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For me, Just the Way You Are, I knew this version but not the full concert. Well done reuniting the songs altogether. Definitely one of the top best concerts, with the « Allentown », « My Life » entrance which sound splendid !
I truly think that most people do not realize how incredible of a performer Billy Joel is, especially back in his prime. I cannot think of another person on this planet that can sing, play piano, harmonica, and guitar, and write songs all at a masterful, almost virtuoso-type level. I believe he's one of the most well-rounded, gifted, and incredible people to ever grace a stage. Absolutely God-given talent!
This is a message from Japan. This live show was broadcast on TV in Japan on September 19, 1983, the following year. It was an edited version, but during prime time, it was a groundbreaking program, sponsored solely by SONY at the time. As a child, I was fascinated by it, and I still remember being thrilled to reunite with it now. Thank you very much.
02/10/24: Hello, Japan! Thank you for the advice. Billy Joel is America's Beethoven. I could not have written anything better than your contribution. ありがとう!
How come nobody ever mentions what an amazingly great singer Billy is, with outstanding breath control, perfect pitch, a true song stylist who matches his style to the meaning.
Indeed, he is a great singer. Usually singers like Elton John, Freddie Mercury, among others tend to crack their voices after singing and touring a lot. Which is completely fine; in Billy's case, I think that there were just two times when his voice was at his worst moment: Between September and Octuber 1978, and Russia 1987 tour.
I'd be honored if some Billy Joel fans would take a quick listen to my low-fi acoustic piano & vocal performances of his classics HONESTY, ALLENTOWN, and VIENNA on my YT in tribute to the master of lyricism & composition. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace & stay safe.
Hey I know you guys have to brag cause you grew up on Long Island, and I would too!.. But it's really the times the baby boomer times...I lived all these stories he tells out in the midwest, Ohio...and he's just about my favorite singer/writer/pianist I "get it"...but sure go ahead and pat yourselves on the back , Billy came from your neck of the woods, be proud!!! Just as I am proud of local Clevelander Eric Carmen who is just 3 months younger than Billy.
@@brucetowell3432 My neighborhood was Italian/Irish Catholic and Jewish. I was always the odd one out because I was Protestant. Only The Good Die Young is spot on! Hahaha! I'll have to take a look at Eric Carmen's stuff. Never heard of him. Ohio is a beautiful state, by the way.
@@mlorthio Thanks mine in Ohio was , Catholic Irish, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian and German....Eric Carmen was the lead singer and writer with a group called the Raspberries, they had numerous hits in the early to mid 70's.....I knew Eric cause I used to go to 'teen night spots"' where his bands played in the late 1960's....Eric still lives in a burb of Cleveland, Mayfield Hts. I put Billy right up there with McCartney, Lennon, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb and Brian Wilson!!!
I was gonna comment how Liberty's drumming was ,to me,a driving force behind Billy's sound..... I do miss it. I heard Billy let him and 2 other original members go on bad terms.
I got to see Mark Knopfler live. (Tell me you're an 80's kid...) Not too bad. But yeah, seeing Joel play Angry Young Man live was sublime. Pressure was fun too.
Never understood the point of watching live performances until today. The live performances tend to sound rough and not as good as the recordings. Billy’s vocals are AMAZING, recorded or live
You realize his concerts would sell out in hours and that would be for not one night but multiple nights. When extra shows were added they were sold out in hours as well. This would happen in many cities and not just in NY. He sold out the stadium in Sunrise FL in a matter of hours for four nights.
I was 21 and I was there! Only good thing about being old is that I got to see and hear the greats (Billy, Elton, Bruce etc) when they were in their prime.
Oh so would i !!! If only I could I turned 21 in August 1980 it was the best times in my life Billy was and still is my favorite artist musician and performer then and still is today.
'Allentown' is so brilliant... its rhythm is so catchy, the strumming piano is unique. 'The Stranger's funky feel is irresistible. 'Goodnight Saigon' is heartbreaking. 'Movin' Out''s Supertramp-like structure turns me on. 'Pressure's tension is tough. 'Sometimes a Fantasy' is tight and straight. 'Big Shot' is dramatically rock. 'Just the Way You Are' sends me straight to 1978. In one word, I love 'im.
