My Dream Job

When I was a boy I have many dream jobs, the first one I remember was to become a dentist, but I don’t remember why, then I wanted to be paleontologist because I was really in love with the dinosaurs after sawing a hundred times movies like “Jurassic Park” and “The Land Before Time”, but the dream job that was very important to me was to become a detective.

The reason of why I wanted to be detective was very simple, in one step of my childhood I saw many movies and TV series about investigations and crimes, I remember that one animated Serie named “School of Detectives” was my favorite and I really wanted to be like the characters of the show.

In that time, I was so excited about became a detective that I started to read books about the topic, like the Sherlock Holmes novels or some stories of Edgar Allan Poe, I remember that one called “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” was very special to me, principally for his amazing and creative history.

Anyway, when I was in the school I left this dream because I realized that I don’t tolerate the blood, I don’t know why but if I see it I feel bad, even if it’s a little bit of it, so I couldn’t be a detective because it’s a job that probably would imply a lot of blood and images that I really prefer not to see.

So, there I was, about to finish the school and without a job that I would like to do in the future, until one day I decided that my new dream job would be one that should give me the opportunity to travel and meet cultures all over the world, so asking and investigating I found the diplomatic career, the reason of why I’m studding public administration and why it’s very important to me keep practicing my English, but that’s a story for another day…

The Wizard of the Keyboards

As you can see in my past posts, my favorite band is Queen, but my favorite solo artist it’s a man that just with a group of keyboards can make extraordinary and complex music, the wizard of the keyboards Rick Wakeman. Born in England in 1949, he gained popularity in 1971 when he became a member of the progressive rock band Yes, one of the most important bands of the genre, where he participated in magnificent albums like Roundabout, Close to The Edge and Tormato, demonstrating his awesome skills with the piano and keyboards. He also plays as music session in song of many artist like David Bowie, playing the piano in “Life on Mars” and the mellotron in “Space Oddity”, the two best songs of Bowie in my opinion, the beautiful piano intro at Cat Steven’s “Morning has Broken” or Black Sabbath’s “Sabbra Cadabra”.

Besides I love the Wakeman’s work with Yes and other artist, it’s the solo career of Rick what makes him my favorite musician, his conceptual albums are just incredible, the way he makes so many melodies and extraordinary song with his keyboards and invited musician it’s something indescribable. The first time I heard “Journey to The Centre of The Earth” I was shocked by the way he mixes an orchestra with instruments like the Minimoog and how he tells this incredible history with his music, so I started to search his other albums, finding pieces like “The Six Wives of Henry VIII”, with songs like Catherine Parr that prove that he is one of the best keyboardist of all time, the best in my opinion.

I’m waiting the opportunity to see him in a live concert, I don’t lose the hope to listen those beautiful songs that he played in his many keyboards and pianos sitting in the first line of his concert and making one of my dreams come true.

My Best Concert Ever

One of the few things that I'm pretty sure about it, it's that my favorite band in the world is Queen, so when I finally could go to a concert of this marvelous band I was really excited and happy, I couldn't contain my emotion. Of course it wasn't the all band, sadly, Freddie Mercury, one of the best, if not THE best front man in rock history died in November 1991 due to a bronchial pneumonia complicated from AIDS, leaving an enormous legacy of hits and good music, and generating the soon retire of bassist John Deacon, writer of songs like "Another One Bites the Dust" or "I Want to Break Free", leaving the band with only two members, Brian May, legendary guitar known for his signature sound making with his “Red Special” and Roger Taylor, one of the best singing drummers and second vocalist in the concerts.

But they didn’t came alone, to this new tour they recruited a young man who participated at “American Idol” with an awesome voice that convinced Brian and Roger that his one the perfect men to take the hard position of being the singer of Queen, creating the project “Queen + Adam Lambert”. To be honest, I didn’t know much about this guy named Adam, so I went to the concert just expecting to see the two legends of rock and have a good time listening the sound of the guitar and the drums, but Lambert was extraordinary, it was a surprise how he sang with passion and professionalism classic songs like Radio Gaga or Killer Queen, he really seized the public.

It was a magical night, see all the people singing Love of my Life with the video of Freddie and the opera section of Bohemian Rhapsody it´s something that I will never forget, and if they came again, I will be the first person making the line to buy a ticket to revive that night of the September 30th at the National Stadium.