Such an amazing story teller. His ability to make us all feel as though we are part of his songs, his life, never ceases to blow me away. Wether watching vintage video like this or listening to him cruising down the shore. Thank you Bruce...you will always be part of my life.
I saw many shows at the old Capitol Theatre in Passaic, but somehow never Bruce. I was a little too young and ignorant in 1978 to know who Bruce was or to appreciate him. The first time I ever saw him was MSG Thanksgiving 1980 - I was blown away forever.
I always come back to this video when I'm feeling down. And wonder what I was doing when this concert was happening. As I grew up in Paterson, NJ and was probably not 5 miles away, but was only 16 and hadn't realized yet what an important part Bruce would play in my life. Over the years he has literally saved me without knowing it.
@luftenant "Getting lost" in the song is such a great way to put it...I can remember as a kid on summer nights turning the lights in my room off and laying on the bed with the window open just getting lost in this song...
AEYNUB: I think you're missing something key -- Bruce has always been a blue collar hero... Incident? Jungleland? Badlands? Almost all his early songs were hard knocks, girls, searching, east coast alienation. Some of the 80s & 90s work isn't his best in any musical genre, sure, but more of his later work - especially the last decade+ is infused with social conscience -- which some people may criticize, but it shows a broader, deeper soul who cares & woks hard when he could just retire.
Bruce was amazing in his early career, up to Born to Run. His later more commercial stuff pales in comparison. If he had died young or stopped recording after Darkness on the Edge of Town and not turned into a "Blue Collar Hero" cliche, he would be considered a legend like Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison. Some of his later stuff is okay but he was a God back in the day.
I think you're missing something key -- Bruce has always been a blue collar hero... Incident? Jungleland? Badlands? Almost all his early songs were hard knocks, girls, searching, east coast alienation. Some of the 80s & 90s work isn't his best in any musical genre, sure, but more of his later work - especially the last decade+ is infused with social conscience -- which some people may criticize, but it shows a broader, deeper soul who cares & woks hard when he could just retire.
The River, Nebraska, Born in the USA, and Tunnel of Love, are all incredible albums. Everyone of his albums is different from every other one. He's much more of a Legend than any of the people you mention. In a hundred years they'll be footnotes. Bruce Springsteen will be viewed as the Mozart of our time.
I mean, listen to this song. Just listen, and tell me he would have been great, "if he had died young."
Unless I'm only 17 I can totally relate to your comment. The Darkness Tour was just his very best there is and there will ever be. Because, just be honest.. who will beat songs like Backstreets, Jungleland, Thunder Road and Incident? Just NOBODY, because the Boss is and always be the best singer/performer ever lived. Just too bad I'm only 17 and never witnessed a Darkness tour in real life, but the first thing I'm going to do when I get my driver licence is is play Drive all Nigh...
@aeynub great point. I can see exactly where you're coming from. nothing can beat his early stuff. later he just became a cliche. when he was young he was real but his commercial stuff seems as though heis just trying to live up to that cliche.
@aeynub Darkness and the River were superb albums. Born in the USA was overrated (in that it was his biggest hit and said to be his best, when it wasn't), but it was still a very good album. "Downbound Train" on Born in the USA in particular is a superbly haunting track.
I'm in college and I watch my fellow peers listen to this new music nowadays dancing away, grinding, and pulling some crazy late night drunk drama fight. I sit there sometimes and smirk.. I know something they don't.. I know real music. When I listen to this I feel... Right. That's the best way to put it. I feel.. Right. That everything makes sense. Maybe that's what Rock N' Roll does to us. Gives us that hope and drive.. Makes us feel alive. And for that Bruce, I Thank You.. I'm still searchin
@rloebe34 WhenI was 20 years old, I had the privelage of seeing him and his band
in a huge arena, at it was a great thrill. I'm 52 not an his music still moves me and I still get up and dance and sing along.
I shudder and shake my head at most of the the stuff they try to pass off as "music" these days. It will never stand the test of time, any many of it's followers will end up in jail or dead, their heads and minds warped with all the negative lyrics glorification of a dangerous lifestyle
@springsteenphan1 I agree, it's one of his best, and it is truely great, whether played solo accoustic, or soft rock, or anthem.
I don't think you can call one version, "best." I have a compilation of 15 versions, from Jan, 74 - through the Magic tour - and they are great and greater.
He didn't play the song for 19 years, from 12/29/80 until 9/25/99, when he opened in Philly with a stunning, stadium anthem version. Each gives me chills, basking in the brilliance that is Bruce Springsteen.
what a beautiful song, those last two minutes just make me speechless, and tearful .what a creative genius this man is. springsteen has said elvis freed your body and dylan freed your mind. but thank YOU bruce for freeing our hearts, emotions and desires.
LOL...Me too Suzzy! I had a '73 camaro...going to Rutgers Univ. fr '79-'83... had a the two cassettes it took for this entire show and I blasted it over and over for about a year while driving around campus delivering pizzas!..... I paid $350 for the car and I had a $700 stereo with top of the line EPI speakers..NOTHING BEAT standing at someone's doorstep with a pizza with the car door open and this show filling the night air!!
On a old cassette tape I can't find right now arghhh, he tells about his Mother who wanted him to be a writer, Dad wanted to be a lawyer, he got into Rock N Roll!! and then the crowd goes mad!!
