four hours for a sold-out stadium is one of life's grandest experiences. But these 1978 shows were just Just electrifying.
this, and U2 Red Rocks 1983 cold foggy night ... google Gloria U2 Red Rocks
@@conniejett2978 And so am I👍..Superlatives just don't do it the Justice it deserves!
.Bruce Springsteen,aka"The Boss" and "The Big man"Clearance Clemons,may his soul&his retired Sax R.I.P...Producing magic of EPIC proportions.
.I saw him play in London(The "Born in the U.S.A tour)many moon's ago&and once again at another venue in the UK "The Milton Keynes Bowl"..But the "B.I.T.U.S.A.concerts and this one take some beating.👍
And finally we all know they're have been plenty of fine singers&artists from a pretty endless line of genre's,for sure(in so many decades)but very few better"LIVE"performers,for drama,emotion, atmosphere,music quality&Lyrics,and for a unrivaled "Bang for ur buck"atmosphere!!👍✌️out.
La canción más maravillosa de todo el universo ❤❤
I listened to this music when I was young and when I hear it now I think of that time. BRUUCCE I'll see you in Hockenheim Germany 2023🙏🏻☮
Tunnel of Love is his Best Album
Tunnel of Love was his Best Show
This is his Best Song
Can anything get better than this? Don't think so.
You never wish you were anywhere else while watching his show.
Just a Boy, his Guitar, and his words who truly loves entertaining and gives Us his all❤❤❤
Probably the best live version of this great song. He sure changed it up in his later years
The Boss giving it 100%,
With the Big Man blowin' it at full afterburner!
Had the pleasure of seeing him 3 times over the last 30 years. Best money I've EVER spent. God bless The Boss. I pity the kids that haven't had the honor.
When Bruce remembered where he came from -- before he became political. I loved him so much! Fell in love when I was 10 -- back in 1981. I have seen him in concert 17 times (+acoustic shows in NYC) -- have only heard this played once or twice (my fave).
The old Boss, the music storytelling Boss, was absolutely a force of nature. I'm 63 and have seen him probably more times than years I've been alive. I stopped going around 2020
You people are unbelievable. Bruce's music was always political. How can you listen to an album like Darkness on the Edge of Town and not hear what he's singing about? And he even used to cover Woody Guthrie for God's sake! Sheesh.
@IMModusOperandi uh, excuse me? Ive seen him many,many times and it wasn't until up around 2017 that he began vocalizing he political crap. Yes, he's always been political however, over the years he's DEFINITELY alienated half of the people that made him Boss. Facts or feelings...
Best performance of this song by a mile. Clarence with the sax towards the end is incredible.
Greatest live version ever !
Jesus Christ please let there be music like this in heaven.
Tomara 🙏 Deus ajude 🙏🙏🙏
There will be.
bruce is probably going to hell so i doubt it
Everyone saw him... I saw him at UC Santa Barbara. Never heard of him. Two neighbors from New Jersey said it was a must to see him. So we plan to meet my neighbors up at UCSB.
This was before cell phones, didn't know where we were going to meet our neighbors for the tickets, We found them, got out tickets in a small basketball gym, YOU KNOW THE REST. Thank you, Bruce, I stll talk about the concert.
I saw him the month before, 8/78 at MSG in NYC. Thunder Road is my fave Bruce song, out of so many faves! And this is my favorite version, especially with the intro!
This is the first live Bruce Springsteen song I ever heard live in 1978 way before internet came out I was buying bootleg videos at flea markets oh those were the days now the FBI pretty much shut all the stores that sold bootlegs they pretty much shut them all down in the late 80s into early 90s those were the days. I MISS them days.
From Robert Schuhlein
😊😊😊
In Philly, the radio station would play bootlegs. I remember this one. The story at the beginning...priceless.
I just got to say that theirs nothing more to say after listening to this..
This echoes down my hallways in the night.
Well, there are no lights or costumes but you don’t need more. You have the Boss and that is more than enough!!
was my hero way back when seen him many ties with my best friend. miss you buddy RIP Loose Bruce
I saw him on this tour in Charleston, WV and best show I ever saw! Got to meet the band with my friend Steve then the Boss came out to greet us.😊
I am not so much into Bruce Springsteen. But I have always had respect for him believing he totally deserves it. Thunder Road is one of the reasons why I am right.
I have not words to comment this AMAZING song, ¡only THANK YOU VERY MUCH Bruce!!
Just the best!
Goosebumps
Loved Bruce then....stopped listening that much after Born in the USA . A great commercial success but things were different. Inevitable for such talented people.
I totally agree with you. But please listen to The Rising. He came back for that one.
I took a break from him after his jeep commercial. Back tonight here for some reason.
@@thereissomecoolstuff Too much politics and not enough good music.
I completely disagree. His later work is relevant and really good.
Letter to you album is amazing!
