At Coors Field Thursday night, Billy Joel told fans: “There’s nothing new here. … It’s the same old (expletive).”
But, of course, that’s what fans in the crowded stadium most wanted.
The majority of Joel’s biggest hits were in the 1970s and ’80s, after all. And the music legend is 70 years old — a fact driven home when one fan on the field waved a cane in the air at the start of “New York State of Mind.”
Most of the setlist was made up of those hits: “Vienna,” “The Entertainer,” “Piano Man,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” “Uptown Girl,” “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway),” “You May Be Right.”
And Joel stoked the fan love fest by providing a few Colorado references, too.
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“In the ’70s, I used to play at a little hippie place in Boulder called Good Earth,” Joel said, adding that he also recorded at Caribou Ranch. “I wanted to write a Western movie soundtrack. But living in New York I didn’t know (expletive) about the West.”
“Keep track of all the historical inaccuracies in this next one, ’cause I had no idea what I was talking about.”
After “The Ballad of Billy the Kid,” Joel listed those inaccuracies, including the fact that Billy the Kid wasn’t hung (he was shot) to where he was buried (no one really knows).
Joel is playing a limited run of stadium shows this summer and fall, with his next show at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28.
This morning, Joel Tweeted a photo of him hanging out backstage with Dave Chapelle and Jon Stewart. The comedians perform at Red Rocks tonight.
: Backstage at Denver's with and .
📸: Rick Franks
— Billy Joel (@billyjoel)
It’s a busy week at Coors Field — after last night’s Billy Joel show, country outfit , and tickets are still available.
