ME!

Well, at least no one is mean to each other at a Bruce show! I've been to many in the 2000s. Best atmosphere ever! I would give anything to experience the Stone Pony era! ❤

ME TOO

This is from The Agora in Cleveland, OH

@@rockcat6208 OK but you know they played in New Jersey quite a lot. It’s kind of where they were from..

​@@Dinosaur761ok genius.. the 70's were awesome too.. Officially, the song was released in 1979.. I saw them before and after this song came out.. sorry if I missed it by a couple months..

Wait till you hit the 2020's

GENUINE music performed without ANY bullshit enhancements....so AWESOME!!!! the pure JOY of performing here!

That’s right, my friend. I was there too. Brooklyn, NY in the house!

WMMS 75

The Beach House !!!

Been there, was there, " down the shore" Point Pleasant to Sea Side Heights 68- 72

@@charlescoar7069 Oh Yeah!! we had one in Belmar in the late 70`s boy it was like Animal House ( without the destruction ).. so many are gone...when I watch this I can still see their faces..

So true!! We couldn't wait for the coffee break concerts and all the new world premiere singles that WMMS put out. WMMS recently put out a world premiere for The Black Keys. First time they have done that in years. I still listen to 'MMS faithfully.

Dam right

eggzactly

john schneller cx

Like I said above...the PURE JOY of performing was so awesome!

Love this!

It always seemed weird that he wasn't as famous because he's one of the best!

Johnny didn't teach Bruce. Dont think so.

Brian Himes you didnt see this part jon landau nixed them being allowed to show bruce for the encores

meesalikeu My name is Bill Payne, I was a director in Cleveland at WEWS TV and I was hired to direct this concert at the Agora as I was for other concerts including: Todd Rundgren, ToTo, Meat Loaf and others. The first hour was Johnny and the S.S. Jukes, although Steve Van Zant was playing with them that night. Springsteen was playing in a larger venue at the Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio that same night. At the end of his concert I was told he was helicoptered into Cleveland and he and Clarence Cleamons joined Johnny on stage. The concert was a hot mix (meaning I cut it live) and the music hadn't been remixed either. Since I had the four cameras in isolation I was going to remix the video in post and synch the remixed sound onto it. Then word came down that since Bruce had never done a live concert, his management didn't want his first one to be a local broadcast on WEWS (the local ABC affiliate) but wanted a national broadcast. So, I was only allowed to air the first hour with just Johnny and Southside and erase the parts with Bruce. Well, I took a 3/4" copy of the concert before I had the tape operator erase it. I thought I had the only copy, because I had never shown it to anyone, but I guess the tape operator didn't erase it until he made at least one copy and probably more. I was surprised to see it so many years later on line. Bruce and Johnny also did a version of Stagger Lee which was in the concert. Has anyone seen that.

+Bill Payne hi Bill i recognize your name for sure and thx for your response. How did it happen that you filmed these encores with Bruce anyway even though you knew you were not allowed to broadcast it at the time? And how were you and the tv station able to keep them? I wont ask how they ended up here on youtube lol. Thanks again for shedding light on this - your team did a fantastic job with all those shows.

meesalikeu Hey, Meesa, Meesa, on the night we shot this, it was a complete surprise when Bruce showed up - we weren't told that he would. So, when we shot the numbers with Bruce I had no idea that they would not be broadcast. I wasn't told that until two days after I had edited the Bruce segments into the show that it wouldn't be broadcast. A version was played on our channel of just Southside and the Jukes (with van Zandt and Clarence Cleamons) and the hour program I had put together with Bruce was supposed to be erased. I had a 3/4" dub of the show made just for me, but I never loaned it to anyone or dubbed off a copy for anyone. That is the truth. I still have the complete show but I've never even played it for anyone. So, I really don't know how these cuts got out. I'm sure the tape operator made a copy for himself before erasing the master and the producer probably had one made as well as various people from my station and the Agora. There is a number on You Tube where Johnny sings "Stagger Lee." I thought Bruce had sang it with him but I was wrong (faulty memory), but it is of poor quality and has obviously been dubbed a number of times. I'm in California now so I'll try to find someone who can take the 3/4" format and burn a CD.My copy is a first generation and I'm sure it's still very clean since it has never been played after all these years. I would love for fans to see the whole concert if I can do it without a legal problem. Good speaking to you.

+Aron Kozin I know, but bill payne will have a clean, complete uncobbled together first generation copy of the whole show. It deserves to be seen that way. Hooefully he can make it happen when he gets a chance. We all are not getting any younger lol!

+meesalikeu I will try but I'm a little worried about the legality of releasing it to youtube - I don't want to get sued since the performance doesn't belong to me. I was told to destroy it but, as I told you before, I made a 3/4" copy and, unbeknownst to me, I guess the tape operator did too. There's no other way these clips could have gotten out because I never released any from my copy.

Yes indeed!

Johnny still makes music bro

@@tctarheelfarmin358 As does Bruce.

Judi Grunstra Van Morrison drinks from the same well as these guys.

You just saw it, are you dead?

But remember, Bruce, Little Steven, and Southside Johnny Lyons are longtime friends. Little Steven was part of the Asbury Jukes for a long time, and both he and Springsteen wrote most of Southside's music. Anyone from NJ can tell you about seeing the Boss, Southside (and even Little Steven) just randomly show up at the Stone Pony to perform.

Roy Bittan was there too.

I bet that was awesome, going there and seeing all these great musical talents. I first saw South Side Johnny as a little neighborhood bar that had great bands in the 70's, outside D.C.