Fantastic. Sadly, due to copyright issues, the music had to be taken out. You can watch the whole thing on Rumble or X. Rumble: rumble.com/v5jkcj1-i-listen-to-bruce-springsteens-born-to-run-for-the-first-time-reaction.html X: x.com/iamsebsduran/status/1848419672120512832
I did too , at the los angels Coliseum, seats on the field! Did like a 1 1/2 hour encore . The greatest concert ever . The Boss Rocks & the band rocks ! RIP Clarence❤️😢🙏
I was at his concert in Oakland, same thing 4 hours we finally had to leave and we could still hear them down the freeway! Actually don't know how long it went after we left, but one amazing concert and the first time I had seen them but definitely not the last!!
I was backpacking around Australia for 3 months--when Bruce tickets went on sale for the Born in the USA tour at Melbourne Fairgrounds/Cricketgrounds, I got in line. I traveled 12,000 miles and this was one of many highlights of that trip. Unforgettable!
With Bruce, the genre is really just Springsteen. No one compares and there's no one similar. Bruce stands for freedom with respect and love. He's an absolute master lyricist and an electric performer!
Bruce "The Boss" has done New Jersey proud. The town he grew up in was the same town my mother grew up in and he sings about the working man. He is a legend without the massive ego. God bless him. Thanks for sharing.
It's a live performance because that's the way to experience the Boss. After finally getting a record deal and releasing two critically acclaimed but financially unsuccessful records, he had "one last chance to make it real" on the last record in his record deal. He spent 6 months recording this one song. Its early release saved his career. Somewhere around 2.5 and 3 hours into his concert, when you're feet are killing you, you legs are dead, and you have no voice, he counts out 1, 2, the house lights go up, Bruce hits the guitar, Max hits the drum, and 15-65,000 of your newest closest friends join you somewhere on Highway 9. That's rock 'n' roll! And RIP to the Big Man and Danny.
An interesting note about Bruce...he wrote & arranged all of the music, so he takes all of the money from the record sales. However, he & the band share equally all of the money earned while on tour. His opinion is that everyone is required to kick ass every night on tour, so they should share equally in the tour earnings. Cheers to a unique & talented singer, songwriter, & performer...
Clarence Clemens was on saxophone. One of the guitarist was Steven Van Zandt who was on the TV series, The Sopranos. The drummer, Max Weinberg, was also the band leader on The Conan O'Brien Show. Steven and Max remained members of the E-Street Band while doing their other shows. Clarence Clemons died in 2011. There is a UA-cam video of him playing The National Anthem at an MLB game.
trivia: the drums on BTR are played by Ernest Carter, a childhood friend of David Sancious. I think its the only song he plays on. An excellent drummer, Weinberg says Carter had a jazz/fusion influence that you can hear on BTR and he has always tried to respect when playing the song.
A friend gave me the Born to Run album for Christmas, 1975, and that was that. I immediately became a huge Springsteen fan, and am to this day. One of the good guys of the universe and an impeccable songwriter. A detail rarely mentioned: he took care of his band. Traveled with a nutritionist and catered the best of the best healthy meals. It's HARD to do things right on the road, he made it his business to make that part easy.
Anthem of working class kids seeing how life had beaten our parents into the ground and we didn’t want it! We would holler this out the windows of our old souped up muscle cars. It was so Rock n Roll it made us feel free to
I discovered Bruce in the 70's when I was in college. My housemate, Dave and I used to take weekend trips from Philly to the Jersey shore. Bruce played there every weekend in Asbury Park at the now famous Stone Pony. After "Born to Run" was released, I could only see him at the Philadelphia Spectrum. All the lucky folks who saw Bruce first, down the Jersey Shore, have always claimed Bruce as their's (including me).
Seeing Bruce and the E Street Band in concert in the 80s was one of the higlights of my LIFE. Literally the most amazing concert I've ever been to. He played for FOUR HOURS. It was my very first live concert and needless to say it spoiled me for all other concerts that didn't have the same energy or length.
The fact that he, or any person, could write a song this powerful at 24 or 25 years old. Wow. Just think about the talent ❤. Regardless about what any person may say or think about Bruce Springsteen, you can't deny the talent.
He expresses what it felt like to be a kid in NJ in the early 70s. It was as confusing and terrifying for us then as it is for young people now. You fight back with desperate joy and hope.
