The acoustic piano version is a lot better, and has more intensity due to the piano. Take a listen....ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bj4jgNCn_ng.html
What a fantastic series of concerts these were........Great venue, great performances, intimate setting......once in lifetime event to see him perform a full show with the local HouseRockers like this.
I concur. You're the first one I've seen in agreement 👏🏻. I have to say though, Jungleland and Incident are tied on my list with Backstreets and Born To Run right there. I've tried to do a Top 10 List but it's such a challenge. That's the beauty of it though. Last I've heard, he's released 193 songs. Imagine the unreleased gems that may be. Cheers!
i forgot where i saw this tidbit, but apparently back in the 70s bruce gave an interview where he said that this song and 'jungleland' comprised a 2 part story. 'the rat' and 'the barefoot girl' are johnny and jane, and the rat's death in 'jungleland' is hinted at with the quiet piano outro in 'incident'.
This was a song that Bruce co-wrote with Ray Anderson ( who played in Cats) in the late 1970's. In the late 1980's Ray Anderson went on to form the band 'Ray Anderson and Fire' which played every Wednesday night at the Playpen in Sayreville, N. J..
Incident was on his second album, now released over 41 years ago. He plays it beautifully acoustically, but it can be a great stadium anthem (see LA Reunion show on RU-vid), and everything in between. (9/29/80, Nassau Coliseum) He wrote this when about 23. You could drop it into West Side Story, almost anywhere, and the quality of the music would jump up. How is this possible? Unless he's a genius. A Mozart?
Great tune - but i could never understand, exactly what does he mean by "word is out the cops have found the vein"..? what vein, the vein in his arm..? or like a vein of ore, as in gold or something..?
Not sure but I always thought of it as they found out about the vein of drugs, prostitutes or whatever they were running. Cops are shutting them down etc.... that is the beauty of Bruce... means a lot of things to others...
