L'enthousiasme des fans !!

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Before the lines and the parking confusion, before fans yelled along and Jon Bon Jovi sang the standards, an unofficial preparty assumed shape in the warm April evening. Some said they had waited 20 years for this day, while others sought only a night out. Both kinds of concertgoer swarmed 19th Avenue to elude the Fargodome’s no-tailgating policy. Anticipation flourished, among revelers and dome staff alike, as more people were expected to see perennial rock band Bon Jovi on Saturday than had seen any show there in 10 years. “This is like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said Brenda Wanek of Breckenridge, Minn. Elation was sought in north Fargo, in businesses surrounding the event edifice, and thrill-seekers dodged firmly flowing traffic that carried some of the 25,000 ticketholders the dome predicted receiving. At Buffalo Wild Wings, 1,200 or so people who would later fill the dome filled a beer garden. Other restaurants happily accepted the preconcert carnival. In the dome’s parking lot, some silently rebuffed any policy preventing drinking. The lot opened two hours before the doors at 5:30 p.m. and before the 7 p.m. show with opener Daughtry. When the main act followed, Suzy Olson of Waubun, Minn., was to see what she described as “the one concert I would ever try to go to.” Her sister, Janna Carlson of Bemidji, Minn. – a music teacher – said Jon Bon Jovi is a rock ’n’ roll legend. “He seems like such a genuine person,” Carlson said. Their friend, Mary Beth Rasmussen, added that she hoped to see his derri?re. Other women commented on the singer’s appearance, and all who did qualified their compliment with unequivocal testimony to the fineness of his music. “They were a big hair band, but they’ve evolved,” said Jana Judisch of Moorhead, sitting with her husband and two friends in their RV, listening to classic rock. “They’ve influenced every country-western, rock band in the last 20 years,” said Mike Wutzke of Detroit Lakes, Minn. Wutzke was pitching two tickets for $100 apiece to cars passing on 19th Avenue. Jason Bormann of Sioux Falls, S.D., joined him to do the same because friends of his had canceled. “I’d hate to seem ’em go to waste because I know people spent how much on other tickets that are way worse than this,” Bormann said about his floor-level passes. “The guy is unreal,” he added about Jon Bon Jovi. “One of the greatest of all time.” In the beer garden, three friends argued over which song is best – “Runaway” or “Shot Through the Heart.” Katie Suda, 26, contending for the latter, conceded. “I’m here just to see the big hair,” she joked. Suda, there with her husband, David, came with friends and relatives. “It’s a family affair,” she said, and children of a vast age range waited to enter the dome, which last had a show this size when female country star Shania Twain played in 1998. Before the doors opened, thousands of fans formed lines to enter. Sara Welk-Anderson of Dickinson, N.D., was there, recalling plastering her room with posters of the rock stars. She would see them again, in person, as fans filed into the building and the lines’ shadows disappeared into the towering dome’s.

Super merci Apparemment ils ont encore mis le feu sur scène..........