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
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).
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?"
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 !!!!!
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!!!!
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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?
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 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.")
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.
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!
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.
