No matter how many times I hear Clarence Sax solo it always touches my heart and soul, I remember those I loved and are no longer here. We miss you BIG MAN RIP
My wife and i rushed our wedding date because my father was dying of cancer. He was my best man. My son pushed him down the aisle to the sax solo to the alter. On this day, one last time, my dad stood up to his feet on his own for the very last time to hug my wife to be. I'll never forget him and his love for Bruce and this song.
That is a truly touching heartfelt emotional story. I'm so so sorry for your loss but your Father lives in the hearts of you and your wife and all those that he touched just by living a true life. This song along with your Father are purest of the soul God Bless all that this story has touched and God Bless your Dad. Never to be forgotten. Just look inward to your heart and soul. Many many blessings!!!
@@markalexander6517 wow! Hammersmith was great for me because the band is so young but tight. Most of the clips floating around these days are still great but more polished. The one I really really want disappeared about 10 years ago: Independence Day with a prologue about Bruce's teen years. His dad saying turn down that goddamn guitar, sneaking through the kitchen at night etc
This is hands down the best live version of this song; classic Bruce and the Big Man, and 45 years later I am still blown away every time I hear it. I wore out this track on my vinyl LP (that my 29 year old daughter has now permanently “borrowed “) Seeing Bruce live in the 70’s was truly a magical time.
If you don't get the chills at the end of this unbelievably great song. You are not alive. I sing this song from the beginning to the end. Since I first heard it way way back in the middle 70s or earlier. But I get the chills every time still. Growing up in north Philly in the 60d and 70s getting shot at every weekend. I felt that Bruce was hanging on the back streets of North Philadelphia pa. With me and my buddies. One of the greatest songs ever written ever
A rock and roll icon genius in the prime of his youth singing a masterpiece Cool thing is it was too early for audience to be singing every single word. As they do now And who knew then that the young man shredding that guitar solo would be a mainstay of the greatest TV show of all time a mere quarter century later??lol
I caught them in Miami on their last show in the states before they flew off to London and this performance. What a great band! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND!!!!
I've been listening to Bruce Springsteen on the tapes and cd's for years but not until I discovered these live videos did I really get it. I get moved beyond words when I watch these beautiful poetic, soulful renditions of his music in the 70's, 80's etc. Every member in the E St band gives something incredible to the sound. I watch them sometimes 'til the wee hours of the morning. What was I doing back in the 70's when all this was going on? Oh yes, getting married, moving into my first apartment, losing my first husband in an accident, so much of life and the drama of living are remembered in the passion of these songs. I do have a time machine, no wait, time stands still when I listen to these songs. Thank you Bruce and the E St band. I wonder if you know how much you have given.
“E Street” is a distant time and place I’ve imagined since I first heard this in masterpiece 1975 as legendary. Ground Zero for this legendary song and album.
I love the early Springsteen shows. When they were truly a tough band. You can hear the Strats, all the guys in the NJ white Fedoras - it's classic. Bruce looks like Serpico. That solo...
I've heard hundreds of live versions but this one is the closest to the album I've heard. Love the original band. Not the same with the 8 other people he added. This is raw, original, and authentic.
Who are the 8 other people he added? Five of them are playing on this song. Same piano, same bass, same drums, same sax, same guitar except for Nils Lofgren. All five played on the born to run LP.
@@starpowermike2846 I'm referring to his current lineup with horns, violin, singers, etc. I know things were added on the original recordings but this is pure and live with the original core band.
I am blessed to have witnessed one of the GREATEST performers of all time on five different occasions. Beginning in 1978. Jungleland, 10th Ave. freeze out, Rosalita just to name a few. Totally amazing. God rest the big man
A resonating, like integrated voices in a cathedral, like ancient voices, of men, of instruments, telling stories of metal and the sweetness of love. So very much alive. A melding of lives in a moment in time. Thank-you so much for allowing this work to come into being. Made my night tonight.
Bruce and his band were at the week of theyre art. Nobody made music like that before or after. The poetry, the storytelling, the music... Juste geatness.
