Shatter590
02/03/06, 10:57 AM
I was fortunate enough to acquire tickets to see Billy Joel last night at MSG. Decent seats, I was sitting next to the head of SONY Records. I arrived just as the show was starting, and what turned into 2 and a half hours of pure rock and roll.
As I am a recent fan of the Piano Man, I wasn't all that familiar with all the material he played. But he did play a lot of his classics: Allentown, Sometimes A Fantasy, Sleeping With The Television On, Still Rock and Roll, Goodnight Saigon, New York State of Mind, You May Be Right, We Didn't Start the Fire and Moving Out among them. Like I said, over 2 hours of music in all. And that was before the first of 2 encores, when he returned to the stage and did Scenes from an Italian Resteraunt and closed with the immortal Piano Man, to which he had the crowd sing the last chorus, something that you truly need to experience.
What struck me, though, were all the different people who had come to see him. I've been to a few arena shows for Green Day, Blink and KISS, but this was the first where the crowd was truly cosmopolitan. I saw metalheads, kids, old folks, all races and ages, all singing along to the same songs. It showed be the true power anf unity that music can have on a person.
I know the shows are selling out, but if you have a chance to see one of these shows, do it. It is worth the money, and will open your ears, and your eyes.
As I am a recent fan of the Piano Man, I wasn't all that familiar with all the material he played. But he did play a lot of his classics: Allentown, Sometimes A Fantasy, Sleeping With The Television On, Still Rock and Roll, Goodnight Saigon, New York State of Mind, You May Be Right, We Didn't Start the Fire and Moving Out among them. Like I said, over 2 hours of music in all. And that was before the first of 2 encores, when he returned to the stage and did Scenes from an Italian Resteraunt and closed with the immortal Piano Man, to which he had the crowd sing the last chorus, something that you truly need to experience.
What struck me, though, were all the different people who had come to see him. I've been to a few arena shows for Green Day, Blink and KISS, but this was the first where the crowd was truly cosmopolitan. I saw metalheads, kids, old folks, all races and ages, all singing along to the same songs. It showed be the true power anf unity that music can have on a person.
I know the shows are selling out, but if you have a chance to see one of these shows, do it. It is worth the money, and will open your ears, and your eyes.