@parlorxxmobster Don't worry, I saw him in 1973 and in 2009, and many times in between. The only difference is that he looked younger in 1973 then he does now, and the band is better now. I'm pretty sure that's because of the equipment. It just sounds so full now.
I remember I was 7 years old in 1984 and was with my sister at her boyfriends place, she put the Born in the USA album on and ever since then I have loved Bruce´s music...
We have perfect footage, color footage of Elvis. Well he's our Elvis! Why can't they release the perfect footage from this era. Hopefully it will be on the Darkness box set that comes out.
@carmital I heard there will be a concert on the darkness set,thank god for youtube I can't believe the stuff on here at our fingertips not just Bruce & music but you can watch just about any legendary boxing,Hagler ,Hearns,Leonard ,Duran,Ray Robinson etc.
@carmital I heard on E Street radio on sirius that Jon Landau announced the long awaited Darkness set featuring a show from the '78 tour would be released in'2010,there will also be a dvd from the recent tour this year,I thought it would be out by now,it's time for the "River" set this year.
carmital@plofus "London Calling" from Britain is the show they are releasing from the recent tour. Thats great to know we'll see a Darkness show in it's entirety. What I've always dreamed of.
I saw the 78 tour when the Boss came to Maryland, Hitchhiked all the way from Cincinnati, great show. Love the 4 hour concerts no one comes close even today.
Clicking thru some old Boss videos...and happened onto this one-a show that I saw with my brother and some other DC Derelicts at the old (now demolished) Cap Center. The "78 tour was FAR AND AWAY his best tour. This was the tour "where it all came together" for the Boss, he found his signature sound..his template...it stands the test of time!
@FJPARNELL I agree. Although I was almost 12 at the time. My brother who was 17 and in high school at the time was the one who turned me onto Bruce after seeing him on the front of Time and Newsweek in H.S. in 1975. I 'll never forget the impression made on me when getting the BTR eight track tape left me after arriving by mail from the Columbia Record and Tape club in the summer of 1976. And hearing it for the first time.
I think he's pretty much the greatest American Rock & Roll Artist of the age....Check the performance of this tune on his Live in NY City DVD (2001)...He was really in top form the whole show...the band intro alone is worth the price., nobody puts more passion and power into it than Bruce.............
@harhar58 His music hits a place in the everyman's nostalgic soul that so few artists reach. Dylan could do that. Seger sometimes. But Springsteen can do it in a way that doesn't seem as so infused with purposeful statement as Dylan, and he's more consistently deep than Seger. His is an easy poetry that meets the time no matter what dya it is or what the clock reads.
"Endless Juke Joints In Valentino Drag" love it, love it, love it...this verse alone is so damn good! My favorite Bruce "live" period vocally and song selections..and just a great solo too...so underrated!
The darkness 30th anniversary box set will be out in 2010 it's official from the mouth of Jon Landau,just in time for the 30th b-day of the River,maybe we will get that by 2012 just in time for nebraska's 30th so on & so forth.A concert dvd from this tour by itself is well worth the wait.
The Hammersmith show in the Born to run set was not great visually,it got pretty dark at times but it sounded great,the Pasaaic(spelling?)show is on yt except for the first song,I know it's in b/w with a tracking bar across the screen,but I will accept that,as long as the sounds cleaned up,songs from different shows would be fine with me too,I just hope there is a documentary with it.
Bruce is longing and at the same time lamenting about a girl he remembers on the corner of "richmond avenue" sometimes its "eldridge avenue" He confirms it with "Big Man" Clarence the sax player and then cries he'd "Drive all Night" just to be her some shoes which are words that would appear 2 years later in that same titled song so check that one. the girl had such "sad eyes" and then Bruce finds he was just "her fool" and I didn't know you were lying..got to stop stop stop hiding on..
Pure Inspired Musical Passion!I had this on VHS for years with breaks and lines at crucial parts in this song.Man this isn't even close to what this must have sounded like at the show,but it's still incredibly powerful and just a slice of what Bruce has always brought to Rock and Roll,pure Heart Passion and poetry delivered as if it's the last show that he'll ever do!This clip is pricelessthough from a time that magic lived on stage,the late 70's!Thank God for Bruce and his career!
Actually stallone is alot shorter than they make him look in movies,stallone got busted for ghb crossin the border,bruce is clean and he was in aarp mag posin shirtless for his 60th b-day,he's built like a pro athlete,very impressive,this is still the best vid on youtube.
Can someone write here the lyrics of the part between 5:09 and 9:03 that we can hear please ? I really want to know what he's saying (I'm not english and I don't understand everything in english :D).
Anyway : Awesome video. All here is just perfect ! We can see the interest of the Boss for the beauty of music and words, and that he sings with his heart.
dude, i totally agree with you that its not his fault that he doesnt sound like he used to, its inevitable his sound will change. my beef is w/ the people who say hes better now than he was. theres no way in hell thats true. bruce was truly the boss and the best back in the 70's. his stuff now doesnt even come close, its not even in the same ball park.
i can't believe you guy's are still arguing over this two months later,halftime at the super bowl just ended very well done, four songs with one verse cut out of each one,sounded great loysa energy,i waqs impressed.
it wasnt a bad show overall, but when u grow up listening to bruce's old performances and you love them, then you see his superbowl performance, the superbowl doenst even come close to as good as he was back in the late seventies.
nothing compares to what this band was doin in and around '78 too bad for me i was in 5th grade listening to kiss.the tours since the rising,the new stuff has been awesome live but i'm not into the new live versions of the older songs,i thought workin on a dream sounded great at the bowl and i would rather have heard my lucky day than glory days but i undrestand why he did that,i really enjoyed it.
i dont think you can beat how night rolls into this song on the born to run album at full volume w/ a good system. therefore, my opinion is that he did it best on his album. i havent heard a live version that invokes the same feelings as his album version does.
what makes this version is what he gets into after the final verse,the i remember you,pretty flamingo,drive all night then blows the roof of the place with stop...stop...stop
odomcats: LMAO about not remembering your Catechism prayers. I went to Catholic school for 8 years....I know all about dysfunction. Sister Bernadette, & your Mom should have realized that you belong to the Springsteen faith. In the name of Bruce, Danny, Steve, Garry, Max, Roy, Nils, & the Big Man.....AMEN!
