Bruce covered the song during soundcheck:

 

 

 

  

1978-05-19 Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ 

Darkness On The Edge Of Town Tour rehearsals with no members of the public present. These are predominantly full versions with some minor stylistic differences. "The Promise" is the full E Street Band arrangement only played live like this on opening night of the Darkness On The Edge Of Town Tour, in 2010 in Asbury Park, and in 2012 in Washington, DC (though all circulating studio takes from the '70s also featured the band). The first take of "Prove It All Night" includes the piano and guitar introduction used on the tour. A brief rendition of the song "King Tut" is performed (often mistakenly identified as "Wooly Bully"). Apparently, the performance of "King Tut" results from an episode they saw of Saturday Night Live with comedian Steve Martin on April 22, 1978. Martin opened the show with the song, in an elaborate production number. The response to the song was so great Martin released a single in July that made the Top 10. "Whole Lotta Love" is a brief performance comprising the instrumental midsection of the Led Zeppelin classic. The "The Way", which was dropped from the album in late April, along with "Spanish Eyes" and "The Brokenhearted", were Darkness sessions songs all released in later years, but not performed on the subsequent tour.  

"Whole Lotta Love" is a song by English hard rock band Led Zeppelin. It is the opening track on the band's second album, Led Zeppelin II. Parts of the song were adapted from Willie Dixon's "You Need Love", recorded by Muddy Waters in 1962. Jimmy Page came up with the guitar riff for "Whole Lotta Love" in the summer of 1968, on his houseboat on the River Thames at Pangbourne, England. John Paul Jones has stated that Page's famous riff probably emerged from a stage improvisation during the band's playing of "Dazed and Confused". Page denied that the song originated onstage and that he had the riff and the rest took it from there. Similarities with "You Need Love" led to a lawsuit against Led Zeppelin in 1985, settled out of court in favour of Dixon for an undisclosed amount. On subsequent releases, Dixon's name is included on the credits for "Whole Lotta Love". Plant explained in an interview with Musician magazine:

 

Page's riff was Page's riff. It was there before anything else. I just thought, 'well, what am I going to sing?' That was it, a nick. Now happily paid for. At the time, there was a lot of conversation about what to do. It was decided that it was so far away in time and influence that ... well, you only get caught when you're successful. That's the game. It was famous in the United Kingdom for having been the theme music for the long-running television programme Top of the Pops for much of its history.