He could have been a great lawyer but I don't see him liking it much. He has this great sense of honor and as far as meetings - remember he did "Meeting Across the River' really well ask Eddie and the boys in the Bronx...
@ lynnt1958, I listen alot to that part alone. It's just nice to hear a little bit of history, and you also got to know his father didn't like his guitar and long hair at all. (it was something I already knew but still)
His father said the guitar was "ok for a hobby". Well that guitar made him a legend, The Boss etcetera.
That was the story he told during Growin' Up...they wanted a Lawyer and an Author... but all he wanted was Rock and Roll...listen to the Live 75-85 album for the best version of that song and story.
I listened to that beat up old tape I found in the Salvation Army for months, but the name was worn off. I played the hell out of it) I think I have the whole dialog memorized . Thanks for the heads up moocow I really need to replace it.
This takes me right back to 1978 when I first heard this one. Wow. ' Goodnight it's alright Jane' ' I wanna drive ya down to the other side of town where paradise ain't so crowded '. How does a 20 something year old kid come up with all of this Shakespearean drama. Thank you for posting this classic. Epic.
Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night with bruised arms and broken rhythm and a beat-up old Buick but dressed just like dynamite - Probably the greatest line in a song ever!
I agree completely. I've only seen 59, beginning with 3 Darkness shows, including Winterland, and most recently, five Magic and five Dream shows, including Nashville, from three feet from the stage on 11/18/09, and although over 31 years seperated my first from my most recent, each in their own way ,were every bit as intense and exciting: the greatest rock & roll that there has ever been or will ever be.
I honestly don't know where I'd be if it wasn't for Bruce's music as well. I may very well be dead, Bruce has given me hope when no one else could. BRUUUCCEEE!!!!
The chorus of this song is so fucking simple and honest. It sits inside the song like it's been hovering over you the whole time, and yet it's still a surprise when it finally comes, just a little bit later than you want it. Brilliance!!!!!!!
Sooooo cool. Listen to this song is like watching an early Martin Scorsese movie. You can actually see Spanish Johnny and Portorican Jane strugglin' in a New York hot summer night...
I was just about to type that exact thing, before i read your comment dude (lallolupo)!!! Bruce is like a great film director,i can actually see images that aren't even described here in lyric form, like a paper bag blowing across a dirty 1970's New York street. I can even smell the sweat through their clothes. Amazing!
Wow. Thanks so much for posting this. Incident is one of my favorite songs. Have been glued to my computer watching these Capitol Theatre clips. Amazing. Brings back so many memories. First saw Bruce in '78 & haven't stopped. Went to the last show in Jersey last weekend & he surprised us by playing this. Brought tears to my eyes. Thanks Bruce, don't stop.
wow! one of my favorites.. the first 2 albums will always remain my favorites. to see this played live on tour last year at IZOD was simply one of the highlights of my long-standing Bruce following, i could've died it was so great, but thank God I lived to remember that vibe. Bruce will always pull the most vital feelings from people's core, and that is what a true talent, and a true performer is all about....whether you like him, or you hate him (some people do, he AFFECTS us all...)
@SJDinAudubon: is there a reason that you wrote, that you hope the big man won`t follow danny? i mean, sure, we all hope, that no other member of the E-streets will folloy danny, but why did you mention clarence only?
Right ON...And Im one who cant hold it back even if I tried. As soon as that third note of his telecaster comes screaming in I cant hold it back. Then I have the people and friends that are there with me looking at me like Im an alian, and dont care to understand and they never will !Will they ever understand why this song brings me to my knees hoping it will never end , I cant explain it but even in my flood of tears I dont care becasuse those tears are the beauty of it!
Mine also. As far as quality of music is concerned it doesn't get any better than this. I really dig Bruce. This version of incident and the New York serenade are my favourite Bruce songs. Though he has a vast quantity of phenomenal songs.
Take a look at the length of all these songs from the '70's. 7,8,9, almost 10 minutes long. They had depth and substance. He had something to say, and the music allowed you to feel it, as if you were there. This was during a time when AM radio and 3 minute songs were the norm. Bruce is anything but the norm, never ever giving in to conform..... This tune is way way down in my soul. Amazing then, and still is today.
A friend of mine was a student at Widener University in Pennsylvania back in the early 1970s. He saw Bruce play in their cafeteria! Bruce was so new at that time that not enough tickets were sold for an auditorium show, so several cafeteria tables were rachetted together to form a makeshift stage, and Bruce and the E Street Band played on cafeteria tables! A $5 ticket got you close to what we would later call "The greatest rock musician of our generation."
Maroon1p:I also had a buddy who went to Widener from '79 to '83. I heard the same exact story. Very cool. I saw Southside Johnny in that very same cafeteria in '79, right after "Hearts of Stone" came out.
Yeah, it would have been one of those things you'd never forget and nobody could take away from you, no matter how hard they tried. He should release this concert on DVD.
Bruce paints images in your minds eye which last forever. Thats why he resisted shooting videos when MTV came onto the scene. He didn't want his songs to be linked w/ a TV visual. He wanted the listener to have their own video in their head. His 1st video was "Atlantic City". Notice he never showed up in the vid. Eventually w/ Born in the USA, he HAD to make videos w/ the monster success of the album. 7 top 10 hits from it.
america has been known to buy a lot of crap. This is his best. 1972-1978 bruce is so creative, so daring, and so fricken poetic, he knocks out everyone
In fact, just saw him Monday night in Anaheim, and he did Rosalita in the encore, but not Incident... Still a great show, even if those old guys could only do three hours! And a what a broad range of music he does, from a wide selection of his albums...
well , this is the best live version i ever heard . .
but , nothing comes close to the Studio Version . . his Voclas in the end of the song , right at the closing of the last chorus is Phenomenon . . and he never pulled it again.
