{"id":792379,"date":"2019-01-25T08:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784473"},"modified":"2019-01-25T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:36:25","slug":"watch-billy-joel-play-house-of-blue-light-live-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-billy-joel-play-house-of-blue-light-live-for-the-first-time-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Billy Joel Play \u2018House of Blue Light\u2019 Live for the First Time Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/billy-joel-house-of-blue-light.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billy-joel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-joel\" data-tag=\"billy-joel\">Billy Joel<\/a> was thirteen songs into his set at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night when he decided to reach deep into his catalog and resurrect a song that only his most devoted fans would recognize. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna try something we\u2019ve never played before,\u201d he said. \u201cThis may lay like a lox, but we\u2019re gonna give it a shot. Nobody knows this song, not even us. So let\u2019s see if we can pull this off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that, he launched into \u201cHouse of Blue Light,\u201d which was the flip side to \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start The Fire\u201d in 1989. He\u2019d never played the bluesy, horn-driven song in concert even a single time, but the band had clearly rehearsed it at soundcheck since they nailed all their cues with absolute precision. You can watch fan-shot video of the performance right here. \u201cThat was <em>interesting<\/em>,\u201d Joel said when it wrapped, emphasizing the last word as if he wasn\u2019t quite sure the experiment had worked. He then kicked into \u201cMy Life\u201d after promising the audience he\u2019d do one they\u2019d know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse of Blue Light\u201d is one of many Joel extreme deep cuts has dragged out throughout the course of his monthly residency at Madison Square Garden since it began five years ago. At other shows, he\u2019s also played \u201cA Minor Variation,\u201d \u201cUntil The Night,\u201d \u201cLaura,\u201d \u201cScandinavian Skies,\u201d \u2018Blonde Over Blue\u201d and \u201cThis Is The Time.\u201d Much of the show, however, still focuses on the hits and he\u2019s played songs like \u201cYou May Be Right,\u201d \u201cThe River of Dreams,\u201d \u201cPiano Man\u201d and \u201cNew York State of Mind\u201d at every single show.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Joel has dates lined up at Madison Square Garden through July (including his 70th birthday show on May 9th) along with stadium gigs at baseball parks all over the country. He hasn\u2019t released an album of new pop songs since 1993\u2019s <em>River of Dreams<\/em>, but his popularity as a live act continues to grow with each passing year. Earlier this month, he announced a yearly \u201cstadium residency\u201d at Philadelphia\u2019s Citizens\u2019s Bank Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billy-joel-house-of-blue-light-concert-784473\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Joel was thirteen songs into his set at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night when he decided to reach deep into his catalog and resurrect a song that only his most devoted fans would recognize. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna try something we\u2019ve never played before,\u201d he said. \u201cThis may lay like a lox, but we\u2019re gonna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 22:12:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}