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  • RIP CLARENCE nobody but you <3

  • Great sax solo

  • This man is the best that music has turned out.The lyrics are just sensational.

  • Who's that singing backups and playing guitar? Is that Van Zandt?

  • My eyes get teary watching Clarence's solo. I am so happy and feel blessed I actually got to see him live once in my life. His death made me realize that you need to do all those things you want to do asap. Things change.

  • Happy Birthday Bruce! Still gives his listeners a "Reason to Believe"...

  • 8 people ain't getting to the promised land because they ain't got the faith to stand their ground.

  • i love the dynamics of this song, great harmonica, great guitar solo, great sax solo, great lyrics, one of the greatest songs of all time, in my opinion

  • rip big man

  • RIP Big "C" I know God is enjoying the Sax .LOL.

  • am struck by the pure joy of the video, the great sax break, where Springsteen and the Big Man are united, a moment of brotherhood and love. Beautiful and moving.

  • God bless you Clarence Clemons. Thank You for the wonderful music.

  • In the summer of 1985, my friends and I lined up for tickets, for what we thought would be a couple of nights. 7 nights later, we had our front row seats, for a stadium show before 60,000 people. I was singing my heart out, along with Bruce. At the end of Promised Land, Bruce looks me straight in the eyes and tosses his harmonica right into my hands. It was a glorious night. RIP Big Man... it will never be the same.

  • mi dispiace per clarence era fortissimo comunque è una bellissima canzone

  • I remember when my father put these videos on tv... There was nothing stronger to me than Bruce Springsteen and the E. Street Band

  • This is a song which catches ur heart and don't let it run away

  • R.I.P. Big Man.

  • Rest in peace, Big Man. And thanks.

  • THE BIG MAN & THE PROMISED LAND!

  • RIP to the Big man Clarence..... gonna miss your sweet tunes!!!

  • so long big man, thanks

  • rip big man

  • Thanks for the magic, Clarence. Wish I could say how much you and Bruce meant to me all these years, but in a real way you have become part of my life. We're pulling for you, my friend. God Bless.

  • he's not done yet. fight on big nan

  • rip big man

  • How can anyone dislike this? Eight times? If you don't like this then why the fuck are you watching it?

  • Never has a more pure friendship between a Black and White man existed. Racism means jack shit when you see these two gentlemen share what they do on stage.

  • One of his hit ever, no guestion ´bout that.

    BS rocks.

  • Thank you very much for Sharing!

    What a way of meeting people and get to see their talent. At first was reluctant being on youtube, but getting to do this has brought me into the houses of some very special people. You are one of them. Life; isn't it wonderful!

    Keep up the good work. Hope You Are Having A Splendid Day!

    A New Friend

    Erick

  • anybody know what kind of harmonica Bruce is using?

  • @crescent3743 Hohner Marine Band I think.

  • SPEAKING OF MAJOR SAX APPEAL!! BIG MAN!!

  • Man, when Bruce is watching Clarence playing it just hit me how much these guys must love each other, they aren't just "good friends" they are a family. Its a relationship that few will ever experience and being 18 its one i definiltey haven't. It's just unreal to think they have been doing this for more than double the time i have been on this planet. Incredible.

  • @xIIJoshIIx Awesome comment. Great observation gives me chills.

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  • Nothing but The Boss to get this day started! Keep the faith-and have a great day!

  • 7 people don't believe in a promised land.

  • @thewhochilipeppersU2 They prolly spent $500 on Lady Gaga upper level seats last week too.

  • BRUCE JUICE YAYAYAYAYAY

  • BIG MAAAAANNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • You shouldnt be aloud to view youtube unless you watch this fucking performance of the BOSS

  • @zachnizz Bruce Springsteen is a fine man but you shouldn't be allowed to comment on Youtube until you clean up your act and learn to spell. :-)

  • The Greatest Artist of Any Generation

  • "Sometimes I feel so weak, I wanna explode! Explode and tear this whole town apart! Take a knife and cut this PAIN from my heart!"

    You're not alone, Bruce.

    Amazing lyrics!

  • this is his best live performance of this tune. the only one i've seen him swap out hermonica's

  • Thanks for this video! This is one of my favorite Boss songs, the music and lyrics just combining together for perfection. The performance capture here is Bruce at his best. Aces all around.

