Posted on 05/09/2018 4:39:05 PM PDT by dead
Critics used to give you a hard time. But it seems like in the past few years you've become cool.
Look, man, Trump is president, so all kinds of weird shit can happen.
What do you make of that?
I'm still flabbergasted. I try to stay out of politics. I am a private citizen and I have a right to believe in my own political point of view, but I try not to get up on a soapbox and tell people how to think. I've been to shows where people start haranguing the audience about what's going on politically and I'm thinking, "You know, this isn't why I came here." As a matter of fact, one of the biggest cheers of the night comes when we do "Piano Man" and I sing, "They know that it's me that they're coming to see to forget about life for a while," and the audience lets out this huge "ahhhh" and I say, "OK, yeah, don't forget that." We're more like court jesters than court philosophers.
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Wrong. He had a good voice even as a little kid. He went to my elementary school and performed back then.
He couldn’t dance either. See Uptown Girl video
Cheers
Also, Billy hasn't crashed into anybody's house lately, so kudos, Piano Man!
Granted his best work is long in the past, but he understands his role.
I saw Billy Joel at Cooley’s Electric Ballroom in Atlanta in ... 1976. He put on a helluva show. Two full sets.
Slept with Elle McPherson and was married to Chrisie Brinkley? I think he did alright!
As an aside, Kathy Ireland was always my favorite.
I’m guessing you have a tin ear. Or, you just don’t like Joel for some reason.
Glory Days is joyful....
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out is joyful...
Rosalita too...
Can't believe I'm defending Springsteen. He lost me went he went so anti-Bush and then kissed obummer's ass. Now he's charging $1000 to see him on Broadway. A real man of the people...
went to see Beach Boys about 1974 and opening act was BJ, he did the entire piano man album and made the BB look lame as they already could not hit the high notes of the early 60’s!
Still remember that performance. Great.
The man is a genius. Anyone that can work the line “..and the microphone smells like a beer’ into a song is a musical genius.
I don’t know. We saw him and Elton John at the Honda center in Anaheim, Ca. a long time ago. They were great together. As much as I hate it when they speak about their political beliefs you sometimes just gotta shrug your shoulders and say oh well.
Women were hot in the 90’s. Women are hot now. Women are hot. Just look around. Thank our Lord and maker for that.
Billy Joel has a tremendous voice.
I saw a video of him and some goofy night show host (I hope it wasn’t Kimmel) doing a duet of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and when Joel sang, his voice cut through the air like a fine, sharp knife.
One was a very liberal supporter of FDR, the other was a close friend of Reagan & supporter of the once Grand old Party!!!
When I was in japan, I hung out with my university frat mate who now teaches at a high school (gakuen’) there. He tells me every year UPTOWN GIRL is like a “national anthem” for the boys and they sing it like clockwork to the girls. I thought that was crazy..
Wow, a PROFESSIONAL entertainer with a sense of perspective. How refreshing.
“I try to stay out of politics.”
So to stay out of politics the first thing he says in an interview when asked a non-political question is political.
He’s a no talent hack.
Glory Days is depressing and misanthropic.
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