At what point did Springsteen really change? Was it Nebraska? Born in the USA? I think it goes back to the River. The River was a solid song. But Hungry Heart and Out on the Street felt like pop/top 40. The rest didn't have any feel at all. All of Darkness on the Edge of Town was still classic Springsteen music noir. Full of romance, tragedy and street violence. Every album up til Darkness feels like every song takes place in the dark of night. I loved that, and I miss it. Songs like Meeting Across the River, Backstreets, the Flood, Incident on 57th. Beautifully vivid and dark. IDK. I guess maybe it was just the time in my life when I first heard these albums.
I think it's because he was pretty young at the time, your emotions are so much more intense at that point and that's what really grabs you about his music from then. As you get older as an artist you can't do that forever, you just hope you evolve OK and find other interesting things to say about life. This band was so tight and so amazing and he put every ounce of his body into those concerts. The encores would be just as good, if not better, than when the night started. I get sad thinking about the original band members who are gone. .
What? You mean to tell me that Drive All Night, Point Blank or Stolen Car don't have "feel"? Even faster songs such as Sherry Darling, Jackson Cage or Two Hearts have good lyrics with good "feel".
@@jonathanm9069 There are great individual songs on almost every album but they don't come one after another and fill the whole album. It's just my opinion though. Art is subjective. I love The Boss.
Musicians need to leave politics out of music... I've been a huge fan of the E. Street Band since I was a kid but when things turned political I tuned out...
OH I need it! Let me hear that sweet sound of Clarence's sax solo. What an amazing feeling you get, at least me anyway, hearing him playing that solo. Love it!
Sadly missed you could count on him, and I think him and bruce were like brothers, must be hard for the boss,, time heals all wounds but the scar never goes away, R.I.P.!
In rock'n'roll. Paul Gonsalves jazzed up Newport in 1956, with another: Paul's solo starts at 3:47, but the whole song kicks ass. He went on for 27 choruses, and this performance brought Ellington's band back to the forefront of live jazz for another decade, when all the other bands were dying off. th-cam.com/video/avINkychVpc/w-d-xo.html
One of my fav parts of any song starts at ~6:17 (right after the incredible sax solo) with the professor Roy Bittan on the piano - easily my fav piano pieces in a song... surreal, magical just incredible in keeping with Bruce's tone and lyrics. Injustice this song only has north of 300,000 views mid 2022.
Amazing how delicate and careful this part sounds, compared to some of the really bold parts. The live version seems more ornamental than the studio version, which is already killer. The arpeggios at 8:25 are pretty nuts, too.
The Rangers had a homecoming In Harlem late last night And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine Over the Jersey state line Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain The Rat pulls into town, rolls up his pants Together they take a stab at romance And disappear down Flamingo Lane Well, the Maximum Lawmen run down Flamingo Chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl And the kids 'round there live just like shadows Always quiet, holding hands From the churches to the jails Tonight all is silence in the world As we take our stand Down in Jungleland The midnight gang's assembled And picked a rendezvous for the night They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign That brings this fair city light Man, there's an opera out on the Turnpike There's a ballet being fought out in the alley Until the local cops, Cherry-Tops, rips this holy night The street's alive as secret debts are paid Contacts made, they flash unseen Kids flash guitars just like switchblades Hustling for the record machine The hungry and the hunted Explode into rock 'n' roll bands That face off against each other out in the street Down in Jungleland In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage Inside the backstreet girls are dancing To the records that the DJ plays Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners Desperate as the night moves on Just one look and a whisper, and they're gone Beneath the city, two hearts beat Soul engines running through a night so tender In a bedroom locked in whispers Of soft refusal and then surrender In the tunnels uptown, the Rat's own dream guns him down As shots echo down them hallways in the night No one watches when the ambulance pulls away Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz Between what's flesh and what's fantasy And the poets down here don't write nothing at all They just stand back and let it all be And in the quick of a knife, they reach for their moment And try to make an honest stand But they wind up wounded, not even dead Tonight in Jungleland
Man you can tell Bruce was probably just getting by just eating peanut butter crackers and wearing whatever little clothes he had. Very thin back then but nothing stopped his powerful voice
What a masterpiece!! The Sax solo, piano and energy of the whole band are just bone chilling! I could listen to this song all day. RIP BIG MAN LOVE YA !!
