--- - |- So yesterday, I'm in a car, driving home from the beach. We're on the Southern State Parkway in Long Island and then the traffic starts getting nasty, so we get off the highway and start driving towards the city on Jericho Turnpike. I'm looking at the surroundings - checking out the Long Islandness of it all, thinking of how closely is resembles Routes 4 and 17 in Northern New Jers...
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It doesn't have to be a Tuesday for things to get toxic in 2009. I don't ever recall so many notable deaths in one year, and the year isn't over yet. The list of the celebrated, talented dead increased again in the past couple of days with poet/author/singer-songwriter Jim Carroll meeting his demise by a sudden heart attack and actor/dancer Patrick Swayze expiring after a long hard-fought battl...
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it's 2002 and I'm sitting in my favorite dive bar. It's not a classy place or even a happening place. it's an old man bar (to use the parlance of the time) it's dusty dark and dank. it's the place alcaholics go to die. And yet I feel completely at home. flirting with a barmaid older than my mom and chainsmoking packs of camel reds. I'm drinking well burbon and listening to an old jukebox playin...
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MUSIC NEWS- The ELTON JOHN / BILLY JOEL combo pack is back in November and December for more Face2Face concerts. The two return to the stage on November 4 in Seattle, WA with additional dates running through December 7 (a make-up show booked for Albany, NY, originally scheduled for July but postponed due to Joel's illness). The December 4th Buffalo, NY show replaces another postponed J
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Billy Joel's new song "Christmas in Fallujah" is an anti-war song written to remind us about the turmoil in the Middle East as we approach our holiday season. The 58 year old Piano Man feels he is too old to sing the song, which was inspired by letters Joel received from soldiers in Iraq. So he gave it to Cass Dillon, a 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Long Island."I thought it should be som...
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For almost 3 years now, I have been carrying the ugliest accessory known to man. It's gray, boxy, and awkward- so un-GQ; it's probably been banned in Japan and scoffed at in Sweden. It's hideous, heavy, and doesn't 'slide' into anything without making its presence known.Not even that, but if we just for a minute pretend looks don't matter, it doesn't even have substance beneath its steely gla...
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BJ does this song absolute justiceI may be a billy joel apologist but the man deserves his propsIf I could have half his body of work
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From AP:Sing us one last song at Shea, Piano ManBilly Joel bade a stirring farewell to Shea Stadium on Friday during an electrifying, sold-out final show at the same ballpark where the Beatles famously ushered in a new era in rock 'n' roll four decades ago.He was joined by an all-star lineup of friends including Paul McCartney, who told Joel, "Came here a long time ago. We had a blast that nigh...
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Billy Joel's 1987 concert in Leningrad is now available "in Wolfgang's Vault":http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/ConcertDetail.aspx?id=20050937%7C701&utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=070815.Just in case you're feeling nostalgic.Liberty DeVitto - drumsKevin Dukes - electric guitarPeter Hewlett - backing vocalsRussell Javors - acoustic guitarBilly Joel - vocals, piano, guitar (on Back ...
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Liberty DeVitto had been part of Billy Joel's band and one of his closest friends for 30 years. They started playing together in 1975 and fell out in 2005 when, according to DeVitto, he tried to talk to his friend about his drinking. Soon, Joel was in rehab and DeVitto was on the outside, which included a bit of owed royalties.DeVitto told the New York Post "People get fired, they get severan...
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There's so much genius involved in the making of this video, I barely know where to start. So I'll just say that the lyrics line up with the video clips (I LOVE that!)
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Ring shadows line the face of distant Saturn, providing a backdrop for the brilliant, white sphere of Enceladus. This icy moon, with its heavily modified surface and towering plume of icy material, is a target of intense study for Cassini during its Equinox mission. This image looks toward the leading side of Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across) and was taken in visible green light w...
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Nobody mogged about THIS tune?! Wow!This song is so good that I borrowed my friends record player! I have Glass Houses on vinyl. It's the only way I can listen to it. Not only is this part of American pop culture, but that TLC song "Waterfall" wouldn't have existed without the already written hook. Plus...he's back on tour again. What a dedicated to our hearts kind of guy. He KNOWS we love thes...
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This started as a comment to Dfor's post about *Billy Joel*'s song It's Still Rock'n'Roll to Me:"*Dfor said:*":http://mog.com/Dfor/blog_post/11117*Stuff* and then he quoted:It’s the next phase, new wave , dance craze, anywaysIt’s still rock and roll to meEverybody’s talkin’ ‘bout the new soundFunny, but it’s still rock and roll to meAnd i said:Play that back to back with the Kinks’ *
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So, I rang in the New Year with Sean Nelson and the rest of Harvey Danger at The Crocodile Cafe in Seattle. It was a great show where he sang the whole 2nd side of Abbey Road and a bunch of his stuff and what he said was the best of the best--Jet by Wings. What disturbed me was that he covered what he called "the best of the worst" songs and that was Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel. Now, i...
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