Me_Wise_Magic 91 wrote:

Lucky! Glad you enjoyed yourself! How much are McCartney tickets nowadays? I'm curious! I'm glad he isn't afraid to go through his whole music legacy for his solo tours especially since fans want to hear Beatles tunes, solo hits, and Wings material too. The solo backing band he has kicks ass and rocks hard! 

I think we paid $80 or so, but we were pretty far back.  The big expense for the trip was flying to NY and staying there for the weekend.  It was well worth it - his voice isn't what it was, but for 70, he was pretty damn good.

Going to try to get the whole show uploaded.

The thing about a pain condition is there's so much more to it than the actual pain.

It's the psychological stress of being in constant pain - firstly, you loose "fun" in your life - because the pain is always there - all the times a normal person 'switches off' like when you watch a movie or play a song and go into the world of the song/movie - you can't do that because the pain snaps you back to concentrating on your physical presence.

Secondly, you loose hope because your NEVER free from it and you know there's no way out in our world.

Thirdly, you have the psychological pressure of knowing that you didn't used to be in pain - you remember how easily you lived your life, how you could forget about your body, how you could do simple things without the terrible consequences doing them can have now. Then you start to envy people who still can.

Fourthly, most people with pain problems also can't sleep well cos of the pain - which aggravates the stress on the mind.

Fifthly, the world is designed for people who are not in pain - so things like holding down your job, going about your day, they are a thousand times harder with endless pain and the reality is that most people just plain do not understand not only the physical cost of it but the MENTAL strain.

And that's why ANYTHING ron says at this point to me is understandable. I'm sure he loves Axl and the guys...and I'm sure he - more even than us - wants a shot to contribute to the legacy - wants GNR to be all it could and so on - and the way stuff plays out could well be just as frustrating to him as it is to fans - but because of the physical and mental stress he's under...sometimes he cracks and lets you see how much he suffers.

Seriously unless you've experienced a similar condition I don't think you should judge him. The fact that he's hanging on and still doing good stuff for fans like the surprise presents and things is fucking well saintly...most people in his shoes would have packed it in.