For those geoblocked by YouTube: https://soundcloud.com/theklossessions/billy-joel-we-didnt-start-the-fireI dug into the series after that - some are amazing, check out "Once in a Lifetime" and "Killer Queen": https://audioboom.com/channel/the-session-with-christian-james-hand
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 20 March 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
omg, the once in a lifetime episode is fantastic.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 20 March 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
The "Panama" one was fantastic.
― pplains, Saturday, 21 March 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
jfc, listen to bob costas defend billy joel with his very heart and soul in his interview with dave marsh, looooooool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhWJYEQRPfI
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
it's a wide-ranging interview, but the billy joel bit is at the beginning.
actually, at the very beginning is...
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
the youtube comments, too
the whole thing with billy joel, his fans, and the critical perception of billy joel, and his fans reactions to that...i love all of it.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
Billy Joel stiff?! You're joking...
habysshabyss3 years agoI agree with him.
Brian HoltBrian Holt8 years agoDave Marsh sucks! He couldn't do what Billy Joel did ... He should retire his big mouth!
what's crazy is that bob costas argues that the critics dislike billy joel because he's too popular, and has had too much success. but if you watch part 1, which is mostly about Bruce Springsteen, Costas takes the exact OPPOSITE stance - that Bruce Springsteen is bad (in 1989) because he’s too popular now. it’s such a ridiculous hypocritical take, on both Costas, in both cases.
you know what. FUCK YOU BOB COSTAS
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 April 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
This Bob Costas hatred must be a Missouri expat thing.
If you think I'm ever going to take Dave Marsh's side in an argument, then you're going to have to see me LATER........WITH BOB COSTAS.
― pplains, Friday, 3 April 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
And you can not handle COSTAS
― no one ever is to blave (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 April 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
lol pplains
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 April 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
just seeing his name is pavlovian for me, regardless of whatever opinion he has (inevitably smug & wrong)FUCK YOU BOB COSTAS
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 April 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
"You know, Ivan Pavlov put his name in the history books with a series of experiments on conditioning, that quite frankly and by his own admission, was completely accidental. However on the opposite side of the spectrum, it was hard work and determination that paid for greats like Lou Brock, Steve Carlton, and one William Martin Joel of Hicksville, Long Island..."
― pplains, Friday, 3 April 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
Ivan Pavlov
Nasser and Prokofiev
Bob didn't start the fiyah
― no one ever is to blave (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 April 2020 01:18 (four years ago) link
oh man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1ExN7ugxw
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 May 2020 01:47 (four years ago) link
71 years young today!
― pplains, Sunday, 10 May 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/opIcHLi.png
― pplains, Sunday, 10 May 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
It's been a while since I've seen a keyboard player dancing like that while playing. Reminds me of my '80s youth. I have to wonder if he's actually playing anything though, or if the volume's all the way down on his keyboard.
― o. nate, Sunday, 10 May 2020 02:43 (four years ago) link
Well, there IS that spider web keyb pattern so popular in the mid '80s; you can hear it on the original.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 May 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
HWUNN TWOOOOHWUN TWOOOO THREE FAWWWH
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 May 2020 03:31 (four years ago) link
otm
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 May 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link
O mate, I think that's Dave Lebolt?
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 10 May 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
I'll be honest, I'd never heard of Dave Lebolt before, but I found another video of him playing with Joel so yeah, seems quite possible. I was just impressed he can hit the right keys while jumping around like that. I guess that's why he's a pro.
― o. nate, Monday, 11 May 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
Henley singing "She's Got a Way" at the Kennedy Center Honors, listening thread singularity!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 May 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
LIBERTY SPEAKS.
“I was the ‘angry old man,'” he tells Rolling Stone...
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
fun read, thanks!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 16 July 2020 03:49 (three years ago) link
and cool that they're on better terms now.
that is so great<3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 July 2020 03:58 (three years ago) link
It turns out that he heard something that he thought was true, but wasn’t true. I never heard that, so I couldn’t have defended myself. It was one of those things. If it was true, it would have been cause for dismissal, definitely, but it wasn’t true.Q: I imagine you don’t want to share what it was publicly.A: No.
