Billy Joel - Live in Carbondale (February 10, 1972) - Pro Video

[@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs]

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[@emb290]

weekend song, last of the bigtime spenders, and los angelenos.

[@bryancooper2247]

Carbondale Pennsylvania?

[@Mojorider622]

The vibrato in his voice is incredible

[@coldacre]

I love his voice in those early years. incredible vibrato and control.

[@josephcalitri5710]

He was only 22. I’m only 35. We’re watching the birth of a genius.

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

This is the second earliest video footage of Billy. The BBC has footage from 1971..somewhere ..unless they erased it already. I heard Billy on an old radio interview say he did some BBC appearances in 1971 but didnt see them ever since he did them.Oh the songs played were Piano man and She;s only a woman to me.

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

Yep, the BBC were terrible at retaining footage between '67 and '78 due to costs of colour videotape, but they should have been a lot smarter about it. Pipe-smoking old guys in charge!

[@RedHotMessResell]

Aw his little baby voice... we don't get to see a lot of his early vocal progression. So thank you for sharing.

[@timothymarkin4481]

He actually had a couple albums’ worth of material when CSH was released. So many great demos exist circa 1970-71.

[@RedHotMessResell]

The second song he wrote but didn't release? It's so wild because I hear vocal, lyrical, and musical elements in that song that he used on some of his later songs. Cool

[@chessbride1784]

Billy Joel begleitet mich durch mein Leben, seit ich 13 war. Damals war es „don‘t ask me why“, was mich fasziniert hat. Inzwischen bin ich 55 und meine derzeitigen Lieblingslied von ihm ist „travelling prayer“. Ich war an Billy Joels 40.tem Geburtstag auf dem Konzert in München. Dieses Erlebnis werde ich wohl nie vergessen! Eine bayrische Blaskapelle kam auf die Bühne und hat - glaube ich - den bayerischen „Defilliermarsch“ gespielt. Es war auf jeden Fall toll, dass Menschen aus seinem Umfeld ihm so eine Überraschung bereitet haben.

[@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs]

Billy Joel ist ein großartiger Künstler. Und wie schön für dich, so viele Jahre gute Musik genießen zu können. Ich denke, Billy verdient mehr Anerkennung, als er es ohnehin schon hat, niemand gibt ihm Anerkennung für seine Stimme.

[@chessbride1784]

@@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs Billy Joels Stimme finde ich einzigartig. Darum bin ich seit so vielen Jahren ein Fan von ihm.

[@Christian-iq2yr]

Bei mir war´s ähnlich. Ich habe 1980, da war ich 15, zufällig Miami 2017 und Captain Jack aus dem Radio auf Kassette aufgenommen und war hin und weg. Meine erste Platte war dann "Songs in the attic", gefolgt von Glasshouses, 52nd Street etc. Viele Texte sprachen mir damals aus meiner pubertierenden Seele. Es gibt bis heute eigentlich kein Stück von ihm, das mir nicht gefällt und seine Songs werden nie langweilig. Mein Highlight war ein Private Concert von ihm auf Hawaii, bei dem ich dabei sein durfte. Das war magisch.

[@NoName-ge6wc]

1/2 century ago and the songs still hold up.

[@SweetbJames]

My favorite version of Billy Joel. Unvarnished and unkempt.

[@LostCaper]

Something about that type of well done music.

[@RFToob]

This is precious! Cheers

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

The Sigma Sound footage in stereo from April 1972 on here really gives a great idea of his live sound of the time, but nice to see it in vision here. Thanks for posting 🙂

[@manco828]

10 years later he was recording The Nylon Curtain.

[@coldacre]

10 months later he was recording "Piano Man"

[@danielhkhk7283]

Great! He has such a beautiful voice!

[@jasonw6688]

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. I've been a HUGE Billy Joel fan for 30 years, and I still come across audio and video I haven't heard or seen.

[@tomdimartino7361]

Great stuff! I saw Billy Joel at least 8 times. I saw him in the mid 70's the first time at a place called the century theater in buffalo ny. Got to hear him sing "James" when it was cool! Lol it was the best concert I saw up until then. We would wait over night for tickets and always first or second in line. So we saw him from the first row a bunch of times and still have the ticket stubs!

[@lesfleursd-ans]

Wonderful! So rare to see Cold Spring Harbor songs performed, thank you for posting!