I love The Boss, but... I saw him on the first show of the Darkness tour, in Buffalo NY in the spring of 1978. It was at a small venue, a performing arts theater, like where you'd see a musical, maybe 2000 seats. But the opening of the show was very dry. It was before "Darkness" was released and it was as though he felt he just had to play the new songs for the critics. My memory - and this is of course over 40 years ago - is that it was about 40 minutes into the concert before they really cut loose, jamming a long version of "Spirits In The Night", and then it was high-energy from there on. The setlist I found online though says that Spirits In The Night was the 6th song but they played 3 songs from "Born To Run" before that, Badlands, Night, and Thunder Road. I can't argue with the setlist but I doubt I'd have this memory if they had played mostly songs I was familiar with. However, from what I've read, the tour ramped up after that.
Badlands *is* on Darkness (1978), but I know what you mean. We want to hear the old favorites. It's funny writing that about someone when he only had three albums out (with a total of 24 songs, plus a few he gave away like Because the Night and Fire) who now has about 20 albums, not counting the live albums (E.G. Barcelona, filmed in late summer, 2002, early on The Rising Tour, and released in late 2003) or Tracks (1998) which has 68 songs, many of which are gems, but for whatever unknown reasons Bruce didn't think they were good enough, or appropriate, for his "regular" albums.
That first Buffalo show was on May 23, 1978, about 10 days before the album was released. When I attended my first show, about four months later, I had heard the Darkness album over a hundred times. He played six of the nine songs on and I loved every one of them: Badlands, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Promised Land, Prove it all Night, Racing in the Street, and Candy's Room, plus Because the Night & Fire. (I looked the set list up on the web site, "Greasy Lake, "The Ultimate Bruce Springsteen Tribute Page.")
this intro inspired me to get my favorite tattoo to date
Wow... OMG WOW... what talent, what a gifted poet/artist... OMG!!!
Jersey Turnpike, warm summer night, top down, girlfriend next to me, 5 spd.......this playing.....
fantastic
I saw him in South Bend, Indiana at the Notre Dame ACC. It was the "Darkness on the Edge of Town" tour in the fall of 1978.
As did I. What a show.
Was a die hard Bruce fan since the '70's
From CLEVELAND , Ohio where the radio stations here played his songs madly! (Especially WMMS)
Saw him here and in LA several times....would never miss a concert! The "Working Man's Hero" gave me inspiration and hope!
But now in 2023 I feel like a child who discovers that there really is no Santa Claus.....These outrageous ticket prices!!! Really??! Bruce has the power to stop this shit! But he chooses to remain silent, allow all this, and take in TONS of money that in reality, he really doesn't need! SO WRONG, bruh! You broke my heart and raped my soul!
I love him.❤
Springsteen was great in '78! You just never knew what he was going to do. Genius lyricist, too! The E-street Band kinda reminds me of the Heartbreakers. Hard to imagine them without Bruce. Why the fuck would anyone Boo this performance?
Just seen The Boss in Edinburgh. WOW.......
“There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away…” Hey, he’s rock’s greatest lyricist too!
Brilliant lyricist.
Get well soon, Bruce! 9/29/23
God bless the Boss
Seen him in Belfast in May
Bruce is the only rock artist whose legendary studio albums were just an excuse for him to tour and perform the songs live.
All facts 😂😂
Amazing song!! Mitic concert
This is a great share that takes me way back to the good old days of real performance! Thanks for this one. Silver
Thunder Road. Full bore. The diff between the '78 29 yo and the 70+ version. Both a power on its own.
What kind of word in the English language can come anywhere near the most beautiful of lyrics ever written
La migliore di Bruce per distacco
❤❤❤
:) peace love justice and
no mercy
love this version.
it's different
no i don't mind their chorus clapping
That's what I love about this too.
The boss
sempre boss.
might be one of the best versions
この頃のBossが断然かっこいい
My first bootleg Springsteen.
Me too! I was 13
🎵🎵🎸🎸🎵🎵❤
Where are YOU now, Prefab Sprout?
Town full of losers, and I’m pulling out of hear to win! I first heard this live at MSG before Chicago in ‘76? and then again in ‘80 In Jersey. Amazing!
When he was...
"Are you booing, or saying Boo-urns?"
BRUUUUUCCCCCCE!!!!
You tell this 28 year old kid that one day he'd grow up to sell his publishing for half a billion dollars, allowing for tickets to his shows to sell for 5 thousand a piece, let A-List celebs and politicians get first dibs to his exclusive shows, and require his fans to show proof of vaccination, and he'd have quit that night.
O Bruce, where art thou?
I dunno, on his Best of Live 1975-1985 album there's a monologue where he's talking about his parents' ambitions for him, how they thought he "could get a little something, but what they didn't know was I wanted it ALL" (OK, the quote's from memory but that's the gist of it). Anyway, I'm not going to criticize someone as great as Bruce for earning the fruits of his success. I just saw him in Denver and loved every second of the show.
fuckin ace
Why does his vocals always sound entirely different live than on the albums? It's like they used all those pre audio tune tricks to make his voice sound less like he swallowed hot lava.
Song (minus harmonica intro) starts at 0:59.
09/19/1978 ?
I think so - in Passaic, NJ - the whole concert is also on YT.
This is like watching DaVinci painting the Mona Lisa.
This song is simultaneously the most overrated and underrated song of all time.
Hurly Shit!
He was the greatest! Then he sold out!