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 16 July 2020 06:16 (three years ago) link
Cross-posted w/ election thread just for a giggle
From 538:
Another small batch of Pennsylvania ballots has been reported in Lehigh County (home of Allentown), and once again Biden is winning enough of them to possibly take the lead in the Keystone State.
Well we're waiting here in Allentown
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 November 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
and we're gonna make a stop in Nevada
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 5 November 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
But I know something that they don't know I know a voter in New Mexico
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 November 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
Your sister's out, she's on a dateYou just sit at home and refresh Nate
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 5 November 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
We didn't stop the counting
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 November 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
... for the longest time
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 5 November 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
The night is still young, doc.
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 November 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
Combed my hair in a pompadourLike the soon-ex-potus wore
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 November 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
But the ballots wouldn't quitAnd Trump had a fit When they cut him down to 225
― Vinnie, Thursday, 5 November 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
You just sit at home and refresh Nate
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 6 November 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
excellent work by both YMP and Vinnie imo
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 November 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nJZwRIy8G8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jpeQt3Lxls
Maybe I'm Amazed and Live and Let Die are Billy's two contributions to the 2014 tribute album The Art of McCartney. I haven't really dug into the backstory of this album, but Wiki indicates it has roots back in 2003 so I'm not clear when this would have been recorded.... anyway though, what the hell is going on with his voice on these recordings? Is there some AutoTune business trying to get him back to his voice from the 70s, and in the process making his blowsy attempts at throaty emphatic singing sound like Belushi doing Joe Cocker? It's really distracting to me. The "Stranger" whistling thrown randomly into "Live and Let Die" really doesn't work for me, also.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 28 March 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
(realized i never did go back and round up the various late-career curios at the bottom of my chronological spreadsheet. i mean, why not?)
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 28 March 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
"Let's see if we can blend 'The Stranger' into 'Patience' and really fuck up this Macca!"
https://i.imgur.com/bzAMGek.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 28 March 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
I generally like "Maybe I'm Amazed" but Billy misunderstands it here. He tries to bring the growl too early.
What is affecting about Paul's song is the tenderness of the verse and the way the chorus brings the grit.
By trying to bring growl into the verse, Billy leaves himself nowhere to go when the chorus arrives, and he just sounds hoarse and strained.
Rookie mistake. If you turn up to eleven you have no twelve.
I hate everything about "Live and Let Die" so I have never heard this version, and on principle I am not going to
― calzone layer (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 28 March 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
and his solid lead guitar
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 March 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
great points YMP.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 29 March 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
(also feel like said rookie mistake is probably made by a LOT of people trying to cover this song.)
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 29 March 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
"When am I gonna take control, get a hold of my emotions? STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE!Why does it always seem to hit me in the middle of the ni-i-ight? STOP IT!You told me there's a number I can always dial for assistance. LET ME DO MY SHOW FOR CHRISSAKE!"
― calstars, Monday, 29 March 2021 02:35 (three years ago) link
what in god's name is this and why i have never heard of it? the terribleness of these covers is kind of a given, and puffin, alfred and doctor c all very otm. but what strikes me is that billy seems to have tried really hard to make something of maybe i'm amazed while appearing to have tossed off live and let die with no thought whatsoever with the three minutes of studio time he had left using a bar band that had just wandered into the studio hoping to score some drum heads or maybe an autograph. live and let die is the one he should have spent his time on. he could've covered that circa turnstiles and totally made it work.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 29 March 2021 05:05 (three years ago) link
totally. also.... why does he have two songs on a tribute album? that's kinda weird, right? scanning the tracklisting it looks like Heart does as well but i don't think anybody else does. i do like the idea of Wanda Jackson covering Run Devil Run so maybe i should dig into this a little more.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 29 March 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link