Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets 1977 - 03/25 Boston

[@GregYohe]

To me this is one of the greatest songs ever written... If you don't feel the emotion in this song you have no heart.....

[@bythehandofbob]

Great everything. Great performance, great conception of a story.. and still, God damn you, Terry. You promised, but you lied.

[@youknow2469MitakuyeOyasin]

It don't matter to him now..🎹🎵🎼🎶🎹🎹🎶🎼💯✌️✌️

[@Quinn37]

If I cpuld only repeat the experience of seeing Springsteen for the first time.

[@paulsullivan1650]

I was at the Music Hall both nights. He just blew us all away. I also saw him at the Harvard Square Theatre in Cambridge with Bonnie Raitt in 1974. I had never seen anything like him. I walked out of those three shows with my knees shaking. That's how great the Boss's shows were back then. He's the greatest rock and roller of all time!

[@peronluc8303]

Fantastique...

[@jeffmatthews4909]

Wow - that’s great. So wish I’d seen him between 74 and 77!

[@atticus1712]

This show was my first time seeing him - what a night that was! I feel so lucky to have seen him just before he started playing arenas. I was right up at the stage! Have seen him 20 more times since. Love this man. ❤️

[@darjeeling3]

I saw him one night at the musical in March 1977. I had front row left center mezzanine seats. It was incredible. I remember at one point he came down off the stage and was singing Spirit In The Night. He did five encores. After the 4th the jokingly put him on a stretcher carrying him off stage. He came back out for another song.

[@paulsullivan1650]

@LIsa McNeil The Boss is simply amazing!

[@CPSJSMSUUMUGA]

Incredible, just stunning. He was an electrifying performer before he wrote his first song. In his first band in 1965 at 15, signed a record contract in 1972; released Born to Run in 1975; sold 30 million copies of Born in the USA in 1984 and 85, & is selling out stadiums all over Europe right now. He has performed at an unmatched level of excellence, writing songs, in the studio, & on stage, for over 40 years. He has earned his stature & success; probably the most respected muscian alive.

[@johnwalls7170]

Probably is yes. We ALL miss John Lennon....

[@johnnyM809]

Agreed

[@randallreid424]

I totally agree and the most loved and appreciated by his fans and he feels the same way for us he is a gift from the heavens above and the world will be appreciating him til the end of time I feel lucky and very grateful to have grown up through his music I love everything he does he has a way of reaching in and stirring the soul and you feel his music it’s amazing god love Bruce Springsteen I know I do

[@pelham21030]

I remember as a kid listening to this with my headphones on and turning it up as loud as I could. It felt so good to connect to the pain of this song. Somebody understood.

[@lilorbielilorbie2496]

@@johnwalls7170 No . All of us don't miss John Lennon. I've never been a beatles fan.

[@tsetuck]

Magical

[@User2718218]

This song is just so moving and powerful, it just reaches right into your heart and your soul, even if you were never some urban desperado living on the edge on the dark city streets in 1975. It's like you are living a second life through this song. It's just so powerful, the images cut into your soul like a knife.

[@alainportant6412]

hey PUT YOUR MASK ON

[@User2718218]

@@alainportant6412 lol Urban desperados don't wear masks and they drink their beer out of a dirty glass.

[@instantkarma1511]

@@alainportant6412 I DO. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? 🤪 HE ONLY STANDS FOR EVERYTHING THAT'S RIGHT.

[@rlms56]

I saw him a few days before at Providence College gym. My first of 27 shows I have seen over the last 35yrs.

[@kelseymariel2127]

Where we swore forever friends, on the backstreets until the end…

[@daviddennison4287]

This guy got me through one of the hardest times in my life I'm sure worst is yet to come but these guys are the best

[@GrafficGuy]

No performer can touch Bruce in his prime.

[@skybluesam01]

The greatest version, of the greatest song, by the greatest songwriter. Exquisitely heartbreaking and yet life changingly uplifting at the same time.

[@yuri19991]

I'm partial to Backstreets from Winterland, SF, December 1978

[@chrissmith7686]

My favorite

[@matthewquering7028]

@@yuri19991 what specifically do you prefer about Winterland? I’ve searched long and hard but can’t seem to too this one here in Boston. The “pretty lies” bellow gets me every time.

[@matthewquering7028]

seem to top*

[@erichaak2169]

The people arguing at the beginning are hilarious.

[@manelf.o.1785]

amazed until the end

[@sylvialenz2278]

Love it ...❤

[@theiceman6941]

The best version ever.

