Hi there! I'm Diego and this is my first post of the year, I'm really sorry I couldn't write anything the last season, I was very sick pharyngitis (it looks and sounds much worse in English lol) and dying in my bed (I wish I was there now).
Today I'm gonna write about the best concert I've ever been to: "Queen + Adam Lambert" at the Athletic Track of the National Stadium (30/09/15).
I was at the Social History of Chile class with my friend and classmate Bastián González, we both are fans of Queen, and we knew that they were going to play at 21:00 that day, really near to the campus Juan Gómez Millas. We didn't buy tickets before because we really didn't have any money at that time (we expended it all in beer and other related stuff), but we didn't really care about it, so we decided to eat some stuff at my house and walk to the stadium hoping we would find some way to get in, or in the worst scenario, listen to the concert on the street.
When we were standing round' there, two weird guys that seemed to be re-sellers approached to us and one of them said "I think you want to get in the concert guys", we said "yes!", so the guy told us "how much money do you have?", we began to count our money and finally said "we only have $15.000", the guy said "that's okay, I can get you two tickets, give me the money and wait here with my friend... i'll come back". We were really happy believing that we would get in, so innocently and patiently we waited at the front of the stadium with this guy friend. We were so naive!, the guy never came back with the tickets or our money and his friend run away. We were so angry!, Bastián began to run trying to chase this guy or his friend, but when he finally reached him, the guy threatened him, so he wisely decided to leave the situation.
Bastián was very, very angry, and some lady saw and ask him what's going on, he told her that we were scammed, and she gave him a vip court ticket valued in $120.000!!!! WE REALLY COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS. So we run and run trying to change this ticket for two regular ones, we talked to a lot of people at the street, with others re-sellers and also with the guys of the production, but we didn't have any luck... The concert started, we heard the beginning "One Vision" the amazing song which opens almost every Queen concert, and we started to lose our hope, there was no people outside anymore and I said to Bastián "please get in and enjoy the concert, you have the ticket!"; Bastián gently refused and stayed with me outside a couple of minutes.
When Queen was playing, what I think it was their fifth song "Killer Queen" we saw some guy coming with his friends, he told us "you guys want to get in?", we said "YES!", he said "how much would you pay me?", we said "we don't have any money, we were scammed", the guy looked at us and keep walking, but after some steps he seemed to regret and pull of his pocket about 6 regular tickets, and gave me one. Again, WE REALLY COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS. We ran to the concert, and finally decided to stay together in the regular court.
We were really, really lucky, the concert was amazing and maybe the happiest moment of my life. I was so amazed watching Brian May and Roger Taylor, the guys I grew up watching at the cover of the "Greatest Hits" Queen's record in my house, the guys who filled twice the Wembley Stadium at 86', and marked a whole generation with their songs! Adam Lambert's vocal range was maybe the best and most insane thing I've ever listened in my life, I really could feel like I was at the 70's when some of the most amazing rock bands were at their top, and some guys like Ian Gillan, Robert Plant and Glenn Hughes, and even the great Freddie Mercury were screaming their souls out every night.
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