...now living in FL. He was just a few years off I guess.
OT: Happy 75th Birthday to Billy Joel...
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Some really good music early on but there is some absolute crap that he’s done.
Don't be dissin' Glass Houses now. That was HS basketball road trip bus music.
Richie Furay (Buffalo Springfield, Poco) is 80
Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick) is 74
John Edwards (Status Quo) is 71
David Gahan (Depeche Mode) is 62
Any of those OK?
I love that word Dang. One of my co-workers - little FL redneck from Martin Co. - uses it all the time, but elongates it into Danggg.
Saw Billy & band tossing back a few at the old Sheraton Inn in Scranton, circa 1976, a year prior to The Stranger album launching him into the stratosphere
Was there an old man sitting next to him making love to his tonic and gin?
BTW - correct me if I'm wrong... I always thought this meant he was "nursing" his drink. Making it last an hour. Because he's on a budget, but needs to be there.
Well I'm much older, far prettier, but alas no talent. Two outa three ain't bad. (thanks Meatloaf)
To paraphrase Gunny Highway....
I've played more notes, sung more words and strummed more chords than all you numbnuts put together.
So I say with extreme confidence, you don't know what the eff you're talking about.
It’s not like we used to be able to get into bars before we were 21 and never get carded! (Sarcasm font used)
Can you give Billy credit for the line "...before the mafia took over Mexico." at least?
There are/were people paying $1K a ticket to watch Don Henley mime lyrics. At least Joel puts on an honest show.
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My best Billy Joel memory...
Fall of 98, he opened his tour at the BJC. They rented out the building for a couple of days before the concert to do dress rehearsals. I was working Event Staff at the BJC at the time, and one of the days, me and one other guy had the job of keeping the bowl clear and making sure no one came in during his rehearsal. It was basically a 2 hour private concert. Pretty awesome as I grew up a big Billy Joel fan.
Fall of 98, he opened his tour at the BJC. They rented out the building for a couple of days before the concert to do dress rehearsals. I was working Event Staff at the BJC at the time, and one of the days, me and one other guy had the job of keeping the bowl clear and making sure no one came in during his rehearsal. It was basically a 2 hour private concert. Pretty awesome as I grew up a big Billy Joel fan.
A familiar refrain in the 1700's. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart....they said it would never last.
Three good choices…Miami 2017 is my favorite…my next two would be Summer Highland Falls and Sleeping with the Television On
Still his "Uptown Girl" in a way I guess...
This song was a thanks from him to Frankie Valli btw.
This song was a thanks from him to Frankie Valli btw.
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Walking along a very quiet stretch of the Sydney harbor waterfront in 1991 when a couple with a little girls was walking towards me. The guy was short and kinda schlubby while the gal was tall, blonde and gorgeous. Yup mr and mrs Joel and daughter. He was doing a concert in Sydney I read later in the Herald. They looked happy. I shook his hand and said hello Mr joel as we passed.
Christie was absolutely stunning
Christie was absolutely stunning
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Not mentioned yet, but I always liked "Allentown". The lyrics really do describe the rise and fall of many of the manufacturing cities and towns in Pennsylvania after the Second World War. Though the video gets cheesy towards the end, the message that he sings really reverberates to anyone who has seen their hometown slowly lose businesses and dies a slow, painful decline into a vast wasteland of Dollar General stores and Thrift stores....
That's for sure. He still does his best to hit that high note on An Innocent Man.
Saw him last night at MSG - crowd sang Happy Birthday to him. Good show and he sang Allentown. Played for over 2 hours and dug pretty deep into older more obscure material.
and was once married to a good Huntington, WV girl!
Sat at my first bar and had beers at Harris' off Keyser Ave. when I was 17.
