• Rock

    Boss for the Holidays: Coliseum Night

    bruce on rolling stone, 1981

    Happy Holidays Bruce fans….

    Bruce Springsteen & the E. Street Band
    Coliseum Night
    December 29, 1980
    Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York

    Well what we have here is a live Bruce classic. A few of the tunes made it on to the Live 75-85 box set (“Darkness”, “You Can Look..”). It’s the only River tour version of “Incident on 57th Street”, and the very last time it segued into “Rosalita” (like the originals on The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle). It’s holiday time, so we get “Merry Christmas Baby” and “Santa Claus..” And we get a Boss-flavored “This Land is Your Land”, a cover of CCR’s “Who’ll Stop the Rain”, and tons more. From the moment “Night” kicks in to the last notes of Mitch Ryder’s “Devil With a Blue Dress On”, the energy level is unbelievably high.

    Part 1

    1. Night
    2. Out in the Street
    3. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
    4. Who’ll Stop the Rain
    5. Darkness on the Edge of Town
    6. Factory
    7. Intro
    8. Independence Day
    9. Two Hearts
    10. Prove it All Night
    11. The Promised Land
    12. This Land is Your Land
    13. The River
    14. Badlands

    Part 2

    1. Thunder Road
    2. Cadillac Ranch
    3. Sherry Darling
    4. Hungry Heart
    5. Merry Christmas Baby
    6. Fire
    7. Candy’s Room
    8. Because the Night
    9. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
    10. For You
    11. Stolen Car
    12. Wreck on the Highway

    Part 3

    1. Point Blank
    2. The Ties that Bind
    3. Ramrod
    4. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
    5. Incident on 57th Street
    6. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
    7. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
    8. Jungleland
    9. Born to Run
    10. Devil with a Blue Dress On
    11. Good Golly Miss Molly
    12. CC Rider
    13. Jenny Take a Ride / Boogie
    14. I Hear A Train / Devil with a Blue Dress On