Still get chills from this. Quick blurb if I may share. The 1st time hearing Jungleland was a show in Central Park. Small concerts were held in a closed down ice skating rink (Wolman Rink I believe?). Guess it was '75; had graduated high school that year. When the band started playing Jungleland it was perfect; a warm balmy summer night in NYC and you could see the smoke rising with the haze as Clarence played the sax and the bank play; everyone had chills...
Un'altra perla,un altro LAMPO DI GENIO DI BRUCE. COL SUPPORTO GRANDIOSO DEGLI ESTREETERS......UNO DEI CONCERTI PIÙ GRANDI, DALL'INIZIO ALLA FINE. LA STORIA DEL ROCK ROLL.....IL PASSATO,IL PRESENTE.....HO VISTO IL FUTURO DEL ROCK ROLL......MI HA FATTO SENTIRE COME SE ASCOLTASSI MUSICA PER LA PRIMA VOLTA..... TANK'S BRUCE, THANK'S GUYS....ACROSS THE RIVER.... ALL THIS PASSED YEARS TOUGHETHER......LIKE BLOOD BROTHERS IN A DARK NIGHT..... GRREETINGS FROM TRANI SOUTH ITALY EAST COAST
My favorite song from my favorite album of Bruce's long history of music. I had the 8 track, and would stay up all night until daylight listening to the whole Born to Run album through my head phones. Something about the house being dark and everyone else asleep, just me and the music. Boy it was so powerful, hit my 16 year old soul!
The Boss is now officially a billionaire...I wonder if the guy on that stage back then had even the faintest idea about how big it would get. Rock on Bruce Springsteen
Clarence's sax solo brings me to tears every time I hear this. I saw them live for the first time in OKC in 77. I had never seen greatness live until then. You don't go to a Springsteen concert, you go to church and Bruce leads the service. This is the spirit that is rock and roll. This is truth, this is tragic, this is greatness. The shots of intimacy between Bruce and his music are timeless and need no words.
I couldn't agree more. Ladies and gentlemen Church is in session. I ask you to turn to page 28 and read from the book of John, Adam, and Springsteen!!! Well said my friend.
Bruce and the E Street Band were a major figure in my childhood (born in '72 in Philly). My dad took me to see them for the RIver and Born in the USA tours. Thanks, Dad. :)
Not many people can put Rat in a song, it just gives so much deepth to the struggles and raw magnitude of living in Jersey back in the day. That's why so many people loved him. Struggling, with passion!
This is the 1st album I ever bought on my own. I was 13/14? I listened to this masterpiece over and over every night in my bedroom,in the dark; with headphones. This album is a Journey unlike any I’ve ever experienced. Born To Run is my favorite album,and “JungleLand” is my favorite song. When Bruce hits those guttural,passionate screams and moans at the end,,, if you’re not in the fetal position scared as Hell on your bedroom floor… flip the record and start over. Clarence’s Solo sends this song to the depths of my soul..RIP Big Man…
@jannaf1sher well said.Bruce's passionate haunting vocals at the culmination of this masterpiece speak louder than any words ever could.I feel it in my soul. Goosebumps!
1975 - the year i discovered the BOSS. I WAS ON THE COUCH IN THE FRONT ROOM OF MY 1ST HOUSE IN THE UPPER BEACHES IN TARANNA(TORONTO) AND ON COMES ONTHE NEW STEREO THE BOSSMAN FROM WBEN 930FM IN BARFALO,NY(BUFFALO,NY) THX, WBEN930 AND THX SCOOTER !!!!!!!
I sat alone in my office played the vinyl track of jungleland when I found out I was gonna have my second child..a son.. with the neigborhood girl I had desired since I was 14...I was thirty when this happened. Looking back I'm now 40... same chills
I've seen springsteen live twice in his Broadway show, the second of which i paid 5000 dollars for two tickets, but to see him at this show would have been priceless
Bruuuce... 5 years later, i was 14, your music stepped into my life. And there it is till today, every day making my day. The right music in all situations of my life. I hope my english is good enough to discribe that. Greetings from 🇩🇪 Germany.. Hope to see you and the band next year..
