when playing w/ E st. C-Csus4-C -Csus2 is handled by piano arpeggios. which is better? personally since this is one of my favorite Springsteen songs I cannot decide. He did get very theatrical with this on some E st versions on youtube . definitely i believe those are not as good and take away from song. but "That's Entertainment" BTW -i hope i got chords correct - had a little help from web posting.
Can you hear that - there's like 5 people there - you can hear the individual claps. Bruce gives it from the very core but it's all just so small, the passionate fragile start - he had to meet all those to come to build that sound...Wow...fantastic...
Grooooowin up. My dad sung this song to me when i was 5, In 1994 i had no idea what he was talking about. In 2011. I understand why he liked this songm because it applies to every young man.
Wow I can remember being only 3 years old riding in my car seat next to my dad in the red pick up truck we always would ride in listening to Bruce Springsteen. I would air drum while he would sing along and now 12 years later here I am a sophomore in high school and my dad still Bruce's number 1 fan just as he always was and will be. I can truely say I am growing up
@thaler67 Right on. And I would never ever miss a Doris Abrahams concert, even if I had to drive all night through the badlands on the backstreets, from the fire roads to the interstate. Streets of fire, wreck on the highway, highway 29, incident on 57th street, racing in the streets of philadelphia, it don't matter to me now. Mr. State Trooper, Highway Patrolman, Sir, please don't stop me. Across the border to the promised land to see Ms. Abrahams. Yup, she's the one.
@d88co It's not on any studio album. However he did include it in the "Tracks" album full of good songs such as this, Brothers Under the Bridges, and Man at the Top.
@cuck23 @cuck23 There is one other track that I uploaded from this set, "Henry Boy". I wish I had the whole show but these are the only ones I found over the years. They will turn up one day, I'm sure.
Oh my god I was sitting at a table directly in front of the stage that night. It was the most amazing performance I have ever seen. That was the first time I saw him perform and have been a fan ever since.
it's nice that bob dylan had a great influence on bruce and a generation of music fans,but to compare dylan to springsteen is just not right or fair,there's only one musician at the top the list from this country.he's bruce springsteen the best there ever was!!!!thanks bruce
Dave Van Ronk is sadly passed, but while alive could boast of having both Springsteen and Dylan open for him. Dylan heaps praise upon him in his autobiography, sadly published after Van Ronk's pasing
@Laggy2000 Gaslight Anthem has a long WAY to go to reach Bruce & E-Street Bands Lendary status as one of the greatest to EVER step on to a concert stage...Not even close by any scale.
Great footage of Bruce. I'll never forget the day I picked Springsteen up hitchhiking on Ocean Ave in Long Branch NJ in 1970. It was difficult recognizing him with a shaved head. He told me the Georgia police had shaved all their heads when his band (Steel Mill or Child) was driving north from a Florida gig ( he said they opened for 3 Dog Night). I dropped him off a few miles down the road in Seabright and kept on truckin down the road in my 1965 Plymouth Valiant.
@mikeer50 Thanks Mike. Bruce used to practice in the back room of the Tinker's surf shop up on the hill. My friend Gary used to drive him around to get to gigs because he was one of the only guys with a Volkswagon bus. My roommate Dave Meyers played bass with him on some occasions. Dave still plays the Jersey shore. All this was a few years before he hit it big.
The making of a genius. I think all inspiring singer/songwriters should take note that even the legends had to start somewhere just like everyone else, with those gigs at the local dives with just themselves and their guitar. FUCK AMERICAN IDOL!!!!
Bruce Springsteen is and will forever be a legend. He is on the same level as Dylan. He is 100% honest in everything does, says and sings. If it wasnt for him I wouldnt be alive today and I wouldnt have recorded 7 albums and trying to "make it" and these videos help inspire me more. Bruce there is a reason you are "THE BOSS" its because of what you started and what youve led... Thank You.
for those who say bruce is not revelent anymore....I was born in 91....and have all but two of his CD's and a couple bootleg shows. That, and I am a big boss fan, Bruce is the reason I learned to play guitar
I was also born in '91, I grew up listening to Born to Run, and I fell in love with the boss after The Rising, 'cause my mom played it constantly in the car. I went to my first Bruce concert last october a week after my birthday, and it was easily the best show of my life. He is always my all time favorite.