"Nice try, but Bruce played Incident live 50 times prior to the Passiac 1978 performance shown here. The first live performance was 13/10/1973 USA,Washington,DC,Kennedy Centre.
Tough to spin nonsense in the age of the internet."
You are correct Mikey, but until I see the DVD I won't remember EXACTLY what he said.
2johnnyt wat are you on about!! I found springsteens music in 2003 through the rising album!! And now im a real big fan!! Yes 70s bruce is the best but bruce will keep writing songs til the day he dies!!!! And i have no doubt he will still write some really epic songs yet!!!
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Now this is BRUCE! Not todays loud mouthed rich golf playing liberal who hasnt laid down a decent song since 1987s Brilliant Disguise. Bruce is just wasting our time today, but this was when he was THE MAN, THE BOSS, he shone beautifully. Bruce retire now, dont tarnish yourself anymore...follow Billy Joels lead.
This is a stunningly superb song, but bruce has grown and changed. Check out his latest album, "Magic." Although you've not done the same, perhaps you could be less judgmental. I'll never understand how pigmies who have accomplished nothing (or am I wrong) can criticize a giant like bruce Springsteen.
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Roy Bittan is the most unheralded musician in history. Bruce was blessed with two fantastic piano players, Roy and David Sancious. Unfortunately Roy has been basically wasted since The River.
This song has kept me company on many nights alone driving in my car over the years. I am so glad that I discovered Bruce's music in the late 1970s. Definitely one of the greatest performers of any generation.
Hey Maroon, 2 in the morning,driving home in my 74 cuda, at 20 years old and this song blaring out of my Blaupunct stereo, waking up the neighbours. good days
We hear and see lots of lists - best bands, best guitarists, best songs...but we never see Best Lyrics or Songwriters. Bruce S has got to be in the top ten rock song writers ever - no doubt - from Greetings to The Rising...there is a masterwork on ALMOST every album, if not more than one track. THIS is one of them, and one of the most richly crafted rock songs ever.
Well said..."masterwork" defines this song. This is certainly Bruce's masterwork. You could make an evening out of the evolution of this song and it's various performances now available to us "through the magic of bootleggin'". Heard this live for the first time from "Mom's wholesome radio" on WMMR with Ed Sciacky at the Main Point in '75.
You'll have to tell us about that username someday.
I was third row center screaming out,"Hey Bruce, where's Spanish Johnny?" when he looks at me and says something about how they haven't played it live but they'll give it their best shot.
Nice try, but Bruce played Incident live 50 times prior to the Passiac 1978 performance shown here. The first live performance was 13/10/1973 USA,Washington,DC,Kennedy Centre.
Tough to spin nonsense in the age of the internet.
Such an amazing story teller. His ability to make us all feel as though we are part of his songs, his life, never ceases to blow me away. Wether watching vintage video like this or listening to him cruising down the shore. Thank you Bruce...you will always be part of my life.
sportztr67 3 days ago
Magnificient !
42karagounis 1 month ago
An early Bruce song that showed something incredibly special was brewing. ... It spilled over in Passaic.
08shortstop 4 months ago
This is from the series of shows that produced "Piece De Resistance", maybe the best bootleg of his
5335kookoo 4 months ago
They're is 2 STUPID and insensible perons on this fucking dirty world....
killerjurgis 5 months ago
I saw many shows at the old Capitol Theatre in Passaic, but somehow never Bruce. I was a little too young and ignorant in 1978 to know who Bruce was or to appreciate him. The first time I ever saw him was MSG Thanksgiving 1980 - I was blown away forever.
rylee924 6 months ago
What a great story teller!
amesy126 6 months ago
I always come back to this video when I'm feeling down. And wonder what I was doing when this concert was happening. As I grew up in Paterson, NJ and was probably not 5 miles away, but was only 16 and hadn't realized yet what an important part Bruce would play in my life. Over the years he has literally saved me without knowing it.
jerseydude100 6 months ago
Is there somewhere where I can get this full show? Its truly amazing
der363Productions 7 months ago
RIP Big Man Clarence
william3231954 7 months ago 2
one of the great NY street songs,, can just picture the bodegas ,, girls on the stoops,, steamy city streets as the sun set over the Hudson river
william3231954 7 months ago
@william3231954 Agreed; really like new york city serenade too. Beautiful piano!
liveTheaterFan 7 months ago
Saw this band in 1975 and was knocked out. I never saw a better band, to this day...
Sillach 7 months ago
Before Thunder Road.....happened....there was AN INCIDENT on 57th St!
zaxmack 7 months ago
this song makes me think of "Don't Answer Me" by Alan Parsons Project
DarkStarHarry 7 months ago
Unreal.
somper10 8 months ago
no band has ever been close to aven match the songs of BS &ESB, let alone have better ones.
to have so many gems before he even turned 30 is just sick.
fantastic to be able to hear these songs like this...
was a salesman in norway and had to stop at the side of the road this one time incident came on air...
