ELO.

We returned home yesterday after 01:00, happy and inspired. I can say now that we saw a Legend of a man and the band. If Western Civilization is ever going to come back to human normality, the recovery should start from playing Jeff Lynne and ELO's music as a mandatory subject in schools as a lesson in humanity, taste and quality. It also has to be played as mental therapy. ELO played yesterday to a packed Tacoma Dome (Dhani Harrison and his band were opening act--really good). We were sitting to the right of the stage very close to it--lights, production, playing, I have no enough superlatives to describe this. It was loud, but what a loudness it was--clear, beautifully separated by frequencies of instrument and yes, Jeff still got it. We (a huge crowd, I mean) sang like crazy together with ELO and, boy, did they rock the Tacoma Dome sold out crowd.  One knows that one is going to see a Legend and rock highest royalty when you can see three generations, ranging from ages 70 to teenagers, going in the river of humanity towards the Dome. By the time Jeff, Dhani and ELO started playing Traveling Wilburys' Handle With Care--nobody was sitting at the packed venue. Here is some taste of ELO in Tacoma Dome--a Magic! And we were really happy to see so many youngsters who knew Who they were going to see and hear. People already upload videos from the concert. Ah yes, ELO still sells out places like Wembley. 

They are the orchestra of Electric Light and nobody comes even close.

P.S. Forgot. Technically it was Friday. 

It Is Not Friday, But Still...

Waiting to meet music legends. My daughter, who is involved big time in the rock music business (her fiance is a life long tour-manager of one of the four big metal giants, care to guess, who? Wink-wink), including being PR honcho for Shania Twain's last world tour. She got us (well, privileged, let's put it this way) tickets to see Jeff Lynne's ELO next Friday. I cannot wait to get to this magic. Yet, she can get us to Queen's concert but I don't want to--no, make no mistake, I love Brian and Roger, I miss John badly and Adam Lambert, who has an amazing voice, can still do the JOB. But there is no real replacement for Freddy, until, until...and that is what I cannot accept. We had all a chance to take a drug and relieve the pain and experience a reincarnation but....denied, because this guy is not, let's put it this way, flamboyant enough? Why, this didn't happen when it mast have? I know John Deacon wanted him, Roger Taylor plays with him on tours, and yet--he had doors to Queen closed for him?!!! Enter Mark Martel, 8 years ago when he stunned the world:

Did Freddy have a fling in Canada (yes, he was actually Bisexual) and had a son? Celine breaks down when she understands what she witnesses, we all got it. Yes, I also got very emotional.

We were given a truly a second chance--to experience a miracle and we are still denied this:

So, why should we go to see Queen without Marc through who Freddy sings today...........

Jeff, You Have No Right To Die.

One of the greatest rockers of all time with his most underrated band of all time inducted, finally....

Yes, it is Friday...