So....I am from New Jersey.. and have been a huge fan for 40 years. As a singer-songwriter. There is absolutely no one on Bruce's tier. As a Front Man the only two in his league or Freddie Mercury and Mick Jagger. E Street is elite. Incredibly talented and amazingly professional.. they have largely been together for 50 years. I have been too many. This past summer, I took the fam to Europe in part to See Bruce in Milan. He has an immense international Fan Base. Four hour Concerts are still the norm and one huge sing-a-long party. The Grand theme of Bruce's music is hope for a better life; the chasm between the Now and the "Not Yet"; The distance between the working man's life and the Hope of the American Dream. His lyrics hold this extraordinary tension between Lament and Hope but he holds both with such infectious passion particularly in concert when he and E Street rev the crowd up I could go on and on.. But I would point you to. One Performance; Badlands performed Live in Barcelona. ua-cam.com/video/f3cecpC75vw/v-deo.html
You make a good point - very few band fronts come close. Possibly Elton John but defo Freddie and Mick. Me and the wife also love Bryan Adams and whilst he is sort of cut from the same cloth a Bruce he's not quite there but very good all the same.
I went to countless concerts of his in the 70s, 80's, and once or twice in recent decades. His shows are always like 4 hours long and the energy is incredible, as well as completely infectious.
My first time catching your channel. I'm 77, started playing drums as a kid & started my 1st band in 1964 after seeing The Beatles' 1st tour. In 1967, my band opened for the doors & I played for another 30 years, partying with Jefferson Airplane & Blue Cheer, hitting on Grace Slick & Janis Joplin (no luck*) & trying to make it in San Francisco in the late 60s, early 80s. I LOVE watching your generation discover & react to my music & times. I subscribed & look forward to more of your great responses! 💯👍
I saw Bruce, Clarence and the band at least 10 times. 1973- 74 in little bars in Jersey…then he exploded when I got to college…last time was in the late 80’s in LA in the Coliseum for the born in the USA. Seeing them in concert was phenomenal ! His concerts went on for hours and hours.
You know it doesn't happen anymore but we used to have places that we used to go cruising it would be like a little area of town or some big long road on the beach and people would just drive up and down this is top down hair blowing in the wind music turned up as loud as humanly possible and singing at the top of your lungs music
Brandon Flowers from the Killers openly admits that he worships at the altar of Springsteen. I know he's a happy guy generally, but you'll never see him smiling bigger than when he's sharing a stage with Bruce (which happens quite often, they've guested for each other a few times).
Before Brian Fallon reunited the Gaslight Anthem he met Bruce for pizza seeking his counsel. Bruce listened and told him to get the band back together and the rest is history. Their latest album is awesome. Like many younger rockers he worships at the same alter.
Harry Chapin was the poet of the ordinary guys. Jackson Browne was the poet of the dreamers. Jim Croce was the poet of the down-on-your-luck guys. Bruce, he was (and still is) the poet of the working man.
Classmates in the mid 80's in tech college went to Bruce's hotel to see if they could get a sighting of him. He came out to go for a run and they approached him. He told them that he was headed for a run but if they hung around he would talk when he came back. They stayed and true to his word he spoke to them for a little while till he had to leave.
We went to the New Year’s Eve Concert at Nassau Coliseum 12/31/1980. I am lucky to have lived historic moments. We had no idea it would go into the New Year. The band sang Old Lang at Midnight and continued playing. It was Beyond Amazing
I'm listening to your reaction on a Tuesday afternoon, but dreaming it is Friday 6pm in the mid/late 1970s. A local Cleveland radio station, WMMS, played this song, "Friday on My Mind", and "Cleveland Rocks" every Friday early evening to officially kick off the weekend. We saw Springsteen in concert in Cleveland in 1974 (?). Good times, good memories!
Went to a show in the year 2002 ... he could have phoned it in back then ... he was huge ... but the dude and his band played for 3 hours and 45 minutes. They gave 200% ! Worth every penny .
You're getting emotional because Bruce is an authentic, heartfelt, human, being. Packed with depth and passion. He and Obama are pals, and have a nine episode podcast conversation that is tremendous - and you'll know again why you - we - get emotional.
