Saw THE ORB last night
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:25 pm
whelp....where do i begin?
for starters this was somewhat like a rite of passage or something. just absolute years and years of building love for this act and i still have to this day tix for 2 different orb shows that were cancelled on me. the orb have just always been WAYYYY up there in my heart. on any given day i could declare orb my favorite electronic act and not feel bad about it. hehe on other days it's fsol too. prolly another contender or 4 in there if i really contemplate but i digress......
so here i was heading to the show.....could it really be this time? on my 3rd attempt....will it really happen?
we stopped at a friend's house on the way to the gig which ended up a bad idea because the plan to get to the venue 30 min BEFORE orb's set ended up being 10 min LATE
was absolutely losing my krap in new york city traffic trying to get to the venue. massive, massive anxiety.
SO....we finally park.....here's the venue....i walked IN....i walked IN A VENUE THAT IS CLAIMING TO CONTAIN THE ORB!!!
walk up the stairs and there it was.....slow steady bass beat is pounding.....my boys right there on stage.
BOOM.... INSTANT TEARS. this was real...it was happening.
fear not friends for i saw this moment coming and brought sunglasses to hide my tears whenever they showed up. even the days leading up to the show i would think about this night and get choked up. well sometimes i get myself worked up and my emotional reactions aren't as "bad" as i feared they would be. in this case however.....every emotion i expected was there TIMES TEN.
i had planned on taking something extra spacey for the evening but in my procrastination missed the chance to secure such so booze was very much my friend this night. i instantly head to the bar and get my first 2 gin and tonics. as i'm waiting for the bartender my head is just racing. IT is f'n happening....GET ME MY DRINKS....I NEED TO BE DANCING NOWWWWW! so as soon as i had drinks in hand the women went to the bathroom and i was left waiting in the back. NOW my night was to begin....drinks in hand....nothing left to focus on but the show at hand. and f'n instantly the wave rushed over me. BOOM. was nearly jumping to every bass beat...the tears again started flowing. and that was that. pounded 5 drinks as quickly as i could knowing the show wouldn't be a long one and i wanted a quick early buzz. didn't take long at all to be in the middle of the floor and a song or two later we were just right up in the front.
folks...i know you are all true and great music fans but i really hope you have or will one day have the ability and chance to experience what i felt this night. i've felt it before for sure.......when phish played a zappa tune that i had never seen after seeing them roughly 175 times......i lost my krap. waterfall of tears from start to finish. and goddang if these aren't tears of utmost joy. what i'm getting at here is just a sublime connection to music. to say i was "locked in" that night was an understatement. i felt like i was floating high above the crowd and on a completely different level. massive direct communication shooting right into my ears and straight to my heart and soul. i danced like i haven't danced since my early 20s (with the exception of infected mushroom gigs hehe). f'n sweat pouring....everyone giving me proper room, jumping so much, fist pumping, screaming OH YEAHHHH! with the occasional muttering to myself of "OH GOD" because i couldn't believe how overwhelmed i was. they played all the f'n classics and ofcourse every tune was modernized for today with fresh samples and twists and turns.
......and just imagine if i took the spacey treat i had intended to in the first place =()
the booze didn't even affect me much. one might have looked at me and thought i was trashed but if you spoke to me you would realize a light buzz at most. it was the music that made me the maniac i was that night.
ok.....that about sums it up and i wanted to share it here because in my real world life i have literally not a single friend that shares my passion for the orb or really most of the music i listen to for that matter. this is fsol and all but i know there is orb love here and also real deal spiritually connected music love here as well.
hope you enjoyed the read and knowing a bit more about me as a person. while most of my friends cannot relate to all i described here they surely recognize that as being a trait of mine lol.....and now you do too
"Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST"
that's not exactly the words i live by and feel deep down....but they do a decent job of explaining it....and they came from someone that really speaks to my soul
for starters this was somewhat like a rite of passage or something. just absolute years and years of building love for this act and i still have to this day tix for 2 different orb shows that were cancelled on me. the orb have just always been WAYYYY up there in my heart. on any given day i could declare orb my favorite electronic act and not feel bad about it. hehe on other days it's fsol too. prolly another contender or 4 in there if i really contemplate but i digress......
so here i was heading to the show.....could it really be this time? on my 3rd attempt....will it really happen?
we stopped at a friend's house on the way to the gig which ended up a bad idea because the plan to get to the venue 30 min BEFORE orb's set ended up being 10 min LATE
was absolutely losing my krap in new york city traffic trying to get to the venue. massive, massive anxiety.
SO....we finally park.....here's the venue....i walked IN....i walked IN A VENUE THAT IS CLAIMING TO CONTAIN THE ORB!!!
walk up the stairs and there it was.....slow steady bass beat is pounding.....my boys right there on stage.
BOOM.... INSTANT TEARS. this was real...it was happening.
fear not friends for i saw this moment coming and brought sunglasses to hide my tears whenever they showed up. even the days leading up to the show i would think about this night and get choked up. well sometimes i get myself worked up and my emotional reactions aren't as "bad" as i feared they would be. in this case however.....every emotion i expected was there TIMES TEN.
i had planned on taking something extra spacey for the evening but in my procrastination missed the chance to secure such so booze was very much my friend this night. i instantly head to the bar and get my first 2 gin and tonics. as i'm waiting for the bartender my head is just racing. IT is f'n happening....GET ME MY DRINKS....I NEED TO BE DANCING NOWWWWW! so as soon as i had drinks in hand the women went to the bathroom and i was left waiting in the back. NOW my night was to begin....drinks in hand....nothing left to focus on but the show at hand. and f'n instantly the wave rushed over me. BOOM. was nearly jumping to every bass beat...the tears again started flowing. and that was that. pounded 5 drinks as quickly as i could knowing the show wouldn't be a long one and i wanted a quick early buzz. didn't take long at all to be in the middle of the floor and a song or two later we were just right up in the front.
folks...i know you are all true and great music fans but i really hope you have or will one day have the ability and chance to experience what i felt this night. i've felt it before for sure.......when phish played a zappa tune that i had never seen after seeing them roughly 175 times......i lost my krap. waterfall of tears from start to finish. and goddang if these aren't tears of utmost joy. what i'm getting at here is just a sublime connection to music. to say i was "locked in" that night was an understatement. i felt like i was floating high above the crowd and on a completely different level. massive direct communication shooting right into my ears and straight to my heart and soul. i danced like i haven't danced since my early 20s (with the exception of infected mushroom gigs hehe). f'n sweat pouring....everyone giving me proper room, jumping so much, fist pumping, screaming OH YEAHHHH! with the occasional muttering to myself of "OH GOD" because i couldn't believe how overwhelmed i was. they played all the f'n classics and ofcourse every tune was modernized for today with fresh samples and twists and turns.
......and just imagine if i took the spacey treat i had intended to in the first place =()
the booze didn't even affect me much. one might have looked at me and thought i was trashed but if you spoke to me you would realize a light buzz at most. it was the music that made me the maniac i was that night.
ok.....that about sums it up and i wanted to share it here because in my real world life i have literally not a single friend that shares my passion for the orb or really most of the music i listen to for that matter. this is fsol and all but i know there is orb love here and also real deal spiritually connected music love here as well.
hope you enjoyed the read and knowing a bit more about me as a person. while most of my friends cannot relate to all i described here they surely recognize that as being a trait of mine lol.....and now you do too
"Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST"
that's not exactly the words i live by and feel deep down....but they do a decent job of explaining it....and they came from someone that really speaks to my soul