Comments on: Springsteen :: Giants Stadium, 7.28.08 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/08/02/springsteen-giants-stadium-72808/ Los Angeles based mp3 & music blog Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:13:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: wendy http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/08/02/springsteen-giants-stadium-72808/#comment-423249 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:56:13 +0000 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/08/02/springsteen-giants-stadium-72808/#comment-423249 I was at this show as well, and can completely understand as both a graduate of an SEC football school and a Bruce fanatic that your comparison is right on. My feeling after that show (I grew up partially in NJ and partially in the South) was that the crowd grew up living and breathing his music from the time Bruce's first album came out (or if they were younger-the first time they heard his music). You could feel that in the air, and you knew that everyone there had some memory associated with each song, each lyric and that it meant so much more being that he grew up in the same place. that is why it is so incredibly special to see Bruce in Giants Stadium-even though it was my 10th time seeing him, it was still incredibly poignant. I will always be proud of my NJ roots mostly due in part to Bruce... I was at this show as well, and can completely understand as both a graduate of an SEC football school and a Bruce fanatic that your comparison is right on. My feeling after that show (I grew up partially in NJ and partially in the South) was that the crowd grew up living and breathing his music from the time Bruce’s first album came out (or if they were younger-the first time they heard his music). You could feel that in the air, and you knew that everyone there had some memory associated with each song, each lyric and that it meant so much more being that he grew up in the same place. that is why it is so incredibly special to see Bruce in Giants Stadium-even though it was my 10th time seeing him, it was still incredibly poignant. I will always be proud of my NJ roots mostly due in part to Bruce…

]]> by: Ryan http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/08/02/springsteen-giants-stadium-72808/#comment-393412 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:31:14 +0000 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/08/02/springsteen-giants-stadium-72808/#comment-393412 I've never completely understood the transcendent appeal of Springsteen, even though I have several of his albums and understand the Walker Percy-esque Catholicism of his writings. However, as a current LSU student counting down the days til the first home game, I feel like I finally understand, I was fortunate enough to score tickets on the 3rd row, 50 yard line, for the national championship, and ran into trouble trying to explain the near-religious experience watching LSU win to the parents of LSU players. I've been attending LSU games since I was an infant, hell my parents met at an LSU-Alabama game, and I have yet to find an experience as thrilling, as spiritual, as seeing an LSU touchdown, the Golden Band From Tigerland, etc. The game-winning Demtrious Byrd TD against Auburn this past year is a moment of pure, unfiltered joy, that cannot be explained. My dad has seen Springsteen at the PMAC and at the La Superdome, but I have never been able to connect to the experience that he spoke of at the shows. However, if there is any experience I can relate to, it is an LSU football game. Because of this one post alone, this one simple comparison, I now have a strong desire to see Springsteen, in Jersey if I can. College football is often dismissed, but of all the shows I have been to, of all the places I have seen, and the people I have met, nothing compares to Saturday nights in Tiger Stadium. I’ve never completely understood the transcendent appeal of Springsteen, even though I have several of his albums and understand the Walker Percy-esque Catholicism of his writings.

However, as a current LSU student counting down the days til the first home game, I feel like I finally understand, I was fortunate enough to score tickets on the 3rd row, 50 yard line, for the national championship, and ran into trouble trying to explain the near-religious experience watching LSU win to the parents of LSU players. I’ve been attending LSU games since I was an infant, hell my parents met at an LSU-Alabama game, and I have yet to find an experience as thrilling, as spiritual, as seeing an LSU touchdown, the Golden Band From Tigerland, etc. The game-winning Demtrious Byrd TD against Auburn this past year is a moment of pure, unfiltered joy, that cannot be explained.

My dad has seen Springsteen at the PMAC and at the La Superdome, but I have never been able to connect to the experience that he spoke of at the shows. However, if there is any experience I can relate to, it is an LSU football game. Because of this one post alone, this one simple comparison, I now have a strong desire to see Springsteen, in Jersey if I can.

College football is often dismissed, but of all the shows I have been to, of all the places I have seen, and the people I have met, nothing compares to Saturday nights in Tiger Stadium.

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