Rising rocker Des Rocs told us about his Springsteen experience...
Des Rocs: The best gig I ever saw was Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in Brooklyn.
I'd just finished a grueling tour the night before. I was exhausted. But seeing him was a bucketlist show for me (and this was the first time in my life where I could really afford a ticket).
Just to see them all standing there - on stage together - it's itself like watching comic book superheroes come to life. I had this weird cognitive dissonance in the first few moments of the show where I couldn't' really believe it was them. All these people I'd worshipped for so long--standing in front of me, breathing the same air in the same room. I never really got over that. And after all those decades together they were still doing the thing. It was tremendously inspiring.
Then there was the show. There's just an approach to to the stagecraft that embodies every value aspire to as a performer. A sense of bringing the entire audience into your world, transporting them to another dimension for 3.5 hours to escape the drudgery of mundane life. It goes without saying that the show was incredible. It all wrapped with Bruce turning the house lights on, playing hit after hit while you could see everyone dancing together clear as day. He ended the whole thing with an song solo on an acoustic. I wept like a baby. It was like musical shavasana, you just let it all sink in. I left that arena so emotionally fulfilled. It hit me at a very specific point in my own journey and was the closest i'd ever come to a truly spiritual experience through music.
Des Rocs' "When the Love is Gone" is out now.
