I think it’s lost on everyone in the comments section that this song is literally about someone getting too wasted and acting like a fool and embarrassing themselves. It’s literally what the song is about...
I watched Billy Joel box his entire band on stage and kept singing the entire time. Guy goes hard. I heard Danzig is terrified beyond the ability of rational thought when someone mentions his name.
@@BillSmith-rx9rm damn bro you’ve just been hating in this comment section. It’s funny to me that you can’t let other people enjoy their favorite artists being goofballs on stage and having FUN with the music everyone knows can be played well and loves the way it is. Sounds like a male-karen over here
I saw Billy Joel in Nov. 1989 - my first concert ever! LA Sports Arena - he started jumping on the closed piano. It was the most thunderous booming sound I had ever heard. The place was going wild - what an amazing show! I've been hooked on live music ever since!!!
I loved when he drunkenly warned the audience members not to drink &drive...and pointed out that the traffic is HORRIBLE & to be careful because people drive on the left side of the road in Moscow
I remember watching this on TV live in 1987 with my parents as we were all big Billy Joel fans. I was 10. I've been looking for this clip for decades, ever since I first heard of CZcams. Thank you for this upload.
@@SS-kz7td So true!!! I've found things on CZcams that I thought I'd NEVER see or hear again! Especially certain music from cassette tapes I had in the 80s and 90s, like "The Violet Burning" (I didnt know the band name before), "Good News Car Tunes," and "A Pac-Man Christmas." There are still others I struggle to find as I never knew the name of the artist or song, but I do have an old, poor quality dub of a melody I like, that was on the Yamaha Electone HX-1 1987 tour demo tape that I got, when attending a demonstration of the keyboard at my school and local music store. I've heard several songs used by that keyboard for demos, but not the song I'm actually looking for. I'm sure you've experienced similar joys of finding your favorites and also disappointments of not finding others. What have you discovered, or are still looking for?
@@CaptainFoufeu Oh man... I'm having a hard time recalling some, but I know there's been too many to mention. Going to stock car races with my dad as a kid were some of my fondest memories. I've found some videos of races that I attended as a kid, at local or regional tracks that really had no business being recorded. Most of these would have been in the early to mid 90's. Also, remember the TV show based on the comic Cathy? For some reason I remember watching a Valentine's Day special. I never cared for Cathy, but I remember my mom had recorded it, and it was on a tape with Garfield and some cartoon that I can't remember featuring junk yard cats, lol. Anyway, I remember as a really young kid, probably 4 years old, that it seemed very sad to me (I've always been sensitive). Also, I enjoy the videos of places or structures that I went to, or saw on vacation as a kid, that have since been torn down, but are preserved on youtube. It's fun to look at some of this stuff as an adult, and see either how close or how different it was from what you remember. Some of these videos may have 1,000 views and is more or less lost on the internet, but it can mean so much to people individually. Thanks for sharing that. I'm going to go through my saved videos and see if I can think of any more. Have you since thought of any more?
@@SS-kz7td Wow, I remember the comic strip of Cathy, but I didn't know there was an animated series of it. I think I may know what "junkyard cats" show you might be talking about. Try looking up "Heathcliff" (1980s) and "Top Cat" (1960s & 70s) and see if those might be the ones, as they featured junkyard / alley cat themes. I was always a huge fan of Garfield, too. I had a lot of the Garfield specials recorded on tape as well, along with ALL of the books up until the late 90s. This included the main daily comics collections, the Sunday Treasury series, the animated specials comic books, and special books such as "Garfied: His 9 Lives," "The Garfield Trivia Book", "Garfield's Book of Cat Names," "Garfield's Party Book," and more. I also had many of the children's storybooks including "Garfield's Judgment Day," which was supposed to become a feature length animated Garfield film for theaters, but was canceled before production was completed. I also agree and can confirm that there are A LOT of sports events that have been recorded but lost to time, and other events that were not recorded, but should have been, because people would have enjoyed it. Especially auto racing. During high school, I was a driver for my uncle's team in a private racing club that owned several tracks built on privately owned land in the Mojave Desert area (California, Arizona, & Nevada). That was fun. I got to race a lot of awesome cars. To describe it would take a long time to write and be a huge chunk of neverending text, but if you want to know about it, go ahead and tell me. I don't mind replying with some details about it, especially if you're an auto racing fan. Personally, I'm a writer, gamer, former chef and Army veteran. I'm a "decent" artist, and like to draw on occasion too. I usually like making my own car designs, comics, and starships for the sci-fi series I'm writing and hope to get produced to film someday. I usually spend most of my time gaming or writing, when I'm not working (Postmates, Amazon Flex). What do you enjoy?