  • YES I BELIEVE!!!!! Thanks for the memories....

  • This song examines how business deals are going away from the old-school "hand shake" deal because no one's word is good anymore. Bruce believes that land can be promised in a deal, however, current business trends do not suggest such.

  • He's so fucking hot

  • BRUCE JUICE YAY

  • The enthusiasm - it's as if it's the first time he's ever performed the song!

  • @davidnewbouldband and the last

  • IMO it was downhill for Bruce artistically speaking after this LP, but what an achievement. You have to be good to call a song The Promised Land and get away with it. I reckon it's the equal of Chuck Berry's which I always thought summed up everything there was to say about rock & roll.  This live performance is outstanding.

  • @CraigG1960 Someone who can't even form a proper sentence is critiquing Springsteen's brilliance over 35 years? Go, America!

  • @Gatsby999888 I should have realised that on YouTube nobody is ever allowed to say anything other than the artist they are commenting on is the saviour of the human race or some such bollocks. You say I can't form a sentence? It sems to me that you can't read one.

  • The double harmonica intro sets a great opening tone to this insightful ballad.

    I Done my best to live the right way, I get up every morning and go to work each day

    But your eyes go blind your blood runs cold

    Sometimes I feel so weak I want to explode

    Explode and tear this whole town apart

    Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart

    Find somebody itching for something to start

    So much description with so few adjectives.Bruce don't need 'em 2:59 - Ya big man.

  • THE BOSS NOBODY BETTER

    

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  • Just shouting.

  • Bruce is every Conservatives' guilty pleasure

  • I remember the first time I heard this song I was in 10th grade and it changed my life. I remember where I was when I heard it. At that point I knew this life had hope and with dreams anything was possible.  Now 32 years later, life has had its ups and downs but this song always gets me through it....every single time!!

  • Look at the connection between Bruce and Clarence. It's just love - love for each other and for the music. Inspiring.

  • Killer solo by Little Steve.

  • Easiyl the greatest live performer of all time.

  • One of a kind! Namaste.

  • In 1985, he had the World eating out of the palm of his hand. ABSOLUTE SUPER STAR!!!!!

  • Mister, I ain't a boy, no, I'm a man

    And I beleive in the promised land

    I've done my best to live the right way,

    I get up every morning, and go to work each day,

    but your eyes go blind, your blood run's cold,

    sometimes I feel so weak I want to explode,

    explode, and tear this whole town apart,

    take a knife, I'll cut this pain from my heart,

    Find someone itching for something to start...

    American rock and roll at its greatest, hard but humble. The music does the real talking.

  • There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor

    I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm

    Gonna be a twister to blow everything down

    That ain't got the faith to stand its ground

    Blow away the dreams that tear you apart

    Blow away the dreams that break your heart

    Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted

    incredible... wonderfull...

  • @kentuckyfirst Some of Bruce's best words ever

  • @kentuckyfirst Thanks for copy and pasting the lyrics. Anything new to add?

  • 4:27

    yes. YES.

  • lollish gang

  • this bruce video is on the whole fking tube!! love you man

  • God Bless the USA!!!

  • Not too many bands or performers could've taken on Bruce at this point.I'm into all sorts of music and for the last 20 years I reckon I've seen some cracking performers.Bruce's performances and many of his songs are just so much deeper and he's proven recently he can still pen a damn good song.

  • I love this song and this particular video, becasue Bruce does a somewhat longer intro on the harmonica leading in. Just gives me goosebumps.

  • i am a springsteen fan. i love his music. dont get me wrong about that.

  • why do non springsteen fans always comment on videos finding talk about politics?

    like, who gives a fuck, listen to the music and enjoy it, if you dont, then go do something better with your time

    great song btw

  • Hey johnnymarlboro! Ok, you're blinded by your own ideology but leave Bruce alone. He's been for regular people all his life. If it doesn't haunt you that POOR AMERICANS ARE DIEING so that DICK CHENEY and his pals at Halliburton make extra money is your problem (and those who are doing the dieing). Bruce has spent his whole life trying open the eyes of America's blue collar folks (and keep them open). In contrast the GOP sends them through a meat-grinder for rich peoples' gains

  • i dont doubt that halliburton has abused its standing in the government. I dont doubt americans are being sacrificed needlessly for stupid wars. what i do object to, is your NOT seeing bruce's talk of blue collar welfare and his vapid disregard FOR IT. Even if you hate Walmart, (a godsend for us making less than 40$K a year) they released the Boss's greatest hits. However Bruce battled against Walmart selling his hits for a good and decent price. You politics are tragic and wrong mr. dkriz.

