Billy Joel

[anonymous-user]

Freddie Hubbard's trumpet solo on Zanzibar, absolute masterpiece, on par with the Dan.

[Marvindodgers]

It's just fantastic isn't it.
It's strange, but I feel that his and Elton's careers match each others. In the 70s they could barely put a foot wrong and their albums from that era are almost uniformly excellent. Then we get to around 1984 and both just went rubbish and haven't really ever made it back. I'm not taking about live performances as I've heard that they are both still great showmen, but recorded output is just poor from both since that time.

[anonymous-user]

Marvindodgers said:

It's just fantastic isn't it.
It's strange, but I feel that his and Elton's careers match each others. In the 70s they could barely put a foot wrong and their albums from that era are almost uniformly excellent. Then we get to around 1984 and both just went rubbish and haven't really ever made it back. I'm not taking about live performances as I've heard that they are both still great showmen, but recorded output is just poor from both since that time.

Couldn't agree more.
Captain Fantastic, GYBR, Don't Shoot Me IOTPP, madman Across The Water and BJ with Turnstiles,The Stranger, 52nd Street and then when the eighties got going they both started making dreadful music and EJs voice had gone bad ref live performances, couple of highlights from this period for both of them to me would be Billy Joel's perfomance of Leave The Tender Moment Alone with Toots on harmonica from Wembley and the track Elton wrote with Judie Tzuke on 21 At 33 called Give Me The Love. To be honest a lot of bands did dreadful music in the 80s, Genesis Invisible Touch springs to mind.

[anonymous-user]

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That's the way to do it, listen to what you like.
In the late 70s/early 80s I was a biker and led the lifestyle(still do somewhat) and as a teen then you had to listen to a certain genre of music obviously being a biker meant full blown rock music + stuff like Rumours by FM so a lot of great music of that era went under the radar as it didn't fit into the genre we were supposed to listen to. The worrying thing is I have mates who still follow the hard rock or nothing mantra.
Drifting slightly from my original post but late 80s the company I was working for built a recording console for Electric Lady in New York, it wasn't fully built and developed when the bank pulled the plug, the company went under and I ended up working for Electric Lady for a while getting all the bits together, anyway bearing in mind what I said about it not being fully built and developed when they got it up and running the best they could rather than get a small time guinea pig to do a bit of recording they went straight in with Billy Joel and the console caught fire,lol but fortunately it was soon put out and the problems were fixed and it went on to be used on many big songs including Whitney Houston's I will Always Love You.
One photo from the factory my mate took and one from the internet with none other than Eddie Kramer behind it.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 18th October 08:27

[anonymous-user]

Not sure if the Eddie Kramer one came through.