I was born in Paterson New Jersey in 1960. I was never a Springsteen fan. As I’ve grown older I realize that Johnny is more Jersey than Springsteen ever was. Springsteen fans were guys named Vinny and Joey who drove Camaros. The gearheads love Springsteen and the real musicians loved Johnny!!!
No not a Coffee Break Concert. It was a late Agora show. Bruce played earlier (8 p.m. show) at The Richfield Coliseum, 40 min. south of Cleveland. Southside joined him for The Fever at his show. I left the Bruce show during the last encore and raced to Cleveland to see Southside. We parked and ran to The Agora, Bruce and Steve were just getting out of a car in front of The Agora! Southside started about 11:30 p.m., Bruce joined in for 3 songs late. Fantastic! Fever twice in one night!
As good as Rock-N-Roll gets... the power, the longing, the freakin' rocking the night away. For those of us of (ahem) a certain age, this is in the same mile high category as Wilson Pickett's Midnight Hour and others from that time. This is the embodiment of what R&R should aspire to be.
+yesterdays wine 27 here my man and my buddies have been blasting this since we were in college! We pregame, and hit the bars and randomly my buddy would say "BUT BUT BUT.. I DONTTTT WANNAA GOOO HOMEE" lol your guys music back then kicked ass!!!
i saw southside in t.o. in the late 70's at ryerson and hey were tight and outta sight. more people should turn on to them , they are some of the best from that era
could you imagine being there... that concert didnt start till 11 pm after bruces show in cleveland ended... he drives over along with god knows how many fans to get on stage and keep on going... wow what amazing shows those would have been to see
Once upon a time a bunch of men I worked with for Colonial Landscaping would head to Asbury and the Stone Pony. Usually stop in Mrs Jay's for a cheap couple of beers first. Southside was/is fantastic..... but when the E street band showed up unannounced ...... the old dog-eared saying: there was magic in the air.
Hey bro,... I'm 21 also... u born in '86 right? Keep the love for the old music.. we are 1'in a million... that reminds me.. listen to Guns'N'Roses One Ín A Million... it will touch your heart... neways.. Stay with the classic rock.. it's the only music that will stand the test of time... ROCK ON BRO!!!!
I think they played this video on Cleveland television, which was then WJW Channel 8. Bruce had played the Richfield Coliseum that night. Earlier in 1978, The East Street Band took this stage for a concert broadcast to about a dozen cities, produced by WMMS Buzzard Radio. It's a shame there is no video of that. It was rockin'.
August 9, 1978. The band claims this is THE Best Springteen and the E Street Band ever played and the sound was Phenomenal WMMS Tenth Anniversary Celebration what a Station it WAS. We Loved rockin as Clevelanders do. Find this show and give a Listen. Candy's Room, Growin Up, She's The One, Thunder Road 3.5 Hours of Excellence. BTW I still have my own recorded cassette tapes I recorded that night.
@@amrak5028 Probably the most notable Cleveland concert other than the Beatles. We stopped the car outside Jim Swingos' Celebrity Inn, and Bruce came over and shook hands with us before the show. It was quite an evening.
I saw Southside Johnny,in Peer BRBF? Belgium Rhythm'n Blues Festival,; 2009, I was standing in front of stage... to the top... Singing I I don't wanna go home ... But in Helsinki , I missed Southside Johnny: together with Bruce and little Steven with their song ..... I don't wanna go home.. But I am at home home now , back in Belgium So, see you and a little hug , my big hug is for my son from Jg This year I saw B.B.King in BRBF ... Fantastic ...86years old
You have to be one funky blue-eyed soul white boy to pull off a pair of pants like those... thankfully, the South was and still is. As good as it ever got...right here.