Let me tell you. Billy Joel is DEFINITELY in the top 10 Rock and Roll artists, bands in the HISTORY of Rock n Roll PERIOD. Where IDK but he's up there. Who the hell can sell out MSG every month FOR YEARS, and the fans keep coming back for more. Many have probably seen him multiple times. Watching this from 1982 you can see this guy was LOVED back then and the fans STILL 40 + years later. AMAZING 😉
I appreciate and listen to all kinds of music and musicians - classical, jazz, folk, calypso, but in my book, Billy Joel is the #1 all-time musical genius. What other singing instrumentalist is as outstanding on every single level - singing, playing, writing, composing, performing - and has produced such "accessible"/universal music at the highest possible level of craft? No one. Not Prince, not MJ, not Bowie, not Elton, not Joni Mitchell.... No one.
I think even Billy would say that Elton is wayyyy up there. They probably had the same number of hits or close to it. I think Billy's songs are more sophisticated and he did his own Music AND Lyrics, but much of this IS opinion and there are many who would argue that Paul McCartney is still the all time #1. Wings AND The Beatles? C'mon!
Billy Joel is always very modest about his piano playing and singing…… he shouldn’t be. 😆 Amazing musicianship from all on stage. Truly amazing concert.
I have seen 5 Billy Joel concerts from 86-2004 and I don’t think he ever did Scandinavian Skies. Of course he had material from Innocent Man, The Bridge, Storm Front and River of Dreams to progressively add to his concerts over that time, and still played so many of his top 73-82 songs as well. Best concerts I have ever been to!
This is one of the best concerts by one of the best bands ever. My friend and I had this concert video memorized back in the 80s. It is perfection. Absolutely beautiful.
Mr Billy Joel, talented, those piano skills, big man still got them. Thank you for all tou give us musically. As a retired music educator at 65 years old, I still love. "Allentown Pennsylvania", is all over our country now. People react to losing positions, families to feed clothe.
I have to comment- I have seen many bands Growing up including Rush- I am all about the music and less about the stage show BS. I dont care about that.....we all know how great the music is for RUSH....well next to them this Particular group of guys in this Billy Joel Band are up there...Liberty DeVitto is one of the best Drummers in the world next to Neil Peart....Bar None, Billy Joel is a Genius....I have listened to him as a kid in the 70s...but this band is INCREDIBLE.....
Still the best concert, in my humble opinion! I bought this on VHS from the Florida Mall, whilst on holiday in 1992. It's title was Live from Long Island. It was several years before I could play it, as the format in the USA was different. I bought a Sony Video recorder/player that could play either the UK or USA formats. It was worth the wait. I remain hopeful that one day an official Blu-Ray will be on sale.
I have nothing but kudos to you (the poster) for your work. Everything is improved here. We could still wish for some more bottom end weight in Doug's bass and Liberty's drums (probably impossible from the original sources) then it would be close to perfection. This is close, if not exactly, Billy's zenith as a live act. The additions of Riv as a multi instrumentalist and LeBolt on added keys only adds more depth to the core original band while taking nothing away. Anyone here from the B'ham AL area remember Marc Phillips and Hotel's cover of Angry Young Man live? They really did it total justice back in those late seventies days at The Cobblestone.
What a fantastic concert! I was able to see him in Detroit in 1980! It was unbelievable! Everyone was able to see him because he was on a circular stage!
Saw him last year in Phoenix in December with the roof open at Chase Field (man I love living in Arizona) and he was great. But my God listen to him 40 years ago. Wow.
This was the best band format he ever had. This is pure, no autovoice correction, thank you for reuniting us with this concert in Long Island, took 42 years for me to see this again, bless ya. Long live rock and roll !!!
The quality of this video is amazing. I first saw him before this, in a much smaller venue, at CW Post College, also on Long Island. It was so great back then when regular people could actually afford to go to a concert and you could see the entertainer without huge jumbotrons.
This is just fantastic Billy Joel is one of the best artists of all time!❤ His music and words flow like real life just incredible. Love you Billy such a big part of my teen years and more
Scandinavian Skies… wow. New song from a new album and almost prog rock meets pop. Wow. Top artist in top form with a band that is more than ready for the challenge. Great. Nylon Curtain is the artistic pinnacle of BJ in the 80’s.
