My mom was a part of the Jersey Shore scene back in the day. Had many mutual friends and more with Bruce. She thought he was an incredible talent, but felt he thought he was God's gift to women...and every time I see this video, I think, well, where is the lie?! Isn't he? 😂 What couldn't that man do! Incredible songwriter, guitarist, lyricist with movie star good looks and a 🍑 that perfectly creased those Levi's. They didn't call him The Boss for nothin'. 🥰

A Bruce concert is not just a concert, it's an experience!

This INTRO 😮🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Absolutely brilliant...His intros are some of the best in musical history!

I can’t believe I’ve never heard this version, that intro was other worldly 🤤 ✨

Springsteen is the fucking man. My high school best friend turned me on to all sorts of amazing music, from his father. He passed but was a really great guy.

Im upset that i never knew he was a Beast on the Guitar, Holy Sh*t 😳🤟

Saw him in Cardiff three days ago absolutely awesome 👌

Good Lord that man was magical on that guitar!!!

One of the most haunting intros ever... the way the piano and guitar blend is simply genius.

JESUS CHRIST i had no idea springsteen was a savage like that

Man, Springsteen's guitar was bloody haunting in that intro. Beautiful.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded "Because the Night" at Atlantic Studios, New York on June 1, 1977, the first day of sessions for Darkness on the Edge of Town, though the lyrics only consisted of the song title and some mumbling. Springsteen struggled with the song almost four months until his engineer, Jimmy Iovine, got involved. At the time, Iovine was also producing the album Easter for Patti Smith at the Record Plant, New York, where Darkness was being recorded at the same time. Iovine says, "Now, Bruce was very understanding and very flexible, because he realized that this was my first real break as a producer. Anyway, one night whilst we were lounging around the Hotel Navarro in New York I told Bruce I desperately wanted a hit with Patti, that she deserved one. He agreed. As he had no immediate plans to put ‘Because the Night’ on an album, I said why not give it to Patti. Bruce replied, ‘If she can do it, she can have it.’" Springsteen later admitted he was not satisfied with the song, and he already knew he wasn't going to finish it since it was "a[nother] love song";.[4] Iovine brought Smith the last recording by Springsteen, from September 27, 1977. Smith added her own lyrics, recorded it for her album Easter, and scored her first and biggest hit single. The song was first performed live at a Patti Smith concert at CBGB's in New York City on December 30, 1977 (Patti's 31st birthday) with Springsteen joining on vocals and guitar.[5] Though it was never released on any of Springsteen's studio albums, in concert beginning with his Darkness Tour Springsteen would often perform the song with his own lyrics. To date, he has performed it 503 times in concert.[6] The only two commercially released recordings of a Springsteen version of the song were in the 1986 box set Live/1975-85, where Smith was listed as co-writer; and the 2010 compilation album The Promise (using the original recording from the Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions, but using Smith's lyrics).

Say whatever anyone wants but this is the best version of this song. Enjoy

That ‘78 tour was magical

Breathtaking!

When you're such a great songwriter that the stuff that doesn't make it on your album becomes a top twenty hit for someone else...twice

Springsteen is a great guitarist, very underrated.

Saw him in concert 3 times. Hands down THE best concerts I've ever been to. He played for 4 hours, with about a 20 minute break in the middle. I left there exhausted.

It's my bitter regret i couldn't see him live in 78....but i live in Europe and in 78 only Americans saw him! He and the band were at their best....meraviglioso❤❤❤

The intro with the guitar/keyboard duo is truly beautiful.

I read a good article in Billboard Magazine from about 2018 recently. About Patty Smith's recording of this song (with her changes to some lyrics). I was happy to see she repeatedly called it BRUCE'S song, his gift to her. She gushed about Bruce in the article and his song writing skills. I knew it pretty much made her career but it turns out it totally changed her life- and continues to. Bruce had already written two songs specifically for her to record but she had declined them both. But he gave her his recording of this song and and the very first time she ever heard it she new instantly that it was going to be a hit. She was just unsure about whether or not she wanted to have a hit record with a song she had not written herself. So she spent a couple of hours changing some of the lyrics and the next day she decided to put it on her album. It ended up making her famous and giving her and her band it's first financial success.

OMG absolutely brilliant guitar solo by The Boss but is that Roy Bittan on the piano? Freakin' 3 minutes of nonstop playing and he doesn't miss a beat. I've had this intro on repeat for at least a week now. Never gets old. 🎤🎧🎹🎸🎼

This is the version i was looking for all these years....finally found it

Dear God. What this man has given us for just, oh I dunno, almost 50 years.

good lord! the energy. the voice...the guitar . teh songwriting! there was nothing like it in 1978(!!!)...

God damn I never knew Bruce could shred!

I'm quite glad that I saw him perform that song in 2023.

I was a 19 year old at ASU when I first saw Bruce in 1975 on the Born To Run tour. It literally changed my life. In my opinion, no one can hold a candle to him live in concert...maybe Prince. Springsteen is the best songwriter of all time. Just read the lyrics to Thunder Road or Jungleland. Pure poetry.

This was recorded the year I was born, and tonight is the first time I’ve heard this version... Now I know beyond a shadow of a doubt why they call him The Boss. Simply a masterpiece…

So.... now I remember Bruce Springsteen.... He was the guy who was so good, he could give away a song of such quality that he never regretted it. So much talent.

One of the best versions ever

this is awesome. I have the same shirt - thats where the similarity between me and Bruce ends.

Boss is shredding on this song. He’s a real guitar player.

That intro is the sexiest music to me ✨✨✨

God damn that was magical!

This is 2021 who else is with me listening to the boss🎼🙌 Best ever!!

Only this song would be worth the ticket.

