Drummer reacts to "Piano Man" & "We Didn't Start The Fire" (Live) by Billy Joel
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- Thank you to our alpha patron Joel for another great 2fer. I've heard "We Didn't Start The Fire" a million times but this live at yankee stadium version from 1990 is almost a different song at points. I loved hearing all the differences. I've heard the chorus of piano man before but never seen the video or heard the rest of the song. Billy Joel is a prolific artist that j
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"Piano Man" is a song by Billy Joel that is based on his real-life experiences as a lounge musician in Los Angeles from 1972 to 1973, while he was having a dispute with his record label. The song is a retelling of Joel's own experiences working at the Executive Room. The people mentioned in the song are based on real people he encountered while working at the bar. “John at the bar” was the bartender who worked during Joel’s shifts, while “Paul the real estate novelist” references a real estate agent named Paul who sat at the bar each night, working on what he hoped would be the next great American fiction novel. “Davy" met Billy Joel in a pub in Spain in 1972 while he was in the Navy. He married while he was in the Navy, had three children. He passed away in 2003 of ALS. Also, “the waitress practicing politics” was his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, with whom he moved to Los Angeles in 1972. They married a year later. At the time, she worked as a waitress at the Executive Room.
"We didn't start the Fire" is some headlines during his lifetime up to this point.
We Didn't Start the Fire....a history lesson in a matter minutes. Great song
She's Always A Woman is my favorite Billy Joel song.
Piano Man is one of the greatest songs ever.
“Only the Good Die Young” and “She’s Always a Woman” are two of my favorites. The other gets very little attention-“I Go to Extremes”. Billy absolutely wears the piano out on that one.
Billy Joel is the entertainer! An incredible artist and pianist!
You haven’t even scratched the surface with Billy. SO many great songs you could listen to
Elton is phenomenal, but before you hand him the crown, listen to Billy Joel's "Goodnight Saigon". In fact, there's a few live performances where Billy has a group of veterans in their uniforms on the stage behind him, qnd they sing the chorus with him. It always gives me goosebumps!
It’s not really fair to say that Elton was a more prolific songwriter than Billy when he had Bernie Taupin writing the lyrics. Billy came up with music and lyrics and was a genius at both.
I can’t pick just one song from Billy Joel. Back when he was really popular on the radio, I loved “Only the Good Die Young” and “Good Night Saigon.” Opposite ends of the spectrum, but both wonderful.
it's too difficult to pick a favorite Billy Joel song, but one that doesn't get mentioned enough is Goodnight Saigon. The lyrics say it all.
I have seen a few reactions to it in the past 2 weeks. Bandwagon jumping in full effect.
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant is incredible. There are some live versions that are worth reviewing
still my favorite tied with we didnt start the fire.... such a great track!
sorry to add one more comment but you reminded me of a phrase that I heard somewhere.."5 drunk guys will start a fight, but 5 Stoned guys will start a band."🤗🌸
his personnel list is basically his regular band personnel list.
Piano Man is amazing and the video is a cherry on top. Multi talented Billy Joel giving us a history lesson to never forget we are a combination of our best and worst. Will we burn it down or maintain the status quo. You are not living off the charity of others, we enjoy your entertainment. Thank you L33 for the wonderful music today.
Love Billy. He is another artist inspired to become an artist due to the Beatles- there’s a video of the last concert in the old stadium before it was demolished and for an encore Paul McCartney joined him. It was shea stadium the first major outdoor concert of the Beatles!
Thanks Joel & Lee. Son, can you play me a memory - that lyric hits home…
I like this video better than the one often displayed on rxn channels. It's more 'real' and we get to see Billy on harmonica. Piano Man was our introduction to Billy Joel back in the day. It got lots of radio play and is still my fav song from him.
This was a movie commissioned by Saturday Night Live.
Yeah, he reshot the Piano Man video later on for some reason. I guess for a higher def version. I've seen the new one so much, I forgot about this one.
@debjorgo I hate the new one, too cartoonny.
Live performance
@@sg-yq8pm ? Both videos of Piano Man show Billy lip-syncing to the same studio version of the song.
Lounge bars were exactly like this back then. I was 19 then and the old guys drinking alone would sometimes choke me up wondering what happened to their lives ending up drinking alone in a bar.
Billy Joel, sings his life in his songs .
what you have created is not you accepting charity, honey..... you work damn hard for this channel and you earn everything that you get.
be proud! (besides that, Goodwill shopping is environmentally conscious! I've been doing it for decades.)
I still say that his cover of "Hey Girl" -- written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and found here on UA-cam -- is gorgeous.
These two hits were separated by 16 years - 1973 and "89. And so many great hits in between. Amazing that you never heard Piano Man before.
