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Dr. Mark · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:49 pm Post subject: Billy Joel Shea Stadium

Hello All,

If anyone can get both Shea Stadium shows, I can do 2:1 trades for a copy. The show dates are 7/16 and 7/18.

Thanks,

Mark

Breaking The Law · Joined: 2006-01-31 Posts: 61

Check out Dime, looks like the 16th has been posted there.
:thumb:

LEDZEPZOSO · Joined: 2004-06-26 Posts: 213 Location: Las Vegas

Dr. Mark wrote: Hello All,

If anyone can get both Shea Stadium shows, I can do 2:1 trades for a copy. The show dates are 7/16 and 7/18.

Thanks,

Mark

One of the show has been posted on Dime

Dr. Mark · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, I'm one of those who can't do all of that downloading stuff, which is why I usually do a 2:1 trade... :(

cobohall76 · Joined: 2007-10-10 Posts: 14

Hey Guys,
If you want to check out a clip, go to You Tube, type in Billy Joel, Shea Stadium DVD and it should pop up.

Matt

guitard · Joined: 2001-12-01 Posts: 3414 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I can send you the disks for the first night. Haven't seen the second night posted anywhere. PM me.

frankm · Joined: 2003-04-01 Posts: 3396 Location: Wisconsin

guitard wrote: I can send you the disks for the first night. Haven't seen the second night posted anywhere. PM me.
Just curious ... how is it?

Dr. Mark · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject:

guitard wrote: I can send you the disks for the first night. Haven't seen the second night posted anywhere. PM me.

Guitard...PM sent.

Thanks,

Mark :thumb:

LEDZEPZOSO · Joined: 2004-06-26 Posts: 213 Location: Las Vegas

The show to get is the 18th, Paul McCartney came out for a couple of songs

Dr. Mark · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject:

LEDZEPZOSO wrote: The show to get is the 18th, Paul McCartney came out for a couple of songs

I know...I'm looking for both... :D

guitard · Joined: 2001-12-01 Posts: 3414 Location: Seoul, South Korea

frankm wrote: Just curious ... how is it?
I've only listened to a few songs, so I can't speak for the show in its entirely - but from what I've heard so far, it sounds great. At least a 9 on a 10 scale - probably a 10. I checked a couple of songs throughout the show (disk1 - disk 2 - and disk 3). I was prompted to download it after reading this review at another forum:

So last night I attended the first of two shows Billy Joel is performing at Shea stadium. He is to be the last musical performer to have a concert there before it gets torn down in the fall.

I must say, that after walking in the ridiculous crowds to get up to our seats, and then sitting in uncomfortable seats for an extra half hour before he went on the perform, that I was a little deflated. By the time he came on I was tired an almost done for the day. But then the music started....

He may have put on a few pounds, and his voice isn't as flawless as it used to be, but the man still knows how to rock. He played some of his more obscure songs from the 70's along with some of his best hits, and even covered some Beatles songs. Then, just as you get comfortable with how he's working the crowd, and you start to expect that any second he'll start playing "Italian Restaurant" and then head into his encores and be done, he started playing New York State Of Mind again (he opened with it) And now we're left wondering what the hell is going on....and thus starts his rotating group of guest players.

Tony Bennett came on to play "New York State Of Mind."

Being a song of youth, John Maher came on to do the guitar riffs during " This Is The Time To Remember."

Then it got a little crazy....Billy started doing an instrumental but then suddenly as guitar started playing out in the background and out steps Don Henley to sing "Boys Of Summer."

So then after the crowd recovers from that, he goes into the song he wrote for 9-11 and has a bunch of cops and soldiers perform with him. And then they leave the stage and Billy plays "River Of Dreams" which calls for the young woman on stage to play bongos. At the end of the song he introduces her and explains how he stole her from another musician and says he'd like to welcome that man out on stage right now....

and it was John Melloncamp coming on to sing "America."

Somewhere the 5 year old version of me, who to be fair, 15 years too late was in love with "Johnny Cougar" and cried when mom wouldn't let her take his albums to kindergarten with her, was overwhelmed with joy.

Then to top it all off, when the final guest left the stage, Billy Joel stayed and played for another 45 minutes. Except for when he let his special guests take the lead on songs, the man never took a break. He started at 8:30 and went until 11:30 and his energy never ran out.

It was a fantastic night, and a great way to remember Shea Stadium.

Here's the complete setlist:

Disc 1:
1. Intro
2. Star Spangled Banner
3. Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)
4. Prelude/Angry Young Man
5. My Life
6. Everybody Loves You Now
7. The Entertainer
8. Zanzibar
9. Allentown
10. Ballad of Billy the Kid
11. New York State Of Mind (w/ Tony Bennett)
12. Big Man on Mulberry Street
13. Root Beer Rag
14. Movin Out
15. Goodnight Saigon

Disc 2:
1. Don't Ask Me Why
2. This is the Time (w/ John Mayer)
3. Keeping the Faith
4. Downeaster "Alexa"
5. Stand By Me into An Innocent Man
6. Boys of Summer (w/ Don Henley)
7. She's Always a Woman
8. Captain Jack
9. Lullabye
10. River of Dreams w/Hard Days Night interlude
11. Pink Houses (w/ John Mellencamp)
12. We Didn’t Start The Fire
13. Still Rock and Roll

Disc 3
1. You May Be Right
2. Please Please Me
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3. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
4. Only the Good Die Young
5. She Loves You
6. Take Me Out To The Ballgame
7. Piano Man
8. Souvenir

dokkendude · Joined: 2001-10-22 Posts: 1937 Location: Indiana

sounds pretty cool anyone got a link to share ?

guitard · Joined: 2001-12-01 Posts: 3414 Location: Seoul, South Korea

dokkendude wrote: sounds pretty cool anyone got a link to share ?
I can't access Dime from my office computer - so I can't provide a URL. But just do a quick search there and you should easily be able to find it.

dokkendude · Joined: 2001-10-22 Posts: 1937 Location: Indiana

I couldn't find it at Dime
found it at TTD

http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61766&highlight=%22billy+joel%22

guitard · Joined: 2001-12-01 Posts: 3414 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I couldn't find it at Dime either...but I was almost certain that's where I got it...and then I found this:

BANNED from DIME: Billy Joel Shea Stadium 1 7/16/2008 Schoeps

A torrent has been banned from DIME.

Torrent: 205893
Title: Billy Joel Shea Stadium 1 7/16/2008 Schoeps
Uploaded by: scoper
Banned by: DIME Site Mod

Reason
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Sorry folks, this was filmed for use in an upcoming documentary, and so can't run here.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=100382879\2

"The concerts will be chronicled in a Spitfire Pictures documentary also dubbed "Last Play at Shea," due in theaters early next year. The film will be directed by Greg Whiteley and Jon Small, with Joel producing in tandem with Steve Cohen and Nigel Sinclair."

More details at:

http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/friday/news/ny-etjoel1857\67901jul18a,0,2732815.story
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