Billy Joel's Legendary Band - The Lords of 52nd Street Interview

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5 жыл бұрын

In this intimate sit-down, Kevin Curtin interviews Billy Joel's legendary band - The Lords of 52nd Street. In this conversation, Richie Cannata, Liberty DeVitto, and Russell Javors talk working with Billy Joel on some of his best albums, and share some great behind the scenes stories from back in the day.
Thanks to Richie Cannata, Liberty DeVitto, Russell Javors, and Andy Gilmartin. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
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@octaviosuarez6055 3 жыл бұрын

Billy was a huge talent but these guys were definitely the sound behind that talent. Same can be said about The E Street Band.

@dathorndike4908 Жыл бұрын

Gotta mention guitarist Dave Brown and the late great bassist Doug Stegmeyer

@bobblueford 4 жыл бұрын

Liberty is the coolest of all time!

@janicewingard9376 Жыл бұрын

I love Richie Canata! He was the main reason I went to so many Billy Joel concerts.

@johnconti1087 3 жыл бұрын

Billy never should have moved on from these guys, they were the best.

@kimgordon3695 3 жыл бұрын

All that Alimony lol ❤

@DWH072 2 жыл бұрын

I hope Billy has these guys back in his lineup someday 🤞

@misshair 9 ай бұрын

Billy strikes me as very stubborn, and probably very cheap. He probably doesn’t want to pay these guys what they’re worth, is my guess. He needs to be more like bands like Aerosmith and Rolling Stones, they may not all get along, or have huge disagreements or whatever, but they realize they are better together.

@Paulvanacker1 Жыл бұрын

Seeing them in 1980 and 1987 (without Richie in 87) in Australia was the best memory growing up. It's why I am a musician now and it's why I wouldn't see BJ these days even though his band is great. Nothing can top these guys (including Doug of course RIP). When you've seen the best, these no desire to go back unless they are on stage with him again. Loved this interview. Thank you.

@willaimwallace3920 4 жыл бұрын

No one is a bigger Billy Fan than I am but that band made the tunes. Period end of story. Only a real musician would appreciate that fact.

@iainsmith2434 3 жыл бұрын

Some of the saddest moments of watching Billy Joel concerts was one when I realised Russell wasn’t on the tour, then almost the ultimate disappointment was when I took my kids a few years later and Liberty wasn’t on stage. Unfortunately never managed to see Ritchie in concert, the other guys 3 or 4 times.

@ym61 4 жыл бұрын

This should still be Billy’s band. These guys are so great. They really gave the songs life. It’s just a sanitized sound now.

@armaanbhojwani2677 4 жыл бұрын

I think that that mostly just applies to DeVitto. Personally I prefer the band with Rivera, but I have no comment about Javors

@johnadams5489 4 жыл бұрын

ym61 Billy's new band is better. Sanitized? Naw. They're probably more precise, and from what I understand they can all read music. Like a lot of musicians back in the early days, Liberty could not read music. So his original band had some limitations. Turnstiles is one of my favorite albums of all time.

@christopherkelly9985 Жыл бұрын

Yup. And Billy knows it. He messed up losing these guys. These guys are the heart and soul of ALL of the Billy Joel hit songs.

@krisscanlon4051 4 ай бұрын

Exactly...EC had the Attractions, Graham Parker had the Rumour,and Bruce with E street...Heartbreakers/Petty...indispensable...Lib Javors Brown Cannata and Stegmyer.

@miscellanyman263 5 жыл бұрын

Doug: Zanzibar “straight ahead” jazz section = great bass playing! 🤓

@jamesmcnaughton5092 Жыл бұрын

I can't believe they drove around Northport with a tape recorder attached to the bumper of a corvette to get the engine sound on moving out😅

@mikehopkins666 4 жыл бұрын

best concert of my life, Saw Billy back on his Stormfront tour in Indy, greatest musician of my generation, always love having him in my head

@danielmarra1555 4 жыл бұрын

Mike Hopkins , he added new musicians during that time.

