Last night, I went to what may turn out to be the greatest rock concert of my whole life! Thanks to my best friend, I had the chance to go see U2 at a sold-out show in Portland, Oregon. Words cannot even begin to express how powerful the concert was. It was at times very moving to see Bono perform so many of his classics, as well as blow us all away with stuff off their new album. They have a way of putting on an emtionally charged performance, with lights and sound and energy that made everyone just soak it all in as best they could. I felt like hearing "Origin of the Species", "One", and their opening song, "City of Blinding Lights", made it all worth the money, worth standing outside in the rain, worth risking life and limb to make it through the ice storm that was only visiting the area for that night, and worth having a cold to go with all my wonderful memories. And as my kids begin to question me of my own exposure to the rock legends of my day, I can proudly tell them of the day their old man went and saw U2... live in concert!
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