What? Bruce Springsteen? Sure!

Yesterday ended up being a surprisingly eventful day. As far as Sundays are concerned, it wasn't supposed to be anything too special. My plans were to sleep in (accomplished), do some homework (unaccomplished), and then at nine o'clock, watch Mad Men (also unaccomplished). So what the hell happened? Well, Bruce Springsteen happened! About half-way through the day, I get a phone call from Mom saying "Your father can't come to the concert with me tonight, would you like to go instead?"

"Uh, Sure"

"Ok, be ready. I'll be in College Park at 4pm, we can take the Metro in."

Let the FREAKING OUT COMMENSE! Of course, I was super excited. It's been a really long time since I have gone to a Rock concert and I was super jacked to see Bruce Springsteen. It didn't really matter that I can tell you only three songs that he's written. It also didn't matter that the tour was an effort to promote his new album Wrecking Ball, which I had never listened to in my life. I was just super excited to go jump around like an idiot.

And I did......Well sort of. It seems to me Bruce has done a good deal of slowing down. We saw him at the Verizon Center, and we were two rows from the top. Needless to say, I was not jumping around for fear that I would fall down the bleachers knocking over countless bystanders before meeting my eventual demise somewhere close to the stage (insert Wrecking Ball pun here!). But, I needn't to have worried as most of the songs he did were not at a sufficient tempo to cause a head banging accident.

This is not to say that the concert wasn't awesome. It seems this new album is supposed to be more sentimental. A portion of the show was committed to introducing new band members, and remembering old ones (RIP Clarence). Of course a lot of Springsteen's signature moves were in effect. He crowd surfed, he slid across the stage on his knees while playing what I must admit, was a pretty righteous guitar solo. And of course, that signature voice, accompanied with quite poetic and meaningful lyrics, which I had to google to understand. At some point during the concert, Bruce decided to pull one of the audience members on stage and let them sing the lyrics. The kid was so nervous at first I thought he might cry, but after a little coaching from Bruce, the kid belted out the rest of the tune with no problem. During what was probably the 4th or 5th encore, the band did a really cool rap/gospel cross over which I really enjoyed. I was quite surprised how much gospel influence the album had in general.

Anyway, the concert was a lot of fun. If you haven't had a chance to see him, go and get your tickets now (although I'm not sure where he will be playing next). Oh and I got this awesome T-shirt. Tah Tah for now!