I had listened to it a lot before, but that time it just caught me and I got lost in it. so fantastic and garys bass... no words.
BoxerDanielW 8 months ago in playlist Bruce Springsteen Live @ the Capitol, Passaic, N.J. Sept '78 4
NOBODY WRITES LIKE SPRINGSTEEN!!!---NOBODY---AND ILL ARGUE THAT WITH ANYBODY TILL THE DAY I DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MICHAEL MILISITS MANALAPAN N.J.
milcookful 8 months ago
Long live The Wild, The Innocent & The E-Street Shuffle - and Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. ... Bruce Springsteen's best albums ever by far.
rlpoloplaya67 9 months ago
Upstairs the band was playing and the singer was singing something about going home! Gets me everytime :)
warflynn 10 months ago
Fabulous!! Johnny don't cry!!!1
warflynn 10 months ago
I miss getting lost in these songs. They got me through alot of tough tomes. Thanks Bruce
luftenant 11 months ago 4
@luftenant "Getting lost" in the song is such a great way to put it...I can remember as a kid on summer nights turning the lights in my room off and laying on the bed with the window open just getting lost in this song...
LoyalRaiderFan 11 months ago 3
@LoyalRaiderFan I did that too...
shadowestreetshuffle 7 months ago
Thanks xalancampbellx. For the most part, it seems that musical artists usually make their best music early in their careers.
aeynub 11 months ago
Perhaps the best song ever written in the rockmusic
Tunnelof 1 year ago 3
wonderfull song!!! thanks bruce!!!!
killerjurgis 1 year ago
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AEYNUB: I think you're missing something key -- Bruce has always been a blue collar hero... Incident? Jungleland? Badlands? Almost all his early songs were hard knocks, girls, searching, east coast alienation. Some of the 80s & 90s work isn't his best in any musical genre, sure, but more of his later work - especially the last decade+ is infused with social conscience -- which some people may criticize, but it shows a broader, deeper soul who cares & woks hard when he could just retire.
falkbaby 1 year ago
Bruce was amazing in his early career, up to Born to Run. His later more commercial stuff pales in comparison. If he had died young or stopped recording after Darkness on the Edge of Town and not turned into a "Blue Collar Hero" cliche, he would be considered a legend like Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison. Some of his later stuff is okay but he was a God back in the day.
aeynub 1 year ago
I think you're missing something key -- Bruce has always been a blue collar hero... Incident? Jungleland? Badlands? Almost all his early songs were hard knocks, girls, searching, east coast alienation. Some of the 80s & 90s work isn't his best in any musical genre, sure, but more of his later work - especially the last decade+ is infused with social conscience -- which some people may criticize, but it shows a broader, deeper soul who cares & woks hard when he could just retire.
falkbaby 1 year ago 4
@aeynub I would say most people consider him a legend like the others, and he didn't have to die for it.
RudyCasordapek 1 year ago
@aeynub He changed. That what great artists do.
The River, Nebraska, Born in the USA, and Tunnel of Love, are all incredible albums. Everyone of his albums is different from every other one. He's much more of a Legend than any of the people you mention. In a hundred years they'll be footnotes. Bruce Springsteen will be viewed as the Mozart of our time.
I mean, listen to this song. Just listen, and tell me he would have been great, "if he had died young."
That's a foolish thing to say.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 1 year ago
@aeynub
Unless I'm only 17 I can totally relate to your comment. The Darkness Tour was just his very best there is and there will ever be. Because, just be honest.. who will beat songs like Backstreets, Jungleland, Thunder Road and Incident? Just NOBODY, because the Boss is and always be the best singer/performer ever lived. Just too bad I'm only 17 and never witnessed a Darkness tour in real life, but the first thing I'm going to do when I get my driver licence is is play Drive all Nigh...
jowbowla 1 year ago
@aeynub great point. I can see exactly where you're coming from. nothing can beat his early stuff. later he just became a cliche. when he was young he was real but his commercial stuff seems as though heis just trying to live up to that cliche.
xalancampbellx 11 months ago
@aeynub Darkness and the River were superb albums. Born in the USA was overrated (in that it was his biggest hit and said to be his best, when it wasn't), but it was still a very good album. "Downbound Train" on Born in the USA in particular is a superbly haunting track.
qinmoy 10 months ago 3
right on
gmisterex 7 months ago
I was at this show and I can go right back.
chubbychief 1 year ago
I was at this show and I can right back.
chubbychief 1 year ago
happy birthday brrruuuccceeeeee
abollard6 1 year ago
I'm in college and I watch my fellow peers listen to this new music nowadays dancing away, grinding, and pulling some crazy late night drunk drama fight. I sit there sometimes and smirk.. I know something they don't.. I know real music. When I listen to this I feel... Right. That's the best way to put it. I feel.. Right. That everything makes sense. Maybe that's what Rock N' Roll does to us. Gives us that hope and drive.. Makes us feel alive. And for that Bruce, I Thank You.. I'm still searchin
rloebe34 1 year ago 5
@rloebe34 WhenI was 20 years old, I had the privelage of seeing him and his band
in a huge arena, at it was a great thrill. I'm 52 not an his music still moves me and I still get up and dance and sing along.
I shudder and shake my head at most of the the stuff they try to pass off as "music" these days. It will never stand the test of time, any many of it's followers will end up in jail or dead, their heads and minds warped with all the negative lyrics glorification of a dangerous lifestyle
ladyfuschia 1 year ago 2
this is the greatest...
