{"id":36,"date":"2006-03-17T00:48:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T04:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.screwedbydesign.com\/blineapples\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-03-17T00:48:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T04:48:39","slug":"piano_man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/piano_man.php","title":{"rendered":"From Angry Young Man to Piano Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/pre.png\" alt=\"pre.png\" height=\"205\" width=\"427\" \/><br \/>\n<small><strong>30min before Joel hit the stage. By the time he did, not a single empty seat could be found.<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I just got back from the Verizon Center where Billy Joel just played an awesome concert. As you can probably tell from the above picture, I had great seats! My mother and I were literally 20ft. or so from the stage. The tickets (bought through eBay) were a real pain to get since Paypal ended up charging twice for them causing my bank to charge me $50 bucks in overdraft fees. Luckily I managed to get the second charge refunded and somehow even managed to have my bank return the $50. While incredibly inconvenient, the hassle was totally worth it to get seats as close as they were.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/bjoel.png\" alt=\"bjoel.png\" height=\"241\" width=\"370\" \/><br \/>\n<small><strong>Joel playing Don&#8217;t Ask Me Why.<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n<p>The show itself was great. Even at 56, Joel still knows how to please an audience. Playing a setlist that included some of his lesser known songs as well as the bigger hits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"float: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>Prelude\/Angry Young Man<\/li>\n<li>My Life<\/li>\n<li>Everybody Loves You Now<\/li>\n<li>The Entertainer<\/li>\n<li>New York State Of Mind<\/li>\n<li>The Downeaster &#8216;Alexa&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Zanzibar<\/li>\n<li>Allentown<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t Ask Me Why<\/li>\n<li>Pressure<\/li>\n<li>Goodnight Saigon<\/li>\n<li>Movin&#8217; Out<\/li>\n<li>An Innocent Man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"float: right\">\n<ul>\n<li>She&#8217;s Always A Woman<\/li>\n<li>Captain Jack<\/li>\n<li>Keeping The Faith<\/li>\n<li>I Go To Extremes<\/li>\n<li>The River Of Dreams<\/li>\n<li>Highway To Hell<\/li>\n<li>We Didn&#8217;t Start The Fire<\/li>\n<li>Big Shot<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s Still Rock And Roll To Me<\/li>\n<li>You May Be Right<\/li>\n<li>Only The Good Die Young<\/li>\n<li>Scenes From An Italian Restaurant<\/li>\n<li>Piano Man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/stagel.png\" alt=\"stagel.png\" height=\"274\" width=\"437\" \/><br \/>\n<small><strong>Introducing Pressure prior to running to another keyboard on the right side of the stage.<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n<p>One thing that really surprised me about this concert was the massive number of younger faces in the crowd. Of course the middle-aged to older group you&#8217;d expect to be there were, but the younger folks seemed to have more of a presence at this concert. It really shows that in times of crappy music, people will go off looking for alternatives. It also speaks for how timeless Joel&#8217;s music is considering his first hit came out in &#8217;71.<br \/>\nI really had a great time and given a chance, would buy another ticket or two to another of his upcoming shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30min before Joel hit the stage. By the time he did, not a single empty seat could be found. I just got back from the Verizon Center where Billy Joel just played an awesome concert. As you can probably tell from the above picture, I had great seats! My mother and I were literally 20ft. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/piano_man.php\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Angry Young Man to Piano Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}