Maybe the Catholic Church should get Bruce to put all those prayers into song;) Then they would be easy to remember! I've always thought that Bruce was the God of rock-n-roll. Amen & Hallelujah!
Bruce's songs are prayers, prayers for a Better life,prayers for healing(sexual and otherwise), prayers for a second chance, prayers for redemption and forgiveness, and a prayer for everything to work out like it should. so in one way, you did remember your prayers.
"at night sometimes it seems you can hear that whole damn city cryin...." Pure greatness. He didn't do this when I saw him in 2000. I don't think he has done it regularly on tour since the late 70s. If he had done it on my night, I likely would have cried. Put this in our generation's time capsule under the label: "Poetry"
There are a lot of comments suggesting that if you didn't see Bruce 30 years ago you missed him in his prime. I've seen multiple shows in the tours supporting Darkness (1978), the River (1980), Born in the USA (1984-85), Tunnel of Love (1987-88), Lucky Town/Human Touch (1992-93), Ghost of Tom Joad (solo, 1996-97), Reunion (1999-2000), Rising (2002-2003), Vote For Change (2004), Devil & Dust (solo, 2005), Seeger Sessions (2006), and the current "Magic" shows reveal a genius in his prime, still.
Truth: Bruce's show is not a "remember this" tour; He's still re-working his material, and it sounds as fresh as ever. His current version of "Reason to Believe" is one of the highlights of the tour.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA: Abso-frickin'-lutely. I've seen Rising through today (& all of next week in Jersey!), & I gotta say the Devils & Dust Tour turned some classics inside out for me & then he stood them on their heads. "Promised Land" from that tour was incredible (Can't find on youtube though.).
The story he's telling during the Magic Tour is powerful stuff. I won't go into my interpretation, except to say this thing that is America is indeed special and important, but very fragile right now.
Wade, Magic is, by far, his most explicitly political album and he's telling a political story that is summarized in the magnificent, "Long Walk Home." When he says,
You just slipped somethin' into my palm
Then you were gone
"You," is our country, and what was slipped into our pocket were lies.
The flag tells us "who we are, what we'll do and what we won't" has been betrayed. We don't justify an invasion with lies. We don't torture. It's going to be a long walk home.
I haven't read Rolling Stone in many years, nor do I plagiarize.
I have read comments about the song by Bruce, Jon Landau, seen the song performed live five times, and studied the lyrics to all the songs on Magic, in addition to Long Walk Home.
Give me a site, the URL you claim I have copied. If you're going to make a serious accusation, I have a right to be confronted, if not by my accuser, at least with the evidence.
relax i was only kidding; I don't care if you plagiarized or not. I was trying to find the article online btw but I can't find it; it was in the top 100 songs of 2007 issue and almost exactly paralleled what you said.
In my profession plagiarism won't merely cost your job, it will cost you your career. It's about the equivalent of knowingly selling poisoned milk to a hospital for disabled children.
Please find the evidence *before* you make the charge. When you can't support the allegation, saying, "will I don't care if you plagerized or not." shows a complete lack of class.
A withdrawal of the allegation, an apology, and a promise to behave more responsibly in the future, is the correct thing to do.
First of all, I didn't spell "well" or "plagiarize" wrong. Second of all, the article isn't online so I can't give you a link. Third of all, I won't apologize to you because if you expect some anonymous 18-year old poster on youtube to apologize to you, then you don't deserve one.
I've never seen a comment that was as close to something I would have said. I first saw Bruce at the Spectrum in '76 when I was a freshman in HS. After that, 3 times in '78, 8 times on the River Tour(80,81), and just about every tour since. The last show being in Oct '07 on a suprise gift from my beautiful wife. You say it best when you say "a genus in his prime, still." I walked out of that show feeling like it was October of '76 again. "...worth the price of admission..." and shit.
I saw the Auburn Hills (Detroit) show from about 15 feet away in the Pit and left in shock. I wrote at the time that I never seen more intense rock & roll, by anyone, including Bruce Springsteen. Every note was perfect.
I love the political songs, and the pre-encore ending of The Rising, The Last to Die, Long Walk Home, and Badlands is inspirational.
Long Walk Home, IMO, is his best and most important song since..., Oh, No Surrender.
@CPSJSMSUUMUGA I"ve been a Bruce fan over 20 years & the Rising tour is the only time I've seen him & it was the best concert I've ever seen.Far as all the other tours the one I enjoy the most on yt is Darkness,there is something bout the way it sounds,I really enjoy the stuff from '84-'85 as well.
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You're taking it too literally. Think more abstractly. It's about failure or disappointment. He's expressing the feeling that all humans feel at one time or another. The cause will be different for each of us.
Could be losing the girl (or guy), not being able to feed your hungry child, losing a child in Iraq, flunking out of school or being fired, going to jail, ruining your life with drugs - *ANTHING* that can create enormous sadness.
