Since I was 14 I've been a concert junkie. I have been going to concerts for the kicks it gives me. Standing in front of the stage, holding on to the fence feeling the bass hsking my inner bones. I love it.
I remember those days when I came back from a concert, the guitars still ringing in my ears and I couldn't sleep for 48 hours. I was high on the music. High on the experience of seeing a concert live. The music moved me, it talked to me and it made me feel different.
It happens extemly rarely nowdays.
I even get bored at concerts.
Maybe it's because I went to everything before, I saw every show in the mid 80s til the mid 90s. During 10 years I saw 100s of concerts, met all my idols, travelled around and enjoyed the company of other fans.
Last Tuesday I went to see Glenn Hughes play and it was good, but not as good as it used to be. He didn't "touch my inner soul", he didn't make me think of Tommy Bohlin once. He seemed happier now, in a way better shape than then, but nothing happened. He sang his heart out and it was a really good show, musically no complains at all. But I was bored.
On Saturday I went to a one day Metal festival in Växjö. First band I saw was Crazy Lixx. Now, I really love Poison and Mötley Crüe and any band going back (or in Crazy Lixx's case, starting in) to the 80s Hairbands kinda music I will support them - but where was the action? Where was the connection? What happend there? Nothing! There wasn't anything there to deal with. Putting a fan infront of the guitarist won't make a glam band... Seeing a band like Sonic Syndicate gave me a lot more, even though I couldn't stand more than 2 tracks. German band Axxis was a blast from the past, I thought. But they had modernized themselves and hired an opera singer and she sang the night away... if you like that kinda music. I don't. I felt sad cause I saw them opening up for Black Sabbath many years ago and I thought they were fine then. Not fine enough to get their albums, but there you go...
Treat saved the night.Without them I would have been doomed. I actually stood there blaming myself for going to all those shows years ago, without them maybe I could have enjoyed myself... But I don't think that's it. I will let myself believe the music was better before :-) Am I evil for doing that?
Saw Almost Famous again, wishing I was around then, when it all started, when everything was new and the kicks never ran out...
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