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'A night to remember' for the City

indiaserver.com.Saturday, May 05, 2001

BANGALORE, MAY 4. When the heavens opened on Friday evening, 35,000 hearts sank like a stone. Then Bryan Adams came along.

Even the rain gods could not resist the Prince of Rock's gravelly voice as he got Bangalore rocking. In Bryan's own words his ``Best of Me'' concert was simply ``great''. ``I knew we would have a good show, I just didn't think it would be so great,'' he told his delirious fans.

Of course, there were the usual hiccups. The roads to Palace Grounds were jampacked even two hours before the show was originally to start at 7.30 p.m. And moving at a snail's pace got most of Adam's fans in a bad mood. The result? A cacophony of shrill honks, screams and shouts.

And as usual, the hapless photojournalists in the crowd bore the brunt of it all. They were shooed out early into the evening. For the luckier ones though, things only settled down around 8.30 p.m., for by then local fusion musicians of the ``Antaragni'' had finished their opening performance. Bryan Adams was expected any minute. MTV Veejay Nikhil Chinnappa did try the usual line -- of how much he loved Bangalore and how lucky he was to be part of the City.

But the people gathered there wanted only Bryan Adams. And when the man of the moment came on stage, everything else was forgotten. Everything else faded out of sight. Bryan, Keith Scott (lead guitar and vocal) and Micky Curry (drums) filled the stage.

For two hours, Bryan Adams showed just why he was so loved. His songs, his energy, his passion, his religion -- they were all there. From ``18 Till I Die'', to ``Best of Me'', to ``Everything I do...'', ``Cloud No. 9'' and all the way to the ``Summer of '69'', he sang almost without a break from 8.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.

In between, he invited one of the young girls in the crowd to join him. She turned out to Ms. Kamsha from Delhi and got to sing along with Bryan Adams. Though her effort was not exactly musical, she had the spunk to play along.

Bryan ended with a tribute to the crowd -- ``The Way You Make Me Feel''. At the end of it all, he had the crowd wanting more.

The concert was Bryan's second in India after a Mumbai performance seven years ago. But it was the first time for Bangalore. And it was truly ``...A night to remember'.

FROM http://www.the-hindu.com/2001/05/05/stories/0405402h.htm

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