Have you ever been drivin to tears?

LaFours

sorry for that bit of cheese...

So I don't know what initially spurned this topic but, a friend of mine said to me earlier that a colleague of his being a huge Bruce fan, cried at his first Springsteen show(a solo show). I may have cried over certain Bruce solo shows, but for very different reasons....
My reaction at first was disbelief, I know I've video of people weep at shows, but it's always like a Michael Jackson type concert years back.
I don't understand it, having that kind of reaction to a person...as Mick sang it's only rock and roll. I get having a deep connection to music, but to that point it's a bit much.
Then this friend said that many times he has cried listening to a tune on the radio, while watching Into the Wild hearing Ed's voice. He's also reading 5 against 1 and I guess there were accounts of people in the first ten rows crying.
I find it verging on disturbing when I hear someone has an emotional breakdown over a performer/performance. Even when that person is taken from the world(I don't mean to sound callus), I didn't cry for Kurt, I was a huge Nirvana fan, and like alot of kids I was 13 at the time, I felt that musical connection, but that never delved into such an emotional connection that I cried when he died, I was surly saddened that he was gone, leaving behind a young daughter, not getting to see what greatness he would have made in the ensuing years.
So am I the one that's nuts, or is this a common reaction?

Pegasus

mm..I cried at Lisbon 2 06 during MMJ.. of boredom! (seriously, I did! and that was only the 2nd time I had to bear them!..6 more to go :()

and at PJ Athens 06, because it was the last show of the tour and everyone was going home and I didn't know when I'd be seeing them again (both fans and band)...turned out it was only for less than a year but I didn't know it at the time
Smile is the song that got me started there: "I miss you already"..oops, here I go..

and yes, I do feel a bit silly about it

justam

RehabDoll wrote:

sorry for that bit of cheese...

So I don't know what initially spurned this topic but, a friend of mine said to me earlier that a colleague of his being a huge Bruce fan, cried at his first Springsteen show(a solo show). I may have cried over certain Bruce solo shows, but for very different reasons....
My reaction at first was disbelief, I know I've video of people weep at shows, but it's always like a Michael Jackson type concert years back.
I don't understand it, having that kind of reaction to a person...as Mick sang it's only rock and roll. I get having a deep connection to music, but to that point it's a bit much.
Then this friend said that many times he has cried listening to a tune on the radio, while watching Into the Wild hearing Ed's voice. He's also reading 5 against 1 and I guess there were accounts of people in the first ten rows crying.
I find it verging on disturbing when I hear someone has an emotional breakdown over a performer/performance. Even when that person is taken from the world(I don't mean to sound callus), I didn't cry for Kurt, I was a huge Nirvana fan, and like alot of kids I was 13 at the time, I felt that musical connection, but that never delved into such an emotional connection that I cried when he died, I was surly saddened that he was gone, leaving behind a young daughter, not getting to see what greatness he would have made in the ensuing years.
So am I the one that's nuts, or is this a common reaction?

I cry when I feel overwhelmed sometimes. I could be overwhelmed by beauty or emotion, but sometimes I can't help crying.

I wouldn't call it an "emotional breakdown" though!

Clarice

RehabDoll wrote:

sorry for that bit of cheese...

So I don't know what initially spurned this topic but, a friend of mine said to me earlier that a colleague of his being a huge Bruce fan, cried at his first Springsteen show(a solo show). I may have cried over certain Bruce solo shows, but for very different reasons....
My reaction at first was disbelief, I know I've video of people weep at shows, but it's always like a Michael Jackson type concert years back.
I don't understand it, having that kind of reaction to a person...as Mick sang it's only rock and roll. I get having a deep connection to music, but to that point it's a bit much.
Then this friend said that many times he has cried listening to a tune on the radio, while watching Into the Wild hearing Ed's voice. He's also reading 5 against 1 and I guess there were accounts of people in the first ten rows crying.
I find it verging on disturbing when I hear someone has an emotional breakdown over a performer/performance. Even when that person is taken from the world(I don't mean to sound callus), I didn't cry for Kurt, I was a huge Nirvana fan, and like alot of kids I was 13 at the time, I felt that musical connection, but that never delved into such an emotional connection that I cried when he died, I was surly saddened that he was gone, leaving behind a young daughter, not getting to see what greatness he would have made in the ensuing years.
So am I the one that's nuts, or is this a common reaction?

I cried when PJ started the show in SP. I can understand, i waited for 15 years...Two months after this, i cried again when U2 started their show...But i´m not paremeter, i´m cry-baby...i cry with music, book, poetry, movie, persons..

i am a target

this board usually makes me weep.