This was from London....right before he went over to do the Russian shows. I remember seeing this performance on an episode of a documentary series Music Passport on MTV.....definitely not from Russia. In fact, the end credits list it at Wembley stadium.
I saw Billy in 1979 November 6th!! He wasn't to far off from this show!!! He was chugging Michelobe beers and running around like a total mad man!!! His drummer Liberty Diveto was giving Billy the finger!! They were having a blast on stage!!! Glad I didn't miss it !!! Great show!!!
"The Craziest Billy Joel Performance Ever!" A.K.A "The Night Billy Joel Went Completely Nuts!" Seeing Billy's wild antics in this video has me howling with laughter! His Sylvester Stallone impression starting at around 2:57 has me DEAD!!! 😂🤣😆
If he was on cocaine, he would have attempted the back somersault. If he was drunk, he would have forgotten the lyrics. This was a long, tiring performance of the night and he was high on adrenaline and exited to be the first American rock star to play in Russia! That’s it, he’s a performer, an entertainer!
Great show... He's just playing the part of the "big shot" in the song... did this quite often when he was younger... it's the big shot charatcter on display. :)
I've seen footage from at least three of his six Russian concerts prior to this. This is the first one I've seen where some of the band members are actually wearing different clothing. To this day "Kohuept" is one of my all time favorite live CD's. Although I preferred the version of Allentown from the video version. The 2014 remastered video concert overdubs that Allentown version with the CD version. Bummer.
This was a concert in Soviet Russia in 1987. Billy was angry that whoever was in control of the lights kept lighting the audience. When the lights were low, the audience was getting into the music and dancing. When the lights got turned up, the audience would be afraid that the "authorities" would see them dancing and be able to recognize them. At one point during "You May Be Right," he actually shouts between verses "Quit lighting the audience," and "Stop it!" It was sucking the life out of the audience and he hated it. In order to try to keep the energy level up, he had this rather unorthodox performance.
Oh, wow, one person in the comments section gets it! "You had to be a big shot, didn't ya / you had to prove it to the crowd" It is not amphetamine/cocaine/psychosis/whatever. It's called a "show". All I needed was one person to allow me to feel sane again. Thank you.
@@LisaMitchellGD it was meant to be taken literally. that's why in one of the performances for this song, he flips it around and points out that it was his behavior that was crazy and not his partner's.
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Gotta say that drummer has got skill literally catches his suit jacket on his stick and still plays while casually flicking it off
Liberty Devito.
And yes. He does.
I would've paid 2x the ticket price to see this live.
Waste of money. I've heard garage bands sound 10X better than this. This was just noise with preppy boy attitude.
@@glenturney4750 Billy Joel hater found
@@TheLiveMontageGuy05 no, just stating the facts.
@@BillSmith-rx9rm he does not sound like trash live, lmao
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LET ME DO MY SHOW FOR CHRISTS SAKE!!
STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE!!!
*flips piano*
*destroys microphone stand*
*smashes mic on piano*
@@dominicperrone2790
Best part of that concert!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think it’s lost on everyone in the comments section that this song is literally about someone getting too wasted and acting like a fool and embarrassing themselves. It’s literally what the song is about...
A lot of Billy Joel haters in these comments.
@@TheLiveMontageGuy05where, i can't see them hahaha
@@bonbonbonbonscheck the reply comments
I watched Billy Joel box his entire band on stage and kept singing the entire time. Guy goes hard. I heard Danzig is terrified beyond the ability of rational thought when someone mentions his name.
Give this man the comment prize.
Oh the handstand on the piano was amazing. I had no idea Billy was capable of onstage gymnastics
Alcohol & cocaine, baby.
Amazing what you can accomplish after a few lines of cocaine. :D
I'm dissapointed he didn't throw the piano over
He ate the piano?
@@FreeBrunoPowroznik Good times, good times
And I thought Michael Jackson was a great live performer... This shit deserves an award.
Yes, he deserves a participation trophy like any five-year-old would do for such a performance.
