Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown

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2017/07/28 02:49:21 (permalink)

Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown

I enjoyed reading this article about Billy Joel having a meltdown on stage in Moscow in the 80's. And there's also video of it...
 
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxq74/30-years-ago-billy-joel-had-a-meltdown-in-moscow
 


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    craigb
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    Re: Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown 2017/07/28 03:05:59 (permalink)
    Unfortunately, tl;dr!
     
    Maybe I'll try again later...

     
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    Re: Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown 2017/07/28 03:30:03 (permalink)
    craigb
    Unfortunately, tl;dr!
     
    Maybe I'll try again later...




    Just skip to the part where he goes off his rocker. 

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    Re: Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown 2017/07/28 11:59:48 (permalink)
    Billy Joel has a rocker?
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    Re: Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown 2017/07/28 12:00:02 (permalink)
    Is it a Red Rocker?
     
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    Re: Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown 2017/07/28 12:37:46 (permalink)
    bapu
    Is it a Red Rocker?
     


    SOVIET Red Rocker.  And he trashed it after the show.
     
    I never thought of him as the "meltdown" kind of guy.  Interesting to see the hidden side...

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    Re: Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown 2017/07/28 12:55:59 (permalink)
    bapu
    Is it a Red Rocker?
     




    Rooster. I meant rooster. 

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    Re: Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown 2017/07/28 21:48:45 (permalink)
    Heck. He never missed a note during the meltdown. Not bad!

    Broken pencils are pointless.

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    Re: Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown 2017/07/29 01:36:29 (permalink)
    KenB123
    Heck. He never missed a note during the meltdown. Not bad!




    I was impressed by that too. Pretty classy stuff. 

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    Re: Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown 2017/07/29 21:16:50 (permalink)
    It could have gone bad though. Like the bottom of a mike stand turning into a projectile and killing someone in the audience.  It was a bit irresponsible.  Bit like the time that on Countdown here in Australia many years ago there was a live performance of Iggy Pop in front of some very young teenagers.  The performance was a bit dark and creepy but he was wildly swing mike stands around and people were concerned.  I saw it once and it was a bit of a worry.  It was lucky nothing bad happened. 

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    Re: Bill Joel's Moscow meltdown 2017/08/01 20:11:03 (permalink)
    Couldn't read it.  Couldn't get past the first couple of sentences before the page kept auto jumping me down to some advertisement crap.  Scrolled back up...did it again.  And again.  And again.  F#$* that.  
     
     

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