Anyone who says Bruce isn't relevant anymore clearly hasn't heard this song. Just turned 19 today, and this song is moving me deeply after being a soundtrack to my first year as an adult. I hold it very near and near to my heart, just as I do countless other Bruce songs and albums. He's brilliant, yet his is music you're truly meant to *feel*, not ponder over. And, in this case, that's a major compliment.
Thanks for the upload, of course. Very obscure, essential footage.
@K4driver2 Anyone who thinks Springsteen isn't relevant needs to hear Magic, his most political album, especailly, "Long Walk Home."
They need to listen to, "Girls in their Summer Clothes," which, for me, isn't about being too old for girls on the beach, it's about everything I once dreamed, or hoped to accomplish, that is further & further out of reach - more and more unlikely.
Bruce has enriched my life enormously, every day, for the 33 years since I first heard Darkness, until this moment.
I first heard Bruce while in high school over 30 years ago. Since then my life has changed so much. Bruce's music has always been there for me, taking me back to a more innocent and wilder time. His words still connect. Though I'm older and settled in, I still have the same spirit that Bruce sings about in Growin' Up. Bruce has made my life more meaningful and the world a better place.
To all those nay-sayers who say Springsteen is no longer relevant :This video was taken a year before I was born. And I didn't discover "Growin Up" for myself until just a couple of years ago. At that point,I had gone from a casual fan from his 80's work to someone who had a voracious appetite to learn his music from the beginning of his career.When I heard "Growin Up" for the first time,it resonated with me...just as it must have for people who first heard it 35 years ago.His music is timeless.
"i strode all along to a fall out song-n came out with my soul untouched" been listening to ths song since i was born- 4ril (sometimes i thnk my mom likes bruce mor than me!!) n that line stil makes me smile.jus so cool`
I was born in '93 so I'm 16 now and your comment is so true. I live in the Netherlands and 2 months ago I had to read this book for English.
I'm a very big fan and im also called Bruce and my brother is named Steve.
Bruce has a great influence into my life and i've been 8 times to his concert, with the best moment in my life being the Pinkpop festival (30 may 2009) I stood in the pitt with my dad and when he saw me singing Promised Land he gave me a hand. Best moment ever!
Well, there's a coincidence. In Greenville, SC, he held the mic down to me to sing some la la las during Promised Land.
I'm 61, but felt 15.
I've seen 59 shows, beginning with three, on the 1978 Darkness tour and not missed a tour since. 59 is modest. I've met people who have seen him multiple hundreds.
I did read Catcher at 15 and see the Rolling Stones at 21 in 1969, when they really were the Rolling Stones.
But then Bruce came along in 78 and I was air born.
@niljuanzo I wonder if anyone had any idera they were listening to someone who would far surpass Dylan as a performer and become his equal as a songwriter.
to me this is an amazing video, seeing the boss this young playing to me is incredible hes the whole reason i started playing music, thanks for putting this video on here
I liked his early stuff, you know the rambling, wandering music, with great lyrics i couldnt quite get my head around , wasnt so into born in USA and all that!
why do i have to be 15? i wish i was alive for all this. i saw bruce in april, and seeing him again in agust in boston. he really has something special. no matter how old you are you can be changed by his music. he is just a hero, legend, and boss.
I could listen to this all day and It could play it anywhere and think about anything not just that place yet anywhere at all earth or in outer space.This song is amazing.
What a beautiful version of Growing up!I'm a 15 year old Bruce springsteen fan who lives in the Netherlands. About 2 weeks ago Bruce Sprignsteen gave me a hand during The Promised Land (concert was in Landgraaf at the Pinkpop festival). Wooaah, must have been my best moment in my life to give my big fan a hand. Have been to all the concerts in the Netherlands sinds i've been born and his energy is like he's 20. Amazing! His 70's stuff is magical, it doesn't get any better than this.
i'm new to youtube, i don't have any videos of my own. this is my first comment, i know this video is from 73, but what a gem, shows bruce in his pure essence. His music has grown exponentially...but we're all cool when we're young, some are just cooler.