@@BillSmith-rx9rm damn bro you’ve just been hating in this comment section. It’s funny to me that you can’t let other people enjoy their favorite artists being goofballs on stage and having FUN with the music everyone knows can be played well and loves the way it is. Sounds like a male-karen over here
@@BillSmith-rx9rm and speaking of five year old boys
I like Billy Joel a lot, but bruh literally anyone can do this, this don’t deserve an award tbh
I saw Billy Joel in Nov. 1989 - my first concert ever! LA Sports Arena - he started jumping on the closed piano. It was the most thunderous booming sound I had ever heard. The place was going wild - what an amazing show! I've been hooked on live music ever since!!!
It’s like John C Riley playing Billy Joel brilliant
I was waiting for him to yell, "Do you like guacamole??" before he dove onto the piano.
I loved when he drunkenly warned the audience members not to drink &drive...and pointed out that the traffic is HORRIBLE & to be careful because people drive on the left side of the road in Moscow
He says “thank you, London” at the end, this isn’t in Russia and you can clearly see it by audience.
Because roads in Russia are intented for you to drive on the right side
“The traffic around here SUCKS!” 😂
“Oh look at dem Biceps” 🤣
This is straight up Rock n Roll
5 seconds in and the man is diving onto a keyboard
I remember watching this on TV live in 1987 with my parents as we were all big Billy Joel fans. I was 10. I've been looking for this clip for decades, ever since I first heard of CZcams. Thank you for this upload.
That's awesome, I know the feeling when finding something so personally important on youtube, it's a great feeling.
@@SS-kz7td So true!!! I've found things on CZcams that I thought I'd NEVER see or hear again! Especially certain music from cassette tapes I had in the 80s and 90s, like "The Violet Burning" (I didnt know the band name before), "Good News Car Tunes," and "A Pac-Man Christmas." There are still others I struggle to find as I never knew the name of the artist or song, but I do have an old, poor quality dub of a melody I like, that was on the Yamaha Electone HX-1 1987 tour demo tape that I got, when attending a demonstration of the keyboard at my school and local music store. I've heard several songs used by that keyboard for demos, but not the song I'm actually looking for. I'm sure you've experienced similar joys of finding your favorites and also disappointments of not finding others. What have you discovered, or are still looking for?
@@CaptainFoufeu Oh man... I'm having a hard time recalling some, but I know there's been too many to mention. Going to stock car races with my dad as a kid were some of my fondest memories. I've found some videos of races that I attended as a kid, at local or regional tracks that really had no business being recorded. Most of these would have been in the early to mid 90's. Also, remember the TV show based on the comic Cathy? For some reason I remember watching a Valentine's Day special. I never cared for Cathy, but I remember my mom had recorded it, and it was on a tape with Garfield and some cartoon that I can't remember featuring junk yard cats, lol. Anyway, I remember as a really young kid, probably 4 years old, that it seemed very sad to me (I've always been sensitive). Also, I enjoy the videos of places or structures that I went to, or saw on vacation as a kid, that have since been torn down, but are preserved on youtube. It's fun to look at some of this stuff as an adult, and see either how close or how different it was from what you remember. Some of these videos may have 1,000 views and is more or less lost on the internet, but it can mean so much to people individually. Thanks for sharing that. I'm going to go through my saved videos and see if I can think of any more. Have you since thought of any more?
@@SS-kz7td Wow, I remember the comic strip of Cathy, but I didn't know there was an animated series of it. I think I may know what "junkyard cats" show you might be talking about. Try looking up "Heathcliff" (1980s) and "Top Cat" (1960s & 70s) and see if those might be the ones, as they featured junkyard / alley cat themes. I was always a huge fan of Garfield, too. I had a lot of the Garfield specials recorded on tape as well, along with ALL of the books up until the late 90s. This included the main daily comics collections, the Sunday Treasury series, the animated specials comic books, and special books such as "Garfied: His 9 Lives," "The Garfield Trivia Book", "Garfield's Book of Cat Names," "Garfield's Party Book," and more. I also had many of the children's storybooks including "Garfield's Judgment Day," which was supposed to become a feature length animated Garfield film for theaters, but was canceled before production was completed.
