Boss for the Holidays: Coliseum Night
Happy Holidays Bruce fans….
Bruce Springsteen & the E. Street Band
Coliseum Night
December 29, 1980
Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New YorkWell 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.BadlandsPart 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 HighwayPart 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 OnA Temptations Christmas
I watched my 3 year old watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tonight for the very first time. I was thrown into a time machine and got a bit nostalgic along the way. So suffice it to say that the Christmas spirit grabbed a hold of me tonight.
I played this for my daughters before they went off to bed…
The Temptations:
Silent Night(mp3) – from The Best of the Temptations ChristmasFor some additional Christmas music post action…
- Aikin over at Licorice Pizza has some live Tom Waits Christmas/hooker tuneage (Silent Night / Postcard from a Hooker in Minneapolis), as well as a Boss Christmas classic.
- (Sm)All Ages posts a plethora of “Silent Night”s.
Update: Wanna hear the Boss sing “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” from an ALS benefit show last Saturday night?
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Did anyone catch this on Letterman the other night? A mind-blowing display of guitar prowess. They’re a pair originally from Mexico City, but have been street entertainers in Dublin, Ireland, and Denmark and Spain.
Watch Gabriela’s finger fly, and watch them win over a crowd with “Diablo Rojo.”.
Check out their new album on Amazon.
Love is the Silencer
I mentioned in an earlier Matthew Ryan post that I’d remind you to pick up his new album, From a Late Night High Rise, when it was available. Well, it’s been out for 12 days, and let me tell you, it’s fantastic. The standout tracks for me personally are “Everybody Always Leaves” and the tune below.
I read an album review on Blog Critics.org. The reviewer wrote: “”Love Is the Silencer” will leave you wishing for some silence.” Different strokes for different folks I guess. I love it. The song is alive, it pulsates, it’s urgent, it’s retro, it’s futuristic. And “Love is the Silencer” is a damn cool song title too.
What do you all think. Whose side are you on?
Matthew Ryan: Love is the Silencer (mp3)
Buy From a Late Night High Rise on 00:02:59 (the label) or on iTunes.
SNL: D— in a Box
Saturday Night Live had a good night last night. Justin Timberlake was a great host and musical guest. The highlight was this Digital Short with Andy Samberg (by far my favorite on the show). Another instant classic….
Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake: D–k in a Box (it’s worth enduring the 30 second commercial)Boss Holiday Treats
A reader from New Orleans wrote me and mentioned that Dec. 14th was not only Ickmusic’s birthday, but also the very same day he saw Bruce and the E. Street Band at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee back in 1984. For the encore, Little Steven joined the boss for a great version of Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away”. It went a little something like this… well, actually, it went exactly like this…
Bruce Springsteen & the E. Street Band:Drift Away(mp3) – Live, Memphis, TN, Dec. 14, 1984
Earlier that year, Bruce joined La Bamba & the Hubcaps at the Stone Pony for a couple of songs. La Bamba is Richie Rosenberg, who you’ve seen playing trombone on the Seeger Sessions tour, as well as on the Conan O’Brien show.Bruce with La Bamba and the Hubcaps:
Travelin Band(mp3) – CCR coverI’m Bad, I’m Nationwide(mp3) – ZZ Top cover (Live at the Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ – Aug 22, 1984)Speaking of La Bamba, Bruce, and the Conan O’Brien Show, here’s a great E Street performance of “Merry Christmas Baby” from 2002 (Conan joins in on guitar, which he does for all of Bruce’s appearances on Conan, right?).
Two Years of Ickmusic
This is a picture of the Millau Viaduct in France, the tallest vehicular bridge in the world. Pretty amazing if you ask me. It opened on December 14th, 2004. Guess what else opened on Dec. 14th, 2004? Why, this web site of course… Yep, today marks the 2nd birthday of Ickmusic. 429 different posts, 715 comments, and still plugging along.