Couldn't have been more than 25 people in that place, judging by the sound of the applause. I wonder if these peole knew that they were witnessing a future legend in his infancy?
been a springsteen fan for 36 years and he is absolutely the best and how unfair that true fans lost out to scalpers connected to corrupt ticketmaster with thier "ticketworks" connection. During the years i have waited on linesfor 12 hours or more,and had always gotten tickets- good ones. Not fair at all
i hear you there. Absolutely ridiculous that they can legalize scalping. I'm a huge Springsteen fan and I'd even be willing to pay the $250+ to go see him but i simply can't afford to (especially with the economy the way it is). I guess some of us will just have to sit home with the records on the turntable and live out the concert experience in our heads. 'tis a shame.
I am in agreement with the previous commentator but my question re Bruce and Bob was more to do with the 'look' rather than the content of the lyric. There is no doubt that Dylan was a huge influence.
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God, I miss Max's, but I don't miss Springsteen. I saw him at Max's and thought he was really boring. Spare me the hate mail. I won't even read it. LOL
I received the Springsteen book "For You" and I was really blown away... if any book can capture what it's like to be at a Springsteen show, this is it. The images are as good as concert photos get
It's pretty funny how he's kind of quiet and simple when he intros the song, and then he launches into this complex, poetic song with all those great lyrics.
excelent!
locueloman 1 week ago
Is this not where Aerosmith was scouted?
ABTheSubject 1 month ago
this is just fascinating - draws you in - like a movie ..
tomkat69pc 3 months ago
No, I meant the video, we both like it....it's cool!!! I wasn't being a dick. I was just sharing the appreciation!!! :)
krosewolf 3 months ago
wow if only these people know who they were witnessing or what they were witnessing
djcanfield4 3 months ago
How can you say you don't like it?
I believe in the freedom of expression, so i feel free to say that there are at least 6 persons, all over the world, who should have to be arrested
Moeswithhisdoubts 4 months ago
His best song..
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whotaughtyou 5 months ago
when playing w/ E st. C-Csus4-C -Csus2 is handled by piano arpeggios. which is better? personally since this is one of my favorite Springsteen songs I cannot decide. He did get very theatrical with this on some E st versions on youtube . definitely i believe those are not as good and take away from song. but "That's Entertainment" BTW -i hope i got chords correct - had a little help from web posting.
verbenco 5 months ago
I would have liked to have been the 6th person. Amazing.
nesnejls 6 months ago
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nesnejls 6 months ago
Fuckin' heaven...
dab4546 6 months ago
Can you hear that - there's like 5 people there - you can hear the individual claps. Bruce gives it from the very core but it's all just so small, the passionate fragile start - he had to meet all those to come to build that sound...Wow...fantastic...
DeirenM 6 months ago
I love this song and I love this version
MST720 6 months ago
Too bad this great footage couldn't have been uploaded without the time code.
avcat1 7 months ago
@avcat1 i think that makes it kinda cool.
krosewolf 3 months ago
@krosewolf If that's your preference, no problem. It is cool with or without the code.
avcat1 3 months ago
@avcat Well, we both agree it's cool!!! :)
krosewolf 3 months ago
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avcat1 3 months ago
@krosewolf Nice try but it's still a matter of personal preference. You like the code while others may not.
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@avcat1 No, I meant the video, we both like it......it's cool!!! I wasn't being a dick. I was just sharing the appreciation!!! :)
krosewolf 3 months ago
He's 22 yrs old here, just a few months after the John Hammond demos. Wow!
aztiff 7 months ago
Grooooowin up. My dad sung this song to me when i was 5, In 1994 i had no idea what he was talking about. In 2011. I understand why he liked this songm because it applies to every young man.
onlyrock1 7 months ago
I love this song! Such a pure sound
tommydebo5 7 months ago
I swear, in the third verse, he almost LOOKS like Dylan
9reasy5am 8 months ago
What is this constant comparison to Dylan. This man is not Dylan. This man is superior to God Himself/Herself
This must be the coolest thing I've ever seen
trueindieproject 8 months ago
it would truly suck to have this as your opening act..
