Billy Joel - Piano Man - OFF THE RAILS INSANE!! - [Live Pro-Shot, 12/31/99] - 2000 Concert

Cut from the official CD Release of the 2000 Years Millennium CD. Soundboard sourced.

[@Izzy-gz1rq]

YALL WHAT WERE MARK AND BILLY DOING AT THE END 🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣

[@BabyLambCreations]

What a legend. The dude's drunk as fuck and can still play the shit out of the piano.

[@Mcfly88Butthead]

100%

[@brucetowell3432]

At the time of this playing, I'm sure Billy has played the song thousands of times......it was over 30 years old at this time...

[@kathconserv]

He’s an amazing musician.

[@jdenino6022]

@@kathconservand a good kisser😂

[@wildbeastgaming4480]

He’s that drunk and still the best legend

[@sithlordmikeyp]

I love how they edited other songs he was drunk on for the CD release, but they knew they couldn't fix this one lol

[@Eric-u8i]

they pulled many recordings from other concerts on the tour leading up to this show

[@JayDeeIsMyName]

10/10, not gonna lie, would pay top dollar for a perfomance like this. It was the last song of a three hour-concert, good for him he was really having fun here. 😁😁😁

[@Eric-u8i]

July 4th, 1999, a buddy and I talked about going to NYC for 2000 NYE (we're in college in MN). We book our flights by end of the summer and then word comes Billy is doing this show. I dropped $250 for 4 rows behind the stage. I was too naive to know how drunk he was... just thought he was really enjoying himself.. haha. My buddy didn't feel like spending that, was out in Times SQ. Let's just say meeting up afterwards without cell phones at 2 a.m. was a trick. It's great finding these videos.. felt like I was at the best Billy show ever.

[@JayDeeIsMyName]

@@Eric-u8i ...Well, you were at the best Billy show ever.

[@colindonald365]

so beautiful seeing Ritchie there again

[@bushbasher85]

When I first got my copy of the CD of the concert I was pissed that they left off Piano Man. Watching this now, I can totally see why

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

I think I heard an interview somewhere that Joel had planned to retire from concerts after this one. I think it was something about not wanting to be a 50 year old rock n roller. Obviously he changed his mind!! It seems that he changed his mind during this very song!!! Imagine how he must feel thinking that he's singing "piano man" for an audience for the last time. The way he is looking around to take it all in, lingering, not wanting to leave the stage!

[@Eric-u8i]

Yeah, I don't think he figured he could get away with doing the same songs 5-10, let alone over 20 years.

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

@@Eric-u8i Can't help but wonder what will happen when he gives his last msg concert. What if he changes his mind again? If he were to stay in NYS, I would bet that he would try to sneak into the music room at Hicksvlile High and teach a class undercover every other Thursday! LoL 🎶🎵 I also think that he has been working on a lot of music that he just hasn't released. I think he will let his daughters decide what to do with it. We may hear some more music one day... 🎶🗽🎵

[@BrandonCMaximum]

@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 This comment aged well

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

@@BrandonCMaximum Yeah, I sound very wise now!! My reward for spending too much time on KZbin listening to almost any Billy Joel interview that the algorithm sends out. LoL 🎶🎵🎶. Thanks to Freddy Wexler for being the Billy Joel whisperer who made it happen! 🗽🎶🗽

[@ianwatkins6202]

Been a diehard fan of Billy's for over 44 years and counting 😊❤

[@johnrwalker53]

Don't like how he has treated Liberty.

[@whatlousays]

Some of you have never been to a Billy Joel New Years Concert before he cleaned up. He was singing Big Shot and running around the stage and tried to jump over Marc Rivera while he was playing the piano. Didn’t work out too well as they collided heads and fell to the floor laughing. Ah the good old days.He still sounded amazing the whole show. He’s not a legend. He’s a god.

[@jdcapps21]

A God? Bahahahaha

[@whatlousays]

@@jdcapps21 I don’t mean it in the literal sense. 🙄

[@Izzy-gz1rq]

@@whatlousayshey would you mind telling me which concert that was(the one with mark and billy hitting each other’s heads)?

[@whatlousays]

@@Izzy-gz1rq I honestly don’t know. Sorry.