Released from YT prison. Two great classic BJ songs. Piano Man video is cool. This song and Captain Jack made him a superstar.
One of my favorites by him is Scandinavian Skies live version. Quite a production.
Matter of Trust is a great Billy Joel song
I also remember a long time ago, I played the piano in a tavern and I got money for drinks
Did they put bread in your jar?
@@visaman yes...bills and coins..after the bar closed I got in a taxi and went home...
very cool-- I didn't know Billy Joel also played the guitar!!
Check out "A Matter Of Trust". It is a great song showing off his guitar skills.
"I've always depended on the kindness of strangers" - A Streetcar Named Desire. I would subscribe again if I could.
I’m always on pitch with him. People who thought my voice sucked told me to sing Billy b/c it works. I’m not above accepting a backhanded compliment.
Maybe due to him being played as much as Yes & Kansas & Steely Dan while I was in a crib 1977-1979.
Edit, the percussion lady, her brother was a substitute teacher at my high school. He was lucky enough to sing backup vocals to “Its All About Soul”. In lieu of instruction, he showed us the VHS of him recording the backup vocals with Joel & his sister. Saw him live once. “All for Leyna” is still my fave, especially b/c repetitive keyboards make me happy. Oh! Billy stopped writing “pop” in 1993. And my family’s mental illness was self medicated by alcohol. The cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.
Vienna, scenes from an Italian restaurant, and she's got a way are my 3 favorite songs by Billy.
If you watch the original video for “We didn’t Start the Fire”, you’ll see news footage of the things that Billy Joel is referring to. He was prompted to write that song by Sean Lennon, who said that nothing important had really happened in recent history. So Billy wrote that song about significant events just since he was born.
We need We Didn't Start the Fire Part 2. 😎
Ballad of Billy the Kid is semi autobiographical.
A Matter Of Trust (Official Video) is great!🔥🔥🔥 Lee thanks for all your hard work on this channel, it definitely is not charity you're receiving. ☮🖤🤘
Just watched his "Last Play at Shea" (the last show before they tore the stadium down) Joel helped McCartney Get in at the last minute to do I Saw Her Standing There (Great video on you tube)
Grateful for you, too.
Thanks for all the 🎶🎵
After the election I'll stop giving my last dime away to save Democracy 🇺🇸💯 and give it to this channel on Patreon.
i appreciate that, sharon! thank you :D
In all my years of listening to Billy Joel I've _never_ seen him play guitar. I had no idea. Pretty cool reveal here.
He does not really play it per se but can strum a few chords here and there.
The first time I saw him on guitar was in 1982 strumming an acoustic in the video for Allentown, then on electric guitar in the videos for A Matter of Trust, then this song in 1989 and finally in the live performance video for No Man's Land in 1993.
He also played acoustic guitar on The Entertainer live during a Q&A session with an audience and on Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin' live in a TV studio to an audience when he toured the former Soviet Union in the late 80s, all of which should be on UA-cam in some form or other.
I would suggest an interesting pairing for a video; Billy Joel wrote 'Shameless'. I listened to his release after hearing Garth Brooks kill it. I usually don't care for covers and I love Billy Joel, but...
Do Billy's first then live Garth cover.
Too many great songs to name but Zanzibar has a personal back story for me. The album version is perfect. Great reactions today
Never saw either versions!!❤❤🎉😂😮😅😊😊
New York State of Mind - is my favorite
Both such good songs
Nostalgic
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You didn't watch the official video for WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE? MY GOD.
Billy Joel doesn’t have a bad song. Keep digging into his catalog.
Piano Man is a timeless masterpiece. Period.
We Didn't Start the Fire was played so much on the radio back in the day that I simply can't stand it anymore.
I see you watching many artists, that’s good but those Beatle guys will be around forever. They are at a different level. Billy would not be known if it wasn’t for them.
I've actually never seen that video for Piano Man before. He made a new video for it in the mid 80's. That was cool to see, although the music sounded a little flat or something. But I'm sure you'll checkout the album version. Listen to My Life and The Stranger. Both great
Please review the original video of Goodnight Saigon...it's a masterpiece!!!
"Weird" Al Yankovic, "Ode to A Superhero".
Lot of great lines in this one.
There is a more famous video than this you ought to see.
Oddly the guy dressed as a sailor is wearing a hat worn by the US Navy in the 1920s, just a strange choice
Well, he was in the Navy for life.
@@visaman This particular video is from the mid-70s and was filmed in Australia though, although I do not know if that is what the OP is referring to.
They later made another video in the mid-80s.
@@seanscanlon9067 I did not know that. Interesting. I assumed it was filmed in Manhattan.