@mickclitheroe8585 2 жыл бұрын

Great interview and a fantastic insight to what went on back in the day . Thankyou !

@CurtinCall 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Mick!!

@johnroseman9087 4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes there's the proverbial 'diamond in the rough'! I just found it. ( actually 5 months ago, until someone replied) What great talent! Thank you for posting this.( Ritchie " Mamalukes"!! )🤣✌❤

@CurtinCall 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!!! 🙏🏻👍🏻😎

@pauldutra1576 5 жыл бұрын

Great interview Liberty, Richie and Russel, truly inspirational you are. You've walked the walk and now sharing your unique journey together, special combination you are. Thanks...

@CurtinCall 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@chrisnolan5607 11 ай бұрын

Where is David Brown?

@georgeglennon5863 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this Kevin. So happy I found this. And Richie , Lib, Russell... virtuosos and organic musicians rarely if ever seen today. There is nothing on earth like a rock band in full flight, and that is what Phil saw at Carnegie Hall that first night. Love these guys.

@CurtinCall 5 жыл бұрын

You are welcome! Thank you for watching and I agree!

@ianwatkins6202 4 жыл бұрын

Lucky enough to have met these great guys last year 😃

@stefanoceruolo3551 3 ай бұрын

Legends

@1bol390 4 жыл бұрын

Big Billy Joel fan here! Loved this interview.

@CurtinCall 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you loved it! Appreciate the watch and comment 👏🏻🙏🏻

@Kayviviano 5 жыл бұрын

So great to see an interview by a big fan! Asked many of the questions I would have asked! Love these men to pieces and can’t wait til they come back to Florida and hopefully HEADLINE! Can never get enough!

@CurtinCall 5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!!

@jasonwhite7452 5 жыл бұрын

Great interview! Love those guys!

@CurtinCall 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Mikepservice 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite Billy Joel song is on Nylon Curtain " Allentown"

@mikehopkins666 4 жыл бұрын

Scandinavian Skys is my favorite off Nylon Curtain

@janicewingard9376 Жыл бұрын

I have been to Lords of 57th Street concerts. They are totally awesome!

@kellyyacco6934 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this:))))

@JnTmarie 10 ай бұрын

Hi guys. Hi Richie, Knew you back when. Just saw Billy at the Garden last Tuesday the band hes with for 20 years is very talented Billy sounded incredible. He is very generous to his band members Truth, the encore where everyone went wild and sang along was the music you were all on. Best of the best. You contributed solos. This is from 4 years ago…. Hope you are back somewhere to be seen again. Janet ( Danny v. Ex)

@hockley91 4 ай бұрын

Billy should do some shows with these guys. Just for fun.

@kimgordon3695 3 жыл бұрын

Sweet!

@candelise Жыл бұрын

I loved the work they did on the Phoebe Snow album 'Rock Away'.

@Gusrikh1 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@davidnorman4923 3 жыл бұрын

Like Elton had his original band that made the songs sound amazing Billy had these guys and the same thing applies! Great musicians!

@CurtinCall 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, David 👏🏻👏🏻

@ricardoacosta5938 Жыл бұрын

Just got two issues of Piano man (Hall of Famer)Billy Joel 's(50 yrs.of the piano man)"on life magazine.Also I have his Greatest hits (vol.1&2)on CD released in(1985)& had it since 2015-2022%his 52d.street CD from his (1978)release.Also had it since 2010-2022&now in Texas since 2015🥱😎🤠🤔🤓🕶👓👟🏟🗽🏯🎭🌉🛬🛫✈🥎🪘🪗🩹🎵🎼🎧📻🎤🎛🎙🎶🥁🎻🎺🎹🎸🎷📽🎬📼📸💡🕯📰🗞💰🚬🧢🧦