[@robdimasi2535]

his flow is on travelin prayer is so tight and precise it's almost like proto rap

[@evolving66]

This is fascinating! Thank you for sharing!

[@philflower7778]

Love this!! Billy Joel is so great!! Unbelievable talent. Interesting note. I did notice some of the lyrics were different from the album. In Billy the kid, the last verse he doesn't say from a town known as Oyster bay Long Island rode a boy with a 6 pack in his hand. And in Captain Jack he says. So you go to St. Louis in your tie-dye jeans, instead of So you go to the village in your tie-dye jeans. 😄

[@cara1982]

this is pure gold .... hopefully the rest of the footage can be shared somehow before long - i sw this years ago on the other yt channel and realize again how great this is ..... i remember one of the band members years ago shared a story how this tv appearance came to be and how they drove a long way in short time to make this happen on the little SIU tv station in carbonale IL

[@triplejazzmusicisall1883]

What a great discovery. Thanks for posting.

[@PianoMan-hx3ev]

Just raw music.

[@88_AC]

Sitting low on a piano bench instead of up high on a drum throne! Still plays good.

[@ancizarfernandezmaldonado2506]

Genial una joya única. De colección.. Felicidades

[@jamesdante2730]

The very definition of cool. Awesome work finding and sharing!

[@Hi-dicky]

52年後の今日、ビリーは日本でライブを行います♪

[@daytube]

Wow!!

[@Gavzilla1000]

Whoa. This footage looks familiar... I wonder who uploaded it first? Nah. lol. I'm just teasing. Many thanks, Matthew for helping to restore this footage!

[@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs]

Thank you!

[@ibemack]

This is rare gold! Is this Carbondale Illinois?

[@BobCat623923]

How the hell did you find this one?? Very nice!!

[@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs]

Was founded by my friend Billy Joel Lost Tapes.

[@jaypeter5110]

@@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs originally uploaded by a fan JoelFan as a way to showcase some of Billy's early stuff these videos don't represent the full show as the banter between songs were edited, sadly these video were removed citing a copyright complaint he had a lot of interesting content "from the archives"

[@stevebessette1826]

why'd he change the last verse of ballad of billy the kid?

[@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs]

This is the pre-Piano Man version, so many verses and melodies are differents to the final result.

[@JoshPCohen]

"Long Long Time" sounds like a James Taylor song.

[@sithlordmikeyp]

I absolutely remember this on joelfan's channel in like 2009. Is it still up over there? I don't know for sure, but I wanna say once upon a time Tomorrow is Today did have footage- do you have any information on that?

[@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs]

From Joelfan's channel it was taken down. These clips were found or retrieved by Brandon (Boodles). I remember that he mentioned, Rhys Clark, the drummer is still having his own copy in HD, but for some legal purposes with Columbia, he is not able to share it. Maybe it includes TiT. That's what I remember, let's hope some day it gets released.

[@sithlordmikeyp]

Wait, so JoelFan didn't know where it came from either? I guess it's been passed down from person to person through the years.

[@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs]

I think so, you can see that the video is compressed as hell and quality has been loss because of the constant downloading and sharing. I believe it was downloaded from a website or shared by someone, then uploaded on KZbin, then downloaded from KZbin, and then uploaded to Drive, this is the copy that we have.

[@calebjames3590]

Very impressive since 3 of the 5 were on the unreleased piano man album if I'm correct

[@kofd04]

Where did the boy from Oyster Bay Long island go in Billy the Kid?

[@lisas63]

I had always heard of a bootleg titled “Stranger on 52nd Street” Does anyone know if it exists?

[@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs]

I don't think so, but I think that are Demos. Let me check

[@lisas63]

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@Vel_0000]

The video quality is B+, while the audio is B or B- (I can't decide)

[@skivtonten294]

Ok release this with a remixed cold speing harbour then im good! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@MatineeIdyll129]

Billy in a leather jacket, always looking street. Which is odd considering the music is anything but (not in a bad way)

[@BillyJoelLostTapes]

May I ask why you didn’t use the restored audio?

[@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs]

As such I only uploaded the video without touching your version, completely raw, without audio edits. Mainly to be able to later publish the solo audio and have a different versions of the show And also because that video had been saved for a long time without uploading it, and it gave me a bit of laziness to synchronize the audio