"I can feel my heart begin to pound." ~No Surrender, Bruce

One year ago today, when Bruce played Boston, I had one of the best “Bruce” experiences of my life. It was a Sunday, and we drove in to Boston early in the morning to get our bracelets. The four of us had floor seats. Getting a bracelet put you in the running for a spot in “The Pit” “The Pit”, as most Bruce fanatics know, is the area directly in front of the stage. It gives you the opportunity to get as close to Bruce as one can get without being arrested. To get into the pit, you line up according to the number bracelet you have. Then someone pulls a ticket and the person with that number becomes number one and the first person in the pit, the next person is number two and so on.
To make a long story short, we got into the pit. As you can imagine, I almost peed my pants.

After standing outside, in the cold, without a jacket, we were given different bracelets and then security walked all of us into the building and down to the floor. I’m not sure when I was ever that excited before. Most people in front of us walked to the area in front of Bruce’s mic. We saw the area to the right empty so we quickly walked over there. We were touching the stage… I called my mom who, after calling my cousins, called me back as said, “I think this means you have to stand the entire show.” (God bless her; she’s a sweetheart.) “Yes mom, I think I’ll be o.k”

I would say it was a religious like experience. At one point during “She’s the One” Bruce was standing directly in front of me with sweat dripping down onto the stage. Now you know when he left I touched the sweat and blessed myself. (My catholic soul still needs to say some Hail Maries for that one.)

Here’s the highlight of the night: One of the songs Bruce sang was “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”. Before he played the song he said, “This is for a special Jersey girl.” and then looked my way. Of course, I was standing in front of Patti so he may have been talking to her, but it doesn’t really matter. Anyway, he sings the song and makes his way over to Patti (who’s in front of me and to the left) to sing the refrain with her. Well, while he was singing the refrain, our eyes met, and we sang the refrain to each other. Now, I thought I could have been imagining the fact that he was starring right at me, but I turned to my friend, Cutch, who looked at my husband and said something like, “Oh, god, you lost her forever. You know he was looking right at her.”

Yes!!

So on this one- year anniversary of my moment with Bruce. I’ll share a You tube video. If you watch the whole thing and wait until he comes over to stage left, you will eventually see someone in a greenish sweater, next to a bald guy, right at the stage, waving her arms to the crowd. That’s me! I was trying to get the attention of a friend in the stands after Bruce moved away from me.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4qVpeksWAU