Continuing on my recent kick of posting about LI, Billy Joel’s 11th MSG show breaks the record for most shows at MSG sold out on a single tour. The previous record, 10, was held by both Bruce Springsteen and the Grateful Dead. As a music fan and knowing the history of the Garden, I’m suitably impressed. Lawn Guyland’s home of rock n roll, WBAB, has some good info about the shows, the tour and other news about the Piano Man.
Mr. Long Island Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” has been put into a flash movie (with appropriate images appearing in sync with the tune) by Ye Li, who I assume based on the movie URL is or was a student at the University of Chicago. I like how she included the lyrics and the year that goes along with each name/place/event. After watching it, I have decided to take today to learn more about Johnnie Ray (40’s), Pannumjom, Santayanna, Malenkavo, Prokofiev, Roy Cohn, Dacron (50’s) and Pasternack (60’s). It seems that I’m pretty up to date on everything from the early 60’s to today.
Since I have never seen the Patron Saint of LI in person, I bought 4 tickets to see him at MSG in February. I just know way too many of his songs to not have seen him live. The first 7 shows sold out so they added an 8th. He’s giving Mr. NJ (the Boss) a run for his money (in terms of the number of “hometown” shows played in a month) but I think Bruce’s record run of 14 sold out Brendon Byrne Arena shows is still safe. So far its only Jessie and I going. Make a good case as to why you should get the other 2 tickets and we’ll talk…