No matter how many times I hear Clarence Sax solo it always touches my heart and soul, I remember those I loved and are no longer here. We miss you BIG MAN RIP
Greatest rock duo of all time brother
One of the best sax solo's in this song in history. He made it look so easy.
Love this comment 👍
JUST so beautiful! OMG!
I cry every time I listen to that sax solo
My wife and i rushed our wedding date because my father was dying of cancer. He was my best man. My son pushed him down the aisle to the sax solo to the alter. On this day, one last time, my dad stood up to his feet on his own for the very last time to hug my wife to be. I'll never forget him and his love for Bruce and this song.
Bruce is in our souls so many years.
Thanks for sharing.
@@tzurlerner7054 si amico! Siamo cresciuti insieme... 😊😍😍😘💘❤️💕💕
Happy you had that moment with your dad. God bless.
That is a truly touching heartfelt emotional story. I'm so so sorry for your loss but your Father lives in the hearts of you and your wife and all those that he touched just by living a true life. This song along with your Father are purest of the soul God Bless all that this story has touched and God Bless your Dad. Never to be forgotten. Just look inward to your heart and soul. Many many blessings!!!
Hammersmith Odeon 75, one of the greatest rock concerts in history, this recording is a treasure, Bruce's voice is so powerful, so clear, so moving.
O yes that is so true bruce give his life in this gig never to be repeated especially especially these day's
Ya it was unreal love bruce and the e street
I had never seen this until tonight. I had a bootleg audio copy un the late 80's, until my car got cleaned out. This is special.
@@markalexander6517 wow! Hammersmith was great for me because the band is so young but tight. Most of the clips floating around these days are still great but more polished. The one I really really want disappeared about 10 years ago: Independence Day with a prologue about Bruce's teen years. His dad saying turn down that goddamn guitar, sneaking through the kitchen at night etc
Nothing pretentious.... just raw poetic rock at the highest level.
This is hands down the best live version of this song; classic Bruce and the Big Man, and 45 years later I am still blown away every time I hear it. I wore out this track on my vinyl LP (that my 29 year old daughter has now permanently “borrowed “) Seeing Bruce live in the 70’s was truly a magical time.
This version and the version from 1999-2000 at Madison Square Garden absolutely
Clarence just NAILED it....missing our BIG MAN!
This is THE gig. Thunder road, in fact everything from this gig is PERFECT. ❤
Me too!
I’m 42, and I’ve been listening to this song my entire adult life. It gives me chills every time. There’s just something magical happening here…
Yes! Chills! Still get them from this song :)
63...... same here
This whole concert is just so insanely RAW and gritty, it's just so awesome, I can't stop listening....
I still have no words for this masterpiece
Speechless every time
Same
Everytime I hear this. Wow!
I feel the same.
IT is EXQUISITE! I miss Clarence Clemons so much !
I'm in tears this is so wonderful and happened almost 50 years ago. Immortal Clarence Clemons and his epic sax solo!
If you don't get the chills at the end of this unbelievably great song. You are not alive. I sing this song from the beginning to the end. Since I first heard it way way back in the middle 70s or earlier. But I get the chills every time still. Growing up in north Philly in the 60d and 70s getting shot at every weekend. I felt that Bruce was hanging on the back streets of North Philadelphia pa. With me and my buddies. One of the greatest songs ever written ever
They don't make them like Clarence anymore. This song moves me to tears every time. What a soul
The Greatest sax solo in modern Rock History!❤️Miss you Big Man!
It is amazing.... Springsteen wrote this solo note for note, and Clarence plays
it verbatim.
@williamdevizia1059 Yes I beleive there's a scene of Bruce and Clarence in the documentary of The Making of Born to Run that shows this.😊
"They wind up wounded, not even dead"
Damn, that line gets me every time.
heartbreaking
The light touched you friend
My favorite "Boss" song.
Quite easily one of the greatest songs ever written...
❤️🙌
Bruce's best lyrical poetry, especially from the sax solo to the end.
No argument here.
This song changed my mind about Springsteen, in a good way. I was pretty indifferent to him before I heard this song.
