The Boss!

Rich and I went to see Bruce Springsteen at the Verizon Center! From the picture you can see that our seats were up and behind the stage a bit. That's okay. We were happy to have gotten tickets. You see, the concert sold out in 17 minutes. Last time we saw Bruce was 24 years ago at the Dallas Cotton Bowl Stadium for his Born in the USA tour. We had 9th row center seats. It was awesome. To get those seats we camped out all night and slept on a sidewalk. I was pregnant.

This time was different. They don't want people camping out for days ahead to get tickets to concerts. So, what they did was everyone who was standing in line at 8:00am (tickets went on sale at 9am) were brought inside the building. They did a head count and put that many tickets in a bucket and then went around and had you draw a ticket. That determined your place in line at 9am. If you came after 8am you had to get in line behind those who got a randomly selected ticket (although your chances of actually making it to the window in time to get tickets to the concert were practically nil). I got number 37.  It took 12 minutes to get up to the window. Meanwhile tickets were being sold online and over the phone as well. Yeah, we were lucky to get tickets.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band still put on a heckuva show.