best moment of Billy Joel's Moscow tantrum

If keytar man is so great, why isn’t he listed on The Ubiquitous HIred Gun Session Veteran Shout-Out Thread

Pardon my ignorance of Billy Joel's public persona, but was he known as a big sniffy sniffy guy at this point? 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. All I know is that he once was married to Christie Brinkley and that most of his songs are pretty lousy

I remember he always used to say 'it's time to tickle the ivory.' And I would ask him, Billy, don't you mean 'tickle the ivories' with an 's'? It took me several years to realize he was referring to the mountains of coke he immediately vacuum up after saying this. I'm...I'm a very stupid man.

Sorry, forgot the attribution on that quote. That would be me, because I just made it up.

Are these the guys he then fired?

https://www.newsday.com/amp/entertainment/music/billy-joel/billy-joel-called-heartless-by-bandmates-in-new-documentary-hired-gun-1.13767695

Coked up piano humping Billy seems like the kind of guy that would have delivered some Buddy Rich-level shitstorms backstage.

Indeed; none of his backing musicians have beards.

Had to be a big shot
Dint ya

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

the hero we need right now

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

original one blocked - here you go:

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

Going ham on a mic stand deserved better imo.

Best clip ever

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

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

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

This doesn't look anywhere near as exciting:

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

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

early Interpol show?

STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE

Autographed Billy Joel photo pic.twitter.com/oFE88vj8LV

— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) February 10, 2021

STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE

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

^

Bonus points if it is BJ though

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9zogQOmQVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YJfXdSR85o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5bbAW27LWQ

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

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

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

your fave clip of singers getting pissed or stuff getting thrown at them or fights or paul stanley hating lasers

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’

damn the links are all dead of course

it's haunting

hey leave that dead guy alone

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

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

— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) September 10, 2021

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"

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!"

lol CB’s at full exorcist neck twist O_O

lulz

STOP LIGHTING CHRISTIES NECK

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

who is that guy?! is the muscle?

is *HE* the muscle

i need a photoshop of her head fully upside down

Looks like some Disney haunted mansion shit

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

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'

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

oh, just saw the YouTube description, heh