Number 10 was Talking Heads. Number 9 was Grateful Dead. Number 8 was The Beatles' rooftop concert. The Who was Number 7. Six was Joni Mitchell at the Last Waltz. Five was U2's Electric Co. Scroll down for them all. We are now up to number 4. Number Four is Bruce Springsteen, maybe the greatest live performer of all-time. I have many, many Springsteen live CD's and Mp3's, some from the mid 1970's and some from the 2000's. I saw him at the Meadowlands for the first time in 2009. No one plays it like Bruce, a tireless performer. This one's Rosalita, a rave-up from 1978.

Did you know that Springsteen's first two albums flopped? Greetings From Asbury Park and The Wild, The Innocent, the E Street Shuffle were both released in 1973. Rosalita was from the E Street Shuffle album. No one was buying. Then Bruce released Born to Run in 1975 and after Time and Newsweek threw him on the cover the same week, he became the superstar who helped bring rock out of the 1960s and into the 1970s. Hard to believe those first two albums did not sell. How can a song like Rosalita be a secret for so long?

This video is a must-see. This is prime Bruce. This could have been my number 1 choice. But, it isn't. But I will say this: choices 3 through 1 all predate this Springsteen performance. Which means that Rosalita from 1978 is the greatest live performance of the last 30 years.