Early summer '78, ESB visited Red Rocks amphitheatre on the legendary, 100+ show tour. I'd just finished my junior year, and had heard a couple 'rumors' about Bruce, but really had little clue. Within a song or two, all souls were huddled at his feet, taking in hours of music, stories, the 'life-is-really-hard-but-there's-redemption-if-you-seek-it' gospel...and were suspended in time. If you saw this tour, and were an adolescent, you know what I witnessed that night and why it was so moving.
You don't have to be an adolescent. I was 29 and changed forever by seeing Bruce on 9/30/78. I have *never*, before or since, seen performance art that came close to his performance of Backstreets.
Come to think of it I was kind of a late bloomer. Maybe it does help to be an adolescent.
It definitely helps to be an adolescent male - 14 or 15 - to get the full impact of The Catcher in the Rye. Man, after reading that classic, when they said, "sit down," I stood up. Whoooo, growin' up.
I was 16 in 1978 and saw Bruce 3 times that year. It was also the "Bootleg Era" when many versions of this song were out there. This version is among the best. I think that because I was 16 and impressionable, I will always remember this song and play this song more than most others. A top 5 song.
I'm obsessed with the '78 tour,I did'nt go,I was only ten or eleven & not into Bruce yet,but I read & heard about it & thanks to the bootleggers & yt,I finally get to enjoy it & I do a couple times a week,as you can see I comment on this song & others from this tour so much it's embarrasing,but none of my friends are into Bruce so I gotta talk to fellow you tubers.
Same boat as you. I was 11. My brother went to see him on theRiver tour. My cousin hitchhiked 30 miles north to Springfield MA. and then about 40 miles to New Haven on that Darkness tour. But he was 16.
Epinene, Terry is whoever you need him or her to be. Bruce has said that he intends for his songs to be open to interpretation. "Terry" could be short for Theresa or Terence.
What a performance! Bruce is my fav of all time by an absolute mile. Agree with you Goldie in that his voice was so pure ( still is ), songs like Backstreets are awe inspiring. Such a powerful song about the simple toic of a broken friendship. Long may this man continue..........
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Greatest Tour Ever - Darkness on the Edge of Town. His set list consisted of mainly Darkness and Born to Run somgs. No one has ever had such songs to choose from. He's simply the best there ever was.
wow, thank god... not that there's too much wrong with gays, but if Backstreets was all about 2 men loving each other that'd be mind blowing for me...
God damn it..I dont care who is screwing who but why do we gotta have a fag "suggestion" in a song that is obviously about a guy and a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. She got lucky and escaped...But he is still there.
Springsteen is nothing short of friggin' AWESOME! This is such an intense performance that just takes me to those backstreets he's talking about. And the E-street band also deserve their due credit because he couldn't have done it without them. Long live The Boss.
I think in this song he refers to a love between two men. They appear to be "hiding". That's why their love was "filled with defeat" and why they were running for their loves on the backstreets.
Remember all the movies Terry we'd go see
Women don't "try to walk like heros",
stranded in the park, forced to confess
to "riding on the back streets" can also refer to anal sex
...it´s the lies that killed us,... and the truth that runs us down!
1984 is the same thing , we do not get the things that are happening around us, if we do, we have no chance to go back,... so we´ll perish,..used,... broken,...numb,... maybe numb,...denying,... god dammnit ! it´s all been said before , STOP STOP STOP!
Well there is a version where he talks about Sad Eyes that I had. I am not sure when it was but even the arrangement was different just a little. Most of the time this is not played the same way twice.
I would love to go back, too, badlandso. I only saw Bruce in 1992 without the band, and again in 2004 on the Vote for Change tour. That's why the Hammersmith show was such a gift.
I have heard a lot of different renditions of this song and this is a pretty good one. Bruce often interrupted "Backstreets" with a mini-episode. But I have never heard the "Sad Eyes" that is on "Tracks" inserted in this song. Can anyone enlighten me on the Sad Eyes version?
I agree w/ you "must500". I have this whole concert on VHS. I always like to tell people that "Drive all Night/ Sad Eyes" was born on the Backstreets. I'm now almost 46, proud to be from Jersey, and STILL this song gives me shivers when I hear (and see) it. Not to mention the rest of Bruce's masterpieces. I thank God I grew up during his PRIME.
must500...you are mistaken. It was was also performed like this in the short 1977 tour. Many people think that the best version of this song was the 18 minute version done on March 25, 1977 in Boston.
The most powerful version I've heard was from a Boston show. He said, "I want God to send some Angels and blow this whole f**king town out to sea." Over and over, until he was screaming "JUST BLOW IT AWAY," over and over.
Yes, that is the one I was referring to. In fact that entire concert has the best rendition of every song played. Look in jungleland and you will find it :)
I hope the follow up the Hammersmith DVD with this one, and put some of the smuggled closed circuit footage from the 9/19/78 show as well as the footage shot in Phoenix (which contained the regularly shown on MTV "Rosalita") on there. Easily a 2 DVD set if not 3 because of the amount of music they were doing by that time. Some cleaning up by Bruce's production team and it would be an incredible followup, as would the Largo 1980 show.
Great !!!!!!!
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murf27526 1 year ago 4
@murf27526 So jealous. I'm going to buy the bootleg tape. So many great versions of songs from this concert.
brooce100 9 months ago
Awesome . thank you for posting
JJKBoston 1 year ago
@OberstKrautwaschl - Always loved this song. This, however, was an AWESOME version of it. Thanks for posting.
hairbandfan1967 1 year ago
I often wonder does Bruce realize what the songs mean to people? This song is perfect and helped through so much
187666coffee 1 year ago 4
What can I say? Have a Guinness and listen to this music!!!!!!!!
gwheeler75 1 year ago
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olivermexconcha14 1 year ago
unfuckenreal! the greatest! bar none!