3inputchick

When they ban me here I cry.
WAHHHHHH

andrew the legend

Alive in seattle night 2 2000 is the most emotional. no tears but mikey gave me the its ok sign.
VA beach 2000 long road and daughter very emitonal
there was a bat or something that was coming up and down to the song.

Daughter seattle 2000 Ed almost killed jeff wih the mic stand. Thats the most emotional I've ever aseen him.

100 Pacer

have been driven to tears 3 times, Cleveland and Buffalo/03 and Montreal/05 when "Driven To Tears" was played

ACCBootlegGoddess

Ok I'm going to be the brave one in this thread and admit that YES I've had a song make me cry during a show before, and not just at a Pearl Jam show. I don't cry all the way through a show...there are just a few songs that I have a strong emotional respose to because they remind me of either the loss of someone I loved very much or events in my life that a certain song played a big part in helping me cope with.
Its not unusual for people to be so moved by a song that it evokes an emotional response. I mean people cry at opera's...why not at a rock show if the song has a special meaning for someone. I don't think its weird or disturbing at all.

For me when it gets disturbing is at like a boy band show were a person is crying from start to finish because their favourite artist is in the same room as them. (ie. see old Beatle clips, Elvis clips, Backstreet Boys, NKOTB from back in the day, etc). I have NEVER EVER cried over an artist themself...only over songs that have a special meaning for me. If you think thats creepy or weird, I really don't care.

deadmosquito

i've actually cried at a lot of shows. sometimes it's just being in the moment, hearing a special song by a special artist... i don't know. sometimes songs bring up memories that are emotional for me, and it just overwhelms me at a show.

Chris1401

Play Release from State College '03 and not well up a little...I dare ya.

andrew the legend

Speaking of Release at state college

Thats me yelling stone at the beginning.

Great show best ever been to. Not a tear jerker. Was a party night.

Chris1401

Hard to be crying in State College...true that. I heard the boot long before I visited.

However, when I did visit I went to the G-man and got shitty then to some other bar, but got tossed before I even got in.

Gmoney

this just drove me to tears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Mv4eEXGtM&feature=related

Clarice

Gmoney wrote:

this just drove me to tears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Mv4eEXGtM&feature=related

This drove me to tears too...great. i wish was there indeed

red mos

I'll tell you "Black" has made me tear up especially the 2nd time I saw it live back in 03. Seeing all the couples looking at each other with love in their eyes hand in hand and swaying back and forth as Ed is belting out the words with such intense emotional. From a single point of view it really made me feel jealous but yet I was in awe with what I was seeing around me. Lighters were raised and the whole crowd was doing the "do do do" part of the song at the end. Ed even tagged a "hold on" improv (not sure if it was a pre lost dogs lyric) at the end of the song but he just was like "hold on to, "Hold on to, Hold on" as Boom was playing the piano outro and Mike finishing the solo. Ed Just sounded so emotional, not sure if he was tipsy, but what a powerful vocal delivery.

SENROCK

Pegasus wrote:

mm..I cried at Lisbon 2 06 during MMJ.. of boredom!

hahaha you really dont like them? That is funny! All i ever hear is how awesome that band is! :eek:

on topic-
my first time crying at a pearl jam show was the gorge 05 when they played Hard to Imagine. I was moved for a number of reasons.

prince119

Inside Job is a clincher for me. I can hardly handle it. WATERWORKS!!!!!!!!!

I have no shame. I cried at numerous movies. I cried at Finding Neverland for crying out loud (pun INTENDED)

Crying is a release for me just as dancing or singing is. I don't mind it at all and I embrace the musical connection to my tears and my feelings. I like it to be honest.

I look like a moron I am sure, but I close my eyes and sing to the sky when I am am deeply moved in song. I also laugh during the song breaks if a band or artist has really hit me. I give a chuckle and a "FUCK" sometimes. It is just my body reacting to the stimuli that I like.

Slip Kid

bunch of pussies the lot of you

I never cry at shows. I get the chills and that's it.

loki

I took and ex to Hershey and ironicly she broke down during Driven to Tears. I tried to console her but she pushed away. The next day I met my current wife so I am happy that happened.

pearljgirl2010

i didn't think that i'd cry at a show...but now I've done it three times. first time I heard footsteps, i cried for numerous reasons...then at the EV solo shows i cried during Society-twice! at Santa Barbara it was just beautiful and i love that song. in LA night 1, i don't know what happened, but i heard the first few notes and just cried...something about that song just hits me.

usually i get so happy to hear whatever song that I just laugh!!