importance of seeing live music

It's ironic (or maybe just silly and pitiful) that I'd write this tonight, the night after a good show I bailed on. Wouldn't have been a life changing or great event. But that's the point. You force yourself to do this. And it's almost always worth it. Even if the band or the music is subpar, the effort and intention always makes it worth your two hours and usually ten bucks or less. As a music lover, you feel a good show in your heart. The music hopefully is good, but it's the live performance that's the necessity. Seeing them on a stage, doing what they do. And standing in the crowd, beer in hand, slowing headbopping and shoegazing and thinking this really is important to be here. To experience that, well, you either love it or you don't. A good show is just what we must do. Once in a while. It hits a tiny part of your being that otherwise sits dormant. Touching that tiny part of you, it makes other things so much more beautiful. Passion breeds more passion. Yes, this is lame. But my aim is true.