[@shp277]

yes I was there 1977 fantastic blew us away. Also saw him at the music tent in Lenox june 1974

[@kelseymariel2127]

Lucky! So jealous. Always said I was born 10 years too late.

[@MikeBrown-mm4di]

Bruce takes all the angst he must of felt at this time of his life(manger suing him,can't release new material) and delivers probably the greatest ever version of such an iconic song.

[@johnwalls7170]

Version is the greatest I have ever heard and I thought I had heard/seen a whole lot of them...and I have! Bruce you and the E street band changed my life... again RIGHT NOW

[@CPSJSMSUUMUGA]

It's my favorite song, too. I was listening to the album version in July, 1978, when I *got* Bruce Springsteen. A couple of months later I saw a version also with the "Say Eyes/You Lied/Drive All Night" interlude at the first of my 61 shows. I'm definitely a hardcore/older fan and I agree. IMO, this is the most intense version I've experienced, or heard on any of about 20 or so boots. I mean, after this, there *WAS* nothing left to say. Bruce? A gift from god? Obviously and absolutely.

[@johnwalls7170]

1978 was my intro too. I'm right with you all the way

[@mankydave67]

@@johnwalls7170 I had to wait another 7 years, September 1985 before I bought out of curiosity the Born to Run album. After about the second or third time of listening, not the first, I was just blown away. Definitely a life changing experience discovering Springsteen properly. Before that, I´d just heard of him as my uncle had some of his albums.

[@kelseymariel2127]

1977 for me. I was 11. Thank you WBCN Boston. It set me free.

[@robertshonk518]

I love how the interlude went through so many different versions from '76 to '78. "Baby we could steal away..." "She had such pretty sad eyes..." "You LIED!!!" "Girl we've got to STOP!" And this one: "Just blow it all away!" His restless creativity on full display.

[@merox88]

I can listen to this exact version of the Sad Eyes interlude everyday, and it still gives me chills, makes me both smile and tear up; it's amazing

[@robnapz4894]

Maybe the best definitive version.

[@BrianGriffin83]

And at 64 he still has all these stunning qualities. The next Bruce Springsteen hasn't been born yet and maybe he'll never be.

[@kelseymariel2127]

Wow. Now almost 75! I remember dreaming about Bruce when he was 28. I was 11.

[@shootit32]

No words.....

[@bobbyjohnson4907]

To think there’s an argument about the best live version of a song from the late 70’s just goes to show you that he is the absolute best artist that ever lived. I was born a few months after this recording and nothing grips my soul like this song.

[@ziggy321gj]

me too

[@davevaracallimusic9768]

Can't argue with this performance! The middle section, OMG!! Had it on vinyl many years ago, thank you for posting

[@PHL76Music]

Love it. Brings back great memories of being in the Spectrum in Philadelphia with 12,000 other members of the temple of rock 'n' roll.

[@michaelmccarry3931]

Agreed. Been there.

[@StefanosKapiris]

Audience tape released on CDs 'Forced To Confess' (Great Dane), 'Higher And Higher' (Doberman), 'Stranded In The Park' (RCR), 'From The Dark Heart Of A Dream' (Godfather) and JEMS' 'Are You Ready For The Final Moment'. The latter is the best quality, transferred from Steve Hopkins' master tapes. This transfer can also be found on CD 'Are You Ready For The Final Moments?' (Godfather). Final night of the tour, and a contender for one of the best ever with Bruce in inspired form. Last ever "Action In The Streets" (apart from a 2011 club performance) and last "Don't Look Back" for a long time (1999). Final E Street Band version of "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher" until 2009. "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" includes the Miami Horns playing a snippet of "Auld Lang Syne" in the band introductions and a snippet of "Theme From Shaft" in the midsection. "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher" includes a brief snippet of "I Don't Want To Go Home". A fan recalls "I saw the last three shows and they were definitely as good as it gets. We had no idea that Bruce was close to settling his legal problems, but it was clear that these were special. I remember March 24 as being the hottest show but that may just be that it was the first one that featured "It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City" and "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher", both showstoppers." -- BruceBase

[@nickjohnson2715]

Tallent is stupendous

[@shootit32]

Evoking emotions humans are not prepared for...

[@jalas69]

Most beautiful song ever

[@jamiegannon2327]

Extraordinary. The thin line of to be or not to be...

