Farewell to Stadium Rock (for now at least)

The two concerts we attended on the last weekend of June made future concert decisions relatively easy.

  

The first gig, at le Parc des Princes (total capacity circa 45 000),  was the Spring Bosstime. Even in so-called Gold seats, the view was far from intimate and, to add insult to injury, the sound was, to put it gently, muddy. The real shame was that the band did, for all intents and purposes, put on a stupendous 3-hour show. 

The next time we attend a Bruce concert we'll buy the cheap general admission tickets, and then queue up at dawn in hopes of getting into the stagefront pit.

The following night we saw Lou Reed perform Berlin at la Salle Pleyel, the Paris equivalent of Carnegie Hall.  We sat ten rows back from the stage, the sound was HiFi impeccable (the cameraphone recording one made during the encore doesn't do it justice) and the tickets were about the same price as for the E Street Band.  

Late July we're seeing Tom Waits at le Grand Rex (total capacity approximately 1 000) for a touch of glitter and doom.  Tickets were almost impossible to acquire, but hope springs eternal.