Bruce Springsteen 1978 Interview

[martiresrenzo]

"You Know" lol. Pretty Good

[namedULaika]

Oh god he is the most adorable person ever. How can anyone not like him? He plays Buddy Holly to keep him honest!

[MsSophinator123]

Damn I'da killed to be in that crowd of people that he walked by

[Pandemonium44]

this video is great to live back what happened in the '70s, even if you were not around then.

[MrGentner]

Bruce with a strat? Odd.

[MrRockets84]

What I'd give to have been at that show

[MURAMURA92]

Oh,Bruce is playing STRATOCASTER!!

I see he uses Stratocaster on the movie at the first time.

[miguel2096]

LONG LIVE THE BOSS

[Belfast1982]

He's using a stratacster insted of his tele!!!

[iamjohn89]

@Belfast1982 i know it looks wrong

[plofus]

J.J.'s enthusiasm could not be more real,you can tell he was really impressed,and he was a guy who seen it all.

[tepporocks]

That's some funky interviewer!

But anyway, as Bruce says, "Rock & Roll is the only thing that stayed true".

He may be right. I would include a lot more styles of music into that equation, but basically he's right.

Music is pure emotion, or should be, and music doesn't lie. If you don't feel it or if you try to fake it, people KNOW. Then it's just off-putting. But Bruce seems incapable of faking it.

[bsrsu2rem]

said well jersey girl286.

[JerseyGirl286]

"Stay in the present moment and be who you are!!! Don't let other people tell you how you supposed to be!!! " - Thats what everybody should think about, because it helps you to stay honest with yourself and thats what gives you peace... Bruce knows it, Bruce does it... Thats why he is the BOSS!

[pgaquigz]

UNBELIEVEABLE to think thirty years later this man is just as good or better at what he does

[jerryskid1]

R.I.P. J.J.

[lazlowithguitar]

pure action on bruce!!!

[stiflyon]

it makes me remember the first time my brother brought the album home. in 1980 just before "the river". I broke my piggy bank to buy "born to run" and the previous album. In 1981, my brother led me to his concert in Lyon. Strill remember it as if it was yesterday.

[EmulsionStrip]

Springsteen in 1978 amazing new book, The Light in Darkness focusing on Darkness on The Edge of Town.

[B0zz3]

Springsteen using a stratocaster, wow!

[WadeBlazingame34]

Thank you for posting this...  Amazing interview... This is probably also the last time local news ever reported on anything meaningful... (Unlike Squirrels on Water skis like we get today... Haha...)

[toronto1965]

the Boss has been my inspiration for a very long time... but the man sure does not know how to give an interview. He has always underwelmed me with his interviews.

[pgaquigz]

it was his first ever tv interview give him a break...BRUUUUUCCCCCCCCEEEEEEE­EEEEEE

[mpturcotte]

J.J. Jackson before MTV...Cool.

[sondheimfan1]

whoa... springsteen playing a strat is weird... i'm so used to seeing him with a tele

[moegolden]

Wow, I'd be shocked if he hadn't been on TV at that point, considering the simultaneous Time and Newsweek cover stories had come three years prior.

[JeffRotull43]

It had nothing to do with how big he was at that point - he just didn't feel comfortable with it (it shows) and he still doesn't until this day. I mean I can see why - he's not the most articulate soul around. Some can only express themselves through their art. Look at DeNiro - he as inarticulate as it gets.

[nkkcboss]

I think most of us fail to be as articulate in the spur of the moment as we'd like ourselves to be. We're all likely to be better writers than public speakers (sans pre-written speeches) - BUT, have you seen lately Bruce's speech while inducting U2 to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Bruce was Mr. Articulate personified. Being articulate does not mean speaking in big, highfalutin words - it means to be concise and clear in one's speech without confusing the listening audience.

[2PinkFreuds]

Yes, I did see that - it was very impressive.

I was mainly speaking in the past tense as that's what we were discussing. It's obvious he was very uncomfortable back then - and still is. He says so himself; why do you think he gives so few interviews?

[rosalita59]

...the man is genuine...