If you want to experience the real talent of Bruce and the E Street Band, check out his cover of Chuck Berry's you never can tell, live from Copenhagen. Bruce is known live to take requests from the crowd and will always play something not on hi 3 hour plus set list. The way he conducts the band and works out the arrangement of this is just genius.
B2R was released in 1975. In 1986, he re-released the song (along with this MTV video) in a box set of 40 songs, live performances. Live/1975-85 is the second-best-selling live album in US history (13× platinum).
It's one of those songs that you don't listen to but you just feel! It always painted a vision of youth in America for me. Saw the band in Germany and it was such a long gig! It was awesome.
saw Bruce in the early 80's and when sax player Clarence first strode forward to play the crowd rose as one to cheer. Absolutely brilliant concert, seen many concerts before and since but by far the best
Saw him back to back nights here in St Louis loooong time ago at the Kiel Opera House - only 3500 seats. Had to enter a lottery to get tickets. First night - 1st row -first mezzanine. Second night - second row in front of the stage right in front of Clarence. Two nights I will never forget.
I saw him in Atlanta, GA in 2009 and I believe he was in his mid 60s and still running and sliding across stage on his knees. It was an epic concert and the closing song was Born to Run. No one was in their seats
I went to his concert at the Allen theater in 1976. It was fantastic. I had tickets for August 7th & 8th tickets were really inexpensive back then. Sat in row five on the floor. I gave my brother and his friend my tickets for the 8th.
I was never a huge Springsteen fan when most of his hits were released. Mostly because I was working 7 days a week and 12 to 16 hours a day and I didn't have time to pay attention to music. Then I happened to record a live from New York HBO special and I thought it was so great I watched it over and over. I realized most of his songs were blue collar anthems I could relate to.
Springsteen was under pressure from the record company to generate a hit or he'd lose his contract. His first 2 albums were well reviewed but didn't sell well. All he did was put together the Born To Run Album. This is a record is 100% great songs. The title track, Thunder Road, and the album's final song Jungleland are all amazingly great songs. The rest of the album is all great. He ended up on the cover of Time and Newsweek magazines (the top publications at that time) at the same time and had huge success with the album.
Springsteen shows are epic. When we went, he came out and played 2 hours, took an intermission, and he came back on for 2 more hours!! Amazing, and what a blast. Gotta love "The Boss", and RIP Clarence.
Back in late 70s and early 80s WMMS Cleveland played the Easybeats Friday on my Mind and Springsteens Born to Run at 6pm every Friday night to start the weekend.
Bruce - This compilation is from performances during and after the Born in the USA tour- many years after it was first recorded. Bruce and the E Street Band were phenomenal live - likely that is why they choose this as the official video. I suggest you check out the performance at the No Nukes concert - so tight and so rockin'
Ha. Loved that you hear this as punk rock. I don't think anyone who has known, heard, grown up with Springsteen could have had that perspective. But there is that rawness and energy to this storytelling. It's almost a declaration and a challenge to fight to breakout and be yourself.
The band IS phenomenal! During his 4 hr performance, Bruce would duck out for an ENTIRE song for dry clothes, water, etc. the band would continue with an instrumental taking turns on solos. Bruce would give the band a break while he either told a story of “Growing Up” or did a song with just an acoustic guitar. Electric performances!!!
He said he wanted to write THE epic rock& roll song, so he knew it had to have cars,girls & rebellion… the “big man” is Clarence Clemons. The story goes Bruce was playing in a dive bar on the Jersey shore & it was storming outside. Well supposedly when Clarence came in,he opened the door & it blew completely off the hinges. Springsteen said all he could see because of the lights was the door blowing off & a silhouette of this huge black man standing there & thought I gotta meet this dude. Became lifelong best friends after that night
My husband is from Long Branch, NJ and same age as Bruce and Clarence. They used to all hang out in the clubs together ‘back in the day.’ He says this song is what it was like on the streets and the beach back then. ❤
Absolutely phenomenal live performances by Springsteen and the E Street Band. Big Clarence on the sax is iconic. Their concerts were....a really good experience. I'm biased (because I'm old) but his early stuff like this is his best IMHO.
Clarence Clemons (RIP) was known to ALL as 'THE Big Man. His nephew Jake is now on sax in the band. At 75 years young, he still plays 3 hours every gig, and a different set list EVERY night
This song freedd me from an abusive relationship. I heard i t and I knew I had to get away,..right then. And I did. I packed, I got into my Cougar and was gone. I never looked back.