@SullyDunn 3 жыл бұрын

DID THEY JUST SLAG ON ALL I WANNA DO IS DANCE lol that song is so good tho

@joesmith8398 4 ай бұрын

RIP Doug Stegmeyer

@ryandeanlindgren9054 11 ай бұрын

😮

@dank8865 3 жыл бұрын

Saw the 52nd Street tour when I was 17 at the Hollywood Sportatorium, Hollywood, Florida in November, 1978 (yeah, I know - get off my lawn.) The Sportatorium was basically a giant aluminum tool shed planted on a gravel parking lot set right against the beginning of The Everglades. It held 17,000 seats with NO ventilation and was universally referred to as "The Sporthole." NOT the "Sport-O as Wikipedia erroneously claims. It was famous for 1. The permanently seeped in smell of weed, vomit, & urine (not in that order.) And 2. The ABSOLUTE WORST ACOUSTICS OF ANY VENUE TO HOST A MUSICAL SHOW ON THE PLANET EVER. IN HISTORY. So, of course, every major act that came through South Florida played there. The 52nd Street show was notable for 3 things: 1. Liberty DeVito was a force of nature and almost impossible to look away from even though Billy was an absolute madman running from his riser on stage left to Ritchie's riser on stage right for the whole damn show; 2. During "Zanzibar" someone up front up in the audience gave Billy an ice cream sandwich that was being sold in house (which he ate) and he changed the lyric "Ive got a jazz guitar" to "I've got an ice cream bar." And 3. Billy Joel swore, under pain of death, he would never, EVER, play that fucking shitbox Sporthole again. And he didn't. And those are the useless memories of an old man. And I meant it - get off my lawn.

@sithlordmikeyp 3 жыл бұрын

It was Nov. 29th and I'm so sad because setlistfm has no songs listed. I'd love to hear the "ice cream bar" line lol

@dank8865 3 жыл бұрын

@@sithlordmikeyp I was a high school senior & 2/3 of my school was there lol. And yeah, when he did the ice cream bar line the crowd went *batshit.* Really was one of better shows I ever saw. One that surprised me, ranking in the top 10 was The Moody Blues touring in support of the album that had "Once Upon a Dream" or somesuch. Their "comeback" album in the 80s. Outstanding gig. Best show ever in that venue was Springsteen's "River" show in Feb of '81. He was another one who swore *never* to play that shitbox again. But that wasn't a concert. It was a religious experience. The only other 2 (leaving out the 1st 2 The Police tours) shows I saw where the audience and the band were totally locked in were both at The Sunrise Music Auditorium. The first was Elvis Costello and the Attractions touring for "Imperial Bedroom". The second was Talking Heads supporting "The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads." And Sunrise was an awesome venue. Originally built for retirees to enjoy Frank Sinatra and old crooners. 5500 seats. Perfect acoustics, set in a semicircle. Not a bad seat anywhere. And that Talking Heads show was THE best experience I ever had. Fun fun fun. Me & my art school buddy with a yuppy couple to our right & and a long metal head with a Megadeth t-shirt to our left and EVERYONE is dancing. I wish I could invent a time machine to take you back so you could live these moments. You sound like someone who would truly appreciate them. I'm so sorry they are lost to the ether. They were truly pure magic. But I'm sure you've experienced your own moments of magic that you carry with you. Feel free if you wanna share. 🤩😁😍👍❤️

@kimgordon3695 3 жыл бұрын

19:45 1 TAKE perfection...

@jamesgreen7618 2 жыл бұрын

Lol thanks liberty

@thomaspaccione7214 3 жыл бұрын

Billy live is just not the same without Lib, it's just not.

@iainsmith2434 2 жыл бұрын

I have been 5 concerts 86-2004, never saw Richie, but definitely the others plus Doug Stegmeyer several times. The last concert in 2004-5 the biggest letdown for me was when the lights hit the stage and there was no Liberty Devitto. He had been a feature for me for so long, and I had built up my kids to watch the drummer😔 It was still a good concert, but it wasn’t a great one, these guys just added something extra.