Thoughts????

Quail Whale · Post by **Quail Whale** » Sunday Oct 16, 2005

I think Billy Joel is AWESOME!!! I'm sitting here listening to Stiletto.....I have all his albums on vinyl. Crap..... I think I love you by the partridggge (spell that one drunk!) family was my b-day hit...
Love
Quail Whale

She cuts you once....
*why dont any of yinz sing this????_

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Sunday Oct 16, 2005

Fuckin Right!

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Sunday Oct 16, 2005

Damn, I only WISH I was drunk! Something woke me up out of a sound sleep (I'm a VERY light sleeper, the slightest noise will do it.) and I'm wide awake, so here I am. Billy Joel...I used to have some of his stuff on 8 Track...a few snippets of the oodles of lyrics, (and music) I recall: "A bottle of Red, a bottle of White, it all depends upon your appetite...you can have it any way you want, in our Italian restaurant"... and "Remember how I found you there, alone in your Electric Chair, I told you Dirty Jokes until you smiled..." "you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just may be a LUNATIC you're looking for...turn out the light, don't try to save me, you may be wrong for all I know, but you may be right..." THANK YOU Quail Whale, for the memories from back in my day!

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Wednesday Oct 19, 2005

The first time I saw Billy Joel was in Scranton in '73 at a very small college gig for only about 300. He was great and had a fantastic backup band. That was just after the Piano Man album was out.

He has gone thru lots of musical changes, but whatever he writes, he does write great lyrics. Captain Jack is probably my favorite.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Wednesday Oct 19, 2005

I've always been a pretty big Billy Joel fan. He definatley is an underrated songwriter.

He also wrote some Neo-Classical stuff that was so difficult, he couldn't even play it

Quail Whale · Post by **Quail Whale** » Wednesday Oct 19, 2005

I went to a work related conference in NYC a few years ago....myself & the guy I went with from work showed up later in the morning, well, more like earlier in the afternoon...right before lunch. Everyone was up getting their lunches, because you were to eat in a different area, but we had already eaten....so we sat right up front, 2 rows back from the stage, as there were no assigned seats...just rows of chairs lined up in the Hyatt ballroom. On the agenda it said "surprise rock n roll entertainment" over the lunch hour. One might expect that you would see a Beatles tribute band or maybe one of the bands who might play for free at Bland's Park. How about Billy Joel came out & played for OVER AN HOUR...just him & his piano on the stage!!!!! And me right up front, because I was fashionably late...When the conference was over, Donald Trump walked right past me. I guess he knew about the surprise ahead of time...It was cool.

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Wednesday Oct 19, 2005

Fave Billy Joel tune: "Big Man On Mulberry Street".

Anyone remember that one??

PastaJoe · Post by **PastaJoe** » Wednesday Oct 19, 2005

Quail Whale

I'm a Billy Joel fan from way back. I unfortunately never seen him play in person, as of yet. What was the conference about anyhow?

Quail Whale · Post by **Quail Whale** » Wednesday Oct 19, 2005

PastaJoe wrote:Quail Whale

I'm a Billy Joel fan from way back. I unfortunately never seen him play in person, as of yet. What was the conference about anyhow?

i'm sure you're hoping for something more interesting than the unfortunate truth: it was a mutual fund conference. haha

PastaJoe · Post by **PastaJoe** » Wednesday Oct 19, 2005

Well, I just knew it was gonna be something having absolutely nothing to do with Billy Joel or music at all.

J Michaels · Post by **J Michaels** » Wednesday Oct 19, 2005

Billy Joel is utterly amazing... There have been lots of songs and movies and commentaries and everything else about Viet Nam, and having been born in 1970 I am too young to remember that era, and fortunately my father was exempted from going (flat feet). But this may be the most vivid artistic portrayal ever, and perhaps the most beautiful tribute to a generation of men who were never given the respect they were due, by far too many.

GOODNIGHT, SAIGON

We met as soul mates
On Parris Island
We left as inmates
From an asylum
And we were sharp
As sharp as knives
And we were so gung ho
To lay down our lives

We came in spastic
Like tameless horses
We left in plastic
As numbered corpses
And we learned fast
To travel light
Our arms were heavy
But our bellies were tight

We had no home front
We had no soft soap
They sent us Playboy
They gave us Bob Hope
We dug in deep
And shot on sight
And prayed to Jesus Christ
With all of our might

We had no cameras
To shoot the landscape
We passed the hash pipe
And played our Doors tapes
And it was dark
So dark at night
And we held on to each other
Like brother to brother
We promised our mothers we'd write
And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together

Remember Charlie
Remember Baker
They left their childhood
On every acre
And who was wrong?
And who was right?
It didn't matter in the thick of the fight

We held the day
In the palm
Of our hand
They ruled the night
And the night
Seemed to last as long as six weeks
On Parris Island

We held the coastline
They held the highlands
And they were sharp
As sharp as knives
They heard the hum of our motors
They counted the rotors
And waited for us to arrive....

And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Wednesday Oct 19, 2005

undercoverjoe wrote:He has gone thru lots of musical changes, but whatever he writes, he does write great lyrics. Captain Jack is probably my favorite.

Ooh, that's a good one. And not just because it gives you a chance to hear the word "masturbate" on the radio.

I'm a fan of BJ's older material, especially from the 70s. People always bust on the 70s for producing some really bad music, but for my money that was a real golden age of songwriting (and American filmmaking, too, but that's a whole different topic). Anyone who grew up thinking Elton John only did big, vapid power ballads for Disney cartoons should go back and check how frickin' good he was in the early to mid 70s.

Any fans of early Jackson Browne here? Check out some of his stuff with forgotten guitar god/demented psychopath David Lindley.

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

Jimi Hatt wrote: Any fans of early Jackson Browne here? Check out some of his stuff with forgotten guitar god/demented psychopath David Lindley.

Loooove Jackson Browne! From the beginning, "Doctor My Eyes", "The Pretender", "The Load Out/Stay", etc. and so much more that nobody has ever heard. Many might not know that he and Glen Frey wrote "Take it Easy", the Eagles' tune.

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

Lindley did the steel work on Runnin' On Empty, perhaps the most influential steel solo work of it's time.----->JMS

byndrsn · Post by **byndrsn** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

WOW!! I'm a huge Billy Joel fan!! Have been since I was in grade school. Saw him once in concert and he was amazing!!

Favorite Song: Vienna

And, ya know what (this kind of goes with the other thread for the drummers) his drummer, Liberty Devito, is my second favorite drummer next to Neal Peart.

Billy Rocks!!

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

Coolest thing I ever saw...Coinmonster covered Movin' Out. Awesome!

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

Jackson Browne should give 1/2 of all he has earned to David Lindley. His lap guitar work is the signature sound of all of Jackson's music.

I saw Jackson Browne and David Lindley, and they were backed up by Little Feat, who were playing here after Lowell George passed away.

i was an awsome show, and during a break, David Lindley sat down way out in front or the stage and slayed us with a long solo, that lead into 'Stay", in which BTW he sings the falsetto.