rlawton002 8 months ago 3
No wonder he became a legend. This is fantastic. What passion and intelligence.
rocktenniscat 8 months ago
Wow I can remember being only 3 years old riding in my car seat next to my dad in the red pick up truck we always would ride in listening to Bruce Springsteen. I would air drum while he would sing along and now 12 years later here I am a sophomore in high school and my dad still Bruce's number 1 fan just as he always was and will be. I can truely say I am growing up
WWEandGuitarMan 8 months ago 2
Dave Van Ronk has remained famous to this day but who is this guy?
thaler67 8 months ago
@thaler67 - LOL!!!
rocktenniscat 8 months ago
@thaler67 Right on. And I would never ever miss a Doris Abrahams concert, even if I had to drive all night through the badlands on the backstreets, from the fire roads to the interstate. Streets of fire, wreck on the highway, highway 29, incident on 57th street, racing in the streets of philadelphia, it don't matter to me now. Mr. State Trooper, Highway Patrolman, Sir, please don't stop me. Across the border to the promised land to see Ms. Abrahams. Yup, she's the one.
Who's Spingstein?
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 7 months ago
its on greetings from ashbury park his first album
mcombe4 9 months ago
@d88co It's not on any studio album. However he did include it in the "Tracks" album full of good songs such as this, Brothers Under the Bridges, and Man at the Top.
tkddude17 9 months ago
One of the best! What album is this on?
d99co 9 months ago
@d99co Actually, a soft r0ck version is on his first album, "Greeting From Asbury Park, NJ," released on January 4, 1973.
An acoustic version, that he played when auditioning for John Hammond at Columbia records is on "Tracks" (1998).
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 8 months ago
One of the best!
d99co 9 months ago
this is a great vid, look at Bruce he was just a kid. dayum time. Greetings & E Street Shuffle are my 2 fav BS albums. None are better than those
Lionsgrrr 9 months ago
I am very thankful that my dad constantly played Springsteen when I was growing up.
jMb8907 9 months ago 3
oh how i love this song, especially this beautifully simple setting. i think about my college age kids who are certainly "growin up":)
krosewolf 11 months ago
Amazing
akb72x 11 months ago
I wanna hear more from this set, if you have it please upload it.
This is pure magic
cuck23 1 year ago 9
@cuck23 @cuck23 There is one other track that I uploaded from this set, "Henry Boy". I wish I had the whole show but these are the only ones I found over the years. They will turn up one day, I'm sure.
paulrob2006 1 year ago
@paulrob2006 Thanks, never heard henry boy before the chord structure is mesmerizing.
If you haven't already done so; check out "if I was the priest" and "winter's song" so many Springsteen hidden gems out there, cheers
cuck23 11 months ago
A true master, mastering his calling !!!
sweetpea196263 1 year ago
Love it!
TheLordAndMaster9000 1 year ago
That was really, really good. Pure talent
JonnyLawrence 1 year ago
What a great tune!! Nobody s able to do that again...
benkunben 1 year ago
que grande mi Bruce, que grande
freedomcanaryisland 1 year ago
Damn he looks so freaking young in this but still sounds amazing even for being so green.
Where is the next Bruce Springsteen? Justin Bieber is surely not!
CrazyJustin2006 1 year ago 3
@CrazyJustin2006 Brian Fallon.
rwatts99 1 year ago
@CrazyJustin2006
eddie vedder duh.
MichaelBallack91 1 year ago
5 people never grew up.
CrazyJustin2006 1 year ago
An era in American history that will never be back... it saddens me that I missed it...
harobikes730 1 year ago
Oh my god I was sitting at a table directly in front of the stage that night. It was the most amazing performance I have ever seen. That was the first time I saw him perform and have been a fan ever since.
sheribalex79 1 year ago 4
@sheribalex79 your joking, thats awesome as hell
GTH8991 1 year ago
Sadly, when I was quite little I used to mishear this song as "Throwing Up"
"When they said sit down, I threw up." XD. Finally when I was older I realized that this wasn't as gross a song as I thougt it was.
glowworm2 1 year ago
@glowworm2 lol, that's hillarious
OakRidgePunk777 1 year ago
@OakRidgePunk777 Yeah--I know--I misheard a lot of song lyrics as a kid.
glowworm2 1 year ago
Bitches didn't know they were seeing one of the greatest talents ever.