JimmyDFFD 1 year ago
As nearly impossible as it is to pick a favorite song, this is what I would pick if forced. Seriously, just about the greatest thing ever written.
johnnydontcry57 1 year ago 2
A song about Puerto Rican lovers in New York City. Always has been my favorite and always will.
PANDOSING 1 year ago
There will never be another band who puts more into their shows than this band.
amarshang 1 year ago
by far the BEST Bruce song AND this is the BEST version of not only this song, but any song he ever performed live. Thanks for throwing it up here!
springsteenphan1 1 year ago
@springsteenphan1 I agree, it's one of his best, and it is truely great, whether played solo accoustic, or soft rock, or anthem.
I don't think you can call one version, "best." I have a compilation of 15 versions, from Jan, 74 - through the Magic tour - and they are great and greater.
He didn't play the song for 19 years, from 12/29/80 until 9/25/99, when he opened in Philly with a stunning, stadium anthem version. Each gives me chills, basking in the brilliance that is Bruce Springsteen.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 1 year ago
what a beautiful song, those last two minutes just make me speechless, and tearful .what a creative genius this man is. springsteen has said elvis freed your body and dylan freed your mind. but thank YOU bruce for freeing our hearts, emotions and desires.
holitipu 1 year ago 4
LOL...Me too Suzzy! I had a '73 camaro...going to Rutgers Univ. fr '79-'83... had a the two cassettes it took for this entire show and I blasted it over and over for about a year while driving around campus delivering pizzas!..... I paid $350 for the car and I had a $700 stereo with top of the line EPI speakers..NOTHING BEAT standing at someone's doorstep with a pizza with the car door open and this show filling the night air!!
SPRNGSTNFAN1 1 year ago 5
best ever - no one even comes close
FOAMER103061 1 year ago 3
Thanks to all that helped me place that wonderful lead...now to go buy the CD- my tape player ate the cassette... .
SuzzyStohelit 1 year ago
On a old cassette tape I can't find right now arghhh, he tells about his Mother who wanted him to be a writer, Dad wanted to be a lawyer, he got into Rock N Roll!! and then the crowd goes mad!!
Help me out here please.....
SuzzyStohelit 1 year ago
He talked about this at Growing UP at1975-1985 Live CD
ericor 1 year ago 2
I think Bruce could have done anything he put his mind too, but I'll bet he would have been a lousy lawyer. I doubt he does meetings very well.
RudyCasordapek 1 year ago 2
He could have been a great lawyer but I don't see him liking it much. He has this great sense of honor and as far as meetings - remember he did "Meeting Across the River' really well ask Eddie and the boys in the Bronx...
SuzzyStohelit 1 year ago
I felt that meeting across the river was dangerous and didn't necessarily come out well for him. But, It's not clear.
RudyCasordapek 1 year ago
@SuzzyStohelit I think that was in a pre-song ramble before he played "Growin' Up" in concert in the early days
lynnt1958 1 year ago
@ lynnt1958, I listen alot to that part alone. It's just nice to hear a little bit of history, and you also got to know his father didn't like his guitar and long hair at all. (it was something I already knew but still)
His father said the guitar was "ok for a hobby". Well that guitar made him a legend, The Boss etcetera.
jowbowla 1 year ago
@jowbowla Bruce has told a story that in the late eighties his father asked him to remind him to never give anybody advice anymore.
RudyCasordapek 1 year ago
That was the story he told during Growin' Up...they wanted a Lawyer and an Author... but all he wanted was Rock and Roll...listen to the Live 75-85 album for the best version of that song and story.
moocow117 1 year ago 2
I listened to that beat up old tape I found in the Salvation Army for months, but the name was worn off. I played the hell out of it) I think I have the whole dialog memorized . Thanks for the heads up moocow I really need to replace it.
SuzzyStohelit 1 year ago
and his father wanted him to be a lawyer...)
SuzzyStohelit 2 years ago
This takes me right back to 1978 when I first heard this one. Wow. ' Goodnight it's alright Jane' ' I wanna drive ya down to the other side of town where paradise ain't so crowded '. How does a 20 something year old kid come up with all of this Shakespearean drama. Thank you for posting this classic. Epic.
Longhammer37214 2 years ago 8
minmen99; Nobody write songs like this anymore!
IWLindeLou 2 years ago 5
i agree rolrepeqw72
showme1moresign 2 years ago
Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night with bruised arms and broken rhythm and a beat-up old Buick but dressed just like dynamite - Probably the greatest line in a song ever!
rolrepeqw72 2 years ago 61
I agree
saturnvsean 2 years ago
@rolrepeqw72
Tells a story with every line. Bruce is the best...
Aurabolt127 1 year ago
best version I've ever heard of this song
zeets93 2 years ago 5
2 of the greatest Bruce shows ever!! now 11-7,8-09 82nd and 83rd show I have seen!!
marathonguy999 2 years ago
I agree completely. I've only seen 59, beginning with 3 Darkness shows, including Winterland, and most recently, five Magic and five Dream shows, including Nashville, from three feet from the stage on 11/18/09, and although over 31 years seperated my first from my most recent, each in their own way ,were every bit as intense and exciting: the greatest rock & roll that there has ever been or will ever be.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 1 year ago 2
by far my fav song done live... bruce u are the greatest i honestly would be dead if it wasnt for ur music.. thank u bruce ur the greatest!!!!
darkwhite333 2 years ago 8
I honestly don't know where I'd be if it wasn't for Bruce's music as well. I may very well be dead, Bruce has given me hope when no one else could. BRUUUCCEEE!!!!