  • five minutes and thirty two seconds of pure joy

  • Bruce is timeless!!!

  • @johnnymarlboro he doesn't believe a word he says? you're crazy!

  • @johnnymarlboro

    ok...give me thumbs down, but i speak the truth.  he cares not for the poor and downtrodden hard working blue collar man.

  • @johnnymarlboro Jeez, you must be a talented psychic to know Springsteen's heart and mind so thoroughly. It would actually be quite impossible to write so many absolutely brilliant songs about the human condition if he didn't have deep insight into it. And, btw, he deserves every dime he's ever made for bringing joy, and a voice, to millions.

  • Todays generation of music SUCKS. Im 14 and i know when i hear a legend and bruce is one of them.  BOSS!!!>>>

  • I was about your age when i started to realise that bruce springsteen is the best of the best! You cant find anyone like him these days! A living legend! Im 16 btw:)

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  • He makes me wish I was born 30 years earlier. I've been listening to him for as long as I can remember, and he and Clarence Clemons are a big part of why I became a musician. Go Bruce and the E Street Band!!

  • AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HA

  • reaaaaallly? ...the BOSS is Bruce's nickname!

  • How is it working for bruce? are there any positions available?

  • thats my BOSS. ur awsome BRUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i was about 10 when i first saw him. i grew up listening to him and he is amazing. i love him

  • fantastic stuff

  • Are the other musicians the ones who sang with him in New York in 2000, If I Should Fall Behind ?

  • All the same yes. Although Nils Lofgren and Patti Scialfa didn't join until the 80s.

  • bruce kills it on the harmonica in this video

  • In this concert, was 3 months old, last year I fulfilled my dream to see him in Madrid! Big Bruce!

  • to quote dr king..."i may not get there with you, but I am not worried, for i have seen The Promised Land" (live)

    the once, and future, Boss...accept no substitutes.

    Happy 60th boss.

  • Stevie looks like a Sesame Street Character in this clip.

  • over 450 songs(i think) and not a bad one. no one can ever better The Boss

  • amen!

  • wow whats that all about man?

  • I love Bruce Springsteen. How much? I still love him when he goes from ridiculous guitar solo into a saxophone solo. That is how much I love the Boss.

  • don't we all!

  • Bono and Jon Bon jovi were influenced by the Boss. Bono doesn't have that charm anymore. But the boss has still got it

  • Bono is a Boner!

  • This one worked so well on stage, better than the album. Darkness was a great record all the same...

  • bad quality, good song ...

  • Bad quality? What are you nuts? The sound quality is awesome and the video is almost 30 years old, whatya expect, digital HD?

  • are you joking? the rising was epic and magic is right up there, he is still writing classics

  • great version but the Passaic 1978 is better.

  • I personally prefer this version, but Passaic is awesome too!

  • wow they played it must faster back in their younger years. I cant tell if I like their current slower performance or this souped up up-tempo version... both so good!

  • I don't think this is sped up, the intro is slowed down a lot, but the piano might seemed rushed in this version but I don't think the vocals are...both are great though

  • threebboyz: I've been to Bruce shows since '78. The tempos today are definitely slowed down. Promised Land, Prove it all Night, etc.use to blow the roof off the building....today, they're still great songs, they just don't have the same Earth shattering effect. I equate it to say, Mickey Mantle hitting homers in his prime that went WAY OUTTA HERE, when he got older, he still hit them, they just didn't go as far.......I'll be at 2 of the 4 shows for the Spectrums last hurrah in October.

  • I feel bad that I was only "brucified" this year. Hey, at least I saw it once... better than my unborn children one day will be able to say...

  • lol....very true. Don't feel bad, some ppl never see the light....lol....I'm 48, and first saw him in '78 in Philly at age17, and I've made damn sure my kids knew who he was growin up. Now my son is 19, and my daughter is 16.They both have an appreciation for how great he was / is. That was their first concert they saw in '03. I'm taking them to one of the shows in October...it really doesn't get any better than Bruce live......depressing thing is that E St. is nearing the end of a great career.

