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パンクロックコンサート
友達のマットに誘われて、あまり興味はないものの、パンクロック・コンサートに行ってみることにした雅子さん。会場は殺風景な地下室で、観客は全員立ったままのすし詰め状態でした。常連はエネルギーいっぱいのティーンエージャーのようです…。
Punk Rock Concert
By MASAKO YAMADA
One Tuesday my friend Matt was asking around to see if anybody wanted to go to a rock concert with him. There is a club in Cambridge called "The Middle East," and an alternative punk band called "Avail" was playing there. Although I'm not very interested in punk rock, I decided to give the concert a try.
other bands that was playing that night. I was glad to have my friends around me, because I would have felt terribly out of place by myself.
Toward the end of the concert, I noticed that the bare pipes overhead were dripping on me. One of the band members said, "It's like piss," but I didn't get his full meaning until later. I thought he was implying that the bathroom pipes were leaking, but in fact the sweat of the audience had condensed on the cold pipes and was raining on us. It was totally gross ― and utterly fascinating.
One Tuesday my friend Matt was asking around to see if anybody wanted to go to a rock concert with him. There is a club in Cambridge called "The Middle East," and an alternative punk band called "Avail" was playing there. Although I'm not very interested in punk rock, I decided to give the concert a try.
Having enjoyed small rock concerts in Boston and Chicago before, I thought it would be interesting to see the punk scene close up. People say The Middle East is a cross between a Middle Eastern restaurant, a cafe, and an alternative rock club, so I was expecting to see a small group of fashionably dressed people sipping syrupy mint tea or strong Turkish coffee while listening to the music. I couldn't have been more wrong.
The concert was held in a stark basement, and it was packed elbow-to-elbow with people ― standing room only. There were almost no furnishings in the room besides a makeshift stage and souvenir booth. There were a few bars, but they weren't serving any alcohol because most of the concertgoers were under the legal drinking age.
At the club Matt and I met up with a couple of other physics students, a second year grad student also named Matt, and an undergraduate senior named Heather. They both seemed quite comfortable with the scene. Heather is the only female physics major in her graduating class (at a very big school!), and for that reason, she's often invited to the graduate school physics events.
My friend Matt had heard "Avail" play several times before. The other Matt had once toured the country with his own alternative band, and Heather was a big fan of one of the
other bands that was playing that night. I was glad to have my friends around me, because I would have felt terribly out of place by myself.
Three bands played that night, but I remember nothing of the music. All I remember is that the crowd got progressively wilder as the bands played on. It seemed that most people in the audience were gangly, rebellious high school kids, and they had far more energy than I did. At any concert, there usually is a "mosh pit" toward the front by the stage, but since this was a relatively small room, it seemed that everybody was a part of the mosh pit.
Once the music started, I felt people pushing at me ― hard ― from all directions. They weren't merely tapping their feet to the beat of the music. People were literally running into each other at full force, and others were pushing back with equal force. The audience turned into a human tornado. Some kids jumped off the railings into the raised arms of the crowd and were carried across the room.
Matt wanted to go to the very center of the action, so he asked me to hold his book bag. I stayed by the wall and held his bag tightly, but the crowd still pushed me. One guy had his glasses flung off. He got down on his hands and knees to look for them, and I was afraid he'd be crushed. He found the glasses safely, but they were bent out of shape. I could very well imagine how people get crushed to death at rock concerts or soccer matches.
Toward the end of the concert, I noticed that the bare pipes overhead were dripping on me. One of the band members said, "It's like piss," but I didn't get his full meaning until later. I thought he was implying that the bathroom pipes were leaking, but in fact the sweat of the audience had condensed on the cold pipes and was raining on us. It was totally gross ― and utterly fascinating.
Shukan ST: Dec. 13, 1996
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- alternative
- 伝統にとらわれない
- "Avail"
- バンド名。「役に立つやつら」
- give 〜 a try
- 〜 に行ってみる
- see 〜 close up
- 〜 を間近に見る
- punk scene
- パンク音楽の世界
- cross between 〜 and 〜
- 〜 や 〜 が混ざったもの
- fashionably dressed 〜
- おしゃれに着飾った 〜
- sipping 〜
- 〜 をちびちび飲む
- syrupy mint tea
- 甘ったるいミントティー
- Turkish coffee
- トルコで飲まれるコーヒー
- (微粉状にひいた豆を長時間煮出した濃いコーヒーに甘味を加えたもの)
- I couldn't have been more wrong.
- ぜんぜん違っていた
- stark
- 殺風景な
- basement
- 地下室
- was packed elbow-to-elbow with people
- 人がすし詰めになっていた
- standing room only
- 立ち見のみ
- furnishings
- 家具
- makeshift stage
- 間に合わせのステージ
- souvenir booth
- 売店
- weren't serving 〜
- 〜 は出していなかった
- concertgoers
- コンサートの客
- under the legal drinking age
- 法律上アルコールを飲める年齢に達していない
- met up with 〜
- 〜 と待ち合わせた
- grad student
- 大学院生
- senior
- 4年生
- seemed quite comfortable with the scene
- その場ですっかり気分を良くしているようだった
- physics major
- 物理学専攻の学生
- in her graduating class
- 彼女の学年で
- had toured
- 巡回ツアーをした
- would have felt terribly out of place by myself
- 自分がかなり場違いなような気がしただろう
- got progressively wilder
- だんだん興奮してきた
- as the bands played on
- バンドの演奏が続くにつれて
- gangly
- ひょろっとした
- rebellious
- 反抗的な
- had far more energy than I did
- 私よりずっとエネルギーに満ちあふれていた
- "mosh pit"
- もみ合いながらダンスをする(moshing)ためのステージ前のスペース
- relatively
- 比較的
- felt people pushing at me
- みんなが私めがけて押してくるのを感じた
- from all directions
- あらゆる方向から
- weren't merely tapping their feet to the beat of the music
- 音楽のリズムに合わせて足を踏みならしているだけではなかった
- literally
- 文字どおり
- (were)running into each other at full force
- 力いっぱいぶつかり合っていた
- were pushing back with equal force
- 同じ力で押し返していた
- turned into 〜
- 〜 に変わった
- human tornado
- 人間トルネード(大たつまき)
- jumped off the railings into the raised arms of the crowd
- 手すりを乗り越えて、群衆が挙げた腕の中に飛び込んだ
- were carried across the room
- 部屋を横切って運ばれていった
- tightly
- しっかりと
- had 〜 flung off
- 〜 をはね飛ばされ
- got down on his hands and knees
- 両手と両ひざをついた
- (would)be crushed
- 押しつぶされる
- were bent out of shape
- すっかり形が歪んだ
- get crushed to death
- 圧死する
- soccer matches
- サッカーの試合
- bare pipes overhead were dripping on me
- 頭上のむきだしのパイプから私の上にポタポタと水が落ちてきた
- piss
- 小便
- didn't get his full meaning until later
- 彼の言ったことの意味が、後になるまでよくわからなかった
- was implying that 〜
- 〜 とほのめかした
- bathroom pipes were leaking
- トイレのパイプが漏れている
- had condensed on 〜
- 〜 の上で凝縮した
- was raining on 〜
- 〜 の上に降ってきた
- (was)gross
- 気持ちが悪かった
- utterly
- とても
- fascinating
- すごい
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