Bruce Springsteen & Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert,
Madison Square Garden,
October 29, 2009.
Taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 camera.

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Music

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• Bruce
• Springsteen
• Billy
• Joel
• Panasonic
• Lumix
• DMC-ZS3

[fakemollyroberts]

buddy, bruce springsteen can definitely sing. try actually listening to his music.

[Joelesque]

Honestly, people: If you don't have a clue, what musical terms mean, don't use them! Billy Joel lowered the song one key down! From Cmajor to Bbmajor. And he is not singing THAT one octave lower.

Having cleared the air about that, I gotta say: Great Performance

[leetejackson]

taxt



[MattyStryde]

haha I thought Bruce was gonna go right through that piano :P

Wicked Performance

[chrisizzysuck]

holy shit bruce butchers this. what is he singing? the vocal melody is horrible. of course, he can't sing for shit and is playing next to one of the greatest pop/rock singers of all time who can sing in any style. holy crap, bruce sucks.

[sondheimfan1]

@Joelesque a hyperbole I apologize for ignoring facts, I do agree he plays many songs in the original keys but he has in fact changed the key of many songs he plays. Not a bad thing just what an aging musician has to do, many artists do it.

[sondheimfan1]

@angelic4296 an octave is 12... I repeat 12 half steps. If he were to move something down a complete octave it would be absolutely insane. He does what Elton John does; he takes the original chord and instead of the singing the dominant note he sings the bass note, essentially moving the vocal part down 2.5 steps. go take some theory courses.

[angelic4296]

@sondheimfan1 Wrong. There's a difference between not playing the actual song in the original key and Billy moving his VOICE down an octave or two because his voice has aged just as he has. Billy plays TONS of his songs in their original key. Why wouldn't he, that doesn't even make sense?? He has made changes to the octave in which he sings while keeping in the SAME KEY, which is completely different. Good grief.....

[angelic4296]

@Joelesque Thank you for that comment. As someone who took piano lessons for 15 years and still plays, it irritates the HELL out of me when people throw out musical terms & they use them in the absolute wrong way b/c they actually have no idea what the term means....ANNOYING!

[PimF12011zZ]

your camara pick up the sounds good!!!

[glenneveaux]

'b'z the one who so seems to be forcing things; unlike when he was younger and he seemed to freestyle naturally. maybe he's too worried about his white transplants showing, or, that patti's red (gotta luv her for "not" going the bleach route) hair paint is gonna bleed to white. no offense, but who's had the most face lifts? b or patty? refreshing to see billy seeming to not give a fuck about his bald head or his white hair, which, to me is so admirabable. a breath of originality in a seaof\sheep

[observer9670]

Bruce and Billy are long time pals and mutual admirers. In their late teens and early 20's they played on the same NY-NJ-PA rock club circuit with their respective bands and got to know each other then.