▲ 124 r/BillyJoel
This is actually the worst
Adam Ripp has recently gotten access to an interview Billy gave at C.W. Post in December of 1971. That's great news, right? Now, we can all listen to some of the earliest media from his solo career without any trouble!
Actually... no. Instead, we get something way crappier: a cheap AI video with the worst-looking graphics I've ever seen in my life. That mustachioed man in the orange shirt is supposed to be Billy from 1971.
Why? Why is this the route they took? Adam Ripp clearly never learned from his father's mistakes. People don't want fake Billy Joel media. Nobody wants some guy's artificial interpretation of what a twenty minute conversation looked like fifty years ago when we could just get restored audio and a transcription of the interview.
In short, this thing is an utter Ripp-off. Please don't encourage this kind of mockery. Thank you.
u/Chance_Chef8189 — 5 days ago
▲ 14 r/BillyJoel
Does anyone else have trouble seeing the wolf on this album cover?
I've tried and tried to make sense of this image (which is DRIPPING with late sixties, by the way), but I still have no idea what is going on with this wolf's face. Does it have two tiny eyes and an oversized head? Are the things at the bottom of the shape claws, or perhaps some weird chin fur thingy?
u/Chance_Chef8189 — 17 days ago
▲ 11 r/BillyJoel
You Look So Good to Me - TWO Takes?!
I was fooling around with the 1983 remix and original 1971 mix of *Cold Spring Harbor*, and after booting up "You Look So Good to Me," I noticed something odd: The vocals didn't seem to line up quite right. I did some investigating, and I noticed that they apparently used two separate takes of the song for the two versions. I've made a video with two snippets that I think help to clarify my statement in case I'm talking nonsense.
u/Chance_Chef8189 — 2 months ago
▲ 12 r/audioengineering
Need help deciding which speed should some old recordings should sit at
A few months ago, I found two old recordings of my grandmother performing some songs. These recordings, along with being poor quality to begin with, have a speed issue that causes both songs to be somewhere in between D major and Eb major.
Before I do any more work on either of these songs, I want to figure out what key they were originally recorded in. The only lead I have so far is that Eb major appears to be more common key for these old songs, but I don't think that entirely rules out D major as a possibility.
I am totally aware that this post is very likely an unusual one for this subreddit, and may not even be what it's for. If it violates any guidelines, then I would completely understand if it needs to be taken down.
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u/Chance_Chef8189 — 2 months ago
▲ 39 r/BillyJoel
Cold Spring Harbor - Correcting the 1983 Remixes
For years, I have listened to the 1983 remixes of *Cold Spring Harbor* and wondered why the speeds of the tracks were so inconsistent. Songs like "Got to Begin Again" and "Tomorrow Is Today" would be nearly at the same speed as their original 1971 versions, while other tracks like "She's Got a Way" and "Everybody Loves You Now" would be miles off from their original pitch. So, I have finally decided to do something about it and worked on correcting the speeds of the remixes. All songs now appear in their original keys and are much more accurate to the original speed they were recorded at. Enjoy!
u/Chance_Chef8189 — 2 months ago