Patriot427 2 years ago 4
Such powerfull performance of this song, just legendary. First guitartone and guitar part at the end, man o man so beautifull!
jowbowla 2 years ago 3
the very first guitartone....the greatest and "ugliest" sound i ever heard. nothing better..
164645 2 years ago 35
I know what you mean :D
qinmoy 2 years ago
The chorus of this song is so fucking simple and honest. It sits inside the song like it's been hovering over you the whole time, and yet it's still a surprise when it finally comes, just a little bit later than you want it. Brilliance!!!!!!!
crowjaney 2 years ago 9
Absolutely amazing, thank you for posting this.
I've always loved this song, in a certain way it reminds me of John Fante's writings. Bruce is definitely a poet, the last american dreamer.
pufforosso 2 years ago 10
love this song!<3
Misstwigg 2 years ago 4
this is raw....I like it
SuzzyStohelit 2 years ago 6
Like a cool Romeo, he made his moves, she looked so fine. And like a late Juliet, she knew he'd never be true, but then she didn't mind. Great stuff.
trapper2 2 years ago 5
Sooooo cool. Listen to this song is like watching an early Martin Scorsese movie. You can actually see Spanish Johnny and Portorican Jane strugglin' in a New York hot summer night...
And the guitar solo at the end...
One of my Bruce favorite ever. Thanx for posting
lallolupo 2 years ago 11
I was just about to type that exact thing, before i read your comment dude (lallolupo)!!! Bruce is like a great film director,i can actually see images that aren't even described here in lyric form, like a paper bag blowing across a dirty 1970's New York street. I can even smell the sweat through their clothes. Amazing!
crowjaney 2 years ago 2
You mean Mean Streets. In this movies there is a sign with the name of a road and this is 57th Street.
grbosss 2 years ago
Wow. Thanks so much for posting this. Incident is one of my favorite songs. Have been glued to my computer watching these Capitol Theatre clips. Amazing. Brings back so many memories. First saw Bruce in '78 & haven't stopped. Went to the last show in Jersey last weekend & he surprised us by playing this. Brought tears to my eyes. Thanks Bruce, don't stop.
barefootgrl 2 years ago 5
Did Springsteen break a string??
DX2223 2 years ago
wow! one of my favorites.. the first 2 albums will always remain my favorites. to see this played live on tour last year at IZOD was simply one of the highlights of my long-standing Bruce following, i could've died it was so great, but thank God I lived to remember that vibe. Bruce will always pull the most vital feelings from people's core, and that is what a true talent, and a true performer is all about....whether you like him, or you hate him (some people do, he AFFECTS us all...)
carolynknievel 2 years ago 3
I really can't agree more!
And I'm seeing him for the first time this july can't wait. Thogh my biggest wish would be to see him in the beggining of the 70's(and Steel mill).
Uggybow 2 years ago
He simply doesnt write songs like this anymore....one of his absolute best
minmen99 2 years ago 4
This is another Boss song that is unforgettable
singler1 2 years ago 2
A beautiful rendition of one of my favorite Springsteen songs.
johnnydontcry57 2 years ago 2
"With bruised arms and broken rhythm and a beat-up old Buick but dressed just like dynamite"
Brilliant line
StukeSowle 2 years ago 3
@SJDinAudubon: is there a reason that you wrote, that you hope the big man won`t follow danny? i mean, sure, we all hope, that no other member of the E-streets will folloy danny, but why did you mention clarence only?
164645 2 years ago
This is a tremendous Boss song.
joesbu 2 years ago
Great underrated song from the Boss. Let' s hope he plays this one on the new tour.
jerryskid1 3 years ago
Thanks so much for this!
phillydog17 3 years ago
i can see a lot of people crying if he plays this one on his tour this year
MJ2327 3 years ago
Right ON...And Im one who cant hold it back even if I tried. As soon as that third note of his telecaster comes screaming in I cant hold it back. Then I have the people and friends that are there with me looking at me like Im an alian, and dont care to understand and they never will !Will they ever understand why this song brings me to my knees hoping it will never end , I cant explain it but even in my flood of tears I dont care becasuse those tears are the beauty of it!
mayamgk0220 2 years ago 2
@ 4:27..."yeah, Boss?"....priceless.
bdemps 3 years ago
Incident, Jungleland, Meeting Across the River and Backstreets, FN Picasso's. I'm out.
ortleyman 3 years ago 8
Yes long versions but no jam songs. Bruce was against those jam bands. No long solos. Great all-around band
sohlm88 3 years ago
He may have been against them, but the 17 minute version of "Kitty's Back" from the Hammersmith Odeon album is fantastic.
RobHau99 3 years ago 3
One of my favorite Springsteen songs.
gazoontight 3 years ago 3
Mine also. As far as quality of music is concerned it doesn't get any better than this. I really dig Bruce. This version of incident and the New York serenade are my favourite Bruce songs. Though he has a vast quantity of phenomenal songs.
