This was my dad’s favorite concert …. One day , my family was heading to the mall.. the agora concert was playing on e street radio.. my dad told me and my mom to head on in… and a few minutes later .. my dad stayed in the car to rock out…..
Born to Run,Murray Saul get down then Friday on my mind. Cleveland rocks in later years. Alex Bevan between that. Just to set the record straight. All good.
Yes every Friday night at five till six kid Leo play born to run it’s so very sad that Bruce never comes to Cleveland anymore because quite frankly kid Leo put him on the map
Still my favorite concert ever. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, "Darkness on the Edge of Town" tour, South Bend, Indiana, in the fall of 1978.
Just shortly after this show aired it found its way to New York at WPLJ for the entire live show and from that moment... My life changed forever... The 1978 Darkness on the Edge of Town Tour To this day is still the Greatest tour he ever did for me personally... I still have all my bootleg cassettes and last "Prove It All Night" from the Agora show... 💥 The Best Intro Ever... Bruce is a great story teller too... "Growing Up" Thank you so much... Bless you all... 🌈❤️🎶💥🎼🎉🎸🎷🥁🎹😎
My first time I saw the Boss was this concert..I was 20 years old. Bruce punched a hole in my soul that night. I've been a huge fan of him and the E Street band ever since. THANK YOU BRUCE!!!
If you weren't at those shows in the early days you just can't understand how much the stories and the long intros into his songs meant to the fans. The whole show was a story, his life story, our story. It explained how much the music, the stage, the fans, the whole rock and roll story meant to him, and us. He changed everything.
Thank you for posting this. This was one of the first versions of any Springsteen song I ever heard when I was 12 years old. Being from NE Ohio, my dad had an old cassette with a few of the songs on it from this concert. I'm 23 now and can honestly say that moments like these 13 minutes are part of the reason I have become who I am; college grad, in my career field, and musician. Thank you again. God bless.
@@MrTheHillfolk Cleveland has a deep and true rock and roll history. Not even for the band's that everyone thinks about either. Rocket from the Tombs, Pere Ubu, Peter Laughner. Some really great music was made in that city...
I did too Mike Roby! The Cleveland Agora was the finest spot in Cleveland, even when local bands were playing. I was there nearly every Thursday for Easy Street & One Dollar Draft night! I'd give anything to go back in time!!
If you saw this concert, you will never forget it for the rest of your life. First of all, you had to WIN tickets to see it, and there were only 50 pairs of tickets released. The Cleveland Agora had just been remodeled, there were tables, and my friend and I had one right near the stage. Lastly, Springateen had not been able to perform or record anything for 2 years before this performance since he was suing his manager for creative control. I've seen "The Boss" three times, and this, by far, was the best. BTW, Kid Leo was very known at WMMS-FM as the DJ who helped Springsteen break out in Cleveland. Another thing that happened -was Clarence Clemmons had his Nackemichi tape player stolen out of his dressing room. (If you listen closely, Springsteen says: "You want me to ask God -- what? Who stole your tape player?" Finally, this was quite an event since it was simulcast not only in Cleveland, but other radio stations in other cities (such as Minneapolis, Detroit, Indianapolis )
In November, 1978, he came to Northwestern U. in Evanston, IL. We sat on folding chairs in about the 20th row for nearly 4 HRS! I was 22... I have yet to see a better concert in the past 41 yrs; the passion, the grit, the intensity will prob never be matched
I've been searching for this version of Growing Up for years. I guess I was searching with wrong tag words. Thank you for sharing it. This song shaped my life. Growing up near Cleveland, this was the anthem of the times. From 13 til now, it's still my favorite song.
I was home listening on the radio... because I was one year underage to get into the Agora (what would become my favorite dancing watering hole!) SOOOOO sorry I was born in '61 and not '60 that night!!!
Greg Nold Lived in Cleveland from 95-06, and listened to wncx cause mr classic on Saturday night is the best thing I've ever heard. I was out there for a week recently and caught the show again and he played this so I hadda find it
this takes me back to fellows perpetually cutting-up receiving flack which after confiding they dug donny osmond style music more than stones pleaded i stay mum_
Mike Roby, it was just one of those things. I did not have a fake ID, and once I knew about Bruce coming to town, there was no time to get one. There was a guy in the Terminal Tower who made them for you if you had enough $$, but the word was they were crap and didn't always get you in.
I was born in 1960 and got in using a friend's birth certificate in 1976. I would pass it to my other friend behind me! Ah, the simple life... Then again, we were girls ; )
there was the whole concert. It has disappeared as a whole concert, only able to find single songs now. I really want to find the whole concert again myself.
Yes there was recording of the entire concert. Actually they finally released it and it's available for sale. The bootleg was called "teenage wearwolf" i imagine the official release is similar
This song is all about Springsteen finding his vocation in life. He pissed in his desk as a form of rebellion and was sent home to his parents to stop fooling around with himself. "How did they know what I was doing in my room at night?"