1pbrodie 1 year ago
Happy beleated B-Day Boss!
rlebconsulting 1 year ago 5
Greatest song ever.
Sonofmothernature 1 year ago
@parlorxxmobster Don't worry, I saw him in 1973 and in 2009, and many times in between. The only difference is that he looked younger in 1973 then he does now, and the band is better now. I'm pretty sure that's because of the equipment. It just sounds so full now.
RudyCasordapek 1 year ago
i can love him just for that song, just for that performance,
jamaismori 1 year ago 5
I remember I was 7 years old in 1984 and was with my sister at her boyfriends place, she put the Born in the USA album on and ever since then I have loved Bruce´s music...
sweaerotech 1 year ago
We have perfect footage, color footage of Elvis. Well he's our Elvis! Why can't they release the perfect footage from this era. Hopefully it will be on the Darkness box set that comes out.
carmital 1 year ago
@carmital I heard there will be a concert on the darkness set,thank god for youtube I can't believe the stuff on here at our fingertips not just Bruce & music but you can watch just about any legendary boxing,Hagler ,Hearns,Leonard ,Duran,Ray Robinson etc.
plofus 1 year ago
@plofus
You mean from this previous tour in which he did every album at different shows?
carmital 1 year ago
@carmital I heard on E Street radio on sirius that Jon Landau announced the long awaited Darkness set featuring a show from the '78 tour would be released in'2010,there will also be a dvd from the recent tour this year,I thought it would be out by now,it's time for the "River" set this year.
plofus 1 year ago
carmital@plofus "London Calling" from Britain is the show they are releasing from the recent tour. Thats great to know we'll see a Darkness show in it's entirety. What I've always dreamed of.
carmital 1 year ago
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carmital 1 year ago
I saw the 78 tour when the Boss came to Maryland, Hitchhiked all the way from Cincinnati, great show. Love the 4 hour concerts no one comes close even today.
rlebconsulting 1 year ago
Clicking thru some old Boss videos...and happened onto this one-a show that I saw with my brother and some other DC Derelicts at the old (now demolished) Cap Center. The "78 tour was FAR AND AWAY his best tour. This was the tour "where it all came together" for the Boss, he found his signature sound..his template...it stands the test of time!
FJPARNELL 1 year ago
@FJPARNELL
Agreed! 100% The River came 2nd and then he poppped out on BITU
But his shows today are still better than anyone!
carmital 1 year ago
@FJPARNELL I agree. Although I was almost 12 at the time. My brother who was 17 and in high school at the time was the one who turned me onto Bruce after seeing him on the front of Time and Newsweek in H.S. in 1975. I 'll never forget the impression made on me when getting the BTR eight track tape left me after arriving by mail from the Columbia Record and Tape club in the summer of 1976. And hearing it for the first time.
carmital 1 year ago
it never gets old!!!
beatdownbombers 1 year ago
one of the best song ever written by a human being.......darkness tour was awesome......
maxis4real87 2 years ago 3
I think he's pretty much the greatest American Rock & Roll Artist of the age....Check the performance of this tune on his Live in NY City DVD (2001)...He was really in top form the whole show...the band intro alone is worth the price., nobody puts more passion and power into it than Bruce.............
harhar58 2 years ago 6
@harhar58 His music hits a place in the everyman's nostalgic soul that so few artists reach. Dylan could do that. Seger sometimes. But Springsteen can do it in a way that doesn't seem as so infused with purposeful statement as Dylan, and he's more consistently deep than Seger. His is an easy poetry that meets the time no matter what dya it is or what the clock reads.
stableshadow 1 year ago
@harhar58 Well put, worth the price of admission!
moocow117 1 year ago
two words, fuck yeah.
vipergts1984 2 years ago 3
09:43-09:51. Splendid style of singing.
DasRoemertum 2 years ago 3
Man look at roy bittan playing like a god. And he found a god given tune.......such moments alone would make it worth living.
WegrennerX 2 years ago 3
"Endless Juke Joints In Valentino Drag" love it, love it, love it...this verse alone is so damn good! My favorite Bruce "live" period vocally and song selections..and just a great solo too...so underrated!
keystone613 2 years ago
The darkness 30th anniversary box set will be out in 2010 it's official from the mouth of Jon Landau,just in time for the 30th b-day of the River,maybe we will get that by 2012 just in time for nebraska's 30th so on & so forth.A concert dvd from this tour by itself is well worth the wait.
plofus 2 years ago 4
Yeah, but it's been almost 32 years since the Darkness tour.
I'm skeptical that they have an entire show on film - or one of the quality of the Rosalita in Pheonix.