First time I got to see Southside Johnny was at this very concert. My hometown bar, the great Cleveland Agora. I had so many good times at this place. First time I seen Bruce as well was . I'm in the audience somewhere I've tried to find myself but what a drag I can't find me.lol
Man ... I was lucky enough to hang out in Asbury Park in the late 70s ... back when Jon Bon Jovi was in the audience with me at the Stone Pony and the Fast Lane taking in Bruce and Southside ... what an incredible time.
Only you, and maybe Simon Cowle.... could make that once in a lifetime experience a judging contest. They were both smokin'... without Bruce, it would just be Southside having another great night. I have seen him a few times, he is always great. But the two of them together, takes a flawless Southside performance to another level. And I'm sure it would be the same in reverse, Southside coming out onstage at a Springsteen show. Pure magic.
Great stuff. Only discovered Johnny S. two years back and then lucky enough to be in the US in September 2006 when he played the Blues Club in Newport, Rhode Island on the day before Labor Monday. FANTASTIC concert and a night my wife and I will never forget cos' he rocked from 10pm until 1am....great memories!
Did Springsteen sing about SJ and THIS specifically, when he sang Incident On 57th Street and the character was Spanish Johnny after all and Springsteen said "the singers was singing something about going home"? I think I answered my question.
This is on Johnny's debut from '77. Incident on 57th came out in '73. Maybe Van Zandt had written it years prior to recording it with Johnny. Who knows?
Im 21 and grew up in Akron, OH. I have heard many bruce stories from my parents and finaly got to go this summer to see him at the Q. I would give anything to see him at this time though. Bruce's concert for wmms in 78 at the agora is one of the best things I have ever heard.
Very first time I got to see Southside Johnny was that my hometown bar call you when I go right I'm in this audience somewhere though I can't see myself LOL
I saw SSJ and the Asbury Jukes at the Lawrence Opera House in Lawrence Kansas in the fall of 1979. It's still one of the five best shows of all time. I've seen shows all over th US and Europe.
You are right about the Agora. Spent many a night there. Remember the Wednesday afternoon 'Coffee Break' concerts WMMS put on? I also saw Lou Reed, Dire Straits,& Peter Frampton there in addition to seeing the Rasberries on Sunday nights doing their Beatles rendition before they made it. JJ
He is the white david ruffin temptations, so soulful, the voice the boss always wanted, no white man sings like him, period, end of story !!!!!!!!!!!!😃😃😃
Listen, Boys and Girls ... I grew up with Jon Bon Jovi when he was cutting his teeth on Southside and Bruce ... he followed it like a road map ... if he doesn't say he owes his career to these guys he's lying ... or fooling himself. - Mike
He was a great artist on a third curtain call in this video. Grow up. The Jukes were awesome and Johnny was the bandleader. Lyon always had a somewhat spastic physical style but his vocals were always world class.
Bruce played this at Helsinki last night!!!!!! (31st July 2012). Although it was hardly recognisable as the song on this video as he played it slowly with an acoustic guitar. Has he ever played this since 1978?? I didn't even realise it was one Bruce had written always assumed it was one of Southside Johnny's.
Southside Johnny, the most underrated musician of rock music.
what a show back in the day!
Better voice then Bruce only problem not as good looking and didn't write most of his own music !!!!
@@margaretdennis3025 saw him many times in asbury park and your so right !!!! 5 dollar cover charge for a 100 dollar show !!!!
I was born in Paterson New Jersey in 1960. I was never a Springsteen fan. As I’ve grown older I realize that Johnny is more Jersey than Springsteen ever was. Springsteen fans were guys named Vinny and Joey who drove Camaros. The gearheads love Springsteen and the real musicians loved Johnny!!!
@@MultiPetercool I have a lot of Southside Johnny's vinyls and CDs, for me he is top and undisputed.
No not a Coffee Break Concert. It was a late Agora show. Bruce played earlier (8 p.m. show) at The Richfield Coliseum, 40 min. south of Cleveland. Southside joined him for The Fever at his show. I left the Bruce show during the last encore and raced to Cleveland to see Southside. We parked and ran to The Agora, Bruce and Steve were just getting out of a car in front of The Agora! Southside started about 11:30 p.m., Bruce joined in for 3 songs late. Fantastic! Fever twice in one night!