The power .. the poetry .. much like Zeps live Since I’ve been loving you . A masterpiece !!!
A rock and roll icon genius in the prime of his youth singing a masterpiece
Cool thing is it was too early for audience to be singing every single word. As they do now
And who knew then that the young man shredding that guitar solo would be a mainstay of the greatest TV show of all time a mere quarter century later??lol
His music should be in any Time capsule ever put away Genius
This entire performance brings me to tears.
one of my top 5 bruce songs, of all time.
Loved this live.😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
Best concert in history
75 and still going strong! We love you, Bruce!
Solo just blows my mind imagine being Springsteen the first time he heard it
I caught them in Miami on their last show in the states before they flew off to London and this performance. What a great band! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND!!!!
Ah, saw Bruce on The River tour, 1980. Tix were$9.75.I will never forget it. Left everything on that stage....played 4 hours.
Bruce, what a cutie pie he was in ‘75 💕
"Beneath the city two hearts beat..." So begins some of the greatest last two verses of any song - ever.
Happy 40th anniversary WZEW 92 Zew. This was the first song this station ever played. RIP Catt Sirten.
The last time he yelled "Down in Jungleland" on his own.
I've been listening to Bruce Springsteen on the tapes and cd's for years but not until I discovered these live videos did I really get it. I get moved beyond words when I watch these beautiful poetic, soulful renditions of his music in the 70's, 80's etc. Every member in the E St band gives something incredible to the sound. I watch them sometimes 'til the wee hours of the morning. What was I doing back in the 70's when all this was going on? Oh yes, getting married, moving into my first apartment, losing my first husband in an accident, so much of life and the drama of living are remembered in the passion of these songs. I do have a time machine, no wait, time stands still when I listen to these songs. Thank you Bruce and the E St band. I wonder if you know how much you have given.
I only watch the live version because of the passion.
Great post. ☮️
Yes, great post Dorothy, greetings from Italy
Exactly Dorothy. This man’s music, lyrics have got me thru many phases of my life. I am 62 and he still is my go to artist. Peace.
Breaks my heart to know he's a socialist
and does anyone else think the whole taking off the hat and putting back on was choreographed? hysterical.
Oh dear...poor wee Davey Boy has wet his pants again 😂😂
Can never stop watching this. And this concert in general. Sp totally amazing
Easily my favorite Springsteen song of all time
“E Street” is a distant time and place I’ve imagined since I first heard this in masterpiece 1975 as legendary. Ground Zero for this legendary song and album.
I love the early Springsteen shows. When they were truly a tough band. You can hear the Strats, all the guys in the NJ white Fedoras - it's classic. Bruce looks like Serpico. That solo...
Hammersmith 1975 Must come to movie theaters w/ excellent sound systems
Pure magic.
I've heard hundreds of live versions but this one is the closest to the album I've heard. Love the original band. Not the same with the 8 other people he added. This is raw, original, and authentic.
AGREED! It's a beautiful live version of a FABULOUS old song! RIP Mr. Clemons....we all still miss you!
Who are the 8 other people he added? Five of them are playing on this song. Same piano, same bass, same drums, same sax, same guitar except for Nils Lofgren. All five played on the born to run LP.
@@starpowermike2846 I'm referring to his current lineup with horns, violin, singers, etc. I know things were added on the original recordings but this is pure and live with the original core band.
Danny is a tremendous loss too, the dreamy incidental organ bits are a hugely underestimated factor in 70s E street.
I am blessed to have witnessed one of the GREATEST performers of all time on five different occasions. Beginning in 1978. Jungleland, 10th Ave. freeze out, Rosalita just to name a few. Totally amazing. God rest the big man
when audiences showed respect. no one screaming nonsense when the music gets soft. because they knew what they were watching was brilliance!
Got goosebumps and tears in my eyes for all the good people iv lost over the years x
Breathtaking.
If The Boss and Co. never wrote another thing, I would be ok with just this, because it stands on its own, as a masterpiece.
That might be the best rock'n'roll video of all time
I had very strong opinions that evening two years ago.
