{"id":16169,"date":"2015-04-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=16169"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:29:43","slug":"cover-me-you-never-can-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/26\/cover-me-you-never-can-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"You Never Can Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 7, 2013 in Leipzig, Germany, Bruce took a sign request early in the show for &#8220;You Never Can Tell,&#8221; Chuck Berry&#8217;s final Top 40 hit of the 1960s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KeKPkGflDB4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Every night we try to pull one out that we haven&#8217;t played since we were&#8230;. I don&#8217;t know, sixteen,&#8221; Bruce said by way of introduction. &#8220;If maybe ever. So let&#8217;s see how we do with this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then followed two charmingly awkward minutes of the E Street Band trying to figure out how to play the song before launching into a completely and masterfully improvised performance that showed off both the band&#8217;s versatility and Bruce&#8217;s skill as a bandleader.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-Ds-FXGGQg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Longtime fans weren&#8217;t surprised, of course&#8211;we&#8217;d seen them do this countless times before. But something about this performance&#8211;so loose and yet so simultaneously tight&#8211;attracted worldwide attention like never before.<\/p>\n<p>The clip above went viral&#8211;to date it&#8217;s had more than 40 million views. (By comparison, the official video for &#8220;Born to Run&#8221; is just a notch higher at 42 million.) The story was picked up by newspapers and web sites worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16911\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/26\/cover-me-you-never-can-tell\/nevercan\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nevercan.jpg?fit=1258%2C885&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1258,885\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Ken Rosen&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1584132213&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nevercan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nevercan.jpg?fit=758%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16911 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nevercan.jpg?resize=758%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nevercan.jpg?w=1258&amp;ssl=1 1258w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nevercan.jpg?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nevercan.jpg?resize=1024%2C720&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nevercan.jpg?resize=768%2C540&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All over the world, it seemed, on-line audiences couldn&#8217;t help but be impressed and amazed by how quickly and deftly Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band picked up a song they hadn&#8217;t played since they were, I don&#8217;t know, sixteen. Or maybe ever.<\/p>\n<p>What the uninitiated didn&#8217;t know, of course, is what we know: Bruce was exaggerating a bit. Or maybe more than a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce in fact\u00a0<em>had<\/em> played &#8220;You Never Can Tell&#8221; with his band before, and he was 24, not sixteen. Here&#8217;s their first performance, from The Agora in Cleveland in the spring of 1974:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Clmk7R1mlTI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Now perhaps we can cut Bruce some slack here&#8211;that was almost four decades prior to that Leipzig performance, after all. Plus, that was a very different E Street Band&#8211;it didn&#8217;t even include Roy or Max yet (or Steve, for that matter).<\/p>\n<p>Except that Bruce played it with Max and Roy (with Max&#8217;s band Killer Joe) fifteen years later (almost to the day) at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-tWJczTmo-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='758' height='426' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/tWJczTmo?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write; presentation'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But of course that wasn&#8217;t an E Street Band show at all, so we can excuse that one too.<\/p>\n<p>Except that Bruce played it\u00a0<em>again<\/em>, this time with the modern E Street Band in 2009&#8211;<em>twice<\/em>&#8211;just four years before the Leipzig show, once in Spain and once in the &#8216;burbs of Boston. And they had just as awkward a start in Mansfield as they did in Leipzig:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gaa_S7-ob1k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>So why the on-stage memory lapse in Leipzig for a song he&#8217;d played six times before, including twice on the previous tour? Beats me, but it certainly made for a great, fun moment.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce and the E Street Band tackled &#8220;You Never Can Tell&#8221; only once more since, in Denmark towards the end of their most recent tour&#8211;and they\u00a0<em>still<\/em> had to take a minute to work out how to play it.\u00a0 But at least he recognized the pattern. (&#8220;We go through this every time we cover this song.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kJMSYpJazQY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>This time, though, no one took notice but the Horsens fans.<\/p>\n<p>It just goes to show: when it comes to predicting whether a great performance will go viral&#8230; well, you never can tell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You Never Can Tell<br \/>\nFirst performed:<\/strong> June 3, 1974 (Cleveland, OH)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:<\/strong> July 20, 2016 (Horsens, 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