Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel

Clip from Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel singing Glory Days together at Change Rocks' Barack Obama benefit on 10/16/08 in NYC.

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Music

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• Bruce
• Springsteen
• Billy
• Joel
• Glory
• Days
• Barack
• Obama
• Change
• Rocks
• Hammerstein
• Ballroom

[alyse1969]

and SaMolvc, thanks for posting - sounds great. i bet it was a blast to be there, you lucky dog. any chance you'd post a full song? : )

[SaMolvc]

alyse1969,

I've been to 140 Springsteen shows, and this was in the top 5, thrilling...Bruce-Billy-Barack­...John Legend and India Arie, too...sorry the clips are so short...I wanted to enjoy the show so I couldn't shoot complete songs...I will post 10th Ave Freeze-out later this week and you will see when Bruce walked in front of me I reached out to try to bump fists with him and the video gets video gets lost for 10 seconds...glad to share the night with all to see.

-SaMolvc

[TheCityOfKingsALC]

The Boss and The Piano Man...pure awesomeness

[langlim]

holy god i would have shat myself if i were present for this

[Grunt6869]

Asses to the wind ,when Vietnam was on these punks ass in the Glory DAZE only to exploit for the blind to pay.



[mhvr85]

@tjoad951 it's my taste, I play piano...and I still recognize bruce as one of the legends of the music world....but admit that billy's songs have been more comercial, more covered and more successfull. Billy is by far a better musician as well, any pimp can go on stage and play a guitar...in the 80's and now as well....but only a few play piano and succeed. Whatever you say about Bruce...Billy does better. And don't tell me the songs I mentioned don't compare...PIANO MAN beats them ALL.

[54HUTCHmister54]

@tjoad951 I think Billy is a better pianist than Bruce is a guitarist. They're both great though.

[tjoad951]

I dont like when people compare the two. Theres no comparison. Ive seen 136 Bruce shows and hope to someday hit the 200 mark. Bruce is still making great albums and putting on legendary shows. I know so many people that have seen Bruce at least 100 times. No one goes to 100 Billy shows. Dont get me wrong, Billy has some good songs but there is no one in history on Bruces level.

[tjoad951]

@54HUTCHmister54 In Billys dreams

[tjoad951]

@mhvr85 My friend, Billy Joel is not in the same league as Bruce. Bruce is a much better songwriter, performer and all around musician. The songs you mentioned dont compare to the hundreds of Bruce classics like Jungleland, Ghost Of Tom Joad, Darkness, The RIver, The Rising and they just keep coming....

[kofd04]

What lousy seats. I mean, you had to crane your neck to look up and all. MSG is such a big place, you would think you could have done better.... ;)

[TylerRobinson7]

@funshipM174 Its very possible. infact, he does. Billys piano is a Kurzweil.

[technocrash09]

@funshipM174 It is not crazy.....and it is possible. many musicians do that with their keyboards today......even EJ (but only occasionally)

peace

[spgpcpbp]

@funshipM174 Good to talk to another Billy Joel fan. I'm not sure if it's an electric Piano or not, I guess it is technically possible. I don't know why the sound crew turn the guitar channels down, He plays solo acoustic on 'The Times They Are A Changin' and 'The Siegfried Line' (which is a demo). He plays the chords quite heavily, but otherwise ok. I've heard a lot worse.