Clarence Clemons - sax player - known as "The Big Man" ❤. And most of Springsteen's music is about how to break out of the trap of going nowhere jobs with no future. And that's Patti Scialfa, who became his wife. Also, this was in the 80's - he started in the early 70's... and no this isn't punk. This is hardcore American rocknroll. Punk was "F**k the establishment". Bruce has always been about "see everyone. include everyone. Nobody wins unless everybody wins"
This album was released in 1975, about 5 years short of music videos. So videos of multiple live performances from years later, shown over the audio of the studio version, were chosen for the official video. Wendy is just a character in the song (or someone he used to know). He was married briefly to Julianne Phillips, then married Patti Schialfa, who you see here, who was a band member first. If you listen to early Springsteen, like the album The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle, it's even punkier.
Good music makes you want to be a better person !!!......thank you, these are THE words !!!. I couldn't describe in a better way what The Boss...The E Street Band...their MUSIC, altogether, do to people !!!.
Sebs, for the best imho Springsteen performance you must listen to: Thunder Road (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London '75). It is absolutely jaw dropping.... one of the best live performances i have ever heard.... and i am not a huge Springsteen fan.....God bless the BBC engineer that recorded THAT SOUND in 1975! It is hard to get sound that good today! BTW - a lot of really old BBC videos of concerts are exceptional in quality. Neil young Old Man is sooooo goood.
In 1985, Clarence Clemons (the sax player, RIP big guy ❤️) and Jackson Browne recorded a song "You're A Friend of Mine". Knowing how you like Jackson you should check it out. A really great song.
If you have the chance to still see Bruce do it I just saw him in LA and he put on a 3 1/2 hour show and killed it!!!! it was my first time seeing him live and easily worth it now I know why people go to hundreds of these shows
That’s it Sebs! His first _album_ , “Born to Run,” was fire throughout. And it had I think his masterpiece, similar to this song but complete, in “Jungleland.” The man has character. I like his album “Nebraska” best, especially the haunting “Atlantic City.” I hope you react to both of those songs. Thanks friend!
Fantastic. Sadly, due to copyright issues, the music had to be taken out. You can watch the whole thing on Rumble or X.
Rumble: rumble.com/v5jkcj1-i-listen-to-bruce-springsteens-born-to-run-for-the-first-time-reaction.html
X: x.com/iamsebsduran/status/1848419672120512832
I went to his concert back in 85-86. It was billed as a 2 hour show which lasted 4 hours! Amazing performer who cares about the fans.
I did too , at the los angels Coliseum, seats on the field! Did like a 1 1/2 hour encore . The greatest concert ever .
The Boss Rocks & the band rocks ! RIP Clarence❤️😢🙏
I went to his concert in NJ Meadowlands. It was insanely moving. About 4 hours of celebration of life.
same, and agreed
I was at his concert in Oakland, same thing 4 hours we finally had to leave and we could still hear them down the freeway! Actually don't know how long it went after we left, but one amazing concert and the first time I had seen them but definitely not the last!!
I was backpacking around Australia for 3 months--when Bruce tickets went on sale for the Born in the USA tour at Melbourne Fairgrounds/Cricketgrounds, I got in line. I traveled 12,000 miles and this was one of many highlights of that trip. Unforgettable!
With Bruce, the genre is really just Springsteen. No one compares and there's no one similar. Bruce stands for freedom with respect and love. He's an absolute master lyricist and an electric performer!
And remains the undefeated champion to this day. GOAT
Bruce "The Boss" has done New Jersey proud. The town he grew up in was the same town my mother grew up in and he sings about the working man. He is a legend without the massive ego. God bless him. Thanks for sharing.
Big Clarence Clemens on sax! RIP big guy.
Yes he was one of a kind
Saw him twice in the 80th and last year. The energy of a Bruce Springsteen concert is beyond words ❤
It's a live performance because that's the way to experience the Boss. After finally getting a record deal and releasing two critically acclaimed but financially unsuccessful records, he had "one last chance to make it real" on the last record in his record deal. He spent 6 months recording this one song. Its early release saved his career. Somewhere around 2.5 and 3 hours into his concert, when you're feet are killing you, you legs are dead, and you have no voice, he counts out 1, 2, the house lights go up, Bruce hits the guitar, Max hits the drum, and 15-65,000 of your newest closest friends join you somewhere on Highway 9. That's rock 'n' roll! And RIP to the Big Man and Danny.
