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Larry attempted to construct a wearable tornado for Brian yesterday. Not wanting to get in the way, I took Theo out in the car with his brand-new driver’s permit (that’s another post - I haven’t gotten to the point where I can talk about it yet.) Anyway, we came home, 2 hours and one undented car later (whew!), to find Larry and Brian gone, and a heap of tangled plastic fencing lying on the living room floor. I correctly deduced that Plan A had failed and that they had gone off to Home Depot to purchase materials for Plan B (have I mentioned that we spend more on Halloween than we do on Christmas around here?). Anyway, they returned bearing….weed barrier. Yup. I must have looked a little concerned, because Larry said, “See? No problem - we’ll just wrap this stuff around him and we’ll have a tornado!” Okay. 10 minutes later, poor little Brian (peering uncertainly out of the small space left for his face) looked as though he was wearing a burka. Or maybe he was trying to dress like a mummy wearing a burka. “Don’t worry,” Larry reassured me. “Once we tape a few plastic animals and some toy cars to it, it will look like a tornado.” At this point I had to say, “Um, no, it will look like someone wearing a burka with toy animals and cars taped to it. And someone will think we are making some weird political statement about American involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. So, I don’t think so…” Apparently, this was just the out Larry was looking for, because he sort of threw his hands up in the air and exclaimed, “Fine! figure something out then!” May I just point out here that Larry was the one who Brian in his tornado imaginings? I wanted the kid to be a bat, a costume we already have. Are irreconcilable costume differences ever stated as grounds for a marital breakup? I wouldn’t be surprised. Anyway, I dashed out to Michael’s for a dollar’s worth of posterboard and we cut out sort of a tornado shape to hang around Brian’s neck and explained to him that we would glue the toy animals and cars onto that, and when he started to cry. And he asked why we couldn’t make the costume the way wanted to do it. Which was, it turns out, devastatingly simple. And, no, I don’t know why neither of us asked him in the first place. So on Wednesday night, Brian will go out happily attired in the aforementioned bat costume, with cotton balls taped all over the hood (it’s a cloud, see?) and animals and cars and such taped all over the cape/wings and he’ll be able to twirl around and pretend he is a tornado, and that is all he ever wanted to do in the first place. And, boy, do we feel stupid. Maybe I can e-bay the plastic fencing and the weed barrier, and buy Larry some beer with the money. Then maybe he’ll start talking to me again.
ACTUALIZACION: He encontrado un video en Youtube que muestra un poco lo que fue esa noche. Lo he puesto al final del post. Ayer fue una de esas noches que resultan difÃciles de explicar si no se vivieron en directo. Simplemente memorable en todos los sentidos, y eso es poco decir. Todo comenzó con la sorpresa de la noticia: The Doors o, llamados técnicamente, como lo definió Ray Manzarek, Riders On The Storm, estarÃan tocando en Querétaro a fines de octubre. Quienes vivimos en esta ciudad, sabemos que conciertos de estas magnitudes no son precisamente de lo más común. Haciendo memoria, y varios coincidieron conmigo, este evento serÃa lo más grande, en cuanto a rock se refiere, en la ciudad, y como no, si a la cabeza de Riders On The Storm estaban Ray Manzarek y Robbie Krieger, miembros originales de The Doors. Sin duda leyendas indiscutibles, referencias innegables en la gestación del rock allá en la segunda mitad de los 60s, y grandes influencias de muchÃsima gente del género desde entonces. Querétaro se engalanaba pues, y habÃa que estar ahÃ. Completaban la banda Brett Scallions (ex-vocalista de Fuel), Ty Dennis en la baterÃa, y Phil Chen en el bajo. Llegó el dÃa. Comprada la clásica playera del concierto, y transcurrido el tiempo de espera, se escuchó una grabación de Carmina Burana, salió la banda a escena. Manzarek y Krieger, a los teclados y guitarra, y comenzó el viaje con Love Me Two Times. La voz era Brett Scallions, el cual naturalmente llevaba el peso de la comparación con Jim Morrison. Para mi, Brett impuso lo suyo. Siguiendo con Break On Through, Brett mostró una gran compenetración no solo con el resto de la banda, y con el legado de The Doors, sino con todos los presentes. Saludó a Querétaro, invitó a las filas delanteras a acercarse al escenario, y lo que siguió después fue simplemente la comunicación y entrega de todos con la banda. Manzarek y Krieger tocaron se lucieron en sus instrumentos como lo que son, verdaderos maestros. El tiempo pasa, pero la virtuosidad, como la música, son atemporales. Se dejaron oÃr temas como Strange Days, Peace Frog, Soul Kitchen, Love Her Madly, Moonlight Drive y L.A. Woman. La banda también se dió tiempo de recordar al frontman e Ãcono más representativo de la banda, Jim Morrison, arrengar contra Bush (”el diablo”, lo llamó Scallions en su limitado español), y presentar a toda la banda, a la cual Ray Manzarek les tenÃa sus motes mexicanos a cada uno. Entre las canciones más celebradas y cantadas estuvieron Touch Me, Roadhouse Blues, Alabama Song (donde los músicos se pusieron máscaras de luchadores) y Back Door Man. Tras dos encores, se despidieron con la más infaltable de todas: Light My Fire, donde de nuevo todos se entregaron; la banda se lució, con Manzarek incluso subiendo el pie en su solo, Krieger ni se diga, y la audiencia le secundamos el coro a Scallions. Todo celebramos el legado de The Doors, y el concierto fue toda una experiencia absorbente, de la que fue un poco difÃcil despertar al abandonar el auditorio. Si, muchos nos quedamos con ganas de mas (Waiting For The Sun, People Are Strange y la sorpresiva ausencia del tema del nombre actual de la banda, Riders on The Storm), y quizás algunos más fundamentalistas hubieran querido a Densmore en la baterÃa (quien declaró que solo se reunirÃa si Eddie Vedder fuera el cantante) pero ese viaje de dos horas y media quedará gratamente en la memoria de todos los queretanos que vivimos esa noche memorable.
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