hey gretchen..welcome to the frink and to the forums...
i actually mean this one
while you prob mean this one ..
so have you seen him live already?
Oh boy...yeah, I see what you mean about that other picture...
I was at the Columbus show April 1. I can't believe it's only been 4 months - it seems like 4 years ago! Even a couple weeks afterwards I was wondering if I'd just dreamed it. It was funny..I'd been a Morrissey fan for a long time and spent the couple weeks beforehand being quite studious..watching all the dvds and listening to the records, looking up the set list and the previous week's shows online..you know, getting myself 'prepared.' So I headed out and got my seat, about 1/2 way back on the main floor, center aisle, and I'm all cool and collected. When he came out he'd only gotten about 1/3 of the way to the mic stand and I started feeling a little woozy. I was COMPLETELY unprepared for the sheer aesthetic pleasure of seeing the man in-person. I mean, of course, I thought he was extremely attractive before, but I remember thinking at the show, "C'mon, this is RIDICULOUS!"
HA I went back to my car afterwards thinking "Gretchen, you are WAY too old for this." The next day I was looking up sportscars and tattoo options online! So I guess it fired me officially into midlife crisis mode.
My sister lives in Ann Arbor and now I wish I'd gone to that one the night before - hindsight is always 20/20.
Here is our Columbus finale from YouTube - begins with a very sweet embrace of a girl who found herself onstage and paralyzed with fear of what to do next. No barrier except for a couple unimpressive security guys so TONS of invaders:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ-uDYXWSfg
3 weeks later I saw the Spinal Tap guys at the same theater Morrissey was at (he's actually played there several times) and I went up afterwards and measured the stage height. Never hurts to be prepared.
I'd been procrastinating joining the forums...I was kind of semi-active on the main boards and well, they can be pretty vicious sometimes...but I've posted on like 3 or 4 threads in the forums and nobody's yelled at me yet, so that's good.