I also agree and can confirm that there are A LOT of sports events that have been recorded but lost to time, and other events that were not recorded, but should have been, because people would have enjoyed it. Especially auto racing. During high school, I was a driver for my uncle's team in a private racing club that owned several tracks built on privately owned land in the Mojave Desert area (California, Arizona, & Nevada). That was fun. I got to race a lot of awesome cars. To describe it would take a long time to write and be a huge chunk of neverending text, but if you want to know about it, go ahead and tell me. I don't mind replying with some details about it, especially if you're an auto racing fan.
Personally, I'm a writer, gamer, former chef and Army veteran. I'm a "decent" artist, and like to draw on occasion too. I usually like making my own car designs, comics, and starships for the sci-fi series I'm writing and hope to get produced to film someday. I usually spend most of my time gaming or writing, when I'm not working (Postmates, Amazon Flex). What do you enjoy?
Sax guy's Bobby's World dad style afro mullet steals the show @ 1:00 imo.
This was from London....right before he went over to do the Russian shows. I remember seeing this performance on an episode of a documentary series Music Passport on MTV.....definitely not from Russia. In fact, the end credits list it at Wembley stadium.
I can’t believe this happened haha. He was full rock star for a few years that’s for sure.
My jaw was gonna come unhinged if he did a back flip off the piano at the end.. lol crazy
That's the loooooonatic I'm looking for! I saw one that I thought was even crazier from 1994 ( I think) in Frankfurt.
I saw Billy in 1979 November 6th!! He wasn't to far off from this show!!! He was chugging Michelobe beers and running around like a total mad man!!! His drummer Liberty Diveto was giving Billy the finger!! They were having a blast on stage!!! Glad I didn't miss it !!! Great show!!!
Rock on Billy. One of the few artists where I know just about every song he wrote. Know what I mean?
"The Craziest Billy Joel Performance Ever!" A.K.A "The Night Billy Joel Went Completely Nuts!"
Seeing Billy's wild antics in this video has me howling with laughter! His Sylvester Stallone impression starting at around 2:57 has me DEAD!!!
😂🤣😆
If he was on cocaine, he would have attempted the back somersault. If he was drunk, he would have forgotten the lyrics. This was a long, tiring performance of the night and he was high on adrenaline and exited to be the first American rock star to play in Russia! That’s it, he’s a performer, an entertainer!
Except this performance wasn't in Russia. Lol
He's literally saying to be careful driving on the left side - that's not russia
He's on drugs bro
It was in London 😂, and yes he was coked out
This wasn’t in Russia genius lol
Stop shinning the lights on the audience
Can you imagine how awesome it must have been to party with him
"White lines...vision dreams of passion flowing through my mind..."
guys i doubt he was on drugs he just seemed very pumped up and happy btw this is priceless i laughed so fucking hard :))
Prob drunk
wow thank you for this upload
Great show... He's just playing the part of the "big shot" in the song... did this quite often when he was younger... it's the big shot charatcter on display. :)
No he was high as a kite
@doomsday9973 except he didn't do drugs
I didn't know he also played easy money and running on ice at this gig. If the video still exists, I would love to see it.
LOL that speech at the end.
“The traffic around here SUCKS!” 😂
I've seen footage from at least three of his six Russian concerts prior to this.
This is the first one I've seen where some of the band members are actually wearing different clothing.
To this day "Kohuept" is one of my all time favorite live CD's.
Although I preferred the version of Allentown from the video version.
The 2014 remastered video concert overdubs that Allentown version with the CD version. Bummer.
This wasn't in Russia.
more metal than a slayer show
🤣 LOL like in the best way!!!
there are definitely some early metal elements to some billy joel songs and they have more groove
Michael Keaton is Billy Joel, in the new Martin Scorsese picture: "Billy Joel's Trip To London." 😎🤪🤣
Hey at least he wasn’t driving.
The Michael Keaton of Rockn'Roll
Omg I was trying to place it, TY! Swore I saw Batman vibes!! Yesss!!!
@@scorpionwarrior9179 totally
Wembley Arena 86 for anyone who was wondering
that is the most accurate description of a video I've ever seen posted on youtube.
Billy is the best. No f's given!!!
He rocked it big time !!
Love Billy 💛
Was waiting for him to do a back flip off the piano.
What a mess.
he's so high and it's so hilarious
They showed this whole concert live on MTV. I've been looking for this. I thought at the time this is part his regular show.