Now the Born in the USA tour - they could do a 20 DVD boxed set.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 2 years ago
The Hammersmith show in the Born to run set was not great visually,it got pretty dark at times but it sounded great,the Pasaaic(spelling?)show is on yt except for the first song,I know it's in b/w with a tracking bar across the screen,but I will accept that,as long as the sounds cleaned up,songs from different shows would be fine with me too,I just hope there is a documentary with it.
plofus 2 years ago
@CPSJSMSUUMUGA get the promise. you'll see a full darkness set.
thewhochilipeppersU2 1 year ago
To 6233
Bruce is longing and at the same time lamenting about a girl he remembers on the corner of "richmond avenue" sometimes its "eldridge avenue" He confirms it with "Big Man" Clarence the sax player and then cries he'd "Drive all Night" just to be her some shoes which are words that would appear 2 years later in that same titled song so check that one. the girl had such "sad eyes" and then Bruce finds he was just "her fool" and I didn't know you were lying..got to stop stop stop hiding on..
keystone613 2 years ago 4
Pure Inspired Musical Passion!I had this on VHS for years with breaks and lines at crucial parts in this song.Man this isn't even close to what this must have sounded like at the show,but it's still incredibly powerful and just a slice of what Bruce has always brought to Rock and Roll,pure Heart Passion and poetry delivered as if it's the last show that he'll ever do!This clip is pricelessthough from a time that magic lived on stage,the late 70's!Thank God for Bruce and his career!
ochaileg 2 years ago 3
Bruce your one bad ass, mother fucker! Happy Birthday!
Belfast1982 2 years ago 4
Actually, Stallone is about the same height.
stableshadow 2 years ago
Actually stallone is alot shorter than they make him look in movies,stallone got busted for ghb crossin the border,bruce is clean and he was in aarp mag posin shirtless for his 60th b-day,he's built like a pro athlete,very impressive,this is still the best vid on youtube.
plofus 2 years ago
Can someone write here the lyrics of the part between 5:09 and 9:03 that we can hear please ? I really want to know what he's saying (I'm not english and I don't understand everything in english :D).
Anyway : Awesome video. All here is just perfect ! We can see the interest of the Boss for the beauty of music and words, and that he sings with his heart.
6233acrakkops 2 years ago 3
JUST ME AND U BABY, JUST ME AND U GIRL, I
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Jarnis86 2 years ago
he reminds me of slyvester stallone for some odd reason
SuperBigJerk 2 years ago
thats hilarious
plofus 2 years ago
to be sincere... well... you are right!!
pfgnyc85 2 years ago
I would say during the Born In The USA era when he muscled up I would agree with you.
steverouse56 1 year ago
5:09-9:03 could be a song on it's own.
plofus 2 years ago 3
For just one kiss, and a look...from your sad eyes.
Genius.
qinmoy 2 years ago 3
Tipping his hat to Manfred Mann there! A thanks for making him a hell of a pile of money with " Blinded by the light "
jooster7 2 years ago
dude, i totally agree with you that its not his fault that he doesnt sound like he used to, its inevitable his sound will change. my beef is w/ the people who say hes better now than he was. theres no way in hell thats true. bruce was truly the boss and the best back in the 70's. his stuff now doesnt even come close, its not even in the same ball park.
oipbhakeld 2 years ago
killer vid! *****!
IMTheMagicRat 3 years ago 2
Love the Pretty Flamingo snippet. You can tell Clarence was caught totally off-guard, expecting Bruce to do his usual improv on the song.
MrFix3 3 years ago
i can't believe you guy's are still arguing over this two months later,halftime at the super bowl just ended very well done, four songs with one verse cut out of each one,sounded great loysa energy,i waqs impressed.
plofus 3 years ago
it wasnt a bad show overall, but when u grow up listening to bruce's old performances and you love them, then you see his superbowl performance, the superbowl doenst even come close to as good as he was back in the late seventies.
oipbhakeld 3 years ago
nothing compares to what this band was doin in and around '78 too bad for me i was in 5th grade listening to kiss.the tours since the rising,the new stuff has been awesome live but i'm not into the new live versions of the older songs,i thought workin on a dream sounded great at the bowl and i would rather have heard my lucky day than glory days but i undrestand why he did that,i really enjoyed it.
plofus 3 years ago
i dont think you can beat how night rolls into this song on the born to run album at full volume w/ a good system. therefore, my opinion is that he did it best on his album. i havent heard a live version that invokes the same feelings as his album version does.
oipbhakeld 3 years ago
what makes this version is what he gets into after the final verse,the i remember you,pretty flamingo,drive all night then blows the roof of the place with stop...stop...stop
plofus 3 years ago
Pretty (Flamingo) astounding...
I love this version.
Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. Stop, stop, stop, stop! - Hiding on the Backstreets..........
badlandso 3 years ago 2
Clarence misses his cue for a few bars of Pretty Flamingo on this, he hasn't a clue what Bruce is talking about.
rhm01 3 years ago
My Mom used to get mad because I could remember every lyric to Bruce's songs & not my Catechism prayers. Sorry, Sister Bernadette!
odomcats 3 years ago 70
odomcats: LMAO about not remembering your Catechism prayers. I went to Catholic school for 8 years....I know all about dysfunction. Sister Bernadette, & your Mom should have realized that you belong to the Springsteen faith. In the name of Bruce, Danny, Steve, Garry, Max, Roy, Nils, & the Big Man.....AMEN!
vanparty 3 years ago
Maybe the Catholic Church should get Bruce to put all those prayers into song;) Then they would be easy to remember! I've always thought that Bruce was the God of rock-n-roll. Amen & Hallelujah!
odomcats 3 years ago 2
Bruce's songs are prayers, prayers for a Better life,prayers for healing(sexual and otherwise), prayers for a second chance, prayers for redemption and forgiveness, and a prayer for everything to work out like it should. so in one way, you did remember your prayers.
K4driver2 2 years ago
@odomcats And can still sing along I am with you on that one
baitcaster10 1 year ago
@odomcats "It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive!"
