I just couldn’t stop myself.
As Billy Joel was banging out hit after hit during Tuesday night’s epic concert to close the Nassau Coliseum, I periodically just looked around the place. I wanted to soak it all in, at a building that was like a second home to me since I was a kid.
He appropriately opened the show with “Movin’ Out,” symbolic of the Islanders packing their bags for Brooklyn, and he finished up with “Only The Good Die Young” to end the Coliseum’s history after 43 years.
To be honest, the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum had been in farewell mode for quite a while, as this was the third “finale” that I was able to attend.