CAYOMluver 1 year ago
Simply Righteous
namdlogd 1 year ago 2
Begin of God
MarkPieter1989 1 year ago
its a shame the sound quality on this isn't perfect..fucking brilliant song
scottalias 1 year ago
Looooooooove this soooooooooooong
harvestmoon96 1 year ago
This footage is amazing.
pearljam96 1 year ago
Bruuuuce!!! This is awesome...love it!!!
spanieldan0s 1 year ago
The boss! So awesome!!!
spanieldan0s 1 year ago
Thanks for the "Bruce Juice"!
Savas1911 1 year ago
i still love this man after all these years... 1977 to present <3
SScorpio15 1 year ago
i still love this man after all theses years... 1977 to present <3
SScorpio15 1 year ago
favourite song ever
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jerroddowney 1 year ago
I could watch this every day
njtraffic 1 year ago 16
it's nice that bob dylan had a great influence on bruce and a generation of music fans,but to compare dylan to springsteen is just not right or fair,there's only one musician at the top the list from this country.he's bruce springsteen the best there ever was!!!!thanks bruce
boobine44 1 year ago 2
meatloaf just came out with a song pretty damn close to this one, elvis in vegas on his new Hang Cool Teddy Bear album
prestonlando 1 year ago
When they built bruce springsteen, they DEFINATELY broke the mold...
pFOXter99 1 year ago 5
@pFOXter99 that was greattt!!
brucespringsteen2008 1 year ago
If Dave Van Ronk and Doris Abrahams are still alive, its a great boast isn't it? ............."Bruce Springsteen was once my support act".
joadboy 1 year ago
Dave Van Ronk is sadly passed, but while alive could boast of having both Springsteen and Dylan open for him. Dylan heaps praise upon him in his autobiography, sadly published after Van Ronk's pasing
benmeltzer 1 year ago
this is unbelievable!!!!
rogzzeppelin93 1 year ago 9
i know it is like nothing i ever heard
Robnbeantown 1 year ago 5
they will never make music like this again.......
iH8kanye00 1 year ago 93
@iH8kanye00 so your not a fan of people who talk in a box and sound better LOL
heightssurfer 1 year ago
Maybe not like this (No one could hope to top Springsteen or Dylan), but there's still dome good stuff in these modern times.
Look up The Gaslight Anthem. Really good modern band.
BloodPump 1 year ago
@iH8kanye00 seriously.
katherine42992 1 year ago
@iH8kanye00 Gaslight Anthem is pretty close. I really truly recommend blue jeans and white t-shirts!
Laggy2000 1 year ago
@Laggy2000 Gaslight Anthem has a long WAY to go to reach Bruce & E-Street Bands Lendary status as one of the greatest to EVER step on to a concert stage...Not even close by any scale.
mustang9985 1 year ago
Great footage of Bruce. I'll never forget the day I picked Springsteen up hitchhiking on Ocean Ave in Long Branch NJ in 1970. It was difficult recognizing him with a shaved head. He told me the Georgia police had shaved all their heads when his band (Steel Mill or Child) was driving north from a Florida gig ( he said they opened for 3 Dog Night). I dropped him off a few miles down the road in Seabright and kept on truckin down the road in my 1965 Plymouth Valiant.
rstrell 2 years ago 8
@rstrell did u really
abcabc1415 2 years ago
yup ... it really happened .... I'm gonna write a song about it and send it to my boss
rstrell 2 years ago 2
@rstrell Awesome story!
mikeer50 1 year ago
@mikeer50 Thanks Mike. Bruce used to practice in the back room of the Tinker's surf shop up on the hill. My friend Gary used to drive him around to get to gigs because he was one of the only guys with a Volkswagon bus. My roommate Dave Meyers played bass with him on some occasions. Dave still plays the Jersey shore. All this was a few years before he hit it big.
rstrell 1 year ago
The making of a genius. I think all inspiring singer/songwriters should take note that even the legends had to start somewhere just like everyone else, with those gigs at the local dives with just themselves and their guitar. FUCK AMERICAN IDOL!!!!
