I saw Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in concert Thursday night with my parents. Just for the record, I’m not embarrassed about going with my parents. I just wanna clear that up. To the left is a pic of my dad via his camera phone during the concert. He was pretty happy.
And no, this wasn’t my idea. Of course it was my parents’ idea, and as they would note, their money. They were on the phone at 9:00 AM the day the tickets went on sale, and perhaps by extremely good luck got the tickets for… well, the price wasn’t that bad.
Anyway, it was very good. Everyone in the band looked like they were having the time of their lives - almost as much as the 40,000 people in the audience. It was also very loud. Like, my-mom-had-to-wear-earplugs loud.
And big. I didn’t know that so many people listened to Bruce Springsteen in New York City. Actually, come to think of it, I didn’t know that so many people listened to Bruce Springsteen period. Everyone there seemed to know the songs by heart, and during some songs you could barely hear Bruce singing - the audience was doing it for him.
Here’s the first song from his new album, called “Radio Nowhere.” For some reason this song reminds me of “I Want to Know” by the Mavericks. It’s probably just me though.
[audio:http://www.netsua.com/audio/bruceradio.mp3]
Oh, one last thing, Bruce Springsteen looks really funny when he sings. He’s smiling, but he looks… well, just funny.
[Photo from the LA Times)
Bruce has been around since I was a kid. I grew up listening to “Born to Run”.
Springsteen always delivers on the promise: Honesty, Integrity and a shitload of fun in concert.
Did you win a prize for being the youngest person in the house? Grandma Max
Actually, there were some kids younger than me there! No younger than 6 or 7. They were of course with their parents.
My dad said that it wasn’t really a rock concert, just a “really big PTA meeting.”
I think I’ve been to 50 PTA meetings and 50 concerts.
In my book, Bruce is the number two concert experience of all-time.
He has been doing it since the mid 70’s.
Number one on my list . . . the rolling stones.
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