Thunder Road (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London '75) 

i was just three years old but when i've seen it for the first time as teenager, this concert was a driver force for my life.. if i had a wish, it would be to assist to that concert... can you describe it with more details?

@@MrThebestdirector Yes. Bruce came down on his knees and took the girl in front row aisle seat (north side) by the hand and sang just to her. It was eerily quiet, just like here. Then he scampered back up on stage and there was an instant standing ovation -- but everybody was standing on their chairs. Never seen that before or since. Incredible show of appreciation and respect. But watching this you can understand. In Toronto that night it was a typically cold late December night, about -24 C at show time, colder when we got out. The band's wheels were a mid-1960s GM motorhome and it was left running during the show to keep it warm for their trip home to New Jersey. There's a great bootleg of that night but about half the later songs were missed because the taper's batteries got too cold in the GA line-up outside.... My friends that I hauled along teased me that they would hate it, but they were on their chairs applauding with everyone else after Thunder Road. Now I tease them... I knew Born To Run then, but didn't know his first two records and hearing their songs live the first time blew me away. Rosalita was just one of the showstoppers...

The best rock 'n roll song ever.

Hey, SuperDirtyPickle! Great handle. I'm still laughing my tuchas off. oOh yeah. Great song and one awesome version!!!

Agree

Moron

Life.

Well, at least there’s Lil Nas X and Sam Smith.

@@Eskewsme and Cheap Trick 😀

I was also at Hammersmith Odeon in 1975 but I only got to see The Who on Dec 23rd. If I'd hid underneath my seat I'd have got to see Queen the next night. I'd like to think some of my dna remained to appreciate such history.

That concert was awesome on film. I can only imagine what it was like live. When I'm down, I watch the film and it elevates me.

@@yankeespy3 I’ve got a ticket for Bruce concert at Wembley in 2 weeks ,my wife brought it for my 70th birthday..can’t wait !

@@jce2024 Happy 70th!

Not really😮

The original version had a chorus. I kind of like it.

@@brianrobison5871 This is a great piece

And this is how he opened the show

@@jbsamakis Just listen to Roy on the ivories

Lyrically no there are no choruses. But there are musically

Hang in there young fellow. Keep rocking "The Boss"

The Boss has seen me through some dark times and sad times but also made me sing out loud Stick in there, let the Boss guide you through

Your not weak your alot stronger than you think, respect man keep it up live every day as well as you can, ❤️

Keep listening, Bruce heals the soul. God Bless my young friend❤🎶

Feeling the same way. I’m seventeen

artist and band

Fucking same

alright lets go ;)

Me too. 30,000 people claim they were that night!

You and me both

i would love to go back in time, and see bruce do these early songs. so awesome, unfortunately i would have been like 5-6 years old lols

@joe jitsu After the Time and Newsweek's covers a lot of people I knew liked to diss on Springsteen. I would always challenge them to go to one of his concerts and then get back to me. I never had anyone come back disappointed. Of course the tickets were only ten bucks or so back in those days..

@joe jitsu I can honestly say I was a Springsteen fan prior to Born to Run, we had a really great college station that played his earlier stuff, but that album took rock and roll and myself to a whole new place. Born to Run is the only song that I remember exactly where and what I was doing when I first heard it. I was setting in my moms car listening to the radio while she payed some bills. The moment it ended I literally ran to Camelot music, the only record shop in town. I then had I bought the very first Born to Run album sold in Raleigh TN. a suburb of Memphis. I bought it before the record store had even put it on their shelf, the clerk was kind enough to get it out of a shipment that was still in the back. .

Great tribute, truth. Thanks.

joe jitsu, I saw him in I think 75 at Carter Barron Amphitheater in DC. Outdoor venue in Rock Creek Park, summer, Still remember a fantastic show. Songs from Asbury Park and Wild and Innocent. Not sure if BtR was out yet. Long time ago and a lot of water under the bridge.

1oldgoat Beautiful story!! I love Springsteen but my generation has NO musical heroes or magic lyricists.. i feel like i was born in the wrong generation! I wish i could take a time machine back to 1974 and see Springsteen before the masses moved in.

It's never too late your prince may still be out there for you

Still learning this on piano it’s a bit tricky so I hope to be at full speed soon

Well done you for trying a Roy Bitten piano piece. He's a top notch pianist and I imagine his parts are quite intricate to play. I'd love to have a go at one, but never been brave enough to try! I'm playing River Flows in You by Yiruma, but I can't play it at his pace!

You forgot Backstreets

Shame 9n me for that

Don't forget Jungleland also

In my opinion the Born to run album is the greatest album of all time, every song gets you emotional. That is special.

My top 2

I was there and I’ve not found better, you ain’t a beauty but hey you’re alright, everyone now sings along with, and rightly so, but how nice to hear it as a solo.

Not even close lol

Your right. Just wish the lightning was better lol

@@p4ddy100 ... and maybe the hats.

AGREE

this is my favourite song of all ages. This version has got an extremely good feeling. But (in my opinion ) the best moment is missing. The best moment is the finale, after the line "....out of here to win" when the sax solo begins. This is missing.

@@xrhkotro3884 agree...but, you can't have everything...

Just the boss and the Professor. Gives me chills every time.

My favourite, the New Jersey concert with the Robert Mitchum story runs it very close but this more intimate version wins for me.

Absolutely agree with you. In fact, I think this is Bruce's finest moment. I think it is very moving.

My favorite Version of my favorite song

100% correct

This version is so emotive! Much better than the versions sings in his lates tours...

Best lyrical clarity, for sure! Audiophile quality sound, too!

It's poetry, not a rock song.

