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...problem with a synthesizer is you can't stand on it," a grinning Billy Joel proclaimed from atop his Baldwin grand Wednesday night...
...Billy Joel...
Perhaps Beethoven would have cringed at such impetuous behavior, but for Joel--who has been climbing pianos for almost two decades--it was his own way of harkening back to tradition, something he did plenty of during his first of three shows at the Providence Civic Center Wednesday night...
...Joel has lost just a little of the spark that has ignited his constantly sold-out concerts in the past. He doesn't hop into audiences anymore, and he usually leaves his shoes...
...played his first concert when Richard Nixon was president, Joel still puts on an energetic performance. He belted out the rapidfire piano chords of "Angry Young Man" as quickly as he did 15 years ago, and did not one, but two flips off his piano during "Bigshot"--a perennial crowd pleaser...