An interesting note about Bruce...he wrote & arranged all of the music, so he takes all of the money from the record sales. However, he & the band share equally all of the money earned while on tour. His opinion is that everyone is required to kick ass every night on tour, so they should share equally in the tour earnings. Cheers to a unique & talented singer, songwriter, & performer...
Clarence Clemens was on saxophone. One of the guitarist was Steven Van Zandt who was on the TV series, The Sopranos. The drummer, Max Weinberg, was also the band leader on The Conan O'Brien Show. Steven and Max remained members of the E-Street Band while doing their other shows. Clarence Clemons died in 2011. There is a UA-cam video of him playing The National Anthem at an MLB game.
trivia: the drums on BTR are played by Ernest Carter, a childhood friend of David Sancious. I think its the only song he plays on. An excellent drummer, Weinberg says Carter had a jazz/fusion influence that you can hear on BTR and he has always tried to respect when playing the song.
A friend gave me the Born to Run album for Christmas, 1975, and that was that. I immediately became a huge Springsteen fan, and am to this day. One of the good guys of the universe and an impeccable songwriter. A detail rarely mentioned: he took care of his band. Traveled with a nutritionist and catered the best of the best healthy meals. It's HARD to do things right on the road, he made it his business to make that part easy.
Anthem of working class kids seeing how life had beaten our parents into the ground and we didn’t want it! We would holler this out the windows of our old souped up muscle cars. It was so Rock n Roll it made us feel free to
I discovered Bruce in the 70's when I was in college. My housemate, Dave and I used to take weekend trips from Philly to the Jersey shore. Bruce played there every weekend in Asbury Park at the now famous Stone Pony. After "Born to Run" was released, I could only see him at the Philadelphia Spectrum. All the lucky folks who saw Bruce first, down the Jersey Shore, have always claimed Bruce as their's (including me).
Seeing Bruce and the E Street Band in concert in the 80s was one of the higlights of my LIFE. Literally the most amazing concert I've ever been to. He played for FOUR HOURS. It was my very first live concert and needless to say it spoiled me for all other concerts that didn't have the same energy or length.
The fact that he, or any person, could write a song this powerful at 24 or 25 years old. Wow. Just think about the talent ❤. Regardless about what any person may say or think about Bruce Springsteen, you can't deny the talent.
He expresses what it felt like to be a kid in NJ in the early 70s. It was as confusing and terrifying for us then as it is for young people now. You fight back with desperate joy and hope.
So....I am from New Jersey.. and have been a huge fan for 40 years. As a singer-songwriter. There is absolutely no one on Bruce's tier. As a Front Man the only two in his league or Freddie Mercury and Mick Jagger. E Street is elite. Incredibly talented and amazingly professional.. they have largely been together for 50 years. I have been too many. This past summer, I took the fam to Europe in part to See Bruce in Milan. He has an immense international Fan Base. Four hour Concerts are still the norm and one huge sing-a-long party.
The Grand theme of Bruce's music is hope for a better life; the chasm between the Now and the "Not Yet"; The distance between the working man's life and the Hope of the American Dream. His lyrics hold this extraordinary tension between Lament and Hope but he holds both with such infectious passion particularly in concert when he and E Street rev the crowd up I could go on and on.. But I would point you to. One Performance; Badlands performed Live in Barcelona. ua-cam.com/video/f3cecpC75vw/v-deo.html
Well said. Grew up in Joisey and saw them a few times. Always a great show and lots of play with the audience. Miss the Jersey Shore.
You make a good point - very few band fronts come close. Possibly Elton John but defo Freddie and Mick. Me and the wife also love Bryan Adams and whilst he is sort of cut from the same cloth a Bruce he's not quite there but very good all the same.
Such a great song. And Bruce is a great human being.
Bruce is a muscular poet. He touches on subjects like the people who are down, dispossessed, and ignored.
man the poets down here don't write nothing at all they just stand back and let it all be
I went to countless concerts of his in the 70s, 80's, and once or twice in recent decades. His shows are always like 4 hours long and the energy is incredible, as well as completely infectious.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. What a group!!!