[@Izzy-gz1rq]

@@whatlousays not a problem,man. imma look for it cuz i wanna see that bad 😭

[@DCLocal84]

I always wondered why piano man never made the album... and now I know why. Still, this is the fun of live concerts. I don't think this addition would have hurt the album.

[@angelashepherd4429]

I'm 58 and he's been my favorite singer since I bought the album The Stranger when I was just 12 😊

[@undertakerpitt]

“Piano Man, but it goes off the rails”

[@kk-qb3cj]

When everybody in the crowd sing along that's really gives me goosebumps 😅🎹🎹

[@Eric-u8i]

been to a Billy show at MSG? The whole place rocks from everyone swaying/dancing to his music, the best :)

[@RedHotMessResell]

Not gonna lie, I've been this blackout drunk on a stage before. It wasn't for more than maybe 50 people, but.... It hits hard the next day. LMAO

[@mattalison3401]

Nothing more beautiful than a harp and a piano. Gives me goosebumps.

[@elijahsdad]

I’m going this New Year’s Eve!!!!!

[@electricmohair]

love how liberty devitto is so busy giving himself fake boobs with the balloons that he forgets his cue

[@joepho5148]

Omg that just clicked that's probably why he changed the line to "I'm not really sure where I start..." XD Legend!

[@scalzmoney]

I wonder when it dawned on the director, the camera people and the rest of the video crew... "OMG this will never be aired anywhere."

[@RealRossMusic]

PLEASE YOU HAVE TO HAVE MORE FROM THIS CONCERT. please

[@Eric-u8i]

I tripped over the full concert video here recently

[@kathconserv]

The concert is here on KZbin.

[@Cr16604]

Billy Joel shows used to be so much fun from then Storm Front period when I started going to them, up until they became the stadium spectacles they are now. They’re still good, but something gets lost in the vastness of a stadium. He had such a good interaction with the audience and it was different every show. One time during his interdictions of the band members he said “Mark Rivera on saxophone, skin flute and whatever else he plays up here. He messes up the words to scenes from an Italian Restaurant and Liberty called him out on it. Billy said it’s my songs I’ll sing it however I want! He may have been drunk. I didn’t care, it was funny.

[@RussellGreerOfficial]

Crystal (the background lady) is so beautiful

[@Izzy-gz1rq]

Crystal is gorgeous i agree

[@jacko9138]

Thanks for posting this

[@lilianacaetano2866]

Simplesmente ,sensacional!!! Aí está o motivo de ser uma fã incondicional de Billy Joel!!! ❤️

[@joshuazollar995]

Hes so drunk! God Bless him!

[@JourneyLiveCompilations]

1:21 1:28 just noticed for the 2nd timestamp he had to change the lyrics on the spot to rhyme with "I'm not really sure where I start" which was an unplanned line

[@MatthewBillyJoelBootlegs]

He was drunk asf

[@joepho5148]

Liberty misses his entrance on the drums. I'll bet the silly look Billy shot during that line was right at him.

[@xdtreasyieriuy]

Hi Billy Joel 😘🤗😘🤗😘🤗🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@smeagolmazurenko5238]

Im just glad he was satisfied with the lighting.

[@TheSkirvo]

Is this at the millennium concert ?

[@RealRossMusic]

yep

[@1060michaelg]

It had to be going through his head; "This is the last time I'll be singing this song in this Century..." Naw, that's rubbish...he was just having a drunken blast...I mean, it was THE END OF A MILLENNIUM! The fans, the band, lighting guys...all coked and boozed up proper-- as it should be. But I bet on "I've Loved These Days" it had to be, what, BUSY inside his head. No one knew if the lights were gonna come back on, seems silly now, when the lights really ARE about to go off!

[@MTGamesMT]

i was there

[@karenmangione8209]

Dave Rosenthal with a long, blonde ponytail. Priceless!

[@Cindrbell]

Drummer.. been there since the beginning.

[@TheSkirvo]

He's not there now

[@Eric-u8i]

Liberty.. shame that Billy turned his back on him some time not long after this show

[@harrison7460]

Please please please put the full show

[@Eddie-61864]

And I'm sure that I could be a movie star if I could sober up at a pace!😂

[@MollyT119]

The way he and his band were totally shitfaced on NYE and could still outplay ANYONE.

