Boss for the Holidays: Coliseum Night

December 24th, 2006 by Pete - - Posted in Rock, The Boss |

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

10 Responses to “Boss for the Holidays: Coliseum Night”

  1. billNo Gravatar Says:
    December 24th, 2006 at 10:52 pm

    Merry Christmas and thanks for the great tunes.

  2. vinNo Gravatar Says:
    December 25th, 2006 at 9:00 am

    site looking for your bruce fave moments…www.foryoubruce.com

  3. MaartenNo Gravatar Says:
    December 25th, 2006 at 2:28 pm

    Thanks for this Xmas surprise!

  4. W Says:
    December 25th, 2006 at 4:06 pm

    Thanks, and have a merry Christmas!

  5. michaeld Says:
    December 25th, 2006 at 7:25 pm

    like whoa.

  6. Sevvy.No Gravatar Says:
    December 26th, 2006 at 6:48 am

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!

  7. BrianNo Gravatar Says:
    December 27th, 2006 at 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.

  8. SteveNo Gravatar Says:
    December 28th, 2006 at 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.

  9. tom tronconeNo Gravatar Says:
    January 16th, 2007 at 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……..

  10. fcmu Says:
    November 19th, 2007 at 10:24 am

    can you repost ist please?