while we're waiting on VP to fix pics.....
so there i was at
Fall 2001 U2 show....it was the first one of the 3 [or 4] they played in NYC/MSG. I'd missed the tix sale or couldn't get one. BUT I HAD to go! I got a tix after 3 days of my first time ever trying to get a tix off the net from someone selling.....[not brkers] I got one 2 hours before the show..... I am about a third of the way past the tip of the heart, with rented binocs.
well I'm singing along w audienceto Elevation pumped into the area as we wait for them...they finally start to arrive on stage , and i BuRST OUT CRYING.
WHich I then actually preceeded to do through most of the show......well I sung and cried at the same time!
I haD not cried since I ran home after heading for MaNHATTAN, SEEING SOME HAPPY SUMMER CLOUD IN A DIAMOND CLEAR DAY, AND LISTENING TO MY WALKMAN sorry pinky slip.....
which I had neglected to turn on while i was running around the house getting ready to leave in the morning ...VERY RARE for me NOT to have the walkman on and earbuds in.....[almost NEVER TV- i don't see how ANYONE can get out of the house with TV on in the morning!
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and so i hear these terrible descriptions
while having NO IDEA just where/what they were specifically talking about] about some poor fireman covered in ashes, how something looks like a unbeleiveable SF movie, and some building crumbling......
and i thot "oh, dear....."
thern the 4 newspeople stopped dead in their tracks after half a min they say...."the Towers ARE GONE"
I stop dead in my tracks
stare at the walkman as if it had turned into A MONSTER, lOOKED BACK AT THE sky and CLOUD and realized for the first time just WHAT I was seeing [ the destruction] and ran screaming home. lucily 2 blks]
I threw myself on my bed then cried hard for about 5 - 10 mins then stopped had to make phone calls.......
Then i was never able to cry again [which was nealry 2 months or so] till U2 hit the stage.......
it was VERY CATHRTIC a showand my usually lust was well not quite in the backseat of my mind but not the constant wash in the front seat of emotion for this show....
so there i am with binoc that help me see them all better [not close altho on the tip of the heart...it was pretty good- i could discern some faciall features/emtions]. "new York" comes on and it well we had been in he back of stage seats in JULY 2001 so we didn't really see the screehns....as most of you did that first leg.....any way the lights are strobing away when B's really lit up from below.....
he was ....in full blossom, my gals...leftward and it was a full show......it was very fast with the strobes...but i know what i saw...
almost dropped the binocs ....
"whaaazzzthat??!!??!