The only thing that makes the song Piano Man is the truth
For a song called piano man, the guy with the harmonica won’t shut the hell up
Love your channel. When it comes to Billy Joel, you have not scratched the surface, so let me share some insight as someone who grew up in NY listening to Joel:
🎼 No pop singer compares to his virtuosity as a musician, singer, songwriter, lyricist and performer. Elton John wrote many great tunes buy none of the lyrics and his talent as a pianist just doesn't compare to that of Joel.
🎼No pop singer has been as versatile as Joel, whose immense talent and musical curiosity enabled him to play in so many different styles. You can't appreciate that versatility until you listen to a lot more of his music,
🎼 "We Didn't Start the Fire" is the hit Joel most disliked and for a good reason -- it lacked the musicality and musicianship of all his other work.
🎼 His most popular album was The Stranger, which is jam-packed with hits: Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, Only the Good Die Young, She's Always a Women, The Stranger, Vienna, Just the Way You Are, Movin' Out. It a mix of pop, rock and grit, all sauced with a bit of growing up with Italian Catholics in NY (Joel is Jewish), with a mix of bangers and ballads.
🎼 My favorite by a whisker: 52nd Street, Joel's jazziest album, which was so good it drew as a trumpet soloist one of the greatest jazz trumpet players of the past 60 years. Zanzibar wasn't a hit at the time but became a Tik-Tok sensation because of one of the catchiest choruses of all time, Big Shot, My Life and Honesty were all big hits, while underrated great songs include Half a Mile Away, Rosalinda's Eyes, Stiletto and Until the Night.
🎼Glass Houses was the last of his three album peak, the hardest rock album Joel produced, and includes You May be Right, Sometimes a Fantasy, It's Sill Rock and Roll to Me, All for Leyna and Sleeping with the Television On.
🎼Joel's tribute to the music of his youth in An Innocent Man: The Longest Time, Leave a Tender Moment Alone (with a legendary harmonica player), Tell Her About It, The Longest Time, An Innocent Man and Keeping the Faith.
🎼 His most underrated album, recorded just before the big three, Turnstiles, which he wrote as a tribute to NY after returning there from Hollywood. New York State of Mind has became the unofficial state anthem. Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway), Say Goodbye to Hollywood, Prelude/Angry Young Man (which shows off piano chops Elton John could never touch) and Summer/Highland Falls (which is about his struggle with being a manic-depressive)
🎼From his first two albums, which are more personal, She's Got a Way, Everybody Loves You Now, Tomorrow is Today, Captain Jack (about young people avoiding life by using heroin), The Ballad of Billy the Kid and You're my Home
🎼From his latter albums: Allentown, Pressure, Goodnight Saigon, Baby Grand (incredible duet with blues legend Ray Charles),
🎼To appreciate Joel as a performer, you need to listen to some live performances. At the top of the list: New York State of Mind (from Old Grey Whistle Test), which will let you see his immense talent as a singer and piano player and an on-stage presence as big and as entertaining as his music.
You don't think An Innocent Man is a peak album?
@@seanscanlon9067 Not peak popularity if we consider yearly rankings of sales - The Stranger peaked on the Billboard Chart at 2; 52nd Street reached 1, as did Glass Houses.
The Nylon Curtain in 1982 peaked at 7 and had fewer hits - Where’s the Orchestra, Surprises, A Room of Our Own, Laura, She’s Right on Time and Scandinavian Skies did not get much airtime and Goodnight Saigon, while beautiful and brilliant, was too somber to be a hit. Only Pressure and Allentown were hits.
An Innocent Man peaked at 4 on Billboard. A great showing but still a step down from the peak three, and it came after The Nylon Curtain. After Innocent Man, it was downhill, even according to Joel, who didn’t like The Bridge, which peaked at 7 but mostly because of Joel’s prior work. By year end it was ranked 50th overall.
Store Front did peak at 1 but again I think that was more due to rep than the quality of the album. For context, I think We Didn’t Start the Fire was a musical dud (which Joel has said too on occasion). A River of Dreams was his last album
The three albums I consider his peak were released over four years from 1977 to 1980 so he was both prolific and successful. If you include Turnstiles in 1976 it was four albums in five years. After Glass Houses Joel produced five more albums in 13 years. He ran out of songs he wanted to do.
In terms of musical rank, that is largely a matter of taste. A fair chunk of people who had been Joel fans didn’t initially like An Innocent Man because it was so stylistically different from the albums that preceded it, myself included, though I came around. It also brought in some new fans.
How would you rank his albums in terms of personal preference?
Never seen this video before. I think the one I have seen, is a remake from this one, which isn't very good. The second one nis similar, but much better.
I would have been shocked if you hadn't actually heard Piano Man.
It is do weird seeing him on guitar. I thought that was a Kramer, but it's a Hamer. Ifvit was a Kramer, it would have been built around the corner from my high school.
