Thnx Mr. Burke

A while ago I saw a news flash on the TV. Announcing that Amnesty International was about to celebrate 60 years of human rights together with the "VARA" TV station in a TV special called "Vlammen voor de vrijheid" presented by Dutch TV presentation guru Mathijs van Nieuwekerk.

It would be a special night in which the audience was treated with a large variety of interesting people with stories about human right experiences from all over the world. Allthough they sticked to the "glass is half empty" point of view I wouldn't have minded if they focused more on the positive rather then the negative. I mean there's all of good already done in this world and it's people that live in it.

But hey that was just an introduction to where I was heading with this post...

The main reason why the news flash caught my attention was because of one name that I heard, Solomon Burke, a true music legend in my opinion (#89 in the Rolling Stone greatest singers off al time). So when I got the message I put all my effort into getting two tickets (one for my lady & one for moi), which wound up being pretty easy to do - like 15 minutes or so, a few clicks here and there + send - e VOILA!!.

The reason of really wanting to see this men perform, is quite a egoistical one, I wanted to see him before he becomes an legend in heaven like so many others. I would really love to had the chance to see a.....

Sam Cooke live, performing

"Blowing in the wind"

or "A change is gonna come" or "You send me"

Catching the Mighty Otis's energy directly - and not from an old LP, witnessing the great Donny Hathaway as he performed the wonderfull song "The Ghetto" live in front of my eyes.

So as the Amnesty International event begun I was waiting on that moment, I hoped he would do the song....

"None of us are free"



So at the end of the event Mr. Burke sat in his throne, surrounded by musicians, the guitar started only to accompinied by the organ and the words of "None of us are free". Like it was my birthday Mr Burke handed me a perfect gift. His performance was overwhelming the song he chose was just right and how he (even though sitting in a chair) got the crowd up from their feet was wonderfull to see.

So Mr Solomon Burke (and the people who do a great job @ Amnesty) thank you for being there. I had my first portion of true Soul legacy - I gotta say it tastes better then I imagined.