Saturday’s benefactor was the Eagles (and by extension Jackson Browne), with a harmony-rich rendition of “Take It Easy” inserted into “The River of Dreams.” (Joel also emerged to Randy Newman’s score to “The Natural” in a nod to that California piano man.) (You could build an entire separate concert from the bona-fide hits and popular album cuts Joel didn’t play Saturday night.)Īt recent shows, Joel has been paying tribute to artists who hail from the state in which he is playing.
They zipped from the defiant bounce of “My Life” and the ruminative balladry of “She’s Always a Woman” to the whizzering keyboard riffs of frayed-nerve rocker “Sometimes a Fantasy” and the languid, ahead-of-its time ode to unplugging “Vienna.” A bit of Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” was dropped into amped-up closer “You May Be Right,” and lush, layer-cake harmonies highlighted the street-corner symphony of the doo-wop delight “The Longest Time,” a nifty a cappella feat in a stadium. Joel and his drum-tight eight-piece backing band easily drove all over a map that traversed most of his recorded output.
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