My first Billy Joel concert was at MSG NYC 12/31/82 New Years Eve show was great. He had a wonderful band for this tour. The set list was pretty much the same but for a Led Zeppelin song that you thought the real band was on stage. Wonderful memory from this great music artist. Thank you for posting this concert Matthew.
Супер!!!Браво Billy!!! Впервые услышала его в 1987году-по тв шел концерт.С того времени он покорил мой слух ,глаза и сердце!!! Долгих лет в здравии и благоденствии!!!
When I first heard Scandinavian skies I was blown away Billy Joel doing a some what kind of psychedelic/prog rock song too cool. I was hoping he would gone that route instead of the doo whop stuff. This record and all the previous ones were so special I just he would have kept doing his songs in the way he did instead of changing his style can you imagine?
Man, the way Billy had to keep shaking life into that thumb...that motorcycle accident (lady ran a red light)...it wasn't for sure if he was going to be able to play again...can you imagine that? No.
Amazing! In fact, that was a motorcycle accident that Billy had and he needed surgery, because he broke his hands. Impressive that it happened back in April 1982. Billy is the best.
I was born April 1981... I've seen Billy 4 times now, more recently... as amazing as he was now, I would have given anything to go back in time and see this version. Thank you for sharing.
I was born March 81. Grew up on LI (Suffolk). You can see something very close to this still. Mike DelGuidice and band Big Shot still play on LI! Mike is also now in Billy’s band. Billy heard Mike singing with Big Shot, and he thought it was himself. True story. Mike is an amazing musician! Definitely worth the check out.
'Scenes From An Italian Restaurant' - "Cold beer, hot lights, my sweet romantic teenage nights." SUCH a fucking great line, and it conveys SO much. Think on it, word...for...word. "Cold"...okay...."Cold beer" -got it- "Cold beer, hot lights-" Stop right there. Why would the lights be hot? Why would he reference them? Was he famous? Of course not. He was a teenager on Long Island. Nobody had heard of him, so it wasn't that he was famous. It was because the lights provided WARMTH- something that a teenager without a car would seek out in the moment and memorialize in retrospect, remembering trying to make out comfortably with his girlfriend in the winter months. The line "my sweet romantic teenage nights" MIGHT be sarcastic.
A CONCERTO !!! OUR MAESTRO !!! OUR PIANO MAN IN THAT BAR AROUND THE WORLD IN EVERY TIME ZONE AS IT TURNS "SO IT GOES" >>> I'D X >HE IS RIGHT THERE WITH THOSE GUY'S ,YOU KNOW BACK THEN , HE'S LIKE ME >A RENAISSANCE MAN ...I JUST HEARD THAT MY FAVORITE SONG IS HIS >> "AND SO IT GOES" ...
Really? One of my favorite obscure Joel songs of all time! He played it on the Nylon Curtain Tour, in Philly for an intimate show with a full orchestra and the last time was at MSG in on 2014 and I happened to be there!!!! I was almost went into cardiac arrest!!!! Here you go…, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s-G6nVpWC_M.html
IF I REMEMBER CORRECT THIS IS THE TOUR MY FRIEND FRANK AND I GO TO THE MAD. GARDEN ON DEC.31 NEW YEARS EVE ! THATS WHEN THAT NEW ALBUM WAS OUT . WE DID IT ANOTHER NEW YEARS EVE AGAIN ! > THE ONE THING THAT I WAS IN AWWWE ! THE PHYSICALITY OF THE PERFORMANCE AND HIS VOICE ,THE VOICE > SOMEWHERE THERE IS A PIANO MAN AND HE IS THAT VOICE ,AND YET HE IS THE PIANO MAN !
I was at this show! I was 17 and a senior in High School! Thank you for posting this! I came on here looking for Goodnight Saigon. I was remembering how moving it was that night, I googled it and I found this video. Amazing! I remember being slightly annoyed that they were filming it. They ( the directors ) told us not to stand up at certain points and the show seemed staged and short compared to a previous time that I had seen of him in 1980 on the Glass Houses tour. But of course it came out great!
He did shorten the shows on his tours from around 140-150 mins on 52nd street and glass houses to about 120-130 for nylon curtain and then even a bit shorter for the innocent man tour.
Such a beautiful concert amid a very sad month. Marty Robbins died on December 8, 1982. I am sure Billy was a huge fan of Marty. Both were/are so very talented. We will have their music for an eternity.