Sing it with me: R-I-A-A Stay Awayyy, let me blog another dayyy
Looking back, here are a few milestones:
First Post & Song: Dec. 14th, 2004 – It’s Worth a Try | Song :
Quattro(Calexico)First Prince Mention: Jan. 5th, 2005 – Baby What’s Your Phone Number | Song:
777-9311(The Time)First Bruce Mention: Feb 1st, 2005 – Let There Be Chicks | Song:
Stolen Car(Patty Griffin)Long-Winded First Birthday Post: Dec. 14, 2005 – One Year of Ickmusic | Song:
Show Me Your Heart(Need New Body)First Christmas Post: Dec. 23, 2004 – Happy Merry Christmas Funtime | Song:
Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland(Grandaddy)So hey, thanks to all of you who stop by from time to time. I reiterate, leave a comment or shoot me an email from time to time. Let’s commune. Peace and Love. Adios…
I leave you with one request, and that is for you to watch, in its entirety, Tex Haper’s “Country New Wave.” You will not be sorry.
Prince at the Super Bowl
It’s official. The NFL has locked down Prince as this year’s halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl in Miami (Feb. 4th). In one year’s time, Prince will have appeared on American Idol, set up a regular gig in Vegas, and performed at the Super Bowl. Not something I could have predicted.
Thanks to Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction”, I guess Prince will probably keep his ass-less pants in a Minneapolis closet. Not that he would ever shock on that level again. The raunchy Prince is a thing of the past. “Sexuality”, one of his great early songs from 1981’s Controversy, is being performed these days as “Spirituality”. And I’m not kidding. But that’s not to imply that the man can’t rock and funk the shit out of a place. He can still do that like no other. But
damndang, sometimes I miss Prince “I sincerely wanna fu-k the taste out of your mouth” Rogers Nelson.Ah well, I’ll be watching. Here’s the commercial…
New Johnny Cash Releases and a Giveaway too
On October 31st, Mercury/UM released Johnny Cash in Ireland, an hour long concert DVD of a 1993 performance at the Olympia Theater in Dublin. He is joined by his wife June, the Carter Family,and Kris Kristofferson. If you’re a Cash fan, then you probably want to have this.
the approximately one-hour-long concert showcases Cash singing many of his greatest hits–“I Walk The Line,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Get Rhythm,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “(Ghost) Riders In The Sky,” “Daddy Sang Bass” and “Ring Of Fire” plus “I Still Miss Someone.”
He also sings with wife June Carter Cash (their classic duet “Jackson”), son John Carter Cash (“No Use In Treatin’ Me This Way”), Kris Kristofferson (“Big River” and “Long Black Veil”), and The Carter Family, who perform their own gems too–“Keep On The Sunny Side,” “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” and “Wabash Cannonball.” In addition, John Carter Cash solos Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” and Irish popster Sandy Kelly joins Cash, Kristofferson and The Carter Family on “Forty Shades Of Green,” the Johnny Cash-penned tribute to Ireland.
So who wants this DVD as an early Christmas present? Look at me, December 11th, I haven’t even started my Christmas shopping, and here I am giving away a DVD on my site. Ah priorities…
GIVEAWAY: Leave a comment below. I’ll randomly choose a winner in a few days, and get the DVD shipped off to the winner before Christmas.
UPDATE: We gotta winner! See here.
Another cool recent release is Johnny Cash – At San Quentin: Legacy Edition. It contains the full show from San Quentin Prison and a 1969 documentary of the event.
Here’s a promo for the boxed set….
Johnny Cash: I Walk the Line (Audio stream: WMP, Quicktime, Real) – live in San Quentin (“man you in the wrong place to bend over, don’t you know it? Get up from there with that camera!”)
Buy Johnny Cash In Ireland – 1993
Buy Johnny Cash – At San Quentin: Legacy EditionSunday Video: Cibo Matto
On MTV’s Oddville show from the mid 90’s. Notice a wigged Sean Lennon…