Expecting Rain

Hello everybody!
I would like to introduce you the Portuguese word "SAUDADE".
To miss something is so significant for portuguese people that they created a substantive for this feeling.
"I'm with SAUDADE" means I'm missing you hardly.
This European Tour has been a masterpiece in my life.
Thank you for your warm reception. All of you are very special to me. I don't know anything about the future, but I wish to see you again.
Take care and, please... forgive me if I has done something wrong.
love
Carolina

Hi Caro,
It was a true pleasure to meet you - write to me if you like, and we'll find more time to talk than we did on tour.

Thank you Johanna,
sure I will

At the next Latin America tour I hope to see you again.

Carolina - I think you take the cake for the most adorable ER member. I mean that sincerely. You are always a pleasure to read and I especially liked your post about your hopes for Bob finding the special, little bird in the park.

Glad to see you had such a wonderful time on the tour.

Thank you!
I hope to get a visa to see Bob at North America!!!
To meet Bob people personally is very precious.
It's so important as to know his poetry.

I'd like to visit South America, though I doubt I can make it. I really want to though, so there's hope.

my doors in chicago will be open to you if you ever have the opportunity to see him here - you travelling nightingale, you, the beacon in the ER waters that you are. I would only worry about bob getting upstaged were i to attend a show with you!!

She's an absolute babe. About the biggest compliment I can give any woman following Bob on tour is that she's got her mind together - she's not going to go crazy about him, even when seeing him regularly. I've seen lots of people lose their minds, but Caro is different.

(Is the United Center usually GA, Troub?)

i'm not familiar with the usual protocol - but i think by and large they are shows with assigned seats, to my chagrin. here's the pricing for Rush in September:

Floor: $151
100 level: $96, $151
200 level: $96
300 level: $50.50, $70.50

ColdPlay:
Ticket Prices:
$49.50, $79.50, $110
(wow, rush out-prices coldplay!)

and Madonna:
Ticket Prices:
$45, $90, $170, $355

the only plus is that i have the opportunity to go to the venue to get tickets when they go on sale - so that's probably a good way to get choice seats. otherwise, i've followed your advice and joined the MK fanpage. will we be notified of presale info by email? or will it be posted somewhere when we log on? you've done this before right?

I think they'll email you, but just keep an eye on their website. Buying tickets at the venue sounds like a very good option, too. I was more or less thinking in terms of finding a reason to justify going.... GA or front row would be the only valid reasons for me. Chicago in '05 was a good experience.

it's a shame to have to travel overseas just for a stadium tour. the ball park tours were really intimate i always thought...

if i could pick any show to attend in the North America for the late summer or fall i would have my eyes on these:
Missoula - (Big Sky Brewery)
Hershey

Winnipeg or Montreal (i want to see him in canada)
any of the california shows, except San Diego
one of the shows near election night (you can pick up a real taste of americana while you're here...) so madison or st. paul....

on the other hand it looks like chicago is one of the only places where you have an opportunity to see 3 shows within an hour of each other. or 5 shows within 4 hours!

Love to you too Carolina

xo

Jesús C.

It was very nice to meet you dear Carolina I hope you enjoyed France!!!

I just arrived home after 10 wonderful days and i wanted to write the same kind of message, so i do it there if you don't mind.

Usually when i follow the tour, i go with my car, but this time, i travelled with different friends each time, for a show to the next one, and i wanted to thank all these friends. So special thanks to Judit, Neus, Michele, Massimo, you Carolina, Wiebke, Imke, Rainer, Julia, Claude, Andrée, Olivier, and Roberto. Thank you for everything. We travelled in so beautiful places, we've seen great shows and we've met all the frends who i LOVE (they know who they are )

It has been a great tour! I'm also very grateful to Bob. I wouldn't have those moments of pleasure if he was not touring...

Oh, and after all these special thanks, i also have a special Fvck off to the fan who knowingly pushed me violentely in the fences when they opened the gates in Bayonne. Not too important as i forgot the pain soon, and i still arrive in the front row right under the mic while she arrived way farther. I met her again in Carhaix, where she welcomed me with a smilling "Hello Cath!!". I guess she had already forgotten that she was violent with me two days before. Still: Fvck off! My arm is still blue.

I loved the shows on this tour. Last fall, i was about to leave a few times before the end of the shows, but this summer, i was as excited as the first time i saw a show. Bob is not a shaman anymore: he is a clown. But he still moved me to tears a few times on that tour. Thank you Bob.

When i arrived home two hours ago, i was so moved that the only think i could do was to sit down on the floor of the kitchen, and cry like a child.

Cath

I cried, too.... and I love all my friends (my real friends), too. I was so very very happy to see you, and it makes the concerts even more special to have friends nearby, like in Cap Roig.

Very kind of you.

Lovely Cath... Lovely letter...
About the violence... I know what you felt because it happened to me in Berlin with a man double hight than me (what is not difficult) and I learned something about forgiveness and something about to protect myself. I saw what happened to you. Bayonne had an extra difficult entrance. Bob should never play at a bull fight arena no more. (my opinion)

About to be a Shaman... I can't say he changed because I didn't see him before, but he said something very precious to me as a Shaman does. Bob's energy is at his smile probably... who knows...

Thank you to share your tears...
When I arrived at the train going home from Lisbon to Cascais, I've met four young guys listening Bob's songs.
Today my 11 years old niece took her guitar and started to play "Make You Feel My Love" so beautifully...
I'm still crying and Bob's poetry is around.

I loved France! and thank you once more for your kindly help.

@Carolina & borisw:
I think he needs the clown to keep him going. You can't get to the deepest depth of your soul all of the time, because it makes you very vulnerable. I had an experience like that this tour (outside the actual concerts) and it was very inspired, but I opened up my soul to a hurtful experience. Now, I want to go back to the inspiration, but I'm afraid to get hurt.

carolina i'm really pleased to hear your European adventure turned out to be all that you hoped for!! if you took some pictures along the way that you don't mind to share, please post a link so that us behind our computer screens can get a little taste of your wonderful trip.
thank you

Oh, i love bullrings. But i think what happened was probabely my fault: I was wearing a red shirt to protect me from the sun, and it must have wakened up the wild bull in her
I have already forgiven, but i will be carfull next time.

I see what you mean. Probabely right.

So true.
And big kisses to the dancing queens

dear Mr. Matata,
After the binoculars episode I decided to use no more artificial lenses at Bob's Concerts. Sorry. I didn't take one single picture at de venues. I took just road pictures and I need time to edit. I'll ask you few days to publish.

I took some photos, not many, but I can post them. Maybe we can start a European tour photo thread? It can be photos of the venues and cities and traveling, not just Bob. I think that would be nice.

Carolina, I inadvertently took a picture of you when taking snaps of the venue in Barolo. I will not publish it of course, unless you agree, but I can send it to you once I have your email address.

"And if we have some tears to pay
No-one can take those years away"

I'm very, very grateful for all the touring experiences of the last ten years.

Such a great tour, even I could only be at 3 concerts, I do not cry, I´m still laughing .....soooooo much fun and jokes, especially in Lyon....and yes, thx for the applause when I did my covers before the Lyon show, it shortened the waiting time, for me for sure

Looking forward for the next leg, and the new album too. We´ll meet again on the avenue.......