I believe I've said it before, but The Wall is the album I listen to when I want to feel depressed. The Wall is the movie I watch when I want to feel suicidally depressed. It's good music, and a good movie, but, boy is it a downer. I don't know where any of my copies are now.
While I haven't seen that many concerts of sporting-venue scale, the ones I have seen have me convinced that for a musical/theatrical performance, my money is much better spent at home, with headphones on, with my eyes closed. Much better than seeing the band ant-sized, through the smoke (ok, plus for concerts, free high), with lousy acoustics and a loud crowd who block my view.
I can understand where you're coming from about large scale concerts... but, for me, it ties into the way that I work with energy as an empath. Having thousands -- or, sometimes, tens of thousands -- or other people there gives me an enormous wave of euphoric energy that I can coast on! It isn't a coincidence that my two favourite concerts are also the two biggest that I have attended -- Billy Joel's millennium concert at MSG in 1999/2000 and BJ's Last Play At Shea concert in 2008. The crowds were enormous and I was as high as a kite on the energy they stirred up.
For similar reasons, I enjoy spending Summer Solstice at Stonehenge. With 20,000 - 36,000 people there, the energy is immense! No one else I have ever been there with has returned, whilst I have gone three times. Tis fantastic! Everyone else that I have gone with vastly prefers the Winter Solstice, which has 800 - 2000 people and is much quieter and more reverent. I love both... for very different reasons.
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While I haven't seen that many concerts of sporting-venue scale, the ones I have seen have me convinced that for a musical/theatrical performance, my money is much better spent at home, with headphones on, with my eyes closed. Much better than seeing the band ant-sized, through the smoke (ok, plus for concerts, free high), with lousy acoustics and a loud crowd who block my view.
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For similar reasons, I enjoy spending Summer Solstice at Stonehenge. With 20,000 - 36,000 people there, the energy is immense! No one else I have ever been there with has returned, whilst I have gone three times. Tis fantastic! Everyone else that I have gone with vastly prefers the Winter Solstice, which has 800 - 2000 people and is much quieter and more reverent. I love both... for very different reasons.