July 8 - Once in a lifetime.
Play a record by an artist that you feel lucky to have seen perform live
Honestly, this
also would have been a great day to play Tracy Chapman. Alas. I feel very lucky to have seen so many amazing artists live, so it's a bit of a hard choice. I have on album in my "to play" stack of one of my favorite artists, but I am going to take the definition of "Once in a Lifetime" literally and go with an artist I saw exactly once.
So, you know how you have that person in your life who constantly spouts on about things you need to see and do and travel to? Well, one of those things always seems to be the Grand Canyon. For me, for years, it was always "OK, I get it, it's amazing, but I want to see all this other stuff too". Then I went to the Grand Canyon and I understood. You get to the ridge and it just takes your breath away, the sheer size and beauty lives up to the hype of generations prior, and you begin to compare all other sights to it.
I feel like this person's voice is that. You hear it on the radio all the time and you know it's good but since it's SO constantly there and in your face it gets put off to the side. Then you hear her in person and your musical world, for a couple hours, changes.
I remember when Adele went on her tour, right before she blew up, she played a smallish (2k) venue in Boston and I passed on going for tickets. She came back about five years later for the 25 tour and I swore I wouldn't miss it. I got very lucky with Ticketmaster and snagged two tickets: complete nosebleeds in the cavern known as the TD Garden, holding up the room. I debated selling for a while but ultimately made the call to go. She was otherworldly. Now, I've been in that area for other shows: Pink sounded fine, the Dalai Lama could not be heard at all (yes, that one), it's a tough venue for audio. Adele did not have that problem. She had the theatrics, she had the "bants", she had everyone in that crowd in the palm of her hand as she absolutely belted every song of hers you may want to hear.
She hasn't toured since. I'm not sure if she ever will with her vocal cord issues and life goals. And if not, well, we have this to enjoy her by:
Adele - 25
Here's the setlist for those inclined, just straight fire the whole way through
Get the Adele Setlist of the concert at TD Garden, Boston, MA, USA on September 14, 2016 from the Adele Live 2016/17 Tour and other Adele Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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