It was the best of times; it was the... friggin' best of times.
Yes it was 1976 at the stone pony in asbury pk new jersey
As good as Rock-N-Roll gets... the power, the longing, the freakin' rocking the night away. For those of us of (ahem) a certain age, this is in the same mile high category as Wilson Pickett's Midnight Hour and others from that time. This is the embodiment of what R&R should aspire to be.
+yesterdays wine 27 here my man and my buddies have been blasting this since we were in college! We pregame, and hit the bars and randomly my buddy would say "BUT BUT BUT.. I DONTTTT WANNAA GOOO HOMEE"
lol your guys music back then kicked ass!!!
Masterpiece. 2 of the greatest performers sharing the same stage. There is some magic in the air.
i saw southside in t.o. in the late 70's at ryerson and hey were tight and outta sight. more people should turn on to them , they are some of the best from that era
;) greetings
could you imagine being there... that concert didnt start till 11 pm after bruces show in cleveland ended... he drives over along with god knows how many fans to get on stage and keep on going... wow what amazing shows those would have been to see
Southside is very gracious taking the back seat - love them both - love Southside more!
Once upon a time a bunch of men I worked with for Colonial Landscaping would head to Asbury and the Stone Pony. Usually stop in Mrs Jay's for a cheap couple of beers first. Southside was/is fantastic..... but when the E street band showed up unannounced ...... the old dog-eared saying: there was magic in the air.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When two Jersey wise-guys invaded Cleveland, and released the GLORIOUS Hounds of Hell! IN-CRED-I-BULL!
This video is a jewel
Hey bro,... I'm 21 also... u born in '86 right? Keep the love for the old music.. we are 1'in a million... that reminds me.. listen to Guns'N'Roses One Ín A Million... it will touch your heart... neways.. Stay with the classic rock.. it's the only music that will stand the test of time... ROCK ON BRO!!!!
When I watch this all I can say is: Damn, isn't youth the most fantastic thing ever??? Yours and mine: Looking back with happy memories!
I saw him at a place in Boston so many years ago & went backstage & he was so nice very down to earth
I think they played this video on Cleveland television, which was then WJW Channel 8. Bruce had played the Richfield Coliseum that night. Earlier in 1978, The East Street Band took this stage for a concert broadcast to about a dozen cities, produced by WMMS Buzzard Radio. It's a shame there is no video of that. It was rockin'.
August 9, 1978. The band claims this is THE Best Springteen and the E Street Band ever played and the sound was Phenomenal
WMMS Tenth Anniversary Celebration what a Station it WAS. We Loved rockin as Clevelanders do.
Find this show and give a Listen. Candy's Room, Growin Up, She's The One, Thunder Road 3.5 Hours of Excellence.
BTW I still have my own recorded cassette tapes I recorded that night.
@@amrak5028 Probably the most notable Cleveland concert other than the Beatles. We stopped the car outside Jim Swingos' Celebrity Inn, and Bruce came over and shook hands with us before the show. It was quite an evening.
Fantastic. Love to watch these two legends perform together. Thanks for the post.
The version on the live Reach Up And Touch The Sky (1981) is also worth hearing!
Excellent. Bruce, Johnny Lyon, Billy Rush, Labamba, Eddie Manion .. just excellent.
I saw Southside Johnny,in Peer BRBF? Belgium Rhythm'n Blues Festival,; 2009, I was
standing in front of stage... to the top... Singing I I don't wanna go home ...
But in Helsinki , I missed Southside Johnny: together with Bruce and little Steven
with their song ..... I don't wanna go home..
But I am at home home now , back in Belgium
So, see you
and a little hug , my big hug is for my son
from
Jg
This year I saw B.B.King in BRBF ... Fantastic ...86years old
thank you charlie
Fantastic !!!
