it's me again...
i apologize again for disturbing you; hope not to annoy you anyway. it's just that the last couple of days my mind's been drifting about michael loss again. i know i do not sound stupid to you at least. ?elegantly wasted? has become one of my favourites lately and i listen to it a lot. by the way, does ?elegantly wasted? have a special meaning? for me it'd be something similar to something old but charming, you know.
i do not why but i keep on thinking of the times i watched INXS in concert, and so many flashes of michael on stage keep coming back to me... it's like i could be there again, but then later i found out that that will never happen again. i remember so well his passion and good humour while on stage... the way he smiled and his appreciation for the fans.
i'm gonna tell you about the last time i could exchange some words with him. it was a t the signing session at one of the biggest record stores here in madrid when they released ?elegantly wasted? and the same evening they were to play the ?hard rock cafe?. when it came for me to be in front of the table where they all where seating and greeting the fans i looked at michael in the middle. ?leegantly wasted? the song was playing and he was lyp-shynching to the song and playing ?air drums? while listening to the song.
i was delighted by this because i could feel how much of his life and passion was into their music. i felt so much happiness in that moment. they were all very nice (i think garry was the only one who was not in spain). they signed my cd booklet of the album. first i talked to andrew and asked him to write something funky for me, they said what? and tim told him to write ?make it funky, make it nude!? which was what they signed!!!
then came michael. i remember he was wearing a black see-through shirt which i usually happen to like very much. i was wearing a purple shirt and sporting a symbol necknacle of O+>. he kept looking at both the shirt and the symbol. i don't remember when but i read somewhere that he liked the music of prince and he was at a concert of him in london in 1986 i think and again at an afterparty in london in 92.
well, i first thanked him for the new album (oh, GOD, ?searching? is playing now, the line ?...i'm searching, i am not alone...? 🙁 then he said to me ?hey, nice shirt!?; and i told him ?i really like yours, michael. maybe we could exchange them!? he had a big laugh!!! 🙂 i also remember i told kirk about how the bass line of ?elegantly wasted? drive me crazy-funky!!!
then came the show at the hard rock. i didn't have an invitation so me and some friends back in the signing session had asked michel for some. he asked their spanish promo manager, i guess, but she said she had none but that we could asked for her at the hard rock entrance. well, we were getting anxious so we decided to try or own ways. lucky us another new friends at the queue at the store had passes. so once they were in they came outside and handed out their own passes to us!!! 🙂 so finally we were in.
they played an acoustic mini-set of 4 songs: ?i need you tonight?, ?i'm just a man? (where i could feel for the first time the important of this song in me and his eyes, but also something strangely dark), ?never tear us apart?, and ?everything?. then they kept doing promo interviews and we managed to watch the saloon where they were from the stairs. another of the flashes that keep coming back to my mind is michael holding tiger-lily on his arms... 🙁
well, i also feel like the man on the ?i'm just a man? song because my father left town 13 years ago and spoiled my life, because he soon rejected me 🙁
i'm sorry, but i really needed your shoulder to cry on. now i'm really crying... please, write soon. hope you don't mind i share all these feelings with you. remember i told you i know no other INXS fans. do not fear, i'm not feeling depressed, but what i feel is a terrible sadness for michel his daughter, family, and why not us... 🙁
please, come back soon, ok?
iván
p.s. -thank you for your kindness in sharing your feelings with all of us 🙁
i apologize again for disturbing you; hope not to annoy you anyway. it's just that the last couple of days my mind's been drifting about michael loss again. i know i do not sound stupid to you at least. ?elegantly wasted? has become one of my favourites lately and i listen to it a lot. by the way, does ?elegantly wasted? have a special meaning? for me it'd be something similar to something old but charming, you know.
i do not why but i keep on thinking of the times i watched INXS in concert, and so many flashes of michael on stage keep coming back to me... it's like i could be there again, but then later i found out that that will never happen again. i remember so well his passion and good humour while on stage... the way he smiled and his appreciation for the fans.
i'm gonna tell you about the last time i could exchange some words with him. it was a t the signing session at one of the biggest record stores here in madrid when they released ?elegantly wasted? and the same evening they were to play the ?hard rock cafe?. when it came for me to be in front of the table where they all where seating and greeting the fans i looked at michael in the middle. ?leegantly wasted? the song was playing and he was lyp-shynching to the song and playing ?air drums? while listening to the song.
i was delighted by this because i could feel how much of his life and passion was into their music. i felt so much happiness in that moment. they were all very nice (i think garry was the only one who was not in spain). they signed my cd booklet of the album. first i talked to andrew and asked him to write something funky for me, they said what? and tim told him to write ?make it funky, make it nude!? which was what they signed!!!
then came michael. i remember he was wearing a black see-through shirt which i usually happen to like very much. i was wearing a purple shirt and sporting a symbol necknacle of O+>. he kept looking at both the shirt and the symbol. i don't remember when but i read somewhere that he liked the music of prince and he was at a concert of him in london in 1986 i think and again at an afterparty in london in 92.
well, i first thanked him for the new album (oh, GOD, ?searching? is playing now, the line ?...i'm searching, i am not alone...? 🙁 then he said to me ?hey, nice shirt!?; and i told him ?i really like yours, michael. maybe we could exchange them!? he had a big laugh!!! 🙂 i also remember i told kirk about how the bass line of ?elegantly wasted? drive me crazy-funky!!!
then came the show at the hard rock. i didn't have an invitation so me and some friends back in the signing session had asked michel for some. he asked their spanish promo manager, i guess, but she said she had none but that we could asked for her at the hard rock entrance. well, we were getting anxious so we decided to try or own ways. lucky us another new friends at the queue at the store had passes. so once they were in they came outside and handed out their own passes to us!!! 🙂 so finally we were in.
they played an acoustic mini-set of 4 songs: ?i need you tonight?, ?i'm just a man? (where i could feel for the first time the important of this song in me and his eyes, but also something strangely dark), ?never tear us apart?, and ?everything?. then they kept doing promo interviews and we managed to watch the saloon where they were from the stairs. another of the flashes that keep coming back to my mind is michael holding tiger-lily on his arms... 🙁
well, i also feel like the man on the ?i'm just a man? song because my father left town 13 years ago and spoiled my life, because he soon rejected me 🙁
i'm sorry, but i really needed your shoulder to cry on. now i'm really crying... please, write soon. hope you don't mind i share all these feelings with you. remember i told you i know no other INXS fans. do not fear, i'm not feeling depressed, but what i feel is a terrible sadness for michel his daughter, family, and why not us... 🙁
please, come back soon, ok?
iván
p.s. -thank you for your kindness in sharing your feelings with all of us 🙁