It's such a magical era of Springsteen. Experimenting with lyrics and verses... This will never be experienced again!!! The whole band was working with him... working together ❤️
this is the more youthful, greasy, creative street poet early version of jland. you can’t get that era back - don’t even try. just listen, enjoy and remember.
Great version of Jungle Land... Suki Lahav's violin is clearly what is missing from us Springsteen fans undisputed sentimental favorite ... just saying
This is Jungleland if it was an E Street Shuffle track, it has some Thundercrack/Zero & Blind Terry/Kitty's Back feel to it! I've always found the transition between The E Street Shuffle and Born To Run quite fast and abrupt, it's amazing to hear how the intermediary stage sounded, it makes me better understand how Bruce gradually shifted from the jazz rock style of '73 to the thicker, epic heartland rock style of '75.
Yes, I also really like this version, since it has quite a different vibe and passion than what ended up on the record. I also find the different lyrics interesting :)
I got to attend & the show BLEW ME AWAY! Clarence - who looked 8 feet tall- was phenomenal!! It seemed like Bruce played 4 hours till Bonnie came on! I’d never heard of Bruce before, but my Boston University dormmate from NJ told us “You HAVE TO ser this guy!!)
Ah, goes to show "first thought, best thought" isn't always right: sometimes vigilant re-writes turn straw into gold. No better lesson sometimes than to put out in public, see how they like it, and how much you still love it. And I thought the LP version had some strange (and wonderful) tangents; what a marvel it is of whittling things down from...this. Awesome? It's awesome as a page from his sketchbook, on the way to sheer brilliance, in MHO. The final version, pour moi, sums up all the best poetry of Dylan et al and the pain of Joni and the lets-redeine-masterpiece genius of mid-period Beatles, along with the best guitar a la Jimi/Clapton and the finest R&B sax solo of all time.
All those different versions of this brilliant song put together contains more musical substance than most artists have created through their whole career....
Have you listened to the Main Point version? It's almost the album version, but still has the inverted sax / guitar solos. It made sense that was the live version before BTR was released since the final sax solo was pieced together from multiple studio takes.