JohnnyTRex99 1 year ago
@odomcats Bruce's lyrics have a lot more to say than those prayers. This song is a good example.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 8 months ago
"at night sometimes it seems you can hear that whole damn city cryin...." Pure greatness. He didn't do this when I saw him in 2000. I don't think he has done it regularly on tour since the late 70s. If he had done it on my night, I likely would have cried. Put this in our generation's time capsule under the label: "Poetry"
NathanJohnVolk 3 years ago 2
this might be the greatest song ever.
plofus 3 years ago 29
It ties with Jungleland
CrazyGranda 3 years ago 3
@plofus MIGHT be?!
pelletman65 8 months ago
what a killer version.
plofus 3 years ago
amen...
thugs81 3 years ago
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34000040 3 years ago
Pretty Flamingo! Yes... Amazing this summer at Giants Stadium. Holy Cow. Flamingo ---> Drive All Night. STOP!
WadeBlazingame34 3 years ago
There are a lot of comments suggesting that if you didn't see Bruce 30 years ago you missed him in his prime. I've seen multiple shows in the tours supporting Darkness (1978), the River (1980), Born in the USA (1984-85), Tunnel of Love (1987-88), Lucky Town/Human Touch (1992-93), Ghost of Tom Joad (solo, 1996-97), Reunion (1999-2000), Rising (2002-2003), Vote For Change (2004), Devil & Dust (solo, 2005), Seeger Sessions (2006), and the current "Magic" shows reveal a genius in his prime, still.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 3 years ago 28
Truth: Bruce's show is not a "remember this" tour; He's still re-working his material, and it sounds as fresh as ever. His current version of "Reason to Believe" is one of the highlights of the tour.
JohnnyCat77 3 years ago 5
JohnnyCat77: Absolutely agree. The Reason To Believe this time around is a f#cking jam.
watch?v=gq9uj8YjoKY
WadeBlazingame34 3 years ago
CPSJSMSUUMUGA: Abso-frickin'-lutely. I've seen Rising through today (& all of next week in Jersey!), & I gotta say the Devils & Dust Tour turned some classics inside out for me & then he stood them on their heads. "Promised Land" from that tour was incredible (Can't find on youtube though.).
The story he's telling during the Magic Tour is powerful stuff. I won't go into my interpretation, except to say this thing that is America is indeed special and important, but very fragile right now.
WadeBlazingame34 3 years ago 2
Wade, Magic is, by far, his most explicitly political album and he's telling a political story that is summarized in the magnificent, "Long Walk Home." When he says,
You just slipped somethin' into my palm
Then you were gone
"You," is our country, and what was slipped into our pocket were lies.
The flag tells us "who we are, what we'll do and what we won't" has been betrayed. We don't justify an invasion with lies. We don't torture. It's going to be a long walk home.
It's gonna be a
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
way to completely plagiarize from Rolling Stone Magazine
chinasty1 3 years ago
I haven't read Rolling Stone in many years, nor do I plagiarize.
I have read comments about the song by Bruce, Jon Landau, seen the song performed live five times, and studied the lyrics to all the songs on Magic, in addition to Long Walk Home.
Give me a site, the URL you claim I have copied. If you're going to make a serious accusation, I have a right to be confronted, if not by my accuser, at least with the evidence.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 3 years ago
relax i was only kidding; I don't care if you plagiarized or not. I was trying to find the article online btw but I can't find it; it was in the top 100 songs of 2007 issue and almost exactly paralleled what you said.
chinasty1 3 years ago
In my profession plagiarism won't merely cost your job, it will cost you your career. It's about the equivalent of knowingly selling poisoned milk to a hospital for disabled children.
Please find the evidence *before* you make the charge. When you can't support the allegation, saying, "will I don't care if you plagerized or not." shows a complete lack of class.
A withdrawal of the allegation, an apology, and a promise to behave more responsibly in the future, is the correct thing to do.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 3 years ago
First of all, I didn't spell "well" or "plagiarize" wrong. Second of all, the article isn't online so I can't give you a link. Third of all, I won't apologize to you because if you expect some anonymous 18-year old poster on youtube to apologize to you, then you don't deserve one.
chinasty1 2 years ago
I've never seen a comment that was as close to something I would have said. I first saw Bruce at the Spectrum in '76 when I was a freshman in HS. After that, 3 times in '78, 8 times on the River Tour(80,81), and just about every tour since. The last show being in Oct '07 on a suprise gift from my beautiful wife. You say it best when you say "a genus in his prime, still." I walked out of that show feeling like it was October of '76 again. "...worth the price of admission..." and shit.
moocow117 3 years ago 3
Thank you. That's a nice compliment.
I saw the Auburn Hills (Detroit) show from about 15 feet away in the Pit and left in shock. I wrote at the time that I never seen more intense rock & roll, by anyone, including Bruce Springsteen. Every note was perfect.
I love the political songs, and the pre-encore ending of The Rising, The Last to Die, Long Walk Home, and Badlands is inspirational.
Long Walk Home, IMO, is his best and most important song since..., Oh, No Surrender.
Thanks again.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 3 years ago
@CPSJSMSUUMUGA I"ve been a Bruce fan over 20 years & the Rising tour is the only time I've seen him & it was the best concert I've ever seen.Far as all the other tours the one I enjoy the most on yt is Darkness,there is something bout the way it sounds,I really enjoy the stuff from '84-'85 as well.
plofus 1 year ago
@CPSJSMSUUMUGA You're one hell of a lucky guy
redjohn201 1 year ago
@CPSJSMSUUMUGA Had seen in '85 on the Born in the USA tour; best concert ever, man!!
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btrjr007 3 years ago
It's about friendship. Most of the BToR album is.
Eeza07 3 years ago
Relationships
reasonandfacts 3 years ago 3
That too.
