With the Cavs season on our minds this week, we published the story of how the floor of the Richfield Coliseum ended up at a small Christian school in Virginia. Check that one out.
And while you’re at it, listen to this Bruce Springsteen show from 1978, performed and recorded just above that legendary floor.
Known as the “Firecracker Show,” 12/31/78 rang in the New Year with a firecracker exploding in Bruce’s face onstage.
Setlist
Badlands
Streets of Fire
Rendezvous
Spirit in the Night
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Independence Day
The Promised Land
Prove It All Night
Pretty Flamingo
Thunder Road
Jungleland
The Ties That Bind
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
The River
Fire
Candy’s Room
Because the Night
Rave On!
Auld Lang Syne
Good Rocking Tonight
Point Blank
Mona / She’s the One / I Get Mad
Backstreets
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Encore:
Born to Run
Detroit Medley
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Quarter to Three
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Here’s our roundup of other vintage audio/video from around Cleveland:
AC/DC at World Series of Rock at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1979
Smashing Pumpkins in Tremont in 1991
Queens of the Stone Age at Euclid Tavern in 1999
Warren Zevon at the Odeon in 2000
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Agora in 1978
The Grateful Dead at Richfield Coliseum in 1990
Peter Frampton at the Agora, 1974
Bob Marley at the Agora in 1975
Kiss at the Agora in 1974
This article appears in Oct 29 – Nov 4, 2014.
I was at that concert. I saw him 10 times over the span of 3 or 4 years. The best one was New Years Eve. I guess there was one show where they shot up 77 to the Augora and got to do a few songs with South Side Johnny. Great times!