I’ve got my tickets for U2. Unfortunately now I have to wait 9 months until the concert. But then like a beautiful child being born U2 will emerge onto the stage at Busch stadium and, ok I’ve totally lost the birth metaphor but let’s just say I’m really looking forward to the show.
This will be the 7th time I’ve seen U2 play live. I haven’t missed a tour since ZooTv 1992. I scheduled my leave from Iraq to see them, choosing to miss both my Cousin’s wedding and Christmas instead. I have driven to Lexington, Kentucky and Chicago, Illinois to see them. I’ve already seen them once on this tour, but this time their coming to St Louis so I can’t miss out.
Obviously I loves me some U2 but there’s a downside to seeing them play live. It happens every time. It makes me want to play. It’s not the glitz or glamour; or the thousands of screaming fans; it’s something much more basic.
It’s about 4 guys all playing together making something special. I’ve been in a number of bands, some good some not so good. But in each band there was at least one moment when we all were in sync and something special happened. We knew what each other was doing and made each other better. It’s the musical equivalent to an ally-oop in basketball. Teamwork, synchronicity, timing. Some bands I was in could make it happen again and again, in others it was more of a one shot deal.
When I see U2 play next July they will do that on stage and it will make me want it too. I know that I’ll never be a mega rock star, and I can always scratch that itch with a little Guitar Hero. But that moment of harmony when everything just clicks, well there’s just no substitute for it.
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