The last couple of nights, I watched the new five-hour long documentary about Billy Joel's life, "And So It Goes." It's very good. I highly recommend it, if you're a fan. Watching that made me appreciate his music more than before, and gave me the desire to post some more music by him. I knew that musical associate Mike Solof is a big Billy Joel fan, so I recently asked him about what to post. He said this is his favorite Joel concert recording of all time, so here we are.
At this point in Joel's music career, he had only been moderately successful. The album he released a month before this concert, "Turnstiles," didn't sell well, and neither did the previous one. That would put him in danger of being dropped by his record label. He would respond with a massive hit album in 1977, "The Stranger." So it's curious at first that Mike considers this is favorite Joel concert recording, since it doesn't include the many hits from "The Stranger," not to mention the albums that came after that. But perhaps that's its strength. The pre-superstar set list is pretty different from the ones that would come later.
This concert was broadcast live on the radio at the time, which is why there are excellent sounding recordings of it, despite it remaining unreleased. I got it all ready to go, and was minutes from posting it. Then Mike found an even BETTER sounding source. So I had to redo the whole thing. Sigh! But it was worth it, because the sound quality between the two sources was very noticeable.
By the way, the usual bootleg of this contains a lot of DJ talking between songs. In particular, there were three encores, and the DJ filled all the time of the crowd cheering with some pointless chatter. I got rid of that. In fact, I cut out most of the encore cheering, period, so one doesn't have to hear just a lot of cheering. That shortened the album by about five minutes. But I also got rid of some other DJ talk between songs. It should be DJ-free now.
This is an album both Mike and I did a lot of work on. But Mike wrote a PDF file of notes on it. So please give that a read as well. It also includes a bunch of other photos from the three Bottom Line shows that included this one.
This album is an hour and 36 minutes long.
01 Prelude - Angry Young Man (Billy Joel)
02 Somewhere Along the Line (Billy Joel)
03 talk (Billy Joel)
04 Summer, Highland Falls (Billy Joel)
05 talk (Billy Joel)
06 Piano Man (Billy Joel)
07 talk (Billy Joel)
08 Root Beer Rag [Instrumental] (Billy Joel)
09 talk (Billy Joel)
10 James (Billy Joel)
11 Travelin' Prayer (Billy Joel)
12 talk (Billy Joel)
13 New York State of Mind (Billy Joel)
14 talk (Billy Joel)
15 The Entertainer (Billy Joel)
16 The Ballad of Billy the Kid (Billy Joel)
17 talk (Billy Joel)
18 I've Loved These Days (Billy Joel)
19 talk (Billy Joel)
20 Miami 2017 [Seen the Lights Go Down on Broadway] (Billy Joel)
21 Captain Jack (Billy Joel)
22 talk (Billy Joel)
23 All You Wanna Do Is Dance (Billy Joel)
24 Ain't No Crime (Billy Joel)
25 Weekend Song (Billy Joel)
26 Souvenir (Billy Joel)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/2S5mS4SK
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/PyyF8RsyJIpP5cL/file
The cover photo is from this exact concert... maybe. It is from the Bottom Line this month. But he performed three nights there in a row. It's from one of those nights.
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