![]() ![]() But those Rolling Stones alternative takes were magical. That Zeppelin show from Long Beach might be straight from the soundboard, but one listen was enough. But if you’ve got a bit of savvy, the rewards are endless. In an era where most people who might want to hear this show don’t even know where files download on their computer, this info might as well be etched in hieroglyphics. rar file with an application you’ve downloaded from the Web. You’ve got to search blogs, download via RapidShare or Megaupload, and then decompress the. Then again, if you don’t already know how, the information will be useless. Over dinner, I’ll tell you how to find these things. But surfing the Web over the weekend I found just that, an FM broadcast of a Billy Joel concert at Nassau Coliseum back in 1977. The concept of a Billy Joel radio concert on KMET is laughable. ![]() When we get nostalgic for the seventies in LaLa Land, we think about Van Halen, we wax rhapsodic about the new wave club scene. Even to this day, he might be able to sell out Yankee Stadium, but in the City of Angels he’s lucky if he can sell out an arena. And "The Stranger" made headway, but on the left coast Billy Joel was not a superstar. Who’s Phil Rizzuto? Sure, decades later we’ve heard it, but "Bat Out Of Hell" was in no one’s collection, the record got no airplay. Spin "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" and an Angeleno will be flummoxed. ![]()
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