Eeza07 3 years ago
August in Augusta, maine. was like an explosion with thelight. same stage clothes.think itr was a saturday night.rest in peace Danny Federici
gjerrildkro 3 years ago
August in Augusta, maine. was like an explosion with thelight. same stage clothes.think itr was a saturday night.rest in peace Danny Federici
gjerrildkro 3 years ago
You're taking it too literally. Think more abstractly. It's about failure or disappointment. He's expressing the feeling that all humans feel at one time or another. The cause will be different for each of us.
Could be losing the girl (or guy), not being able to feed your hungry child, losing a child in Iraq, flunking out of school or being fired, going to jail, ruining your life with drugs - *ANTHING* that can create enormous sadness.
The "backstreets" can be viewed as a metaphor.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 4 years ago
I love this! He puts alittle bit of Pretty Flamingo in there, if anyone has Springsteen doing Pretty Flamingo just let me know thanks!
DX2223 4 years ago
I know he talks about girl this and that.
nittyranks 4 years ago
I know he talks about girl this and that.
nittyranks 4 years ago
Early summer '78, ESB visited Red Rocks amphitheatre on the legendary, 100+ show tour. I'd just finished my junior year, and had heard a couple 'rumors' about Bruce, but really had little clue. Within a song or two, all souls were huddled at his feet, taking in hours of music, stories, the 'life-is-really-hard-but-there's-redemption-if-you-seek-it' gospel...and were suspended in time. If you saw this tour, and were an adolescent, you know what I witnessed that night and why it was so moving.
bliss4jules 4 years ago
You don't have to be an adolescent. I was 29 and changed forever by seeing Bruce on 9/30/78. I have *never*, before or since, seen performance art that came close to his performance of Backstreets.
Come to think of it I was kind of a late bloomer. Maybe it does help to be an adolescent.
It definitely helps to be an adolescent male - 14 or 15 - to get the full impact of The Catcher in the Rye. Man, after reading that classic, when they said, "sit down," I stood up. Whoooo, growin' up.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 4 years ago
I was 16 in 1978 and saw Bruce 3 times that year. It was also the "Bootleg Era" when many versions of this song were out there. This version is among the best. I think that because I was 16 and impressionable, I will always remember this song and play this song more than most others. A top 5 song.
moocow117 2 years ago 3
I'm obsessed with the '78 tour,I did'nt go,I was only ten or eleven & not into Bruce yet,but I read & heard about it & thanks to the bootleggers & yt,I finally get to enjoy it & I do a couple times a week,as you can see I comment on this song & others from this tour so much it's embarrasing,but none of my friends are into Bruce so I gotta talk to fellow you tubers.
plofus 2 years ago 4
@plofus
Same boat as you. I was 11. My brother went to see him on theRiver tour. My cousin hitchhiked 30 miles north to Springfield MA. and then about 40 miles to New Haven on that Darkness tour. But he was 16.
carmital 1 year ago
Tried to breathe the fire we were born in, use your head
Backstreets means they are hiding from their true desire
There is a constant refernce to friends which hardly means terry is a girl
Jay3039 4 years ago
Why would he include the whole spoken word part calling out a "girl" on her actions?
pcooper2019 4 years ago
Terry is a guy, one of his best friends who just passed away last year and he pays tribute to him on the 'Magic' album.
epinene 3 years ago
but isent there like a picture of terry or something the e street shuffle album? inside of it
brokenheros9 3 years ago
Epinene, Terry is whoever you need him or her to be. Bruce has said that he intends for his songs to be open to interpretation. "Terry" could be short for Theresa or Terence.
franfw1 2 years ago
This song is about a gay couple its very blatant once you examine the lyrics
Im not pro gay or anything but youve gotta respect bruce for writing it and keeping it unknown. Many artists would use it to improve their reputation
P.S Listen to devil's arcade
Jay3039 4 years ago
Easily the greatest rock song about a relationship ever. So real.
pcooper2019 4 years ago 2
TRULY F??KIN INCREDIBLE!!!!!WOW!!!
bigtom1001 4 years ago
This song (especially this version) is so deeply embedded into my soul, it's not even funny. Simply awesome.
vanparty 4 years ago
What a performance! Bruce is my fav of all time by an absolute mile. Agree with you Goldie in that his voice was so pure ( still is ), songs like Backstreets are awe inspiring. Such a powerful song about the simple toic of a broken friendship. Long may this man continue..........
Duralumin26 4 years ago 2
One soft infested summer me and Kerrie became friends trying in vain to breathe the fire we were born in
ks4467 4 years ago
you mean terry not kerrie
nationalsman10 4 years ago
I think his stuff from the 75 - 78 was just magic.
sistersuetube 4 years ago 6
So glad to have this format available to watch the "Boss" My Lady and I spend entire evenings soaking up this SO-superior stuff!!!!
SF2900 4 years ago
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Greatest Tour Ever - Darkness on the Edge of Town. His set list consisted of mainly Darkness and Born to Run somgs. No one has ever had such songs to choose from. He's simply the best there ever was.
goldiegolashes 4 years ago 6
wow, thank god... not that there's too much wrong with gays, but if Backstreets was all about 2 men loving each other that'd be mind blowing for me...
TheGurry 4 years ago
God damn it..I dont care who is screwing who but why do we gotta have a fag "suggestion" in a song that is obviously about a guy and a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. She got lucky and escaped...But he is still there.
