A very underrated song. Billy Joel has always been a phenomenal talent! 🎶🎶🎶🎶

@josephbennett4236

8 ай бұрын

No, it isn't 'underrated'. Do you understand the meaning of the word?

@calebjames3590

4 ай бұрын

omg this is so true it also annoys me when people us overrated as bad like overrated does not equal bad​@josephbennett4236

Rare Band ... Transitional period between the Rhys Clark/Larry Russell era to the Liberty DiVitto era... Doug Stegmeyer's first tour!!! Rhys leaves and Doug brings in his friends from the band Topper to fill out billy's band .. .thats the classic lineup of Javors, DiVitto, Brown, Stegmeyer, and Cannata... the best motherfuckers ever.

@MrSheymie

8 ай бұрын

Superb band. Now, that's live music. I'm not familiar with his band musicians. Was wondering who the guitar player is. Absolutely on it.

@fernandoperdomomusic

8 ай бұрын

@@MrSheymie don Evans

Phenomenal performance... he's so young here. Married the "Uptown Girl." Billy is still doing shows! Keep on doing what you love! ❤ Happy Holidays! 🎄🎁 Happy Tuesday... thank you for sharing! 💖

These were great albums of his laundry list of amazing albums. The audience is literally mesmerized.

If modern music is so superior, how come there’s no modern version of Midnight Special? Answer: Modern music is cooked up in a lab and served to us lukewarm.

@Natethagr88

2 ай бұрын

Pre packaged

The original drummer of this song was Elvis' drummer Ron Tutt. But, a lot of people have been more familiar with Liberty DeVitto, and now, Chuck Burgi, being there for Billy.

@jnadle1

8 ай бұрын

Rhys Clark@@delbertgrady413

@carlosconesa

2 ай бұрын

I don't enjoy Chuck's drumming, too stiff, lacks passion. Liberty all the way!

@jnadle1

2 ай бұрын

@@carlosconesa Liberty tends to be very aggressive with his drumming.

Oyster Bay ❤ My home town

I had a friend who was a big Billy Joel fan. We were in high school when “Glass Houses” (GH) came out. But that friend played that cassette tape in his car - I don’t think CD players were available for a few more years - until he wore it out. I’m a minor Billy Joel fan - get it? - but GH is easily my favorite album of his.

As a teen saw these amazing Maestros a few years later in Memphis,TN at the Mid-South Coliseum, where thankfully they did this one. Until that point I had never seen anyone hit as hard and in control as Liberty DeVitto - changed my playing style entirely. One reason I got a ticket for one of the first five rows was to watch and learn from Liberty.

@fernandoperdomomusic

8 ай бұрын

And liberty got alot of his style from this guy who he replaced. Rhys Clark

I guess that Billy’s dad Howard - born Helmut in Germany - moved to the US and was a classically-trained pianist. But then Howard later moved back to Europe and lived in Vienna as he didn’t like America. In 1957 Howard considered Americans “uneducated and materialistic.” I wonder what Howard would think of us now. I shudder to think about it.

@jenbloom6848

8 ай бұрын

Howard might be sounding the warning bell.

@davidcampau5117

7 ай бұрын

He was and is 1000% CORRECT✅💯

Oyster Bay, Centre Island, Bayville-and on out to Huntington and Northport. The rocky North Shore beaches. This album came out when I was in grammar school in Nassau County. How did I get so old? The seems better now than it did then.. Maybe being older gives a new appreciation, perspective, understanding.

One of the very best Billy Joel songs ever.

It's too bad he didn't do this show more. I think this is the only time he did it.

@StephanieJeanne

8 ай бұрын

Oh, man! 😢

@kylitoshow

8 ай бұрын

Because this show soon started having all the performances be playback, and I’m sure Billy Joel would never ever do that

Had his .45 record “Piano Man” as a young teen; Billy Joel’s a fantastic soothsayer who weaves stories in our mind. Great performance here 🎹🌟

Liberty transforms this song

@carlosconesa

2 ай бұрын

Everything he plays, really.

So ypung. I remember him like this❤

Excellent 👍

@guskatounas2129

8 ай бұрын

Billy Joel a legend👍👍👍

Bach , Beethoven ,Billy …✔️

Very interesting, Young Joel with a different band and as always an incredible song.

