tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304349756984473957.post7192995303660654489..comments2024-01-28T13:47:11.994-08:00Comments on ACIDEMIC - MEDIATED: Open Letter to "The Piano Man"Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304349756984473957.post-42301551575289365042015-07-24T10:27:20.692-07:002015-07-24T10:27:20.692-07:00true - as a kid in the 70s I'd listen to my Co...true - as a kid in the 70s I'd listen to my Columbia record and tape club STRANGER cassette incessantly - imagining vast and gaudy Italian rest-a-raunt tapestries of red, white, and rose--or the punk badassery of "I'm moving out" with its revving engines. All the more tragic to see him a drunk and beaten man forced to perform like a-da dancing monkey of a Little Italy organ grinder Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304349756984473957.post-77539625886899184472015-07-20T21:47:18.592-07:002015-07-20T21:47:18.592-07:00Someone had to say it. I miss the Billy who used ...Someone had to say it. I miss the Billy who used to rip up bad reviews onstage and write those charmingly misogynistic ballads. He really has become a caricature of the piano man he described in the song, doomed to sing the hits over and over. At times he's showed real potential, nothing maudlin about "All For Leyna", it's just the song for wounded romantics like me to listen to over and over to fight back the darkness in one of those dark nights of the soul.Eric Gillilandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00778517683750389280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304349756984473957.post-74280491681841976922014-07-10T10:10:01.600-07:002014-07-10T10:10:01.600-07:00You've got a lot of anger (and time on your ha...You've got a lot of anger (and time on your hands. It's just a song.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com