I could listen to that intro over and over and over again 🤍🤍🤍🤍

Bruce seemed to have always be an under appreciated guitarist. I guess his music and lyrics got all the attention but he was a great lead.

Jesus Christ that was incredible. This is up there with his Thunder Road duet with Melissa Ethridge. Everytime I discover a new performance/version of his it floors me. Absolutely stunning!

I love how Sprigsteen is just 1,77m tall, but when he plays this solo, he looks like the biggest man in the world.

Best version of the song i have ever heard!

This rules

Is there a better live performer than Bruce!!! The magnetism of this man is something. For those who say that he is an average guitarist....who cares, this is how build a melody.

This beginning is like the end of Jerry Garcia's Standing on the Moon: it's like you're hearing a guitar for the first time. Brilliant

that Intro... really awesome !!!

Magnificent Bruce Springsteen, rock and roll icon. Greetings from Serbia.🤘

Springsteen was a menace in concert in the 70s.

So much emotion! ❤️

So many memories.

Listening in 2024 - this performance the year of my birth & we’re both ageing like fine wine 😂 absolute perfection 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I never heard of this dude. Be watching more! I love this.

Now this is an intro… wow!!

The Boss makes life worth living. ✨I woke up with this song in my head 🖤

Never forget seeing Bruce for the first time in September of 78 on the Darkness tour. I went into the show with great admiration for him as a songwriter but as a guitarist? Not so much! That night he blew the roof off the arena with this song and of course the Darkness tour version of "Prove it all night". I left the show with a greater respect for the man as a guitarist

What a song and the beginning just melts my brain 👏 im not part of my dads generation but he taught me to love real music and I'm going to 100% percent carry on doing that for the rest of my life.

十代の頃ラジオで聴いた、虜になりました。

I was there as a young kid . It was the second time on the darkness tour I saw him. Just unbelievable. Legend!

I discovered this version last year, and I'm frequently coming back just for the intro. It's pure magic and I lack of finding a proper word to describe how I'm feeling listening to this

Can come back to this song over and over. When Bruce breaks into the solo at 5:08 it looks like a musical display and showcase for the whole universe representative of what members of the the human species are so amazingly capable of. Like we came a long way on this blue rock to rock out to our deepest of heartfelt emotions.

More than a song. It' s a statement.

This era of the E street band is absolutely fire

The was a pretty good guitar solo - not over played, simple, matches the enegergy of the song rather than pushing technical ability. Love that.

NO WORDS ONLY ADMIRATION FOR EVER

Croker Sun 19th May .Can't wait. Be my 5th time seeing him live.

Thé BOSSSSS

He's my lifetime hero. Everything from the heart!

This intro gives me goosebumps every-time I hear it !

Meilleur show a vie, River Tour 1980 Forum de MONTRÉAL.....The Boss The Best

are you kidding me amazing intro

Epic Springsteen! What an awesome live performer!

Amazing, beautiful performance best live version ever🔥❤🥰❤🎸🎷❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Dreamlike this guitar-intro. How positively playful he is

Holy Sh*t!! Bruce really NAILED that one!

Fookin top quality...some channels say he never played it this early but this proves it, slightly different lyrics but still a quality performance....magical!

I love you Bruce Springsteen from a small town Illinois fan. ❤

in his prime........shredding........energy, energy, energy

Yesterday (April 2023) did a memorable performance at Barcelona (Spain) 60 k persons - all ages - he, 73 … the BOSS !! This song was written by Patti Smith and Bruce in 1978 … and firstly apoeared in Patti’s work •Easter• !!!!

THE BOSS AND THE MOTHERFUCKING BIG MAN.ENOUGH SAID.(AND ONE HEEEELLLUVA SONG)

A masterpiece.... No doubt!!!! Thanks again boss

Talented and works his ass off! Nothing like Bruce today!

The Boss can play guitar man! Awesome

Bruce's very short-lived polo shirt period.

Wowwww! Wowwwww! Extraordinarily great! Look at Bruceeeee 😍😍😍😍😍😍

Nice raw version and man he can shred. Love it.

29 years old, already legendary and a looooong journey of rock n roll to come

3 things: 1- Not a huge BS fan.but..... 2 - he killed this song.3 - didnt realize he played a great guitar. One of his best performances ever - that I ve ever seen. Great performance here.

We need The Boss back on the stage!

First time seeing them 1978..Cincinnati..Hard core fan ever since..It was his 33 birthday and they played another 5 songs jumping into the crowd...It was an Experience

A quality of work so high that he could give away stuff like this

I just found out tonight that this was Bruce's song. For the last 30 years I thought it was Patti Smith's. They're both incredible.

I first heard the song by Patti Smith and I didn't know that Bruce wrotte the song.Then in 1985 when I became a Bruce Springsteen And The E-Street Band Fan,when I saw Bruce in Frankfurt,I heard the song for the first time live and It blew me away.Still to this day I get shivers down my spine when I hear that song.I love everything about the song》The Lyrics,the playin of the E-Street Band,and Bruce Singin And The Guitarwork,This song is on fire,oh Yeah~Mindblowin🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I was at this concert. Center section about 12 rows from stage. Sometime in December before Christmas. I was exhausted by the time it ended

The ONLY version of the song ! Beyond as always with Springsteen

I saw Bruce Springsteen do a surprise walk-on at CBGB's on New Year's Eve 1977. They brought the house down.

The Boss,,,,,damn he brings the fire! The composition is point on. ❤🎼🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

I would had liked to have hung out with Bruce & his band in 1977-78-79 and experienced the man and his his music and stage shows in this time period.

Superb.........masterpiece

Este año 2024 lo voy a poderlo disfrutar en Madrid .