A resonating, like integrated voices in a cathedral, like ancient voices, of men, of instruments, telling stories of metal and the sweetness of love. So very much alive. A melding of lives in a moment in time. Thank-you so much for allowing this work to come into being. Made my night tonight.
Thanks.Great post. ☮️
One of Bruce's many masterpieces
Bruce and his band were at the week of theyre art. Nobody made music like that before or after. The poetry, the storytelling, the music... Juste geatness.
The Big Man's solo is one if the best pieces of individual performance in the history of rock. So freaking powerful
it's f'n incredible.
I recently commented about seeing Bob Dylan too late (after earlier 70s)....HOWEVER I SAW THE EARLY BRUCE. .. THE BEST
@Bruce Springsteen hi, bruce! Send me a photo of you holding today's new York times!
the saxophone solo is literally EVERYTHING
The best sax solo ever! Along with the one in the song Born to Run.
At what point did Springsteen really change? Was it Nebraska? Born in the USA? I think it goes back to the River. The River was a solid song. But Hungry Heart and Out on the Street felt like pop/top 40. The rest didn't have any feel at all. All of Darkness on the Edge of Town was still classic Springsteen music noir. Full of romance, tragedy and street violence. Every album up til Darkness feels like every song takes place in the dark of night. I loved that, and I miss it. Songs like Meeting Across the River, Backstreets, the Flood, Incident on 57th. Beautifully vivid and dark. IDK. I guess maybe it was just the time in my life when I first heard these albums.
I think it's because he was pretty young at the time, your emotions are so much more intense at that point and that's what really grabs you about his music from then. As you get older as an artist you can't do that forever, you just hope you evolve OK and find other interesting things to say about life. This band was so tight and so amazing and he put every ounce of his body into those concerts. The encores would be just as good, if not better, than when the night started. I get sad thinking about the original band members who are gone. .
You're right. Darkness On The Edge Of Town is his last masterpiece.
What? You mean to tell me that Drive All Night, Point Blank or Stolen Car don't have "feel"?
Even faster songs such as Sherry Darling, Jackson Cage or Two Hearts have good lyrics with good "feel".
@@jonathanm9069 There are great individual songs on almost every album but they don't come one after another and fill the whole album. It's just my opinion though. Art is subjective. I love The Boss.
Musicians need to leave politics out of music... I've been a huge fan of the E. Street Band since I was a kid but when things turned political I tuned out...
What is this Bruce by candlelight? Whatever he's still sounds outrageous wearing his hat. 😁
the shot of the big man stepping up to the mic before his big solo....i mean that's cinema right there
Love how the Boss listens in awe as the Big Man belts out audio passion on that horn.
This is just amazing. I miss big man, I can't imagine how tough it must be for Bruce to have him gone.
I am just laying here thinking I would pay $5 million to have been at this show. The song is brilliant, it's beautiful, it's gritty. It's everything
OH I need it! Let me hear that sweet sound of Clarence's sax solo. What an amazing feeling you get, at least me anyway, hearing him playing that solo. Love it!
Sadly missed you could count on him, and I think him and bruce were like brothers, must be hard for the boss,, time heals all wounds but the scar never goes away, R.I.P.!
This album came out just when I needed it .
The greatest sax solo ever. That's it.
In rock'n'roll. Paul Gonsalves jazzed up Newport in 1956, with another: Paul's solo starts at 3:47, but the whole song kicks ass. He went on for 27 choruses, and this performance brought Ellington's band back to the forefront of live jazz for another decade, when all the other bands were dying off. th-cam.com/video/avINkychVpc/w-d-xo.html
One of my fav parts of any song starts at ~6:17 (right after the incredible sax solo) with the professor Roy Bittan on the piano - easily my fav piano pieces in a song... surreal, magical just incredible in keeping with Bruce's tone and lyrics. Injustice this song only has north of 300,000 views mid 2022.
Amazing how delicate and careful this part sounds, compared to some of the really bold parts. The live version seems more ornamental than the studio version, which is already killer. The arpeggios at 8:25 are pretty nuts, too.