[@CipherSerpico]

I think my favorite live performance of this song will always be 1975 Hammersmith Odeon, but this is a close second. If you haven’t heard that one, then you have to check it out. But I love this performance because it shows a different side of his singing abilities. He sounds like he is trying to channel his hero Roy Orbison, during this period. It’s sound very operatic, instead of the gravely voice that he sang with on the earlier versions of this song.

[@aliasdyln33]

I can best express my review of this song & performance in one word: "WOW!".

[@johnpayne6860]

I don't know, but I do know one thing, Bruce and the E-Sreet band are the best, I hear and listen to this one song, might be my favorite this week, depending on my mood, but it don't matter, because tomorrow, it'll be another one, but I listen, had be my favorite that day, from the first time I heard and bought the album, Born to Run, that's enough, said cuz, after that, saw him and the band in Atlanta Georgia many a Time, wish I could see him again before I die, what's so bad about it is when he first started coming down south, no one gave him and the band, good recognition, it don't matter anyway now, if I've been a little older at the time, I would have actually come up and apologize to him and the band, for the lack of support down south now the whole damn world could see what I saw, Circa Civic Center, Atlanta Georgia, 1976!

[@nickjohnson2715]

He's getting closer to Beatles, Dylan, Stones as THE greatest ever... in my humble opinion

[@johnnyM809]

Already is the greatest ever as far as I am concerned.

[@joka4625]

In a class of his own

[@brianjanellmarshall5563]

I would put him ahead of Dylan

[@viorelneagu171]

Un mare om

[@viorelneagu171]

Va dainui

[@jamesgiallo2740]

The most deep, personal and swelling version of this masterpiece. The best rendition by far, followd by the Winterland 78 and Place Theatre 77 versions

[@famtoniolo1]

Fantastico. Avevo 17 anni nel 77 e già lo seguivo. Sono cresciuto con Bruce

[@stianmathisen4284]

Probably the best version of this song ever, inc. should consider some Clearmountain treatment to make this "Clearmountain" official sooner or later in some fashion!

[@acousticshadow4032]

My best friend went to UNH from 1973-77, while I worked a regular job. But I would visit UNH nearly every weekend to party with "the boys" ~ and girls (running joke was I got a BA in Weekend Partying from UNH; sure had the credits for one). On this date in March, which was a Friday night, I arrived for my usual weekend visit to find "the boys" on their way out the door to see Bruce at the Music Hall. Some rich connection had set them up at the last minute with not only tix, but a dinner prior to the show! I was the odd man out. l remember it was snowing real good, so I wished them well, grabbed "a cold one" and shuffled over to the pinball arcade.

[@lindawarner4715]

Bummer dude, good recovery!

[@sladjanaristic6405]

Ovo treba slušati sa uživanjem, jer je fantasfično. 👍💝💖❤️💋.

[@danyvandenhauwe]

amazing version !!!!!!!! that's why he is the boss

[@timoconnor8520]

Yup, he is indeed THE BOSS!!! :-)

[@januschpiskor2081]

Jp moin This Song is poverful First class gesungen Love KZbin und Co by a Beautiful Singer Musik Ikone Bruce Springsteen. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Servus Pa 🥀💔

[@nickjohnson2715]

The tears seal it

[@evabruckner2892]

People who comment where there at 77,85 etc. I was not even born then, breathtaking music

[@youknow2469MitakuyeOyasin]

They don't call him The Boss for nothing Pass this on to all your friends 🎉🎉🎉❤✌️🎹🎵🎹🎹🎶🎼🎵🎹🎹💯

[@kelseymariel2127]

I wasn’t there to see him but I was there to hear him. He blew me away. Even my high school English teacher quoted Springsteen during the segment on the beauty of poetry.

[@SuzzyStohelit]

up until now I never realized how I may sound in a crowd, I am so excited to be there I'm afraid I don't pay attention as much as I should but I only know a few folks that film so I am just into dancin' I do know enough to be respectful during certain songs to hush but this really has made me aware.)

[@josefmatushek28]

I want to go to the backstreets

[@nickjohnson2715]

I'm crying my fucking eyes out and the song hasn't even started yet - 4:25

[@davidrosen3970]

primal

[@tonyambrose8741]

Blow it all away

[@wessleymcgrath9768]

Brucie re-hashing the dynamics of the NYC Serenade from late 74 through mid 75 as he tended to do. It's nice and all but that 18 to 20 minute NYC Serenade (see Main Point Feb 5, 1975) are his all-time most emotional and exciting performances.

[@vwblue72]

So did I I still have the ticket stub!