BrynMawrYamBag 4 years ago
Springsteen is nothing short of friggin' AWESOME! This is such an intense performance that just takes me to those backstreets he's talking about. And the E-street band also deserve their due credit because he couldn't have done it without them. Long live The Boss.
freedomm 4 years ago 3
lyrics, terry (Boy or girl???):O
SpringsteenFinland 4 years ago
I think in this song he refers to a love between two men. They appear to be "hiding". That's why their love was "filled with defeat" and why they were running for their loves on the backstreets.
Remember all the movies Terry we'd go see
Women don't "try to walk like heros",
stranded in the park, forced to confess
to "riding on the back streets" can also refer to anal sex
endless juke joints in Valentino drag....
Bruce is an incredible writer
sistersuetube 4 years ago
With the "Sad Eyes" interlude! Thanks for this.
danajohnhill 4 years ago
It's all so beautiful!
reinvest83 4 years ago
i'm either in heaven or hell
good GOD.
there are NO WORDS for the beauty this song evokes, the beauty it IS. so why am i even trying?
just...
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
kedkid 4 years ago 2
Who said they suck? And it was much more than intros
jetsnation 4 years ago
What (or where) is Stockton's Wing?
JohnnyCat77 4 years ago
The E-Street band was never as good after Roy was less featured. Backstreets, Thunder Road,
Racing in the Streets. Started going down hill after Darkness on the Edge of Town album. Born in the USA was a complete joke.
jetsnation 4 years ago
The album Born to Run featured piano, and it truly drived his music, almost all of his great songs are piano driven, just listen.
PianoDan18 4 years ago
Roy with hair!!!!
TKL90266 4 years ago
Omg thats why bruce is the Boss and always will be =]
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tezmondo123 4 years ago
I love it. Breaks my heart. Brings back so many memories............. Thanks so much. I'm cryin
cgpalms 4 years ago 2
...it´s the lies that killed us,... and the truth that runs us down!
1984 is the same thing , we do not get the things that are happening around us, if we do, we have no chance to go back,... so we´ll perish,..used,... broken,...numb,... maybe numb,...denying,... god dammnit ! it´s all been said before , STOP STOP STOP!
Graviak 4 years ago
Bruce will always be THE BOSS!
bmw328iphil 4 years ago
Well there is a version where he talks about Sad Eyes that I had. I am not sure when it was but even the arrangement was different just a little. Most of the time this is not played the same way twice.
nittyranks 4 years ago
Yes, you are right. This version has absolutely nothing to to with the song "Sad eyes" from Tracks.
But this brilliant version of Backstreets contains a beautiful input of "Drive all night" and "Pretty flamengo".
I just love this song.
God, I should wish I had a timemachine so I could travel back to these glory days of the late 70's and early 80's...
badlandso 4 years ago 2
I would love to go back, too, badlandso. I only saw Bruce in 1992 without the band, and again in 2004 on the Vote for Change tour. That's why the Hammersmith show was such a gift.
yankeespy3 4 years ago
Anyone got the Cleveland show from this tour? Email me if you do, thanks!
ruthieskid 5 years ago
go to jungleland and you will find what you are looking for !
afraserr2000 4 years ago
I have heard a lot of different renditions of this song and this is a pretty good one. Bruce often interrupted "Backstreets" with a mini-episode. But I have never heard the "Sad Eyes" that is on "Tracks" inserted in this song. Can anyone enlighten me on the Sad Eyes version?
yankeespy3 5 years ago
If you turn Backstreets on, I just can't help but listen to it...
monkeyguitarist 5 years ago
WONDERFULL SONG
springsteenbruce 5 years ago
Awesome! The Sad Eyes extended version of Backstreets is so rare and limited to this tour. A great find!
must500 5 years ago
I agree w/ you "must500". I have this whole concert on VHS. I always like to tell people that "Drive all Night/ Sad Eyes" was born on the Backstreets. I'm now almost 46, proud to be from Jersey, and STILL this song gives me shivers when I hear (and see) it. Not to mention the rest of Bruce's masterpieces. I thank God I grew up during his PRIME.
vanparty 5 years ago
must500...you are mistaken. It was was also performed like this in the short 1977 tour. Many people think that the best version of this song was the 18 minute version done on March 25, 1977 in Boston.
afraserr2000 5 years ago
The most powerful version I've heard was from a Boston show. He said, "I want God to send some Angels and blow this whole f**king town out to sea." Over and over, until he was screaming "JUST BLOW IT AWAY," over and over.
Man, after that, there was nothing left to say.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 4 years ago
Yes, that is the one I was referring to. In fact that entire concert has the best rendition of every song played. Look in jungleland and you will find it :)
afraserr2000 4 years ago
This is so true! I downloaded that version when Napster was free. Does anyone know which bootleg CD it is from? I have to get it again - ultimate!
epinene 3 years ago
Its a an opera! It's a soap opera! It's rock nroll! And it is performed by the greatest rocker who ever lived. Thanks for posting this!
akewltomato 5 years ago
This song is by far the best thing ever written!
pelleluling 5 years ago 3
This song always stops me dead in my tracks. It's my Seinfeld "Desperado"
badlandsbruin32 5 years ago 2
Like so much that song... I get crazy when I hear it, live or not.
springsteenbruce 5 years ago 2
I hope the follow up the Hammersmith DVD with this one, and put some of the smuggled closed circuit footage from the 9/19/78 show as well as the footage shot in Phoenix (which contained the regularly shown on MTV "Rosalita") on there. Easily a 2 DVD set if not 3 because of the amount of music they were doing by that time. Some cleaning up by Bruce's production team and it would be an incredible followup, as would the Largo 1980 show.
muziktrkr 5 years ago
great performance!!
nikuimo99 6 years ago 4