Sir Elton John

Last night the 2 oldest children went on the Church retreat..............J. had the fun fair at his school that I THANKFULLY got to miss, so he went to it and spent the night with his new neighbor and friend,,,,,who we already adore....... That left Chris and I to traipse off freely to a friend's for a dinner of appetizers and then to the concert...............My thought was that all I have to do is sit and listen at the concert so I could still go, even though I haven't been feeling well.
The noise, people screaming, people in my face talking.................was overwhelming.........at times I kept thinking of how to escape. Now the funny thing is I at one time was a singer. So, you would think I would adore this type of thing and be really into it...............and if I love the music I am.........but if I don't.....and I'm kind of emotionally picky about music................I am miserable. When this little man came out on stage..........people went nuts..........and you really got into the emotion of it...............you felt like Jesus had come back or something.........and then he just sat down and played the piano.............for a LONG time......my ADD kicked in and the synthesizers did too and I felt bored......He did say "I am happy to be in Charlottesville", but really he didn't talk to us all night.....I wish he would have engaged the crowd more.......He did get up a ton and point and wave at us.............this man is 2 years younger than my mother......and looks like my Uncle Gary.......with the same color hair as my Aunt Lucille always colored hers..........I have always thought these things, but last night confirmed it..............His energy and genius really are amazing...............he finally sang a song I recognized and even though he can't hit the top notes anymore, he is absolutely radio perfect in my mind. Here is the amazing thing about Elton John. There is probably nobody in the world, except maybe the Beatles, who could play their music for almost 3 hours straight and I know mostly every song. And those songs, why I grew up with them..............The song that says, sorry is the hardest word? I must have sang that in my teenage angst at the top of my lungs in my orange pinto a million times..........and the song about the sun going down on me? That has to be an orange pinto song too, really there were about 10 orange pinto songs.............yellow brick road, I guess that's why they call it the blues, you can tell everybody this is your song ( I don't know the actual names, just the chorus lines). I realized that this man has had an incredible emotional impact on my whole life..........and by the reaction of the crowd to songs like Bennie and the Jets and Pinball wizard..............so did they. He wrote songs back in the time when songs were stories about people and their lives...............Most of the audience was my age or older.............and they seemed to be reliving something too..... After he sang a song he got up pointing and waving again and then just walked off the stage............he did come back for two more encore songs............and then walked off again............He was gracious, but I guess after 40 years of performing you just go out and sing and play..........he doesn't need to engage with talk...................also, there was no intermission.............the man really is amazing.