Uggybow 3 years ago 10
Take a look at the length of all these songs from the '70's. 7,8,9, almost 10 minutes long. They had depth and substance. He had something to say, and the music allowed you to feel it, as if you were there. This was during a time when AM radio and 3 minute songs were the norm. Bruce is anything but the norm, never ever giving in to conform..... This tune is way way down in my soul. Amazing then, and still is today.
vanparty 3 years ago 11
MY ELECTRIC SURGES FREE!!
FRANKMORRISSETTE 3 years ago
are you kidding me? WOW!!!! This video is as good as it gets. You had to be there 30 yeas ago to apreciate the magic this recalls! what a song.
Kgriffyjr307 3 years ago
I was ... you're right
teach4deb 2 years ago
Does anyone know how could I get this on cd? I can't live without the passaic concert...it's just sheer magic.
bboroo 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
I have the audio of this if you want it.
Eeza07 3 years ago
I'd very much love that audio! I'd even buy u a beer haha:D
Uggybow 3 years ago
this is what youtube should be about. being able to watch something as good as this, so many years later, is unbelievable.
thetfordpaul 3 years ago 6
I Love the solo~
so amazing
beyond7477 3 years ago
my god... great video
F A N T A S T I C
T H E B O S S
25/JUNE/2008 MILAN
ORIONVIDEOCOM 3 years ago
A friend of mine was a student at Widener University in Pennsylvania back in the early 1970s. He saw Bruce play in their cafeteria! Bruce was so new at that time that not enough tickets were sold for an auditorium show, so several cafeteria tables were rachetted together to form a makeshift stage, and Bruce and the E Street Band played on cafeteria tables! A $5 ticket got you close to what we would later call "The greatest rock musician of our generation."
Maroons1p 3 years ago 7
Maroon1p:I also had a buddy who went to Widener from '79 to '83. I heard the same exact story. Very cool. I saw Southside Johnny in that very same cafeteria in '79, right after "Hearts of Stone" came out.
vanparty 3 years ago
Very similar story at Montclair State in New Jersey - only it was at the Spring Carnival and it was FREE...imagine that!
teach4deb 2 years ago
i wanna be puertorican jane or barefoot girl!!!!! Bruce is life!!!
HermiHouse 3 years ago 2
Well I wanna spanish Johnny than ;)
Uggybow 3 years ago 2
i wish i was spanish johnny. what a song.
eamonnmurphy 3 years ago
i would anythin to go to a bruce concert in the 70's even now i would
brokenheros9 3 years ago 5
Yeah, it would have been one of those things you'd never forget and nobody could take away from you, no matter how hard they tried. He should release this concert on DVD.
Eeza07 3 years ago
Bruce paints images in your minds eye which last forever. Thats why he resisted shooting videos when MTV came onto the scene. He didn't want his songs to be linked w/ a TV visual. He wanted the listener to have their own video in their head. His 1st video was "Atlantic City". Notice he never showed up in the vid. Eventually w/ Born in the USA, he HAD to make videos w/ the monster success of the album. 7 top 10 hits from it.
vanparty 3 years ago 8
his worst album born in the usa
mmilisits 3 years ago
I totally disagree, BIT USA was awesome, not his best, in my opinion, but it gave him seven top 10 hits.
Eeza07 3 years ago 2
america has been known to buy a lot of crap. This is his best. 1972-1978 bruce is so creative, so daring, and so fricken poetic, he knocks out everyone
2pacbiggie4334 2 years ago 3
He knocked them out as soon as he put pen to paper.
Eeza07 2 years ago
shut up.. you- another anti born in the usa guy.. all his work is great.. even the seeger sessions
JJSHIZZ 3 years ago
I was born in '82 and I would give anything to have been around during this era to see The Boss live. I only get to see him in stadiums now...
pcooper2019 3 years ago 4
June 3rd 1978 I saw Bruce for the first time at Nassua Coliseum. It was real then and it is real now.
Saw him three times that summer and many times since.
He has never matched the Darkness tour. Nor has anyone else.
Deadkurtrulz 3 years ago 3
Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ, one of THE best concert venues - about 3000 seats, all with great views. I cried when they knocked it down,.
teach4deb 2 years ago 2
I saw him do this a month earlier in Hampton VA - Clarence's home town. What a song, what a concert... 4 hours non-stop
SJDinAudubon 3 years ago 2
wow. you're truly lucky!
dueydrummer87 3 years ago
In fact, just saw him Monday night in Anaheim, and he did Rosalita in the encore, but not Incident... Still a great show, even if those old guys could only do three hours! And a what a broad range of music he does, from a wide selection of his albums...
SJDinAudubon 3 years ago
Pure heart. It's so hard to find music like this now. Bruce is a true poet.
tommunz 3 years ago 3
i was electrified, summer came and went and so didmy girlfriend and cat. thanks, bruchee
mainesux 3 years ago
i was sellin ice cream from a truck in old orchard maine. seein summer frombehind the wind shield, way back in 1978.
mainesux 4 years ago
well , this is the best live version i ever heard . .
but , nothing comes close to the Studio Version . . his Voclas in the end of the song , right at the closing of the last chorus is Phenomenon . . and he never pulled it again.
don't you agree ?
theilster 4 years ago 3
Have you heard the version from 1975 that has only piano, violin and Springsteen at the mike? It is probably THE definitive version of this song.
billyi 3 years ago 2
billyi i agree with you that's the version from main point
vulcanlrd 3 years ago
Yeah that is really cool with Roy and Suki playing.
nittyranks 3 years ago 2
and this song really features Danny Federici... RIP Dan - hope the Big Man is not following you soon.