[bossnbruce]

ANY ONE realise that that JJ JACKSON was one of the original MTV VJs

[rcc663]

Bruce playing a Strat, cool

[lizgibb]

Excellent, never seen this before and many thanks for posting.

[doofusmoo]

Same as the rest GREAT post for those of us huge fans and maybe will shed some light for those just starting down the path...

[iamcubandave]

WOW. This is incredible. Where did you dig this out of? I remember staying up just to watch this one the news and I recorded it on to a cassete tape since my parents didn't have a VCR. I'm pretty sure that my older brother was at that concert too !!! Thanks for the GREAT post.

[steffkh]

You know ;-)

[thescreendoorslams]

Well, that interviewer was great. And totally on the money. Our boy is as genuine as they get. He truly LOVES what he does.

[alanbloke50]

Why do people always wait for the guitar solo to start talking...they'd listen to a song where there was absolute silence for 20 seconds before a guitar solo. That solo starts and they would start talking.

I wonder if Bruce actually recorded the Prove It All Night studio solo on a Strat. The only other time I recall is when Nils set up a Strat for Bruce, because Nils had a gig and Bruce was watching or something. Bruce said he hated it lol.

[znarf541]

From darkness on the edge of town, shitty video but captures him in one of his better incarnations... all of which were good.

[BruceBloodSister1]

Probably the earliest recording I have seen. Wish I had discovered his music in the 70s, it was a lean time here in the U.K. following the 60s. Thanks for this clip, he was always fantastic wasn't he - ahd so cute and adorable. Interviewer is right, he is so good because he absolutely loves what he is doing, nothing more, nothing less, sure he is rich now but it wasn't always that way.

[smilesguy42993]

i don't think ive ever seen bruce play a stratocaster.. cool interview

[billtaso]

Excellent post thanks

[glowfood]

Did anyone notice he was playing with a Strat and not a Tele? Talk about rare....

[DontFuckWithTheMusic]

I had the privilege of seeing Bruce in Oakland just a few weeks ago, awesome show, truly a musician in the truest sense of the word!

[DRW777]

Buddy Holly

[sindeeh]

He says " You Know" all the time;p Hah.

Bruce Springsteen is the BEST!

[tomp8]

every american does

[tbone76a]

speak for yourself

[seans10]

Listen to Robert Frost's inaugural speech for JFK. You know? So you're right. High and low, we all say it.

[johnnydinkis2]

talking over a bruce solo. shame.

[rrrrrane]

thanks for posting this. Interview could have been done yesterday (with maybe some more political pro-democratic swing...), but it is amazing how bruce has kept his momentum and style and stamina (and sure music making skills) throughtout these years. He is the simply the boss!

[greenhightops]

"you usually know by the time somebody socks you in the back of the head with a beer bottle"

lol Bruce has a great sense of humor!

Cool video btw, thanks for posting!

[ambeckman]

I love Jackson saying "Obviously this is just going to get much bigger", with so much nonchalant assurance .. Faith in the Boss.

[silvina1975]

Amazing. Thank you for posting.

[willgingart]

cool clip. I was at that show in la and you captured by accident one of the coolest la fm dj's jj jackson who had a sixties hit, too. brings back huge memories.

looking foward to seeing bruce out west this fall. also thinking the good thought for jj who left this world a couple of years ago.

joe out here in la

[vanparty]

Never phony, always real and down to earth. Never believed in commercialism. He was better than Michael Jackson, and Madonna in the '80's, he just didn't care about being a media whore. He was always like, if you like me....cool. If you don't, thats OK too. Gotta love 'em. always makes me proud to be from Jersey.

[linkinp4eva]

sorry buddy but bruce is the only good thing to come out of that crappy state

[rubenc83]

So that's where JJ Jackson was before MTV.

[joemerino36]

outstanding well done

[ucdtim17]

only time he's ever played a strat at his own show?

[52esquire]

Great stuff.

[seans10]

I've never seen this before. Thank you so much for sharing it. And RIP JJ Jackson.

[RStrathfield]

I thought his first TV interview would have been in 1975, considering the amount of publicity he got with 'Born To Run'.

[mrchappelow]

thank's for sharing