[@xdtreasyieriuy]

Waoo , I liked sons Billy Joel 😘😘🤗😘🤗😘🤗🙏🙏🙏🙏🎼🎼🎶😘😘😘😘🤗😘🤗🤗🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Flywithdean]

This is wild 😂😂

[@riccardoangeli802]

Per Piano Man la musica un gioco facile ....

[@harrison7460]

Why don’t you put the full show with video but break it up into segments or put the Face to face 2009 full show with video

[@JayDeeIsMyName]

Why don't you just be happy there's already this? 😂 The entire show had been uploaded before on NYE 2016.

[@harrison7460]

Here’s an idea why don’t you post the full show but with a different name

[@JayDeeIsMyName]

Here's an idea: people passive agressively dropping their ideas suck, so we should ignore those kind of comments.

[@DampFrijoles]

"And the microphone smells like a beer"

[@PaulBaksy]

Some severe devils dandruff on that stage

[@MiRoJu.]

Ah yes. Back during the Y2K scare. 😂

[@jacko9138]

Bring back Liberty and Cannata

[@gracielaelisabarrios7108]

hermosa,fiesta,era,lindo,bj,jajaja,es,una,broma,lo,adoro

[@bentleyraiford5188]

4:23 why is it so creepy to me

[@jdenino6022]

Elton John talked about this on an interview he gave. Holy S ***!!

[@Rathboneify]

What interview? What did he say?

[@jdenino6022]

@@Rathboneify he said that Billy got drunk and fell asleep at the piano. That was pretty much it. the interview is on amazon prime.

[@sarahbarkey8571]

@@jdenino6022 I don't think that quote was about this concert. As you can see, he's not falling asleep here. There is a quote from Elton about Billy being drunk onstage when they toured together.

[@jdenino6022]

@@sarahbarkey8571 no he was talking about another concert. I think, I'm not sure I remember anymore.

[@mrscottify]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKPVo6aYhdyHbMksi=KxS0yQ0HDVpP6SEf this is the concert that Elton was referring to, Billy was not only drunk, but had been given steroids and decongestants because he was really sick. Liberty De Vito talks about it in his book. It actually led to a postponement of the tour for a couple of months because he blew his voice out at this gig from overcompensation.

[@karitahannikainen4734]

😂😂😂😂❤

[@johnrwalker53]

Who the Freak is the gay guy talking on Billy's Mic?

[@anguslean4058]

I think we are seeing a side of Billy nobody has seen before I bet Elton turned him Ghey

[@arroz1971]

Whats with all the men kissing each other.

[@Tunz909]

i know......didn't know Billy was like that

[@JourneyLiveCompilations]

Just drunk af

[@scottcartwright9008]

@@JourneyLiveCompilations yeah right,

[@howtodoitdude1662]

He’s part European? 😂

[@dmstewart66]

Lotta Italians in his band and friends circle. Just how they show affection.

[@anitahickey5561]

Billy looks drunk!

[@Flerg3]

What a mess

[@anguslean4058]

And a Ghey time was had by all Didn’t know Billy swung that way.

[@scottcartwright9008]

Hes plastered

[@DG-BB]

cocaine is a hella of a drug...disgusting.

[@sacha3142]

he’s drunk as hell

[@Mcfly88Butthead]

3:41 he's straight up kissing that man bruh

[@dogpd3]

He’s drunk AF

[@weebgrinder-AIArtistPro]

Lol they are both plastered. This is the show with a live album where Billy overdubbed his vocals in the studio.

[@scottcartwright9008]

BILLY JOE IS BI OMG

[@primepap]

@@scottcartwright9008 he’s just drunk not bi

[@scottcartwright9008]

@@primepap u really expect me to believe it's just the alcohol..I gotta bridge to sell u. He's touring with Elton John..

[@Mcfly88Butthead]

looks like billy is drunk as hell or something

[@willthetrill4849]

He was and so was his band. It’s expected since this was New Year’s Eve

[@dappiano1]

If he had known how the first twenty years of this millennium would turn out, he'd have gotten even more drunk.

[@weebgrinder-AIArtistPro]

This was also the beginning of the peak of Billy's alcoholism. From about 1999 through 2003 or so. But it was also bad starting around 1992-1994