best moment of Billy Joel's Moscow tantrum

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Indeed; none of his backing musicians have beards.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 21:10 (seven years ago)

Had to be a big shot
Dint ya

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 21:32 (seven years ago)

As a kid I was startled by the lyric "I give you one hit under the jaw, then you put on a show."

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:52 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

the hero we need right now

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 October 2018 23:23 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

some days shit is mega fucked and I just need to see this video

XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:41 (five years ago)

original one blocked - here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3cBp_Bf43M

XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:49 (five years ago)

Going ham on a mic stand deserved better imo.

pomenitul, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:52 (five years ago)

Best clip ever

calstars, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 20:43 (five years ago)

It's sweet how the crowd carry on enjoying themselves despite Billy looking like he might kill someone any minute.

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 20:51 (five years ago)

That was just day-to-day life in the USSR iirc.

pomenitul, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 20:53 (five years ago)

They might think this is what Western rock stars do every time they play.

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 20:54 (five years ago)

This doesn't look anywhere near as exciting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFa-riJvcZA

pomenitul, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 20:58 (five years ago)

“Something something something middle of the ni- hi- hight....”

calstars, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:57 (five years ago)

early Interpol show?

assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 6 August 2020 00:25 (five years ago)

three months pass...

STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 November 2020 05:21 (five years ago)

two months pass...

Autographed Billy Joel photo pic.twitter.com/oFE88vj8LV

— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) February 10, 2021



Saddest album photo shoot ever?

calstars, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 15:43 (five years ago)

three months pass...

STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 23:24 (five years ago)

it's time to branch out, i need other vids like this, but not necessarily William Joel

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 23:24 (five years ago)

^

calstars, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 23:46 (five years ago)

Bonus points if it is BJ though

calstars, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 23:46 (five years ago)

yeah, i would love to see a thread of musicians throwing childlike tantrums. the more visible drugs onstage, the better

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 23:49 (five years ago)

oh shit, i've only seen 2 of these 3!

Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:13 (five years ago)

whoever got called out by the smash mouth guy should have just sprinted toward him and tackled him

Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:19 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjumawGYmwg

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:20 (five years ago)

Still can’t get over Billy doing the crouch start before running across the stage and jumping on the piano although I’m happy to pretend that this has happened at every BJ show ever and is just one of his ‘things’

Master of Treacle, Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:28 (five years ago)

damn the links are all dead of course

brimstead, Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:28 (five years ago)

it's haunting

hey leave that dead guy alone

― scott seward, Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:30 PM (ten years ago)

Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:30 (five years ago)

it's like the bible when some prophet wonders if there is even 1 or 5 or 10 good people left in the village. and then they check, and nope, none

Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:31 (five years ago)

three months pass...

Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, NYC, 1983 pic.twitter.com/IJnCHbo0kN

— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) September 10, 2021



Christie: flexible neck

calstars, Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:01 (four years ago)

christie was like "hey billy remember the time you fucking lost it in moscow?". billy joel went "uuunnggghhh, i'm so sick of talking about that". christie's said "oh billy come'ere!" and billy went "uuunnnnggggh, hahaha, alright, alright"

"HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:12 (four years ago)

and the guy in the back is like "billy joel in moscow tantrum is so good. god i want that on laserdisc. what a beautiful couple!"

"HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:13 (four years ago)

lol CB’s at full exorcist neck twist O_O

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:14 (four years ago)

lulz

calstars, Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:18 (four years ago)

STOP LIGHTING CHRISTIES NECK

calstars, Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:21 (four years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/75RpReE.png

pplains, Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:25 (four years ago)

who is that guy?! is the muscle?

"HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:29 (four years ago)

is *HE* the muscle

"HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:29 (four years ago)

i need a photoshop of her head fully upside down

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:29 (four years ago)

Looks like some Disney haunted mansion shit

calstars, Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:33 (four years ago)

omg, in that Green Day video, there is something about Mike Dirnt dutifully smashing his bass right after Billie Joe starts smashing his guitar that is kinda sweet and absolutely fucking hilarious

alpine static, Saturday, 11 September 2021 09:11 (four years ago)

ok, and then when Smash Mouth guy is pissed off and talking tough, his band launches into the limp-ass intro to "All Star" ... and then he steps out into the crowd like he's gonna fight and someone yells "Kick his ass, sea bass!"

and the Balmer video?

killer post by Old Lunch back in June, is what i'm sayin'

alpine static, Saturday, 11 September 2021 09:19 (four years ago)

Always seemed pretty clean cut and upright to me, can't really even picture him drinking but again, haven't spent a great deal of time thinking about this.

That reminds me, he once showed up in the bar in Glasgow I routinely used to drink in after work on Fridays, but I missed him. I was never sure if that story was apocryphal but here's the proof:

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/THE+THIRST+JOEL%3B+Singer+Billy+pops+into+Glasgow+pub+for+a+pint.-a060565980

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 September 2021 09:22 (four years ago)

I felt a little sorry for Green Day at the time because leading up to that show they had become total fucking shills for iheartmedia. I was stuck listening to alot of car radio at the time, and their testimonial promos for the 'festival' were inescapable on all formats; I think there was even one where one of guys talked about how excited he was to see Usher! They got played so hard by ihm.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 11 September 2021 21:52 (four years ago)

one year passes...

BJ did 9/11

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 November 2022 21:09 (three years ago)

Blowy

calstars, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:29 (three years ago)

eight months pass...

not as good as Joel flipout, but slapping yr guitarist is a good one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ3zxvKEL28

linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 00:13 (two years ago)

the singer has no room to talk about bad performance here tho

linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 00:13 (two years ago)

looks like an Eastern European rock band before the Berlin Wall fell

Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 01:26 (two years ago)


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