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The Billy Joel Band is the band that backs singer-songwriter and pianist Billy Joel on both studio and live recordings. The band stabilized around 1975 but has undergone several significant lineup changes beginning in the late 1980s and early 90s. Joel's touring band didn't begin playing on his records until he recorded the album ''Turnstiles'' in 1976. This line-up included Richie Cannata on saxophones and organ, Liberty DeVitto on drums, Russell Javors on guitar, and Doug Stegmeyer on bass.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/turnstiles-mw0000650318 )〕 The band, which now no longer includes any of its original members, is often not recognized as a formal entity, and is instead referred to simply as Billy Joel's band.〔A Google News archive search done in February 2010 for the period 1970 through 2009 shows (175 references to "Billy Joel Band" ) and (134 references to "Billy Joel's band" ), although the search mechanism tends to co-mingle the terms.〕 ==Early days== Joel's first touring band, formed in 1971 to support the ''Cold Spring Harbor'' album, comprised Rhys Clark on drums, Al Hertzberg on guitar, and Larry Russell on bass. The group toured throughout the United States and in Puerto Rico. The touring lineup changed and it took a few years for the lineup to stabilize. In an online interview, DeVitto describes how Joel's classic late 70's-early 80's band first came together: Billy and I used to play the same club in Plainview, Long Island, called My House. He was 17 and in a band called The Hassles and I was 16 and in a band called The New Rock Workshop. We would watch each other play and acknowledge each other in passing. In 1974, he was living in Los Angeles and had already released ''Piano Man'' and ''Streetlife Serenade''. He used studio musicians for the recording and different guys out on the road. I was playing in a band called Topper with Doug Stegmeyer and he got the gig to play bass with Billy on the “Streetlife” tour. () told Doug that he wanted to move back to New York and find a permanent band he could record and tour with on a regular basis. Doug recommended me because Billy was looking for a New York-type drummer, aggressive and hard hitting, and the rest is history. The three of us recorded the basic tracks for ''Turnstiles'' and we both recommended Russell Javors and Howie Emerson, who played guitars in Topper and with the addition of Richie Cannata on saxophone, the “Billy Joel Band” was born.〔Blog Interview with Liberty DeVitto()〕 By the late 1970s, the touring and studio lineup of Joel's band stabilized and consisted, mostly, of the following musicians: * Billy Joel - lead vocals, piano & keyboards, guitar, harmonica * Liberty DeVitto — drums, percussion * Doug Stegmeyer — bass guitar, backing vocals * Russell Javors — rhythm and lead guitars, harmonica, backing vocals * Richie Cannata — keyboards, saxophones, flute, clarinet, percussion This was the basic lineup for some of Joel's classic albums of the 1970s and 1980s including ''Turnstiles'', ''The Stranger'', ''52nd Street'', ''Glass Houses,'' and ''Songs in the Attic''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Billy Joel Band」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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