================================================ Subject: Re: My Boston Review From: "Lee Reed" To: Date: Fri 8 Feb 2002 16:55:33 -0500 ================================================ joe, wonderful review...as far as the personal bit...lemme just say, i'm a bit older than you, and i can SO identify with everything you said...my husband thinks i am totally nuts, thinks i'm 'obsessed' with creed (which i am, but shhh...don't tell him that!)...but i think it is much more what you said, that they remind me that i am NOT a little old lady, that there is still some of the 'kid' in me...and i can't wait to be on the rail in detroit monday night! Lee >From: Joe Earles (SNIPPED FOR THE STUPID LINE LIMIT) >This is going to get personal...I'll give fair warning.... > >>And now for the personal stuff... > >I guess for a long time I've looked into the mirror and seen an old man >staring back at me. I'm 30 years old, I've been married almost 9 years and >I >have a 2-year-old son. While I don't regret any of those things it's been a >while since I really felt like I had a place in today's world what with the >male pattern baldness, the occasional aches and pains that I didn't have at >16 and the common yet no less debilitating disease of invisibility to >teenage girls. Last night was important for me. When I looked around at >the >people at this concert, the rowdiest most enthusiastic fans were people >that >were MY AGE. The 30-somethings knew every word to every song and there was >a >whole bunch of us in our section that were still dancing and jumping around >and banging our heads long after most of the teenagers in the place had >grown tired and were SITTING DOWN IN THEIR SEATS. Honestly, who sits down >at >a rock concert??? The two most exuberant fans were two ladies who were in >their late 30's or possibly pushing 40. They had a huge poster with the >CREED crest logo and took great delight in showing everyone the autographs >on the poster and on their shirts. They clearly were hanging out waiting >while the crews loaded in and managed to meet the band! There were parents >there WITH their teenagers (Metallica fans, does this sound familiar?) and >the kids didn't seem to mind being there with their parents. The fans were >lively but generally well-behaved and I only ran into two or three drunk >idiots, one of which almost fell down an escalator. That would've been bad, >too because that escalator would've ripped that mullet right off his >head.... > >I guess what this is getting at is that being there last night brought me >back to a place where even though I was always mindful of the fact that I >was still the responsible husband and father, it was the first time in a >long time that I really felt...well....young. I felt young and it felt >wonderful to wake up my inner teenager and bang head with him for a couple >hours. And seeing so many 30-somethings all knowing the words, all rockin' >to put people half their age to shame made me feel for the first time in a >while like I wasn't totally out of the loop; that my generation knows what >good music is and that we know how to have a good time. After all, we're >CREED fans! We have good taste. One song that they didn't do last night >had >its meaning pounded into me on the way home, and the bulk of that message >is >found in the bridge: > >I won't let go of that youthful soul >Despite body and mind my youth will never die! > >To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, >visit: >http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp