(Singing the first lyric - " It's nine o'clock on a Saturday" - right as the clock struck 9 was a nice touch.) But things really got interesting during his five-song encore, when he traded his piano for a blue Fender Stratocaster and led the audience in a full-throated sing-along of that ghastly chart-topper "We Didn't Start the Fire" without a hint of irony. Joel ended his main set with the obligatory "Piano Man," uncorking tear ducts with every puff of his harmonica. That man, now 72, looked in fighting shape and sounded only a fraction of his age on Saturday, showing off his lithe falsetto in "Only the Good Die Young" and scaling those daunting "oh-oh-oh"s in "Uptown Girl" with ease. Without getting up from his piano bench, Joel took the audience on a journey through time during "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant," the indelible jazz-rock opus that belongs in the pantheon of pocket symphonies right next to "A Day in the Life," "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Good Vibrations." It's even harder to believe all of those songs came from the same man. It's hard to complain that he only played classics like "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)," "The Entertainer," "My Life," "Only the Good Die Young" and "Piano Man" in breathless succession. the usual two and a half), nixing most of his deep cuts and acerbic commentary in lieu of a familiar, rapid-fire rundown of hits that shaped the classic-rock canon over the course of three decades.
Joel played human jukebox during his truncated set (an hour and 45 minutes vs.
So what'd I miss? Not much and a hell of a lot, depending on your perspective.
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