Nearfest 2005

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by VAXman
Having been born and raised in the Lehigh Valley, I never understood the appeal of that Billy Joel tune. It's completely insulting and derisive of Allentown and Bethlehem. Obvioulsy, Kenso didn't understand the lyrics in "ingrish".

It's a vapid tune musically. But the way it was played was like a hotel lobby pianist, and it was funny. Since there was no vocal, it doesn't seem to me too important if they understood the lyrics or not.

I thought they went out of their way to converse in English, with the prepared sheet and the attempts at banter. In fact, one guy tried to converse in Japanese, and after a sentence or two, the guitarist recognized that no one was understanding it. So he says "right" and moved on. It was a very subtle way of saying, "look you idiot, you're not cool"...