In front of Backstreet

My friend Sam and I arrived at Palace Grounds for the Rock in India concert as the sun set. We wanted to skip the riff raffs of the Indian "Western" music Industry, so we arrived two and a half hours after the show started. We met up with two of our other friends Lalitha and Kaveri and we pushed and shoved our way to the front. We had a good view from where we were standing.

Prime Circle was the band playing, when the four of us graced the occasion with our presence. The lead singer Ross Learmonth was a cutie and the music was fine, we just grateful, that ten minutes after we arrived it was over.

Not to be a hypocrite but when you are lying to get your self in front, one must always use a plausible excuse like my Lalitha did, she made up some imaginary friends and dragged us all in front. I say this, as there was a girl trying to make her way in front by saying "My mummy is in front, she's in front, let me through" and then she plants her bushy haired self right in front of me. The four of us were truly pissed off! As in the middle she turned to see whether her Daddy was at the back(which he was, but that is not the point). None of us bothered to keep our voices down, over our concern for this girl's paused search for her "mother".

After an irritatingly long set up. The freshly botoxed Richard Marx comes on stage. His drummer should be given full credit as he was the one who kept the crowd going. His key board player drew attention to himself by wearing a Royal Challengers shirt. It is strange when the entire band (including bass guitarist and lead guitarist) are more interesting than the main Singer.

Richard Marx tried to get the crowd to sing a 1987 song, and the crowd didn't even know what he was talking about. So when he stopped singing to let the crowd sing, there was absolute silence. And Mr. Marx had a very embarrassed look on his face. Did her really think the crowd cared for any other song other than "Right her waiting for you". In 1987 half the audience wasn't even born and also NO ONE CARES.

He played his new song, and asked the audience to repeat the lyrics. He said the lyrics are.. and a guy from the audience loudly said "We want Backstreet". Finally he finished his boring performance and the crowd was more than ready for the Backstreet boys.


As soon as the lights went down and the music started, the boys had barely come on stage, when everyone's hands and phones went straight up in the air. They of course started with Backstreet's back and then onto we've got it going on. They belted out all their hits, except for Get down. But it was all very good. They are very good dancers and everything was sychronised very well.

Band member A.J was the only one making direct eye contact with the audience and connected with them the best. Nick Carter was completely immersed in his performance and had minimal interaction with his audience. The child is getting better looking with age. Brian was cute with all his monkey style faces and acrobatics.His wedding ring was all nice and shining reminding the audience that he was very much taken. But the man has had the same hair style for 17 years(time to change). Howie seems to have an allergy to the middle part of the stage as he always wandered off to the sides while singing. The audience was slightly impressed by his sort-of moon walk.

Equation:

Hot dancers+super cute guys+touring the world months at a time= they must have very trusting wives.

Bangalore is pretty much an anglo name and I haven't met any foreigners who have had trouble saying the name. So it was weird to hear Brian Littrell say "We are so happy to be in Bangladore" , which left the audience a little puzzled. After that the boyz only asked INDEEYA to make some noise.

This is probably the first and last time Rock in India is going to see so many girls (from all age groups) attend their event. The only guys present were the ones that were dragged in by their girlfriends.

If the Backstreet boys ever do decide to come Back ... It would most definitely be Alright!