My first time catching your channel. I'm 77, started playing drums as a kid & started my 1st band in 1964 after seeing The Beatles' 1st tour. In 1967, my band opened for the doors & I played for another 30 years, partying with Jefferson Airplane & Blue Cheer, hitting on Grace Slick & Janis Joplin (no luck*) & trying to make it in San Francisco in the late 60s, early 80s. I LOVE watching your generation discover & react to my music & times. I subscribed & look forward to more of your great responses! 💯👍
Clarence Clemons “Big Man “ played sax for Bruce from 1972-2011, died in 2011. His sax had a unique style.
The master piece (IMHO) of Springsteen is "Jungle Land" it shows the song writing skills, the depth of the band, it is just amazing.
Live in NYC
I’m here because it’s Springsteen, of course. Play all his hits and you’ll be hooked too.
Me and my wife. 49 years. We lived every minute of it. Thanks Bruce.
He wrote very sweet song...
Called if i should fall behind....im on fire is my fav....along with ..if i should fall behind...❤❤❤❤❤❤
I came here because "Born to Run" was my late sister's favorite Springsteen tune. Miss you sis, see you on the flip side ...
I saw Bruce, Clarence and the band at least 10 times. 1973- 74 in little bars in Jersey…then he exploded when I got to college…last time was in the late 80’s in LA in the Coliseum for the born in the USA. Seeing them in concert was phenomenal ! His concerts went on for hours and hours.
You know it doesn't happen anymore but we used to have places that we used to go cruising it would be like a little area of town or some big long road on the beach and people would just drive up and down this is top down hair blowing in the wind music turned up as loud as humanly possible and singing at the top of your lungs music
One of the best songs EVER! The louder the better!
Brandon Flowers from the Killers openly admits that he worships at the altar of Springsteen. I know he's a happy guy generally, but you'll never see him smiling bigger than when he's sharing a stage with Bruce (which happens quite often, they've guested for each other a few times).
Before Brian Fallon reunited the Gaslight Anthem he met Bruce for pizza seeking his counsel. Bruce listened and told him to get the band back together and the rest is history. Their latest album is awesome. Like many younger rockers he worships at the same alter.
He's the Boss!
Bruce does not ever give a subpar concert! All the one's that I have been in attendance to have lasted 3-4 hours. Such a performer.
Harry Chapin was the poet of the ordinary guys. Jackson Browne was the poet of the dreamers. Jim Croce was the poet of the down-on-your-luck guys. Bruce, he was (and still is) the poet of the working man.
True, that.
Classmates in the mid 80's in tech college went to Bruce's hotel to see if they could get a sighting of him. He came out to go for a run and they approached him. He told them that he was headed for a run but if they hung around he would talk when he came back. They stayed and true to his word he spoke to them for a little while till he had to leave.
We went to the New Year’s Eve Concert at Nassau Coliseum 12/31/1980. I am lucky to have lived historic moments. We had no idea it would go into the New Year. The band sang Old Lang at Midnight and continued playing. It was Beyond Amazing
The Boss was a king of live concerts.
Always liked him when I was in school, but didn’t really “get” the meanings until I was an adult. He’s an American icon.
I'm listening to your reaction on a Tuesday afternoon, but dreaming it is Friday 6pm in the mid/late 1970s. A local Cleveland radio station, WMMS, played this song, "Friday on My Mind", and "Cleveland Rocks" every Friday early evening to officially kick off the weekend. We saw Springsteen in concert in Cleveland in 1974 (?). Good times, good memories!
My first concert. Fourth grade. Born in the USA!😍
One of the best videos of all time. It perfectly captures Bruce and the band.
The last clip off the massive crowd was Slane Ireland ,I was there ,
Never ever forget it ❤❤❤
Went to a show in the year 2002 ... he could have phoned it in back then ... he was huge ... but the dude and his band played for 3 hours and 45 minutes. They gave 200% ! Worth every penny .
Check out the studio version too, it really tightens up everything. ❤
You're getting emotional because Bruce is an authentic, heartfelt, human, being. Packed with depth and passion. He and Obama are pals, and have a nine episode podcast conversation that is tremendous - and you'll know again why you - we - get emotional.
