"Los Angelenos (1st Time Live Since 1981) & Allentown" Billy Joel@MSG New York 4/25/23

[@justAnotherJapanese]

Wow, his vocal is amazing.

[@haroldmessinger1]

Thanks. How can someone speak so casually and invitingly and make 18,000 people feel like an intimate hang in your living room. It's a like house concert, but at a very large house!

[@TonysMusic1974]

My favorite Billy joel song!

[@真鳥智はる]

最高❤。十七歳の時に初めて聞いた時、今まで聞いた事のない音源で感動したのを覚えています。

[@march220]

I so wish I could've seen this!

[@mm-nyc]

This sounds like a cover band playing it on a request. Listen to the Sparks live version if you want to hear what this song should aound like live.

[@TheSkirvo]

Whatever

[@howtodoitdude1662]

Yeah but he was in his 30’s

[@snowyherge1549]

He should be doing so many more deep cuts- his show set lists have been so boring for so long but this is a great suprise and most welcome for the fans!!

[@PianoManGrj]

Thank you for sharing this! I couldn’t make it last night and had a feeling he would do something special. ✌🏼

[@markindy862]

Some voices in the background. Did they come to listen to Billy or to talk to each other.

[@Wushutigercranekungfudragon]

Billy could interrupt my playing anytime

[@Grace-E-21]

Seriously

[@biffbifford402]

Crazy how he is trying to talk, and you can hear women in the background just yammering the whole entire time he’s talking.

[@felicerucci5447]

msg is always terrible with this….even during songs like and so it goes they dont stfu… saw him in niagara falls and crowd was silent whenever he spoke, much smaller venu, granted, but still

[@jimpowers10411]

I had to move to a different section these 3 young girls were talking constantly the entire time during every song like the show was a coffee shop. I was thinking how great it was at the beginning of the show that no one was talking/yelling during show and by the 5th or 6th song these 3 young girls show up and sit behind me and begin their yammering nonstop

[@felicerucci5447]

that’s ridiculous. its no wonder he doesnt sell front rows anymore because i can imagine the same shit used to happen up there. people with too much money who dont even appreciate the 74yo guy whos still up there doing his thing

[@TonysMusic1974]

@@jimpowers10411 I often tell people to STFU right to their face. My wife hates when I do that. I tell them "people paid to see this show, so can you STFU?"" They usually don't.

[@BobCat623923]

Waited far too long to bring this one back in the set.....and then he needlessly bashes the song...it's actually one of his best deep cut rockers that sounds great when played with power - see SITA for evidence of that. I would've loved to see him pull this one out once in a while during his tours for The Bridge or Strom Front.

[@howtodoitdude1662]

At this age he bashes many of his songs because they were written when he was young and naive. I personally don’t like when he does that.

[@thelevisullivan]

Why didn’t he play this song when he was in LA last month?

[@rcom9880]

Never understood why not last month or at the Hollywood Bowl shows either. And such a great deep cut.

[@BobCat623923]

Great question

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

I never got the sense that this song was a compliment to Los Angeles...

[@musashi-san____1409]

@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 It wasn't, but as an Angeleno I would of been honored if he would of played it in LA. Playing it in NYC added to the insult. I guess he really hates Los Angeles.

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

@@musashi-san____1409 Yeah, Goodbye to Hollywood says that too? He really decided to return to NYC in the 1970s when the city was basically in bankruptcy, and he never looked back. It was the right thing to do.

[@dominicnewman4476]

And this crowd came from the crowd 😂

[@sithlordmikeyp]

"We haven't done this song live since the 80s." Who's "we" in that sentence? He's the only one left from that era lol

[@zmdudeman1488]

He has two members in his band that have been there since the 80s. Mark and Crystal.

[@TonysMusic1974]

There are 2 from the 80s, but he actually hadn't done this song since 1981. Neither were there then.

[@jaredschroeder]

in general terms Billy himself is the collective 'we'

[@mattdavies8014]

Anyone know if Billy did anything to commemorate Harry Belafonte?

[@bentleyraiford5188]

Why would he he's the guy from the 1930s Joel was guy from the 1970s to late 90s to whole different eras

[@thelevisullivan]

@@bentleyraiford5188 I think they worked together on the “We Are The World” recording.

[@jimpowers10411]

No

[@PianoManGrj]

@@bentleyraiford5188 because Harry was a legend. I was born in 80 Andy duo plans to play a tune for him tomorrow night. Age means nothing when it comes to music and art. ✌🏼

[@bentleyraiford5188]

@@PianoManGrj Billy doesn't usually do things like that unless it's an artist he really cares about for example Ray Charles and sweet baby grand his tribute to Joe Cocker was nice

[@TonysMusic1974]

Who the hell keeps talking throughout the whole thing?????? Concert etiquette is truly dead.

[@jetsnation14]

When he said it was a song he never played since the 80s, I was wondering why he never plays it. It’s because it’s shit 😂 even billy thinks so. However it was still an awesome show

[@KyleCourounis]

Excuse yourself? Just because you didn't know doesn't mean "it's shit." I've seen Billy 10 times (11 in June) and I am so fucking jealous I was not there for this. It's such a great deep cut. The lyrics are humorous, it's got a fun little electric piano riff, and a very catchy chorus. He also sounds way better than I thought he would on it, albeit a full step down from the original. So get outta here with your silly comment...

[@jetsnation14]

@@KyleCourounis I agree for 73 he sounds very good, however this song felt very repetitive, with the same guitar and piano riff nearly the whole song, it is not catchy, and the chorus just felt bland. And on top of that it didn’t sound like Billy. Like Piano Man, Scenes, Vienna, My Life. All iconic Billy Joel songs that follow a Billy like theme that connect them. This just felt random. Sometimes that’s good and works, but it didn’t here.

[@KyleCourounis]

@@jetsnation14 I apologize about the bitterness of my comment earlier, I got a little pissed off lol - but I don't think Billy has a theme at all, and that's part of the beauty of his body of work. You mentioned 4 songs, all of them hits except for Vienna (though it's become a modern hit). He has over 120. His deep cuts are often better than his hits, largely because they're not overplayed as hell. I just prefer almost any of his album tracks to his hits.

[@CapitalQ]

Totally out of line. This song is an all-time classic album cut.

[@TheSecretAaron]

I think it’s just a product of being on one of his earlier albums, Streetlife Serenade, while his most famous songs came after that album