Boss for the Holidays: Coliseum Night
by Pete
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
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Merry Christmas and thanks for the great tunes.
December 25, 2006 - 9:00 am
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December 25, 2006 - 2:28 pm
Thanks for this Xmas surprise!
December 25, 2006 - 4:06 pm
Thanks, and have a merry Christmas!
December 25, 2006 - 7:25 pm
like whoa.
December 26, 2006 - 6:48 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
December 27, 2006 - 4:44 pm
You are a God! Thank you for this show! We are all familiar/have “In the MidNight Hour” the december 31st show but, to have the precurser to that show is a GREAT THING! Thank you. Context is a great thing. Thanks again.
December 28, 2006 - 4:17 pm
Thank you so very much for this!
This concert was from nearly the same time that I first saw Springsteen live, so to get this makes me very very very happy.
January 16, 2007 - 11:07 pm
probably the last time we would hear a non-political Bruce concert…soon afterwards, Nebraka would beget BITUSA….and the political Bruce would come into being at live shows…love the purity of nothin’but good-time rock’n'roll….Bruce and The Real E-Streeters at their majestic best……..
November 19, 2007 - 10:24 am
can you repost ist please?