SJDinAudubon 3 years ago 4
been singing this all day....
tommunz 4 years ago 2
"Well, now that we know where Spanish Johnny was - where's Rosalita?!?"
He played that next.
Well, you can hear me on the DVD, BUT he plays it for the people next to us that threw flowers to him in the beginning of the show!
njhorror 4 years ago
Well, now that we know where Spanish Johnny was - where's Rosalita?!?
SJDinAudubon 4 years ago
"Nice try, but Bruce played Incident live 50 times prior to the Passiac 1978 performance shown here. The first live performance was 13/10/1973 USA,Washington,DC,Kennedy Centre.
Tough to spin nonsense in the age of the internet."
You are correct Mikey, but until I see the DVD I won't remember EXACTLY what he said.
I wouldn't dream of spinning nonsense boyz.
njhorror 4 years ago
"bs. so u were the reason this song was sung that night, and that this video exists?"
Why yes indeed Jimmyboy, and there is a DVD of this performance that I'm attempting to buy!
njhorror 4 years ago
2johnnyt wat are you on about!! I found springsteens music in 2003 through the rising album!! And now im a real big fan!! Yes 70s bruce is the best but bruce will keep writing songs til the day he dies!!!! And i have no doubt he will still write some really epic songs yet!!!
markus787 4 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Now this is BRUCE! Not todays loud mouthed rich golf playing liberal who hasnt laid down a decent song since 1987s Brilliant Disguise. Bruce is just wasting our time today, but this was when he was THE MAN, THE BOSS, he shone beautifully. Bruce retire now, dont tarnish yourself anymore...follow Billy Joels lead.
2JOHNNYT 4 years ago
This is a stunningly superb song, but bruce has grown and changed. Check out his latest album, "Magic." Although you've not done the same, perhaps you could be less judgmental. I'll never understand how pigmies who have accomplished nothing (or am I wrong) can criticize a giant like bruce Springsteen.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 4 years ago 8
DID YOU SEE ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and The E Street Band at The Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ on September 19th, 1978?
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pantyhoseheadvagina 4 years ago
I was there! How do I becaome part of the survey?
pac401 4 years ago
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Springsteen91978 4 years ago
Roy Bittan is the most unheralded musician in history. Bruce was blessed with two fantastic piano players, Roy and David Sancious. Unfortunately Roy has been basically wasted since The River.
jetsnation 4 years ago
Agreed. If only Sancious hadn't left, though. There is no piano player that can do New York City Serenade like he can.
QTFantastic 4 years ago 3
Exactly. the version with Roy does not have that intro. I am suprised he never pulled it off though.
nittyranks 4 years ago
always the boss ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
nata86nata 4 years ago
Bruce young and raw. The best.
davseb 4 years ago
capitol theatre three gigs was greatest gigs of rock'n'roll history<3
SpringsteenFinland 4 years ago 4
Beyond words...
kevininchicago7 4 years ago
Awesomeness
bobbyjoe781 4 years ago
god this is superb
wilsonjohnny2000 4 years ago
GOOD NIGHT IT'S ALRIGHT JANE!
kingsteak99 4 years ago 2
This song has kept me company on many nights alone driving in my car over the years. I am so glad that I discovered Bruce's music in the late 1970s. Definitely one of the greatest performers of any generation.
Maroons1p 4 years ago
Hey Maroon, 2 in the morning,driving home in my 74 cuda, at 20 years old and this song blaring out of my Blaupunct stereo, waking up the neighbours. good days
povpov44 4 years ago 2
Best version of Incident out there. Capitol Theater = Bruce at his very finest.
kingsteak99 4 years ago
We hear and see lots of lists - best bands, best guitarists, best songs...but we never see Best Lyrics or Songwriters. Bruce S has got to be in the top ten rock song writers ever - no doubt - from Greetings to The Rising...there is a masterwork on ALMOST every album, if not more than one track. THIS is one of them, and one of the most richly crafted rock songs ever.
pantyhoseheadvagina 4 years ago 5
Well said..."masterwork" defines this song. This is certainly Bruce's masterwork. You could make an evening out of the evolution of this song and it's various performances now available to us "through the magic of bootleggin'". Heard this live for the first time from "Mom's wholesome radio" on WMMR with Ed Sciacky at the Main Point in '75.
You'll have to tell us about that username someday.
moocow117 4 years ago 2
Every version of this song is just so good. Old or new this song is an epic!
hibees4ever 4 years ago 2
One of Springsteens 5 best songs. No doubt!
LUIGI989 4 years ago 3
I was third row center screaming out,"Hey Bruce, where's Spanish Johnny?" when he looks at me and says something about how they haven't played it live but they'll give it their best shot.
njhorror 4 years ago
I would give anything to have been alive to see one of his concerts is the '70s.
LUIGI989 4 years ago
bs. so u were the reason this song was sung that night, and that this video exists?
jimmysiant 4 years ago
Nice try, but Bruce played Incident live 50 times prior to the Passiac 1978 performance shown here. The first live performance was 13/10/1973 USA,Washington,DC,Kennedy Centre.
Tough to spin nonsense in the age of the internet.
mikeheth 4 years ago