BirthofCharlie 2 years ago 6
Bruce Springsteen is and will forever be a legend. He is on the same level as Dylan. He is 100% honest in everything does, says and sings. If it wasnt for him I wouldnt be alive today and I wouldnt have recorded 7 albums and trying to "make it" and these videos help inspire me more. Bruce there is a reason you are "THE BOSS" its because of what you started and what youve led... Thank You.
justingarman 2 years ago 3
for those who say bruce is not revelent anymore....I was born in 91....and have all but two of his CD's and a couple bootleg shows. That, and I am a big boss fan, Bruce is the reason I learned to play guitar
K4driver2 2 years ago 3
I was also born in '91, I grew up listening to Born to Run, and I fell in love with the boss after The Rising, 'cause my mom played it constantly in the car. I went to my first Bruce concert last october a week after my birthday, and it was easily the best show of my life. He is always my all time favorite.
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Anyone who says Bruce isn't relevant anymore clearly hasn't heard this song. Just turned 19 today, and this song is moving me deeply after being a soundtrack to my first year as an adult. I hold it very near and near to my heart, just as I do countless other Bruce songs and albums. He's brilliant, yet his is music you're truly meant to *feel*, not ponder over. And, in this case, that's a major compliment.
Thanks for the upload, of course. Very obscure, essential footage.
TheInformation 1 year ago
@K4driver2 Anyone who thinks Springsteen isn't relevant needs to hear Magic, his most political album, especailly, "Long Walk Home."
They need to listen to, "Girls in their Summer Clothes," which, for me, isn't about being too old for girls on the beach, it's about everything I once dreamed, or hoped to accomplish, that is further & further out of reach - more and more unlikely.
Bruce has enriched my life enormously, every day, for the 33 years since I first heard Darkness, until this moment.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 7 months ago
I first heard Bruce while in high school over 30 years ago. Since then my life has changed so much. Bruce's music has always been there for me, taking me back to a more innocent and wilder time. His words still connect. Though I'm older and settled in, I still have the same spirit that Bruce sings about in Growin' Up. Bruce has made my life more meaningful and the world a better place.
pegleg37 2 years ago 4
amen top that i heard him in 70;s never stopped listening even when he fired the e street band
934johno 2 years ago
cool
MegaAldoN 2 years ago
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svtfan239 2 years ago
To all those nay-sayers who say Springsteen is no longer relevant :This video was taken a year before I was born. And I didn't discover "Growin Up" for myself until just a couple of years ago. At that point,I had gone from a casual fan from his 80's work to someone who had a voracious appetite to learn his music from the beginning of his career.When I heard "Growin Up" for the first time,it resonated with me...just as it must have for people who first heard it 35 years ago.His music is timeless.
ElenaRN1 2 years ago 6
wow man !
dimedimedimedimedime 2 years ago
"i strode all along to a fall out song-n came out with my soul untouched" been listening to ths song since i was born- 4ril (sometimes i thnk my mom likes bruce mor than me!!) n that line stil makes me smile.jus so cool`
LuVtheFrEEk 2 years ago
i would be able to enjoy this video more if i wasn't jealous that i didn't write this song.
Iplayinaband 2 years ago 5
growin'up has been an inspirational song to me since my teens. taught me not to follow the herd blindly. springsteen's a genius : )
zenmoon3 2 years ago
If you're a 15-16 year old male, this song and The Catcher in the Rye are quite a one-two punch and push in that direction.
They can have this effect on anyone at any age, but I think they are most powerful then.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 2 years ago 3
@ CPSJSMSUUMUGA
I was born in '93 so I'm 16 now and your comment is so true. I live in the Netherlands and 2 months ago I had to read this book for English.
I'm a very big fan and im also called Bruce and my brother is named Steve.
Bruce has a great influence into my life and i've been 8 times to his concert, with the best moment in my life being the Pinkpop festival (30 may 2009) I stood in the pitt with my dad and when he saw me singing Promised Land he gave me a hand. Best moment ever!
jowbowla 1 year ago 2
Well, there's a coincidence. In Greenville, SC, he held the mic down to me to sing some la la las during Promised Land.