One word: CLASSIC.
I saw southside Johnny , without Bruce in BRBF 2009, He was ...He was ... He was ....
just perfect ....
Jersey Girl 3 in Belgium
You have to be one funky blue-eyed soul white boy to pull off a pair of pants like those...
thankfully, the South was and still is. As good as it ever got...right here.
Old Butter Chords Southside Johnny, the Boss, the Jukes, LaBomba and the Miami horns, it doesn't get any better than this.
Long live wmms and the Cleveland agora been there alot in the 70s and the people I went there with are mostly all gone including some of the bands
Wow
thank you charlie!
First time I got to see Southside Johnny was at this very concert.
My hometown bar, the great Cleveland Agora.
I had so many good times at this place.
First time I seen Bruce as well was . I'm in the audience somewhere I've tried to find myself but what a drag I can't find me.lol
My Hometown
Man ... I was lucky enough to hang out in Asbury Park in the late 70s ... back when Jon Bon Jovi was in the audience with me at the Stone Pony and the Fast Lane taking in Bruce and Southside ... what an incredible time.
I've never seen /heard this beore but I'll keep it in my favourites. I'll grow on me.
What a gem! One of my favorite musical moments eer. Thank you for sharing this.
Only you, and maybe Simon Cowle.... could make that once in a lifetime experience a judging contest.
They were both smokin'... without Bruce, it would just be Southside having another great night.
I have seen him a few times, he is always great. But the two of them together, takes a flawless Southside performance to another level. And I'm sure it would be the same in reverse, Southside coming out onstage at a Springsteen show. Pure magic.
Great stuff.
Only discovered Johnny S. two years back and then lucky enough to be in the US in September 2006 when he played the Blues Club in Newport, Rhode Island on the day before Labor Monday. FANTASTIC concert and a night my wife and I will never forget cos' he rocked from 10pm until 1am....great memories!
ooh.. they are good!!! im excited! on the sixteenth of feb. in like two weeks im playing violin in their concert!!!!
WHOO HOO! FIVE stars for THIS one! A a tip of the O'Toole hat to Ed Kaz for sending me here!!
Thank you to whoever cleaned up this video! Love it!
Reminds me of a Saturday night at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park back in the seventies. Been there, done that, many times.
Wow, for a lot of 55 years-olds, like me, this has the lot!!
Oh to be fuc**ng 18 again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same age as you. Saw them 3x in the early 80's. Small clubs, Awesome every time. Youth is King!
Ain’t it the whole fn truth!!
Still lovin' this song
marvellous simply marvellous
Regardless of who learned what from who, these guys are awesome and SSJ(though slightly wasted here) and Bruce are rock icons-love the video.
Did Springsteen sing about SJ and THIS specifically, when he sang Incident On 57th Street and the character was Spanish Johnny after all and Springsteen said "the singers was singing something about going home"? I think I answered my question.
Good Point!!!
This is on Johnny's debut from '77. Incident on 57th came out in '73. Maybe Van Zandt had written it years prior to recording it with Johnny. Who knows?
Im 21 and grew up in Akron, OH. I have heard many bruce stories from my parents and finaly got to go this summer to see him at the Q. I would give anything to see him at this time though. Bruce's concert for wmms in 78 at the agora is one of the best things I have ever heard.
Very first time I got to see Southside Johnny was that my hometown bar call you when I go right I'm in this audience somewhere though I can't see myself LOL
3:22-3:23 possibly the purest second of rock n roll ever recorded.
I saw SSJ and the Asbury Jukes at the Lawrence Opera House in Lawrence Kansas in the fall of 1979. It's still one of the five best shows of all time. I've seen shows all over th US and Europe.
There’s just something so mesmerizing about every shake of that sweaty hair
Southside Johnny as the voice the Boss wanted! But they worked well together!
