Billy Joel
Highgate Stadium
Orchard Park, NY
August 14, 2021

16 bit version

Taped by Binko for Poignant Pros
Gear: Tascam DR-08
Transferred & mastered by }{eywood
Lineage: DR-08 (recording to 24/48 .wav) > USB > Adobe Audition 1.5 (EQ, peak limiting, splits & fades) > Xrecode III (conversion to 16/44.1 > TLH (sector alignment, flac 8)

I must say this had pretty good sound for a stadium gig. I was up in the bleachers getting pushed out of my seat at the end of the bench by the rest of the people and my recording (the recorder or which had a seat of its own as I had two tickets) was ruined from the start. When John Rzeznik came out I was offended* and went out to the parking lot to wait for my family. Binko was on the floor and got this capture.

01 Intro: The Natural
02 Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
03 Miami 2017 (Seen the Loghts Go Out on Broadway)
04 Pressure
05 banter
06 Summer, Highland Falls
07 The Entertainer
08 Vienna
09 Zanzibar
10 New York State of Mind
11 Don't Ask Me Why
12 Iris (w/ John Rzeznik)
13 Allentown
14 My Life
15 She's Always a Woman
16 Sometimes A Fantasy
17 The River of Dreams Part 1
18 Tush
19 The River of Dreams Part 2
20 Only the Good Die Young
21 Nessun domma
22 Scenes From and Italian Restaurant
23 Piano Man

24 We Didn't Start the Fire
25 Uptown Girl
26 It's Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me
27 Big Shot
28 You May Be Right / Rock and Roll



*I don't really get the Goo Goo Dolls fame around here. The band we knew by that name and the one you hear on the radio are very different. One was an angsty punk band, the other writes angsty love songs and radio rock/pop. Rzeznik was quick to abandon living in Buffalo and the music he played here, and to this guy he is unwelcome, particularly as a surprise guest during a show by an artist I really wanted to see. Hearing Iris for the millionth time ruined my entire vibe and I got out before the 2nd verse and missing my favorite Billy song, Scenes from and Italian Restaurant.