I'm 61, but felt 15.
I've seen 59 shows, beginning with three, on the 1978 Darkness tour and not missed a tour since. 59 is modest. I've met people who have seen him multiple hundreds.
I did read Catcher at 15 and see the Rolling Stones at 21 in 1969, when they really were the Rolling Stones.
But then Bruce came along in 78 and I was air born.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 1 year ago 5
happy birthday,bruce my friend, all of our lives have been so enriched because of your music thanks for making every day a sunny day!!!
boobine44 2 years ago 3
Happy birthday, Boss.
threehundredwords 2 years ago 2
big daddy with adam sandler
cuech 2 years ago 6
i heard this song in a movie and immediatly became obsessed with finding it. i finally did.
potatojeff 2 years ago 2
What movie was that?
pkcdt 2 years ago
Gracie
potatojeff 2 years ago
i wonder if they had any idead that they were seeing one of the greatest musicians since dylan
niljuanzo 2 years ago 63
so true man. great comment
CommonPhenomenon 2 years ago
@niljuanzo Yes, I saw him a number of times during that period and it was completely obvious just how great he was,
ajack2boys 1 year ago
@niljuanzo I wonder if anyone had any idera they were listening to someone who would far surpass Dylan as a performer and become his equal as a songwriter.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 7 months ago
to me this is an amazing video, seeing the boss this young playing to me is incredible hes the whole reason i started playing music, thanks for putting this video on here
plm3332 2 years ago
I liked his early stuff, you know the rambling, wandering music, with great lyrics i couldnt quite get my head around , wasnt so into born in USA and all that!
lwzdo05 2 years ago
why do i have to be 15? i wish i was alive for all this. i saw bruce in april, and seeing him again in agust in boston. he really has something special. no matter how old you are you can be changed by his music. he is just a hero, legend, and boss.
samfav93 2 years ago 6
I could listen to this all day and It could play it anywhere and think about anything not just that place yet anywhere at all earth or in outer space.This song is amazing.
JustForBrieLarson 2 years ago
wat can you say its the stuff of legends! mucho respect
dkhibs 2 years ago
What a beautiful version of Growing up!I'm a 15 year old Bruce springsteen fan who lives in the Netherlands. About 2 weeks ago Bruce Sprignsteen gave me a hand during The Promised Land (concert was in Landgraaf at the Pinkpop festival). Wooaah, must have been my best moment in my life to give my big fan a hand. Have been to all the concerts in the Netherlands sinds i've been born and his energy is like he's 20. Amazing! His 70's stuff is magical, it doesn't get any better than this.
jowbowla 2 years ago 10
i'm new to youtube, i don't have any videos of my own. this is my first comment, i know this video is from 73, but what a gem, shows bruce in his pure essence. His music has grown exponentially...but we're all cool when we're young, some are just cooler.
blckft07 2 years ago 5
I wish he was still like this, and not like........the way he is now.
JohnCronin103 2 years ago 4
holy smokes...what a totally PRICELESS clip....thanks!!!!
luvdapug 2 years ago 5
Couldn't have been more than 25 people in that place, judging by the sound of the applause. I wonder if these peole knew that they were witnessing a future legend in his infancy?
avg005 2 years ago 5
Second song of his that I heard. Hooked me.
LandoKM 2 years ago 3
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jd83 2 years ago
a legend is born!!!!
showme1moresign 2 years ago 6
Is it me or could they make a movie about him and have ben affleck play him?? I see it in this video.. Great song and Airtist
Vtang01 2 years ago
As much as I'm against such a movie being made, I agree that there's a resemblance there
danelectro2112 2 years ago 3
been a springsteen fan for 36 years and he is absolutely the best and how unfair that true fans lost out to scalpers connected to corrupt ticketmaster with thier "ticketworks" connection. During the years i have waited on linesfor 12 hours or more,and had always gotten tickets- good ones. Not fair at all
MiSSy12783 3 years ago 2
i hear you there. Absolutely ridiculous that they can legalize scalping. I'm a huge Springsteen fan and I'd even be willing to pay the $250+ to go see him but i simply can't afford to (especially with the economy the way it is). I guess some of us will just have to sit home with the records on the turntable and live out the concert experience in our heads. 'tis a shame.