The Rangers had a homecoming
In Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine
Over the Jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The Rat pulls into town, rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance
And disappear down Flamingo Lane
Well, the Maximum Lawmen run down Flamingo
Chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl
And the kids 'round there live just like shadows
Always quiet, holding hands
From the churches to the jails
Tonight all is silence in the world
As we take our stand
Down in Jungleland
The midnight gang's assembled
And picked a rendezvous for the night
They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign
That brings this fair city light
Man, there's an opera out on the Turnpike
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley
Until the local cops, Cherry-Tops, rips this holy night
The street's alive as secret debts are paid
Contacts made, they flash unseen
Kids flash guitars just like switchblades
Hustling for the record machine
The hungry and the hunted
Explode into rock 'n' roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street
Down in Jungleland
In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage
Inside the backstreet girls are dancing
To the records that the DJ plays
Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners
Desperate as the night moves on
Just one look and a whisper, and they're gone
Beneath the city, two hearts beat
Soul engines running through a night so tender
In a bedroom locked in whispers
Of soft refusal and then surrender
In the tunnels uptown, the Rat's own dream guns him down
As shots echo down them hallways in the night
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here don't write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of a knife, they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland
Seeing the Big Man’s son take his place the tour after he passed was one of the most emotional things I’ve seen. RIP Big Man.
nephew...
Oh ya agree love the big man
Hes his nephew x
His nephew
great epic
18/06/20. ‘Clarence doesn’t leave E Street when he dies, he leaves when we die’ . Sleep well Big Man.🎷😎🥰
Out of every song ever made, I, and every other person, have heard a small fraction of them.
There’s no way this isn’t one of the best songs ever made
Please, can some one invent time travel, so I can see him live back them...
me too. I was fairly close, having seen them in 81, but to see that first overseas concert in London in 75 wow wow wow that would be the best.
Work in progress.....
TH-cam is a time machine
Man you can tell Bruce was probably just getting by just eating peanut butter crackers and wearing whatever little clothes he had. Very thin back then but nothing stopped his powerful voice
What a masterpiece!! The Sax solo, piano and energy of the whole band are just bone chilling! I could listen to this song all day. RIP BIG MAN LOVE YA !!
I've listened to every version available, and this is the one where the Big Man shows the way to get to HEAVEN! His solo is JAW DROPPING!
16 and on the hood of a mustang,, the stars are bright,,, I grew up with Clarence and sax.. never knew what we were a part of!
Still get chills from this. Quick blurb if I may share. The 1st time hearing Jungleland was a show in Central Park. Small concerts were held in a closed down ice skating rink (Wolman Rink I believe?). Guess it was '75; had graduated high school that year. When the band started playing Jungleland it was perfect; a warm balmy summer night in NYC and you could see the smoke rising with the haze as Clarence played the sax and the bank play; everyone had chills...
That sounds amazing
Roy and Big man. Nothing can complete
Best heartfelt sax Solo in the history of the world 🌎
The big man!!!
Un'altra perla,un altro LAMPO DI GENIO DI BRUCE. COL SUPPORTO GRANDIOSO DEGLI ESTREETERS......UNO DEI CONCERTI PIÙ GRANDI, DALL'INIZIO ALLA FINE.
LA STORIA DEL ROCK ROLL.....IL PASSATO,IL PRESENTE.....HO VISTO IL FUTURO DEL ROCK ROLL......MI HA FATTO SENTIRE COME SE ASCOLTASSI MUSICA PER LA PRIMA VOLTA..... TANK'S BRUCE, THANK'S GUYS....ACROSS THE RIVER.... ALL THIS PASSED YEARS TOUGHETHER......LIKE BLOOD BROTHERS IN A DARK NIGHT.....
GRREETINGS FROM TRANI SOUTH ITALY EAST COAST
My favorite song from my favorite album of Bruce's long history of music. I had the 8 track, and would stay up all night until daylight listening to the whole Born to Run album through my head phones. Something about the house being dark and everyone else asleep, just me and the music. Boy it was so powerful, hit my 16 year old soul!
Absolutely. Those were the best nights.
Me and you too.