The traffic around her sucks! I think he was drinking! 😃😂
He’s hilarious. 😂 And cute. ☺️
Billy is not the best dancer, so this type of performance worked well for him !
I think his dancing is cute.
There is a 1080 HD version of this on CZcams.
This was a concert in Soviet Russia in 1987. Billy was angry that whoever was in control of the lights kept lighting the audience. When the lights were low, the audience was getting into the music and dancing. When the lights got turned up, the audience would be afraid that the "authorities" would see them dancing and be able to recognize them. At one point during "You May Be Right," he actually shouts between verses "Quit lighting the audience," and "Stop it!" It was sucking the life out of the audience and he hated it. In order to try to keep the energy level up, he had this rather unorthodox performance.
Arx Fortis it was actually during sometimes a fantasy not you may be right
It was during the song "sometimes a fantasy"
"Lemme do my show for Christ sake!"
This was during his show at Wembley Arena in 1987, recorded for a documentary filmed while Billy was playing.
This as a concert in russia? That's why says thank you London at the end of this video, right? :o
Cocaine's a helluva drug... 😁 😂 😎
Shawn Crowe waas
i think the point is hes acting a fool due to the songs meaning
Oh, wow, one person in the comments section gets it! "You had to be a big shot, didn't ya / you had to prove it to the crowd"
It is not amphetamine/cocaine/psychosis/whatever. It's called a "show".
All I needed was one person to allow me to feel sane again. Thank you.
Yeah but he took it a little too literally ....
@@LisaMitchellGD it was meant to be taken literally. that's why in one of the performances for this song, he flips it around and points out that it was his behavior that was crazy and not his partner's.
You’re the only person I’ve seen yet in the comments that gets it besides me
I''m just curious about why Wormwood Scrubs prison got a special thanks in the credits!
If you listen right to the end you'll find out it is a concert in London
its moscow
Still sounds good😂
GOD I MISS THE 80s
what a nutter.. is this the same gig where he threw his keyboard over and started doing a Roger Daltry impression? lol
yes lol
No, that happened in Russia. This is in the UK
@@riverxvi9092 wrong
Oh, he's being a big shot, don't you kid yourself, buddy! He's trying to breakdance on his piano. DEEED'JA!!
Hahahaha i have never seen this before 🤣
hahaha what a dork XD I love it!!!!
Me 5 years old when my mom waxes the kitchen floor.
Well...Fuck me dead, I'm Foreskin Fred...That...is...just...OUTSTANDING!!!
Makes me wonder if It was the last stop on the tour and this was they're encore maybe new York?
Freakin masterminds 🤯
Fuckin rock n roll
This man is Fucking Awesome. :D
He seems like a level headed guy
He was wondering why his voice was so shot during this tour... LOL
Sober
Riff from West Side Story
This is so funny! He's such a dork! ❤️ lol
Annie the bunny mama , it called entertainment!
smoking crack is a helluva drug
What the heck did I just watch....lmao
This is hilarious!!
Someone did a few lines of blow before this performance!
This guy got to have a prime Christie Brinkley sit on his face? How did that happen?
Looks like Billy has had a few drinks.
Billy now: "Why did I need hip replacements and back surgery?"
1:09: This is why LOL
5:05-5:14... lol 😁
He probably watches this as part of his recovery!
So billy Joel is ADD as fuck. Who knew?
lmao yoooo
There’s a Michael Scott gene in there
When you've been snorting coke, beef crisps and Cif.
What video is this?
Cocaine is one helluva drug!
He reminds me of Michael Keaton 🤣
When the heck was this?
GFTAidan 87
Here i mean sorry it said her I mean here
He threw his coat on the drummer lol
pretty sure this was on the Russian tour
It was.
Vodka is good...
Moscow
Me too
@@josteinv.jordet257
Wodka!
hahahahahaha billy doing a british accent
where’s this clip from? i know they had to redo(?) this song for the official clip, but what’s this one from lol
London 1986
Russia
What the hell
I mean, he does drink Jack Daniel's at most concerts... Perhaps a bit too much this one time :)
He's insane
Category: gaming
So much cola 😂
All he needed was long hair and some good punk rock tunes
This looks like a band that would be fun as fuck but also terrifying to be in.
Billy's punk rock phase.
Don't do drugs kids.
If you have to do drugs... make sure the cameras aren't on.