BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - THE PRICE YOU PAY - PHILADELPHIA 2009

[YouSayYouWantA]

I was right where you were but to the right of Max.... I wanted to make a huge banner for the night behind the stage that read.... "tear it down, throw it away" ...... I ended up making my mom a sign that read "throw me a kiss for my big 60 birthday" Bruce finally saw it in his last steps off the stage after Rosie and threw my mom a kiss!"

[TheBruceforever]

in my opinion it's one of the highest of the whole tour....i love this version....i can't help listening!!

[ultraton]

amazing. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Uruguay

[xjerseyboy55]

Thanks for posting, I was there just to the left of this video, What an awesome show this was. Last time I saw him at the Spectrum he opened for Chicago in '73 great venue

[incidentegrave]

cristo santo

[vitordragon]

I simply love this song... Thanks for sharing. Greetings from São Paulo, Brazil.

[bossfan717]

An oldie but a goodie that's not played hardly at all anymore. Thanks for sharing!

[DanielleInOz]

WOW... first time since '81 he played this song!!!!!

[campbellkeet]

Top 5 Springsteen songs. Far too long.  Thanks Bruce. You are the best.

[spacetrucker40]

Wish I was there to see that. The Spectrum right??? The music stays alive. The Jersey man rocks again.....

[yankeesfreak24]

finally broke it out,..sounds like a great show

[weakkneeswillie]

Amazing. As always. I don't want to sound bitter, but that is the one song I've been waiting for him to play for a long, long time. We didn't get it for the last show in Jersey. Oh, well. Philadelphia is a lucky town. Until the Yankees kick their asses! Let's go Yankees! Thank you Bruce! Can't wait to see you guys again. Maybe NYC.

[doclouiowa]

28 years is all it took.

Thanks Bruce and thanks for the video

[withears]

First time played in 28 years. Nicely done.

[chicagowm]

Good sound.  Thanks for posting.

[84westrock]

Simply awesome!

[theboss0641]

CLASSIC!

[Shotguneddie]

It's about time Bruce :)

[MsBrucejuice]

BEAUTIFUL!!!

[TheCrewProductionCo]

nice!!!!

[altomaticguy]

God!!! All those years waiting to hear this live!! Amazing Bruce. You just keep getting better!!

[patfly]

House seats Monday were 4th row, right in front of Steve (yes there were seats in the pit back then). John Lennon was killed that night. Both shows were great, but palpably different given the post-homicide tone of the second.

Oh, and because of the Lennon connection, I came to learn many years later that my wife was also at the show, 10 years before I met her.

[patfly]

Ironically, my Dad, who was a firefighter in Baltimore, knew the guy who had helped design the fire safety procedures for the Spectrum. That guy got me 4 house seats for the Monday night show, which I parlayed into a seat for the Tuesday night show as well. "Just across the county line, stranger passin through put up a sign that counts the men fallen away to the price you pay. And girl before the end of the day, Im gonna tear it down and throw it away."

[patfly]

2 hours later, the "new" Ticketron computer system - which previously rewarded fans who camped out at the venue, but now, on that day, treated the haggard and cold folks in the parking lot the same as someone who wandered into King of Prussia Mall at quarter to nine - shut most everybody out.

Now the rest of that stanza came true "Theyve come so far, and theyve waited so long, just to end up caught in a dream where everything goes wrong."

[patfly]

True story. Camped out 2 nights in the parking lot of the Spectrum in 1980. On saturday morning around daybreak a guy with a stereo blasts The Price You Pay. "Where the dark of night holds back the light of the day  And you gotta stand and fight for the price you pay" Everybody cheered.

[RuthinTampa]

No idea when we saw him do this in Dec 80 in that bldg during the River, that it wd become such a rarity. Happy for all those who got to see it last nite.

[40063]

I'm speechless. Lucky, lucky Philly. Much more powerful than the River tour versions. Wonderful stuff on a wonderful tour

[minger43]

Let me be the first to say 'what an amazing performance, biggest surprise of the tour?' even allowing for it being soundchecked...now why couldn't have done that at GS5?!!!!

[tom7271974]

thankyou bruce...I actually cried

[bugattibowler]

That requires, "Holy shit."

[btxrocks]

1st time played since 81 and it was at the end of the Philly run that year.......and they still nailed it !

[StreetSceneLive]

A truly historical moment to open the legendary final show of this magical 4 night stand at the old Spectrum in south Philly... Absolutely Amazing... to say the least!

[thechaz26]

Free At Last Free at last lol!! I never thought I would see the day again when this song would be played again. one of my all time favorites and definetly underated songs!! thanks for posting !

[knufle]

First live performance of this song since

1981-05-27

Brighton Centre, Brighton, England

= 28 years!

[2008dreamon]

OMG - I still can't believe he played this ......I wish I'd been there!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

[supergolfdude]

I would take this five times in a row over another 30-minute version of "Light of Day".

[marcotheboy99]

incredible

[shoooes34]

UGH....He finally plays this song, and I am not there!

[NevadaBoss]

well it's about f*cking time this was done live...

one of, if not the, greatest of the great boss tunes of the post-darkness era.

as WC Fields said on his tombstone.."frankly, i'd rather be in philadelphia..'

thanks for posting

[kingofmilwaukee]

Lucky bastard!!!!!!

[rlambert15]

FINALLY!!!!!

[babiSPRINGSTEEN]

ooooohhhhh i really wanna hear this live...I wish i was there too...great setlists in philly =)

[LuckyTown78]

AMAZING!!!!!! Thank yooooooo!!!!!!

[TLPFAS]

AMEN .....

[erferguson26]

Can't believe he played it again after all these years. Nice job, Brucie!

[jacktheballoonman]

FIrst time in almost 30 years !!!

[EStTramp]

thanks for sharing!

[BruSpring]

Thanks a lot !! One of my favorites :-)

[LuckyTown78]

THANK YOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[Freebee61]

About time... :-)

Great arrangement with the trumpet in there!

[maddiedog]

this is THE song! 27 years in the waiting

[plimzel]

solid

[LuckyTown78]

Thank you soooo much... Amazing!!!!!

[brurosie]

Fantastic! Thanks!! .-)