  • I hope they can play until Bruce is about 70. After that I look forward to him playing with a Martin guitar, maybe piano, with Patti backing up the vocals.

  • God, it seems like a hundred years ago! Good as ever. Rock on!

  • it seems like all great bruce songs must have a clearance solo with the sax! Great Song

  • yeah this is it,this is what i was looking for,the best version of this song,what this band did on the '78 tour is phenomenal,i'm not talking about the four hour shows but how good they sound.

  • anyone know what type of harmonica this is?

  • Marine Brand by Hohner

  • ok, but what key, size, model etc.?

  • It's a G and all I know is that he plays Marine Brand. Sorry.

  • thanks

  • This is  a classic rock and roll song from one of the best rock albums ever made

  • I saw him on this tour in San Diego. I was up front on the floor and shook his hand. It was awesome!!

  • Hoping to do that tonight in Toronto!

  • It's ok if you don't like him. But, to those of use that do, his juice is as great as ever before. Your critiscism runs off his back like water off a duck's.

    He does not write political songs. He never did. His occasional comment songs are really love songs and about things past.

    PS: When he speaks politically, he makes reasoned arguments. Not half cocked comments like YOU and most politicians.

  • See a show. He is older now. His sense of political responsibility is admiral. Also, the rockcorporation nonsense is just that. What would you expect? Should he still be playing JUST the Jersey shore bars? He worked hard making beautiful music that now the whole world can watch him do LIVE.

    Get off your high horse and join the real world. Bruce did it a long time ago.

  • You ever see him back in '78 when he had "THE JUICE"? If so, I'll give you props only for seeing him then, not for your comments. Why? Because he's NEVER lost the juice! If you don't believe me, see him on this tour (if you can afford it)!

    In fact, if he can use a bit of juice to reach out to people today to make this country (I assume it's your's too) a better place; then don't belittle the man for either his wealth or his politics, he's earned both the money & the right to speak out...

  • I saw him from 78 to 84 and then gave up once he went mainstream. I listened 2 him 4 his music not because he wants 2 make the country a better place or his politics - thats bullshit he thinks he has a right to say because his pockets r full - if he really cared about that stuff he wouldve been yapping about it back in 72 when he started. He hasn't had a decent song since 87's Tunnel of Love/Brilliant Disguise - although the Wrestler was a hint of his past brilliance

  • you must have been pissed when ron paul didn't get the party nomination

  • No, its a fixed system run by criminals, different degrees of criminals, and the head criminals, the bankers who are the puppet master of our whore politicians would never let a man of the people, ralph nader, ron paul, or cynthina mckinney in the race, i would never expect that, its a fixed corrupt system that is so sick and decaying the whole shit is falling apart now ....for a new bright tomorrow if Bruce, former man of the peeps, had any vision he'd be writing songs about that

  • yeah..Ghost of Tom Joad and Devils & dust were real 'mainstream' werent they?

    Tool.

  • Fuck, you're a clueless idiot.

  • what? the rising was an amazing album and magic has its moments, the last one wasn't too solid i'll admit

  • i love schuchtern big time!!!

  • Vraiment Intense !!!! C'est magnifique à regarder et ecouter !!!

  • He's having so much fun, especially during the sax solo!

    This couldn't be that much after the song was released.

    So fresh

  • He'll never write a better song than this.

  • I hadn't heard this song in years, until I was listening to XM the other day.

    I think you are right. Great song.

  • To Brazil! Bruce representa o que os USA tem de melhor!!!

  • Where is this ?

  • It says in the info (top right)!!

    Landover, Maryland, USA.

  • It's in Largo, MD

  • nope. largo

  • This version is great. One of my most favorite songs.

  • needs more cowbell!Bruce is the best!

  • this the only video i've come across where bruce changes harmonica/key. his best live rendition

  • A NATIONAL TREASURE

  • Excellent! Boss is the Best!!

  • new jerseys own favorite son does his state proud here

  • This song is great, and this is the best version I heard of it ... BRUCE...UR THE MAN!!!

  • love the intro to this version

  • Miami steves solo, yes its short as hell, yes its simple as hell...

    But there are few solos that send as many shivers down the spine as this one!

  • sounds fine to me!

  • Best version Ive seen. Amazing how much faster pace they played early on.

  • best song ever!!!