...after an early start flying back from Brussels. After a 3-hour motorway slog down to Cardiff it was just great to spend a night listening to the E Street Band playing like their life depended on it. Every one of them was on top form - you could tell from when one of Max's drumsticks broke about 20 seconds into the song; he just slung it behind him, pulled out another, twirled it and snapped it into the palm of his hand and carried on hitting that snare drum so hard with scarcely missing a beat.
Gary actually singing and smiling during the last song...Clarence playing one of the most beautiful solos for Jungleland that I've ever heard that moved me to tears...Bruce handing his harmonica to the mom of a little girl who was standing at the front of the stage after he'd finished playing Darlington County - something for her to treasure for ever....Toms and his sister who wrote a lovely request on cardboard for Bruce and Clarence please to play Jungleland for them...which Bruce then asked them about in front of 60,000 people and pointed out, quite rightly he felt, that his name was written in much smaller letters than was Clarence's...and which they then played and nailed.
A wonderful happy fun evening when Rosie came out again and when everyone met at Mary's Place - I looked around me and all I could see were tens of thousands of happy smiling faces - all shapes and sizes and ages of people - all looking stagewards and having simply the best time ever.
It was a long way home, and I didn't get to bed 'till after 4am, but being part of that gig was truly memorable and I'm so glad I was able to be there. The E Street Band are playing better than ever; Bruce can still reach out and touch the souls of tens of thousands of people during a concert and make every one of them feel alive and happy; and as long as they keep playing then I shall go and see them whenever I'm able to knowing that 'it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive'.
Gary actually singing and smiling during the last song...Clarence playing one of the most beautiful solos for Jungleland that I've ever heard that moved me to tears...Bruce handing his harmonica to the mom of a little girl who was standing at the front of the stage after he'd finished playing Darlington County - something for her to treasure for ever....Toms and his sister who wrote a lovely request on cardboard for Bruce and Clarence please to play Jungleland for them...which Bruce then asked them about in front of 60,000 people and pointed out, quite rightly he felt, that his name was written in much smaller letters than was Clarence's...and which they then played and nailed.
A wonderful happy fun evening when Rosie came out again and when everyone met at Mary's Place - I looked around me and all I could see were tens of thousands of happy smiling faces - all shapes and sizes and ages of people - all looking stagewards and having simply the best time ever.
It was a long way home, and I didn't get to bed 'till after 4am, but being part of that gig was truly memorable and I'm so glad I was able to be there. The E Street Band are playing better than ever; Bruce can still reach out and touch the souls of tens of thousands of people during a concert and make every one of them feel alive and happy; and as long as they keep playing then I shall go and see them whenever I'm able to knowing that 'it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive'.
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