Let me go "off the board" for this blog entry.

I'm at the U2 show and from behind me I hear this weird, shrill of a voice. I usually don't pay attention to anything around me at concerts. I feel it is simply 2 hours of people connecting with the band and I think it's great. But I glanced back and saw this lady. She had to have been about 75 years old. She had opera-type of binoculars and was singing. It was one of the strangest, yet beautiful moments I had ever seen.

I glanced back at her a couple times and she was singing the songs word for word. After the show I asked her how many times she has seen U2 and she said, "Three, but I wish it could have been more."

I would have loved to sit and talk with her, but everyone was shuffling out of the show.

Music, like movies, has no age barrier, and it has no color lines. It also has no language barrier. U2's songs are just as powerful in English as they are in Japanese.

It was an amazing concert and Bono being named Time Magazine's person(s) of the year gave his words and lyrics that much more depth.

So to the lady that was sitting in section 215 row G I hope you enjoyed the show as much as me and I hope you "Rattle and Hum" forever.

Ron