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Message: [QUOTE="tomcat, post: 2188208, member: 961"] Way back in 1970 or 71, I believe, James Taylor and Carol King played at Worcester Poly. I was going to school across town and got tickets. Taylor was good as billed, but this Carole King person -- I'd never heard of her, and I was not alone in this (her breakthrough album, "Tapestry," came out in 71) -- blew the place away when she introduced a little song she said she wrote a while back, and sang 'Up On the Roof." Anyway, it was a fine show. Since then, only a few concerts. There aren't all that many people I'd want to put up with all the concert b.s. to see. The only one, really, is Mark Knopfler. I am trying to make up for the fact that years earlier I could have seen Dire Straits and never bothered -- definitely my loss. We've seen Mark 4 or 5 times, the best being a show in Las Vegas a few years ago. Some of his music moves me to tears, but the tell on this one was the woman next to me, who'd come with her husband, and at the end of the show, as we were all standing and clapping, I noticed she was crying. She saw that and explained that the two of them picked up tickets because they were just looking for something to do that night. She didn't even know who Knopfler was, and there she was, sniffling away, saying it was the best show she'd ever been to. [/QUOTE]