Yes! Your long dormant rss feed returneth!
Today being Veteran’s Day it seems appropriate to start back with the post I tried to put up before discovering the blog was hacked (back around Memorial Day), and then fixed by Alex, and then hacked again before Yahoo ultimately fixed what made it hackable, I thought it appropriate to start back with the post that the hacker blocked.
The first time I saw Billy Joel was in July of 1990 at the now demolished The Arena. The song I remember best about this show is that whatever song was before Goodnight Saigon faded down along with the house lights.
From darkness you hear helicopters coming through the PA and see 2 spotlights sweeping the crowd in a search pattern. Another spotlight came up on Billy Joel. The song starts off very quiet so most of the sound in the mix was Billy & his piano with the rest of the band barely audible. Much presence.
The chorus to the song is ‘And we would all go down together/We said we’d all go down together/Yes we would all go down together‘. Four or five rows above us an entire of row vets, decked in camou jackets with various medals reflecting the lights on the stage, sang that chorus with passion. You could see on their faces, in that same trickle of stage light, that every one of them was singing because it’s what the believed. My eyes got wet then and still do when I listen to the song because it’s the first image that pops into my mind.