The Boss is now officially a billionaire...I wonder if the guy on that stage back then had even the faintest idea about how big it would get. Rock on Bruce Springsteen
Clarence's sax solo brings me to tears every time I hear this. I saw them live for the first time in OKC in 77. I had never seen greatness live until then. You don't go to a Springsteen concert, you go to church and Bruce leads the service. This is the spirit that is rock and roll. This is truth, this is tragic, this is greatness. The shots of intimacy between Bruce and his music are timeless and need no words.
I couldn't agree more. Ladies and gentlemen Church is in session. I ask you to turn to page 28 and read from the book of John, Adam, and Springsteen!!! Well said my friend.
Very well said. God Bless. It's wonderful to know others appreciate how wonderful this is. Thank you. Matthew in Atlanta.
Me too rite to tears your not alone love it
Bruce and the E Street Band were a major figure in my childhood (born in '72 in Philly). My dad took me to see them for the RIver and Born in the USA tours. Thanks, Dad. :)
My first wife said she didn't think much of Clarence. I still miss her somedays.
Thanks, Bruce C C E Street 💕 💕 💕 💕
It cracks me up how all the kids today want to look exactly like Bruce did here way back in 1975
It is strange
Not many people can put Rat in a song, it just gives so much deepth to the struggles and raw magnitude of living in Jersey back in the day. That's why so many people loved him. Struggling, with passion!
Forty-five years I been listening to the Boss. What a raconteur. What a lyricist. I’m so glad he found Patti
We still miss you, Big Man.
This is the 1st album I ever bought on my own. I was 13/14? I listened to this masterpiece over and over every night in my bedroom,in the dark; with headphones. This album is a Journey unlike any I’ve ever experienced. Born To Run is my favorite album,and “JungleLand” is my favorite song. When Bruce hits those guttural,passionate screams and moans at the end,,, if you’re not in the fetal position scared as Hell on your bedroom floor… flip the record and start over. Clarence’s Solo sends this song to the depths of my soul..RIP Big Man…
@jannaf1sher well said.Bruce's passionate haunting vocals at the culmination of this masterpiece speak louder than any words ever could.I feel it in my soul. Goosebumps!
Che carino BRUCE giovane 🥰💖💞
1975 - the year i discovered the BOSS. I WAS ON THE COUCH IN THE FRONT ROOM OF MY 1ST HOUSE IN THE UPPER BEACHES IN TARANNA(TORONTO) AND ON COMES ONTHE NEW STEREO THE BOSSMAN FROM WBEN 930FM IN BARFALO,NY(BUFFALO,NY) THX, WBEN930 AND THX SCOOTER !!!!!!!
Right up there with Dylan's LIKE A ROLLING STONE
This is better. It eviscerates your soul with no signs of letting up.
It's so good to see Clarence again
Astonished because of this such nice live version... So. Nice so good so.... Everything
Do not even try and be my friend if you do not love or "get this" song
Love it in 2024 in South East London
Just The Best Song
How does anyone put thumbs down on this? It's just brilliant! He was only 24? Who can do that?!
Thanks Edo you made me know this song 💋💋💋
🎶They just stand back
And let it happen 🎶
Oh, that wail, goosebumps ☝️
I sat alone in my office played the vinyl track of jungleland when I found out I was gonna have my second child..a son.. with the neigborhood girl I had desired since I was 14...I was thirty when this happened. Looking back I'm now 40... same chills
Yup. THIS version, of THIS song, truly is a masterpiece, among all of pop rock and roll. Take a bow, boys!! : ))
i m going in the concert in marseille this month
I've seen springsteen live twice in his Broadway show, the second of which i paid 5000 dollars for two tickets, but to see him at this show would have been priceless
Max and Bruce were in perfect synch for the closing verses.
It astounds me that some people havent heard the boss's music. That needs to change.
Bruuuce... 5 years later, i was 14, your music stepped into my life. And there it is till today, every day making my day. The right music in all situations of my life. I hope my english is good enough to discribe that. Greetings from 🇩🇪 Germany.. Hope to see you and the band next year..
A glorious dirge.
This whole song, live or studio is absolutely epic!!!
Still sometimes breaks me down .... but it always take me to the brink
You had to see him live back then to really understand how absolutely terrific a songwriter and bandleader he was…