If you want to experience the real talent of Bruce and the E Street Band, check out his cover of Chuck Berry's you never can tell, live from Copenhagen. Bruce is known live to take requests from the crowd and will always play something not on hi 3 hour plus set list. The way he conducts the band and works out the arrangement of this is just genius.
B2R was released in 1975. In 1986, he re-released the song (along with this MTV video) in a box set of 40 songs, live performances. Live/1975-85 is the second-best-selling live album in US history (13× platinum).
It's about time you checked Springsteen out......he is my go to.....LOVE BORN TO RUN.❤❤❤
This song goes off on every road trip I’ve ever had. 😂
I adore Clarence Clements on the sax!
Rock and roll will never die!!!!
It's one of those songs that you don't listen to but you just feel! It always painted a vision of youth in America for me. Saw the band in Germany and it was such a long gig! It was awesome.
Bruce was unique. His energy on stage was fire. 🔥
saw Bruce in the early 80's and when sax player Clarence first strode forward to play the crowd rose as one to cheer. Absolutely brilliant concert, seen many concerts before and since but by far the best
Saw him back to back nights here in St Louis loooong time ago at the Kiel Opera House - only 3500 seats. Had to enter a lottery to get tickets. First night - 1st row -first mezzanine. Second night - second row in front of the stage right in front of Clarence. Two nights I will never forget.
I saw him in Atlanta, GA in 2009 and I believe he was in his mid 60s and still running and sliding across stage on his knees. It was an epic concert and the closing song was Born to Run. No one was in their seats
I went to his concert at the Allen theater in 1976. It was fantastic. I had tickets for August 7th & 8th tickets were really inexpensive back then. Sat in row five on the floor. I gave my brother and his friend my tickets for the 8th.
Growing up in bumfiddle nowhere, this song saved my life.
BRUCE'S "MASTERPIECE" FOR SURE!!❤👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😎
I love this song because I was young and free and in college and it is America.
Springsteen has such beautiful music!
Bruce was elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a performer.
The E-Street Band was inducted 10 years later.
I was never a huge Springsteen fan when most of his hits were released. Mostly because I was working 7 days a week and 12 to 16 hours a day and I didn't have time to pay attention to music.
Then I happened to record a live from New York HBO special and I thought it was so great I watched it over and over. I realized most of his songs were blue collar anthems I could relate to.
Springsteen was under pressure from the record company to generate a hit or he'd lose his contract. His first 2 albums were well reviewed but didn't sell well. All he did was put together the Born To Run Album. This is a record is 100% great songs. The title track, Thunder Road, and the album's final song Jungleland are all amazingly great songs. The rest of the album is all great. He ended up on the cover of Time and Newsweek magazines (the top publications at that time) at the same time and had huge success with the album.
The studio version is definitely better. One of my all time favorite songs.
Springsteen shows are epic. When we went, he came out and played 2 hours, took an intermission, and he came back on for 2 more hours!! Amazing, and what a blast. Gotta love "The Boss", and RIP Clarence.
Back in late 70s and early 80s WMMS Cleveland played the Easybeats Friday on my Mind and Springsteens Born to Run at 6pm every Friday night to start the weekend.
This song was popular when I would go down to the Jersey shore
I saw him in Greensboro, NC before the album "Born to Run" was released. The boy played his butt off!
This was a hit before MTV so there wasn't originally a video. Yep, I'm old. ;-)
🤫 I won’t tell anyone if you don’t
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Bruce - This compilation is from performances during and after the Born in the USA tour- many years after it was first recorded. Bruce and the E Street Band were phenomenal live - likely that is why they choose this as the official video. I suggest you check out the performance at the No Nukes concert - so tight and so rockin'
Ha. Loved that you hear this as punk rock. I don't think anyone who has known, heard, grown up with Springsteen could have had that perspective. But there is that rawness and energy to this storytelling. It's almost a declaration and a challenge to fight to breakout and be yourself.
SPRINGSTEEN HAS A LOT OF "AMERICAN ROCK" ANTHEMS!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
HE'S FROM NEW JERSEY!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Saw him lived in Houston AMAZING.
The band IS phenomenal! During his 4 hr performance, Bruce would duck out for an ENTIRE song for dry clothes, water, etc. the band would continue with an instrumental taking turns on solos. Bruce would give the band a break while he either told a story of “Growing Up” or did a song with just an acoustic guitar. Electric performances!!!
