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Billy Joel
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#25re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 11:17am
Oh yeah, sorry, harmonica too. I was thinking of more substantial instruments, forgot about that.
And Tink, by 'Here Comes The Bride', do you mean Wagner's Bridal Chorus?
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#26re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 11:19amAww, no love for the harmonica? My friend's dad was a professional harmonica player for years and years. I think he even wrote a book on the technique of playing harmonica.
#27re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 11:59amMy stepdad played harmonica in a blues band for quite a long time, so I have much love for the harmonica.
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#28re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:21pmI absolutely love Billy Joel, but no, he's not the best musician of the 20th century...
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#29re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:22pmAgreed, but who is the best musician of the 20th Century?
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#30re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:00pmI guess it depends on the parameters we're judging. Are we talking best rock star? Or best technical musician? Best rock pianist? Best pianist in general?
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#31re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:05pm
Let's have different categories then.
VOTE!
BEST 20th C. ROCK MUSICIAN
BEST 20th C. PIANIST
TECHNICALLY BEST MUSICIAN OF THE 20th C.
BEST POP MUSICIAN OF 20th C.
BEST MODERN CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSER OF 20th C.
(I vote Ennio Morricone for this one)
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#32re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:20pmThe only song of his that he played guitar for was we didn't start the fire. It's not his best guitar work but keep in mind he really isn't a guitarest. When he pickes up the guitar in concert people know right away what song they are going to do because he only does one song on guitar
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#33re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:22pmTrue, I saw him last July. He picked it up, and I said 'Here we go...'
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#34re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:41pm
i personally think the best all-around rock musicians are some of the prog-rockers from the 70s like the guys in ELP (some of their work is astounding) and Todd Rundgren
For rock pianist it would probably be Billy Joel or Elton John... but i am quite partial to the music of Ben Folds, and think that he is up there...
#35re: Billy Joel
Posted: 5/6/07 at 8:01pmI absolutely love Billy Joel. He is my favorite musician of all time.
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