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Have you ever been drivin to tears?
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?
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?
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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
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!
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..
WAHHHHHH
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.
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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.
Thats me yelling stone at the beginning.
Great show best ever been to. Not a tear jerker. Was a party night.
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Mv4eEXGtM&feature=related
This drove me to tears too...great. i wish was there indeed
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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.
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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.
I never cry at shows. I get the chills and that's it.
usually i get so happy to hear whatever song that I just laugh!!
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