Before I start. Barb in New York. E mail thing is still not working. I received your parcel yesterday thank you, thank you, thank you. Letter is on its way.If you can, please leave a comment so I know you have seen this.

Went to the Bryan Adams concert in March - still catching up on my blog news. It was fantastic. We had golden circle tickets, we had a comfortable time standing and weren't crushed by the crowds. We found a spot next to the sound booth so I had a great time watching the sound engineers (who looked about as happy and excited to be there as a tub of frozen yoghurt).
I'm not a big Bryan Adams fan - don't have his cds in my collection. Actually I do, it's an MTV unplugged one. But I love him live. He really rocks. This is the third time I've seen him. He keeps coming back here which is nice of him. The thing about Bryan Adams is that he has no airs and graces. It's him and three musicians on stage, jeans and black t shirts, just doing their thing - no backing vocalists, no flashy special effects, no grand costumes - and it works! He too, is a pro at interacting with the audience and always pulls someone up onto the stage to play his guitar or sing with him. It's an ahhhhhh moment. This time he pulled up a girl from Krugersdorp (lots of jokes about that) and she sang one of his songs with him (I can hear the song in my head but the name has escaped me). She was good, even Bryan was surprised. She knew all the song words and she rocked - not bad for a chick from K'dorp!

The highlight of the show was "Summer of 69". In fact he didn't sing it at all. 16 000 fortysomething South Africans did that for him. He introduced the number by picking up the green guitar in the picture here and started talking about this being his favourite guitar. He then sang the intro "I bought my first six string...." and well that was it, we took over. Great moment.

He was also so gracious about our country, said "we have a good thing going here" and told us how much he likes spending time here. That always makes us feel gooey and warm and fuzzy and nice.

He ended the show by serenading us for half an hour. Just him and his guitar. The final number was All For One And One For All. It was spine tingling stuff - he certainly has a great voice.

So for the third time, been there, done that, bought the TShirt. The girl in the pic with me is my friend Velda. Would I go again? Of course!