The live performance was still with Liberty DeVitto (a man) on drums, but he would soon fire him ir more specifically, start a new tour without calling him to play. Looks like he already dumped most of his long-time touring band. Apparently, saxophonist Mark Rivera was still there as well. Was that Randy Jackson on bass?
It was Schuyler Deale on bass guitar.
@@seanscanlon9067 Thanks. I only got a look at him once.
I've never seen this video before. The Official Video from Billy Joel's Channel is very different - ua-cam.com/video/gxEPV4kolz0/v-deo.html
This is not the video I'm used to. I've seen another video maybe 20 times and this is the first time I've seen this one. Anybody know what's the deal?
This is the original version of the video and was filmed in Australia around 1973 where it was released as a single, with Australia being where Billy had some of his most significant earliest career success with this song, with it charting higher there than in both the UK and US.
In around 1985 after the global success of the album An Innocent Man and the single Uptown Girl in 1983, they put out a Greatest Hits double album and also a two volume VHS of Billy's videos and live performances and updated the video for Piano Man, which will be the one that you were referring too.
It does not show him playing harmonica in that one and from memory, I am almost sure that they shot both a black and white and a colour video too.
Good? If you like that clap trap! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
what's up with the person running across the stage???
They were on fire
@@visaman lol
Her name is Crystal Taliefero and she had only just joined Billy's band back then and this was her first tour, so maybe she was a bit hyped up over getting the job and wanted to make an impression.
@@seanscanlon9067 oooooh.. thank you so much! 😁
"We didn't start the fire" is the only song I like of Billy Joel. I think he's a great musician but it's just not my style. But I can sing we didn't start the fire at the top of my lungs. Sounds kind of funny for an old 70-year-old lady
You do not like just the Way You Are?
Piano Man was the song that put him in the famous category, always a solid song. We Didn’t Start the Fire, meh, live version meh meh. At the time that came out, Grunge was king, and this was a standout pop song in that fog. Trying to figure out, by mimicking the lyrics was it’s only positive. Just like any song, (and there are many) where the names of cities are put into rhyme, this is in the lazy category.
If you know the story behind the song, it is far from lazy.
Billy had been talking to Sean Lennon and a friend of his I think at some kind of social gather in 1989 at around the time of the Cold War coming to an end, and the friend had said that it was an exciting time to be young (they would have been around 14 or 15 back then) so Billy said he knew how they felt as he remembered when he was their age, only to be told nothing much happened back then.
He randomly listed off a few things in disagreement and then later as more of a mental exercise being that he was born in 1949 and had just turned 40, he started listing numerous significant events, people, places and so on during those 40 years.
And not only does much of it rhyme but it is also in chronological order too by year, as opposed to Fall Out Boy's updated version from 1990 onward that is not and so seems a bit all over the place.
On a side note, Billy usually writes music first and then lyrics but for We Didn't Start The Fire he did it the other way and so has stated that he does not like the song musically.
Hey dude I think you are interesting. You have a good ear. I'm a 71 year old gay dude from Seattle. I assume no one will read this. Forgive me I'm a little drunk and plenty of cannabis. I hesitate suggesting a song. I'm not sure how this works. I'll start off with the artist Brandi Carlisle. She is from my "town". She's the real deal unfortunately she became huge. Listen to the album "The Story" or have a friend listen and suggest a fucking rocking tune. Brandi and the twins rock😊
I've never seen this video of Piano Man. The one I've always seen has a fat bald guy as the bartender. It's much better (more personal).
This was a movie commissioned by Saturday Night Live.
This version is the original video shot in Australia in 1973 (predating Saturday Night Live) where it was a hit and chartered higher than in the US.
In around 1985 a two volume VHS videotape box set was released of Billy's live performances and videos and they made an updated version of Piano Man with the different bartender.
I'm sorry you have such a sad thing about booze.
Yeah, Fallout Boy completely missed it. They didn't pay enough attention to the original to notice the events Billy recounts are in historical order. The passage of time and the "more things change, the more they stay the same" theme are integral to the song.
Fallout Boy didn't put their events in chronological order. That just tells us all that they thought it was good enough to just string together a random list of things that happened. Weak sauce.
Absolutely weak sauce. That’s all we can do? Bad copies of greater sires? So lame
I will subject myself to shrills of Yoko Ono before letting my ears be infected by Billy Joel. Can't stand him or his elevator muzak.
How do you feel about The Ray Conniff Singers?
God, do I loathe "We Didn't Start the Fire". Such an awful song.
My favorite Billy Joel song and one of my favorite all time songs❤❤❤
Captain Jack
I would suggest an interesting pairing for a video; Billy Joel wrote 'Shameless'. I listened to his release after hearing Garth Brooks kill it. I usually don't care for covers and I love Billy Joel, but...
Do Billy's first then live Garth cover.