Imagine how awesome this song/performance is that became the official video ❤
Because......... He's THE BOSS! 😊
He said he wanted to write THE epic rock& roll song, so he knew it had to have cars,girls & rebellion… the “big man” is Clarence Clemons. The story goes Bruce was playing in a dive bar on the Jersey shore & it was storming outside. Well supposedly when Clarence came in,he opened the door & it blew completely off the hinges. Springsteen said all he could see because of the lights was the door blowing off & a silhouette of this huge black man standing there & thought I gotta meet this dude. Became lifelong best friends after that night
My husband is from Long Branch, NJ and same age as Bruce and Clarence. They used to all hang out in the clubs together ‘back in the day.’ He says this song is what it was like on the streets and the beach back then. ❤
Absolutely phenomenal live performances by Springsteen and the E Street Band. Big Clarence on the sax is iconic. Their concerts were....a really good experience. I'm biased (because I'm old) but his early stuff like this is his best IMHO.
This song is about New Jersey, where Bruce grew up. The "highway 9" that is mentioned in the lyrics runs the length of New Jersey.
Clarence Clemons (RIP) was known to ALL as 'THE Big Man. His nephew Jake is now on sax in the band. At 75 years young, he still plays 3 hours every gig, and a different set list EVERY night
This song freedd me from an abusive relationship. I heard i t and I knew I had to get away,..right then. And I did. I packed, I got into my Cougar and was gone. I never looked back.
in 1972 a girl in my HS had Bruce play in her basement for her sweet 16 Birthday party! 4 years later I saw him at the Spectrum in Philly!!
He is Da Boss .
It's a great song
Clarence Clemons - sax player - known as "The Big Man" ❤. And most of Springsteen's music is about how to break out of the trap of going nowhere jobs with no future. And that's Patti Scialfa, who became his wife. Also, this was in the 80's - he started in the early 70's... and no this isn't punk. This is hardcore American rocknroll. Punk was "F**k the establishment". Bruce has always been about "see everyone. include everyone. Nobody wins unless everybody wins"
This album was released in 1975, about 5 years short of music videos. So videos of multiple live performances from years later, shown over the audio of the studio version, were chosen for the official video. Wendy is just a character in the song (or someone he used to know). He was married briefly to Julianne Phillips, then married Patti Schialfa, who you see here, who was a band member first. If you listen to early Springsteen, like the album The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle, it's even punkier.
Good music makes you want to be a better person !!!......thank you, these are THE words !!!. I couldn't describe in a better way what The Boss...The E Street Band...their MUSIC, altogether, do to people !!!.
My all time favorite Springsteen and E Street Band
Sebs, for the best imho Springsteen performance you must listen to: Thunder Road (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London '75). It is absolutely jaw dropping.... one of the best live performances i have ever heard.... and i am not a huge Springsteen fan.....God bless the BBC engineer that recorded THAT SOUND in 1975! It is hard to get sound that good today! BTW - a lot of really old BBC videos of concerts are exceptional in quality. Neil young Old Man is sooooo goood.
That is the late great Clarence Clemons
I've seen him live 12Xs. The first time was on my 17th birthday in 1977.
The working man’s rock and roller!
I was at this concert tour also. Yes long concert beautiful. It was his band. They really were not a separate band.
Bruuuuce!
In 1985, Clarence Clemons (the sax player, RIP big guy ❤️) and Jackson Browne recorded a song "You're A Friend of Mine". Knowing how you like Jackson you should check it out. A really great song.
Springsteen gave marathon length concerts. He is best live. A prolific song writer and storyteller. They don't call him The Boss for nothing!❤
Jersey Boys never disappoint
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes are right up there too!
If you have the chance to still see Bruce do it I just saw him in LA and he put on a 3 1/2 hour show and killed it!!!! it was my first time seeing him live and easily worth it now I know why people go to hundreds of these shows
That’s it Sebs! His first _album_ , “Born to Run,” was fire throughout. And it had I think his masterpiece, similar to this song but complete, in “Jungleland.”
The man has character. I like his album “Nebraska” best, especially the haunting “Atlantic City.” I hope you react to both of those songs. Thanks friend!