Yes he did only difference was looks and the boss wrote some beautiful tunes !!!
simply quite splendid
"Baby, baby, baby . . . " - yes, keep the lyrics simple and honest. Great song by Southside Johnny & The Jukes!
Fantastici!!Bruce e Johnny!!😅😅😍😍😘😘😘♥️🎷🎸💎💯
Do you have the whole show somewhere? This is outstanding.
You are right about the Agora. Spent many a night there. Remember the Wednesday afternoon 'Coffee Break' concerts WMMS put on? I also saw Lou Reed, Dire Straits,& Peter Frampton there in addition to seeing the Rasberries on Sunday nights doing their Beatles rendition before they made it. JJ
I once went to wedding and Southside Johnny got a pile of money to be the band.
Saw them live quite a few times. Still have the legs. And he's touring. Be here. Aloha.
rip kevin kavanaugh who passed away today...:+(...another musical talent gone way too soon.
Wow! Go Southside!❤️😎
The Agora. The Real Music. What great times! JJ
My god, what a good times!
That was great… back to when they kids❤
Southside, amazing voacalist!!
1978 Outrageous!
Wish I was there.
Fri 21st Oct Southside will be playing a gig in Shepherds Bush London . Be there or miss one of he unsung greats!
I used to think it was just a great song, then it happened to me. Fortunately things change and I don't mind going home anymore.
Badass song. Lucky bunch to witness that.
saw this show at Richfield
Written by Steve Van Zandt
I'm 15 and I only listen to Classic Rock and hip-hop and I think the same thing.
Not even close
Oh yeah, I was at this !!!
stan helsing!!!!! FODA
Grandissimo
Reach Up AND Touch THE SKY!!
this brings me to the "whatever happened to" Alan Berg on Bass, Steve Becker on Drums Billy Rush lead guitar, Rick Gazda trumpet...
Bruce SAID all the right things.
Southside DID all the right things.
Doesn't get any Better than this!!!!
@rloebe34
Actually it is a Springsteen-inspired Van Zandt song
So much fun!!
stan helsing!!!
He is the white david ruffin temptations, so soulful, the voice the boss always wanted, no white man sings like him, period, end of story !!!!!!!!!!!!😃😃😃
Wow good danceing
lol, he was prolly more then tipsy.. guys like him can get any chemical they want..its funny a posted a comment similar before I saw your..
why is there no video available of the springsteen show that took place earlier this evening :(....same venue (Agora) and a show for the ages
He was playing at Richfield that night, then came to the Agora
Listen, Boys and Girls ... I grew up with Jon Bon Jovi when he was cutting his teeth on Southside and Bruce ... he followed it like a road map ... if he doesn't say he owes his career to these guys he's lying ... or fooling himself.
- Mike
Southside REALLY DIDN"T want to go home!
Bruce never wants to go home. Thats why he plays 3 hour or so shows
excellent song, woo hoo :-)
He was a great artist on a third curtain call in this video. Grow up. The Jukes were awesome and Johnny was the bandleader. Lyon always had a somewhat spastic physical style but his vocals were always world class.
Whole lotta sweat happenin' right there.
heel mooi
FFS, why wasn’t there video rolling in the Agora on Aug. 9, 1978 for the Springsteen and E-Street Band show?
Sweet!
Definitely never got the credit or recognition for being a great performer/artist 👍
@rloebe34
Bruce did write this song as well.
🍺🎉🍺🎉🍺🎉🙋🏼♂️
WMMS made Johny. On 30AUG78 at the Agora. Kid
cute Hockey Man!
why don't they have that kind of footage of springsteen's concert from the agora club in 78' :(
Billy Rush!
Bruce played this at Helsinki last night!!!!!! (31st July 2012). Although it was hardly recognisable as the song on this video as he played it slowly with an acoustic guitar. Has he ever played this since 1978??
I didn't even realise it was one Bruce had written always assumed it was one of Southside Johnny's.
Nine years since I wrote that and now realise it was Steve Van Zandt who wrote the song and not Bruce