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10-06-2004, 05:33 PM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
Posts: 4,519
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Downeaster Alexa
Anyone heard this song by Billy Joel about fishing? I just heard it the last week and I can't believe I have never heard of it before. If you haven't heard it download it to your computer. I start all my road trips with it now.
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Go Ugly Early 
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10-06-2004, 06:13 PM
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Seal Control
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Caver, Ma.
Posts: 3,875
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Nice of you to join the 20th centry!!!  |
"All my friends are Flakes!!"
BOATLESS 
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10-06-2004, 06:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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Billy Joel also named his daughter Alexa Ray Joel
Alexa, as in the same name from the song.
Ray, as in Ray Charles, one of his music idols.
Billy has some Sweet boats also!!!
I believe his dad was a long shore man!
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10-06-2004, 06:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Margate, NJ
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aren't we in the 21st century?  |
Ranked World's Greatest Dad by J.D. Powers & Associates
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10-06-2004, 06:49 PM
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EVERY FISH COUNTS!!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: south plymouth, MA
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i love billy joel downeaster alexa is on of my fav songs
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todays schoolie is tomorrows keeper,todays keeper is tomorrows cow,practice catch and release!!!.
GOD BLESS THE NRA!!!!
ROCK AND ROLL WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!
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10-06-2004, 07:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Talk To The Hand! 
That song came out like 10 years ago....
Its about the romance and tradition of commercial striper fishing - it leaves out the bad parts |
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10-07-2004, 08:57 AM
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Boston Anglah
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Sitting on top of the world with my legs hangin free
Posts: 3,322
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I love that song...and it does have some of the heart ache of a commercial fisherman..having to sell his house, missing his wife, having to go farther out to sea each year in search of fish...Billy Joel loves to tug on heart strings.. IMO
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Used hard and put away dirty....
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10-07-2004, 09:22 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 113
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Let's not forget that Billy Joel made a big publicity stunt of keeping short stripers caught by his friends those "traditional" commercial bass fishermen on Long Island who use their "traditional" pickup trucks to haul in purse seines onto the beach. After which he disappeared back into his condo in Manhatten with Christie. Oh yeah, he's a friend to fishermen.  |
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10-07-2004, 10:04 AM
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Here fishy fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Whoville
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He also has this other song called Piano Man.....
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10-07-2004, 11:14 AM
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Below Me
Join Date: May 2003
Location: low
Posts: 2,909
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That boat the "Alexa" is incredible. If only WE had that kind of money.
so where's Christy lately ? Humpin' Chuck ?
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10-07-2004, 11:15 AM
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Boat by Day Surf by Night
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: North Granby, CT
Posts: 301
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That song is 15 years old, 1989 to be exact.....
Reminds me of the person I met at MIT a few years back who had never heard of MTV....... |
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10-07-2004, 11:54 AM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
Posts: 4,519
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Considering I was 10 when it came out I wouldn't remeber that. Does MTV play music videos anymore? Oh yeah on channel 360, 361, 362.  |
Go Ugly Early
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10-07-2004, 02:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 833
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He just married a 23 year old model . . . like I said to the Old Lady, "not likely he'll ever find anyone better looking than Christie to rub her nose in (after the b!tch "crash landed" with her real estate mogul boyfriend) but he can always go young and that's something Christie ain't never gonna be again"
I laugh when I see her hawking Total Gym with Walker, Texas Ranger |
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