Lucky you. I never got to see them in concert. And it’s not like I didn’t try, but it was always sold out 🙂

The only “unapproachable” famous artist I managed to see in concert was Al Di Meola some 20 years ago: I was in Belgium on business and I was bored at the hotel. So I checked out local music venues, and I literally found “Al Di Meola in concert” in some dinky local club in a little village near the German border.

I thought, this must be another group called the same name. There’s no way a big name like him would wind up in some unknown concert hall in Belgium. But… On a hunch, I bought a ticket - $25 or something similarly cheap.

Turned out, it really was him. The venue was surprisingly well known among local music connoisseurs for punching way above its weight and managing to attract big names on a regular basis, and Di Meola himself likes to give concerts in this kind of places regularly, to change from big concert venues.

There were like 500 concert-goers at the most, I was at the front row and it was among the best 2 hours I spent in my life man!