He’s an awesome writer. Get his book, it’s full of these stories; what it was like growing up in Jersey, in the shadow of the Church, literally

Yes. This is the best opening line of a song I've ever seen.

The imagery he paints with his songs is incredible

Ian I'm not positive but I believe it's Mary's dress wave's, I'm not sure but either way this tune, as almost all of his songs are just incredible, and he writes everything himself mostly, just incredible and thanks for the share, great share sir, have a great day...

I'm a child of the 80s, which means I missed the coolest Springsteen ( _Darkness at the Edge of Town, Nebraska_ ) and lived through the hyper macho _Born in the USA_ Springsteen, a caricature of the man I could never identify with. Years later, someone gifted me both the _Born to Run_ and _Darkness at the Edge of Town_ box sets and the former included a disc with this performance. I was floored. And then I realized that maybe the most interesting Springsteen was the one right after the release of _Born to Run_ and before superstardom. I would have loved to have been in the audience for that concert.

@@Azabaxe80 "hyper macho" is certainly a take....

@@YouBetterBelieveIt Springsteen did a podcast with Barack Obama called _Renegades: Born in the USA_ where both men talk about their lives and what motivated and affected them through the various stages of said lives. Springsteen talked about his alienation from the person he was during the _Born in the USA_ period. The weight lifting, the mass appeal, the Hollywood wife, all of it. I never identified with _that_ Springsteen, and lo and behold, neither does the man himself. And he was a lot more self-critical in those interviews than my "take" is. Give it a listen. It's free.

Metallica fan, hard to argue, & he's still awesome. Saw him a few years back, one of my favourite gigs, he was incredible.

It is indeed the most perfect version of the most perfect song ever created.

It truly is A Masterpiece trying to learn it on guitar now❤️

Amen

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Well written sir sorry for your loss

Tears is right. I lost my biker of 50 years last August. "The door is open but the RIDE AIN'T FREE!" So true!

For me it’s ‘so Mary climb in’ ❤

and they were right!

I had the chance to go to this concert but I was afraid that he might not live up the hype of being the future of rock n roll. So I turned down the chance. One of my best mates went and said it was the best concert he had ever seen. Sadly my mate is no longer with us RIP Steve

You're so lucky to have been there. To have seen Bruce and the band in 1975.

I've asked other people this question and never received a very good reply. I assume your first language is Portuguese but you appear to be very good with English as well. Which brings me to this question, A lot of English language bands have really great followings in countries where English isn't the first language. So do the people in those countries understand what the songs are saying? Is English that well understood in say Portugal? I know that very few Americans have a working knowledge of other languages which is why bands from non English speaking countries don't have the huge followings here that Springsteen and others have over there. In fact it seems that being multilingual is now being frowned upon in these strange times American's find ourselves living in..

@@goat2558 Thanks a lot for saying my English is good! Well, I don't think many people here understand what foreigner singers are meaning. I always try and read the lyrics when I think the song is good - in the case of Bruce, I don't like everything he writes, there are a few songs that doesn't please me... but I always want to know the lyrics, because Bruce is a poet first of all. His songs are so much better than other singer's... and he doesn't know, but he is a dear friend of mine. Thanks again. Greetings!

Specially home.....

And England too.

@Slomofogo Tudo bem! Boa noite!

Sooooo raw and full of yearning and hope here....as he said about the way he reacted to seeing the "Europe is finally ready for Bruce Springsteen" signs in each chair at the Hammersmith...going around and tearing them up...'It was too much. We were busy being born as a band". He was nervous and so unsure that night and he just took off once he stepped on stage

"Our greatest poet". Brilliant! "Our everyman". Thanks

Sorry that's Bob Dylan

You mean Warren Zevon?

And here in Tampa.

This version of this song is perfection.

Favorite song!!

Great story

I saw Bruce in St.Louis, Mo in 1974 at the Ambassador Theater & is still the best show I've ever seen & heard.

@@markliddle8510 OMG, you won't believe it but I was there, too. True. Small world. Saw every tour he did in St.Louis from the beginning all the way through 1981, when I moved to San Diego, including his epic 4 hour shows at Kiel Auditorium.. The Ambassador Theatre was a really great venue while it lasted. Saw at least a dozen shows there.

Perfecta!!!

It doesn't matter how slowly you move forward. Just dont stop. Keep going my friend.👍

Me too.

No matter what happens, keep moving forward and never give up on life! Life is a gift, no matter how bad the road conditions seem, there is always redemption after one of the curves. From experience in my more than 40 years, a good part of the road is dirty and badly finished, but the small stretches, which contain beautiful landscapes, will always come, and will be worth the journey! Never give up! Be alright! And always listen to the boss! (y)

@@rorstap Here, here, always have the album Born to Run close to you there is no better pick-me-up.

Stay strong

I’ve said this for years. This lyrical masterpiece is a movie if you close your eyes and just “watch”. He “paints” with lyrics. It’s just perfection.

@@jimmcdonald1506 ciao Jimm! Come stai? 🙋‍♀️😍😘💘🍀

Absolutely.

Agree

Andy Rouph I’m with you, Andy. I’m 21 wish I could’ve seen the Boss in his prime. Guess I have youtube, but to be at a show is a different vibe.

this is in my top 3, next to born to run and jungleland

He wrote this when he was 23. Singing here at 25. Just amazing genius

@Bruce Springsteen fake Comment!

Yes, it is the voice that made the musician. Bruce Sprignsteen was a punk in the old fashioned sense, i,.e., he would not take what was being pressed on him.

The genius of Danny Federici

Great tribute, thanks

The songs we love become part of our DNA. They are embedded in our brains and souls. They will be some of the last memories to fade before we leave this world.

Amen to that!

Yep. I find myself keep coming back to it, time and time again.