[@anelladambrosio2513]

Questa versione e molto bella !!Bruce sei fantastico!!!🤩😍😘♥️🌟🌲⛄🗽

[@chrissmith7686]

His best

[@kaiju2008]

Just Cry of The Soul!!!!

[@mrsuperbruce]

You and Terry ........................try to survive together until the end.

[@maellpires3876]

Jamais no planeta alguém chegará perto do chefe.... Foda de mais 👏🏻👏🏻

[@anelladambrosio2513]

Toccante bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!!😪😌😍😘💘💋💕

[@shootit32]

What could you want from life ????

[@instantkarma8800]

I know it's Bruce, but please shut up he's singing. I was young once. I saw him in 1978 and we were screaming, but he wasn't being posted on KZbin. Thanks for posting. ❤️

[@bruciewollie1]

100% correct Sam.........

[@skybluesam01]

bruciewollie1 I have my own story of events that I feel like this song describes... But I'm sure everyone finds their own meaning in it! I just wish I had been alive when gigs like this actually happened!

[@peterhoffmann7305]

Majestic. Fucking majestic.

[@shootit32]

We are not worthy of this tale..

[@lucainvernizzi848]

The intro will be an idea for Drive All Night?

[@viorelneagu171]

Printul

[@youknow2469MitakuyeOyasin]

The Boss

[@anelladambrosio2513]

Così giovane ! E così passionale!! Bruce!!😢😢☹️🤫😀🤩😍😘🎷🎸💎🎶💯

[@JuanGalva]

those guys arguing at the beginning of the track... pain in the ass

[@danielefstathiou3523]

I kinda like it. It’s a story in itself.

[@JuanGalva]

@@danielefstathiou3523 fair enough :)

[@mrsuperbruce]

Sad but true

[@score1x]

Probably recorded on reel to reel

[@arlen6658]

Though this famous take has that unique opening, the better version of this era of the song is from earlier that month in FLA (3/4/77): kzbin.info/www/bejne/imbdlKmiZq2imaM

[@sharicrocker5841]

Now I'm really confused, at same time I'm relieved. I think this is pretty sexy.

[@nonosquare4218]

frikkin amazing version is this on tape or video anwhere i wonder?

[@therobeelephant]

I'm not aware of video for this show. There are two different bootleg audios that I know of. If you can't find a place to download it, let me know and I can probably find it for you

[@anelladambrosio2513]

Impressionante!!! Bruceeeeeeeeee !😅😄😍😘🎸🎷😇💎🎶

[@budibausto]

Great "Van Morrisons" intro there

[@michellehalpin7995]

"Pretty lie,lie lie,lie,lie,lies,lies".........ohhhhhhhh

[@willemvos5734]

Maybe the best version of the song , but it sounds like it is slower than other versions in that period , is it the tape or what ....?

[@therobeelephant]

WIllem Vos I think it's just the tempo they took that night. I've heard at least one other source tape and it's the same tempo.

[@SkirderF]

It was played that slow on all shows from 1977.

[@lightningstrikelures2393]

Good lookin out

[@theiceman6941]

BLOW IT ALL FUCKING AWAY!!!!!!!!

[@davidrosen3970]

what is it about the opening piano and rolling thunder drums that kick so much f--king ass, its not funny

[@nickjohnson2715]

Sam said it best - Winterland version ain't bad either...

[@sharicrocker5841]

So Clyde just wanted to take me from you? Sounds pretty normal. I'd be pleased if he didn't give me another thought.

[@nickjohnson2715]

Fuck it only the Beatles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!15:00

[@Angelsthathavenoplace]

Angry Bruce

[@kelseymariel2127]

An angry and hungry Bruce was everything back then. I live for the old Bruce.

[@youknow2469MitakuyeOyasin]

​@@kelseymariel2127 god me too, me toooooooo

[@kelseymariel2127]

@@youknow2469MitakuyeOyasinRight? There was nothing like him then.

[@mrsuperbruce]

Adam raised a Cain

[@jefferygoodman9928]

@David Dennison: Hopefully not and that life has treated u well.

[@sharicrocker5841]

I have questions. ABOUT how you ended up in my bedroom. Please don't paint ugly innuendos

[@rielboire9726]

classic google riel boire

[@maxmoon2254]

Neat version but I do like the Winterland story part and buildup better.

[@4512red]

VI D EO???? VI D EO???? VID EO??????

[@gjerrildkro]

Bruce, get rid of the Mucinex..

[@kenrex1126]

Heard him do it better. Too much histrionics.