JMartyson 2 years ago
Thanks! That's the best thing ever.
peacetrainwreck 3 years ago
Man i love the acoustic version of this song. Can't find it anywhere though :(
So if anyones got this version, feel free to send it to me^^ Just write me a pm and let me know.
Would be a great (late) christmas present.
The boss is great!
ZoaN90 3 years ago 2
Growin' Up acoustic is featured on one of the "Tracks" albums, think it's the second one. it's great.
Schmuggugu 3 years ago
Bruce is a fucking hero
Toehead1992 3 years ago 7
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why do yo have to curse theres no point you can say the same thing without "fuck"
GrandpaEggDude 3 years ago
chill out grandpa. sometimes theres an emphasis that only a good old 'fuck' can hit :)
tomcanton 3 years ago 7
no wonder why he became famous - he looked like fidel castro without the cap
tomkat69pc 3 years ago
asshole ,moron ,lets see you write a song ,play ,and sing ,keep on working at mcdonalds
johno934 2 years ago
great - but i miss the drums
tomkat69pc 3 years ago
merry xmas e street band,he's bruce springsteen the best there ever was
boobine44 3 years ago
I am in agreement with the previous commentator but my question re Bruce and Bob was more to do with the 'look' rather than the content of the lyric. There is no doubt that Dylan was a huge influence.
Thecityslicker 3 years ago
Did Bruce go through a 'I think I'm Bob Dylan phase
?
Thecityslicker 3 years ago
Bruce picked up from where Bob left off. A new troubadour for the next generation.
legunncat 3 years ago
Excellent way of putting it :)
readikus 3 years ago
just learned this song on guitar so great and fun to play
PyrocityBand 3 years ago
bestttttttttttt
pyettehead 3 years ago 3
best song ever
luminakids 3 years ago
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God, I miss Max's, but I don't miss Springsteen. I saw him at Max's and thought he was really boring. Spare me the hate mail. I won't even read it. LOL
strangeparty 3 years ago
dumbass
doofusmoo 3 years ago
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Fuck you, CUNT ASS.
strangeparty 3 years ago
attaboy loser
doofusmoo 3 years ago
You're 45 years old and that's the best you can come up with? DUUUUUUH.
strangeparty 3 years ago
Genius.
zenmoon3 3 years ago 2
Who ever took that video just awesome!!!
Bruce, never stop playing!!!!
bobbyjean73 3 years ago
WOW.
Seriously, I'm speechless.
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS VIDEO!
nygkry 3 years ago
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I received the Springsteen book "For You" and I was really blown away... if any book can capture what it's like to be at a Springsteen show, this is it. The images are as good as concert photos get
EmulsionStrip 3 years ago 2
It's pretty funny how he's kind of quiet and simple when he intros the song, and then he launches into this complex, poetic song with all those great lyrics.
thehappyjax 3 years ago 2
what a cool song. thanks for posting.
romancitoG 3 years ago
i said before and i'll say it again he's bruce springsteen the best there ever was
boobine44 3 years ago 7
i have been looking all over for this one.
this could've been a #1 hit video if he had put it out.why didn't he release this as a video.
i wonder so much and he is so talented.
JustForBrieLarson 3 years ago
Wow !!
johnnymoondog 3 years ago
sounds so young!
AMAZING!
80sMusicOwnz 3 years ago
Bruce in acoustic. Pure genius
Kumas576 3 years ago
That's why he's da boss
rubbersouldier 3 years ago
love the old Max's footage;any Aerosmith or Alice Cooper?
lalumia 3 years ago
I love that sequence from 0:26 to 0:30... that little shrug and that smile. He still does that today... that embarrassed/shy reaction.
mcgurkryans 3 years ago
yes, I agree. He is still the same as he was then. The best what there is.
rrrrrane 3 years ago
suspended in my masquerade
bruce now you are the imitated
and the idol for all musically sane people
Jay3039 3 years ago