The Boss... LIVE!!!
26 July 2009 10:18![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonflower75It was exactly as I expected.... and even better.
ok, it's been exactly a week ago today, but....life's a b****, work's even worse and they conspired to take away any single scrap of time I had to sit down and write even just a line about this fabulous night. ;D
All kinds of people in the crowd, from the most obvious Boss fans (t-shirts, bandannas, tattoos and all) to those my friend P. and I named 'The Ususpected': there were more than one, but most of all it was this couple, all prim and proper, in perfectly pressed shirts and slacks/skirt sitting there, certainly enjoying the show, but NOT MOVING an inch! They looked like they had taken wrong turn and ended up at the Stadium when all they intended to do was get to Santa Cecilia's Auditorium for a good old Mozart concert for cellos (if something like that actually exists) *snort*.
Don't get me wrong, I love classical music, even though I'm not a connoisseur, but they looked so, well, STILL, just sitting there like that, we could not help but notice them.
Because from the moment Springsteen got onstage, P. and I were gone, we kept on screaming and jumping up and down, and dancing and waving our arms up in the air and even when we were sitting down, we couldn't keep still. ;D
And he not only sang everybody's favorite songs, he also dedicated My City of Ruins to L'Aquila and its people and I know it doesn't mean a lot in the great scheme of things and it certainly doesn't change a damn thing that's happened this past spring, but I can't express how much I appreciate that he did that and how it touched me deep.
And it wasn't just me. The crowd went wild. Maybe all our reactions are ridiculous, maybe we are all prone to this kind of emotional manipulation, but that's how it felt, how it still feels, and I'm not ashamed of that.
Full of energy and emotionally charged.
I was expecting to have a great time and the whole night just exceeded those expectations: even though the concerts was delayed for 2 hours because of the FINA World Championship, even though it was so hot even just breathing was making us sweat, I was with one of my best friends, plunged in the excitement and vitality of an enthusiactic crowd and for three whole hours there was nothing but the band, his voice and his songs.
And that felt absolutely magic.
ok, it's been exactly a week ago today, but....life's a b****, work's even worse and they conspired to take away any single scrap of time I had to sit down and write even just a line about this fabulous night. ;D
All kinds of people in the crowd, from the most obvious Boss fans (t-shirts, bandannas, tattoos and all) to those my friend P. and I named 'The Ususpected': there were more than one, but most of all it was this couple, all prim and proper, in perfectly pressed shirts and slacks/skirt sitting there, certainly enjoying the show, but NOT MOVING an inch! They looked like they had taken wrong turn and ended up at the Stadium when all they intended to do was get to Santa Cecilia's Auditorium for a good old Mozart concert for cellos (if something like that actually exists) *snort*.
Don't get me wrong, I love classical music, even though I'm not a connoisseur, but they looked so, well, STILL, just sitting there like that, we could not help but notice them.
Because from the moment Springsteen got onstage, P. and I were gone, we kept on screaming and jumping up and down, and dancing and waving our arms up in the air and even when we were sitting down, we couldn't keep still. ;D
And he not only sang everybody's favorite songs, he also dedicated My City of Ruins to L'Aquila and its people and I know it doesn't mean a lot in the great scheme of things and it certainly doesn't change a damn thing that's happened this past spring, but I can't express how much I appreciate that he did that and how it touched me deep.
And it wasn't just me. The crowd went wild. Maybe all our reactions are ridiculous, maybe we are all prone to this kind of emotional manipulation, but that's how it felt, how it still feels, and I'm not ashamed of that.
Full of energy and emotionally charged.
I was expecting to have a great time and the whole night just exceeded those expectations: even though the concerts was delayed for 2 hours because of the FINA World Championship, even though it was so hot even just breathing was making us sweat, I was with one of my best friends, plunged in the excitement and vitality of an enthusiactic crowd and for three whole hours there was nothing but the band, his voice and his songs.
And that felt absolutely magic.