One of the greatest storytellers in rock! I got to see him in 2016. He was still amazing then! I love him! 🤩👏👏💜

@gregoryduncan3067

8 ай бұрын

He sounds the same in his old age.

@StephanieJeanne

8 ай бұрын

@@gregoryduncan3067 He sure does!😍

@themidnightspecialtvshow

8 ай бұрын

He is the best!

@curtisphilumalee1447

8 ай бұрын

I saw him in 79 only because my gf at the time wanted to see him. Big Shot was on the radio every hour it seemed. I still have the concert program. The concert was over three hours long and it was outstanding. Actually happy my gf talked me into it.

@DrummingMan1

8 ай бұрын

ha ha ha Stephanie you love everybody! 👍🤣😘

We watched Midnight Special every week when I was a kid. It inspired me to have a long career in music and I am very grateful. We need more shows like this where the artists actually writes the music, plays the instruments and shows kids there is more out there. Sadly I think learning is to difficult for kids in this "right now" society.

@themidnightspecialtvshow

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the wonderful compliment, Burt Sugarman

@jiffin1

7 ай бұрын

Our generation was the generation of the "singer-songwriter" ... Until Lennon-McCartney came along, almost wrote their own material ... I also think you understand the level of creativity in today's kids - the difference is that they now all have the toys we wanted when we were kids, because we had them made ... Finally, "learning is to difficult" doesn't make your case very well ...

I was introduced to Billy Joel by my high school buddy, who had Glass Houses on 8-track. (I’m that old). But I have been a fan since then, and I especially love the Songs in the Attic album with his live versions of songs that he thought sounded better in specific live settings. You’ve got to check it out if you’ve never heard it because he’s absolutely correct. The live versions of the songs on SITA are better than the album versions!

@bethsmith2534

8 ай бұрын

I met Billy as well! We were on vacation in Newport RI, and he was there with a few friends, his saxophone player, Richie Cannata. We met him coming back from one of the bars and he was telling us he was working on his collaboration project, with Richard Joo that turned out to be the Fantasies and Delusions CD, such amazing talent!

Great version of the song. Perfect tempo. His piano playing is impeccable. The band is tight.

he could sing, he could write, but boy, can he play piano!

Incredible performance, as always, and incredible song!

Billy Joel all the way back from the midnight special. Up to Billy Joel doing twin concerts with elton john in stadium's across the united states. REMEMBER. ? Billy Joel was phenomenal then and still is today . Billy joel and elton john are my two favorite artist of all time

Man I hope we get to see the performance of “Travelin’ Prayer” soon, Billy’s band really shines on that track especially the rhythm section, Doug Stegmeyer is an underrated bass player

An awesome artist and an amazing song 🎉🎉, gracing the stage of the Midnight Special 🎉🎉

👍👍

Breathless!!! Thank you TMS!

Damn these boys are tight,liberty snaps and pops like Stewart Copeland.

Just incredible.

Yes!!! Billy!!

Great!:Thanks

Insanely good.

billy Joel!

👏👏👏👏👏❤🙌♥️

IMO Billy doesn’t get enough credit as a pianist, nor do his pre-Stranger albums. This version is so different, there’s no harmonica at the beginning like on the album and the piano sounds like it came out of an old west saloon

Sing me a song! Your the piano man?

@josephbennett4236

8 ай бұрын

*You're

could have been on Elton John's Tumbleweed connection

is that Liberty on drums?

@parsak.sadjadi3763

8 ай бұрын

No, that's Rhys Clark.

@fernandoperdomomusic

8 ай бұрын

Rhys Clark

@fretfix1

8 ай бұрын

Looks nothing like Liberty...it is definitely Rhys Clark

Who's the drummer here?

I thought Billy The Kid was shot🤔

@jomamma1750

8 ай бұрын

Did you bother to listen to the lyrics of the song once? It never mentions him being hanged to death does it? Billy the Kid WAS captured, and the Judge DID order him to be hanged to death. He killed 2 deputies and escaped later that night. Pat Garrett caught up with him and shot him down afterwards.

I don’t think this is actually played live sadly

@fretfix1

8 ай бұрын

It is live. That's how good Billy and the boys are....

@hellogengammut2824

8 ай бұрын

Well you got that wrong - it is

@thekivster

8 ай бұрын

@@fretfix1 I’m pretty sure they are just miming

@josephbennett4236

8 ай бұрын

@@fretfix1I think @thekivster is being sarcastic.