At least not so often.  I’m referring, of course, to Audioslave.  Their show at the music hall last night KICKED ASS!  For an opener, how perfect is this?  Chris Cornell came out with an acoustic guitar and sang “What’s so Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding.”  Fucking beautiful!  A friend had told me that Chris Cornell’s voice sucked live, but I found this not to be the case on the night of March 11, 2003 in Austin, Texas.  And of course, it was great to see Tom, Tim, and Brad back on stage rocking out where they belong.  As is the case with many concerts I go to, I found myself hearing new meanings in songs that I hadn’t paid much attention to before.  For example, the chorus to “Last Remaining Light.”

“If you don’t believe the sun will rise,
Stand alone and greet the coming night
In the last remaining light.”

I’d never paid much attention to that song before, but when I heard it last night, it about made me weep.  It made me thing about the state of the world that we’re living in today, how we’ve got this rogue president dragging our country, kicking and screaming, into a war that people all over the nation and the world are condemning.  But as inevitable as the war seems right now, people are still speaking up, and that makes me happy, in a bittersweet sort of way.  Anyway, enough politics.  The show kicked ass.  Oh, and I saw a fratboy with a longhorn tattooed on his back (instant marker for a MORON) get beat down for being an asshole in the moshpit.  Justice in action y’all.