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Singer Chris Martin and the other three members of Coldplay had answered questions from a select group of McCallum High School music students for about half an hour after sound check for Friday's "Austin City Limits" taping when the show's producer asked Martin to leave the teenagers with one final thought.

 

"Here's something," the affable pop star said, raising a finger in the air, as if deep in thought. "Matthew McConaughey's in his 30s, right, and there's absolutely no hair on his chest. How did that happen?"

 

If this whole mega rock star thing doesn't work out, the 28-year-old Martin can fall back on a career as a professional wisecracker. Any kids starstruck about meeting the four-time Grammy winners, who headlined the ACL Festival in September, were soon put at ease with talk of whether Martin was too old to get his ears pierced, how one of the band's crew members insists on wearing a "ridiculous" cowboy hat in Texas and how the band's two goals are to make the best records they can and to not get fat.

 

"As soon as you get a record deal, people are always handing you cake," Martin explained.

 

The singer stressed that it's important for any new band to make a list of its goals. "We had a 10-point program, and No. 10 was to get a record deal," Martin said. "What was No. 1?"

 

"Find a drummer," said Coldplay's Will Champion, who got the job.

 

The "Grammy Soundcheck" program, organized by the local chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, allowed 32 students to watch Coldplay's rehearsal with special guest Michael Stipe of REM. The band then answered the teens' questions.

 

"Hi, there," Martin said when the students in white "Grammy Soundcheck" T-shirts filed into the bleachers in the iconic "ACL" soundstage on the University of Texas campus. "I'm so glad you're wearing clean T-shirts. We had one group wearing dirty T-shirts, and it was a disgrace."

 

After Stipe and Coldplay performed a song and the kids, who'd been told to keep quiet, didn't clap, Martin said, "That must've been terrible. There was no response." When the students applauded at the end of a version of REM's "Nightswimming," Martin hit his head on the piano. "No, that was rubbish. I (messed) it up."

 

For senior Liz Arnold of McCallum's Fine Arts Academy, which received a $7,000 grant this year as one of four Grammy Signature Schools in Texas, seeing her musical heroes as more human than rock god was a welcome revelation. "I thought they'd look at us as pests, taking up their busy time," she said, "but they've been very inviting. They made us very relaxed."

 

The time went by so fast, and the students were so intent on confining the talk to music, that no one asked about Gwyneth Paltrow.

 

But no doubt "60 Minutes," with a crew in Austin following Coldplay, will bring up Martin's famous wife.

 

"ACL" Producer Terry Lickona said the demand for Coldplay tickets was the greatest in the show's history, even though it was booked less than two weeks earlier. For the first time ever, an episode was simulcast, to an audience gathered at nearby Hogg Auditorium.

 

The program is scheduled to air on KLRU on Dec. 17, the quickest turnaround for "ACL."

 

Source: http://www.statesman.com

thanks darl! really lucky school!

 

Singer Chris Martin and the other three members of Coldplay

oh please, cant they even say their names! :stunned: :angry:

wow thats so cool!

thanks darl! really lucky school!

 

Singer Chris Martin and the other three members of Coldplay

oh please, cant they even say their names! :stunned: :angry:

I was gonna say that! I hate it when they do that

Thanks Ian!

Great read. Those kids are very fortunate. Isn't it nice how Coldplay makes some people's dream come true? Great Guys.

was michael stipe only at the the rehearsal or was he at the actual show as well?

lucky school...wow, i'd give anything if coldplay was coming to my school! :dozey:

was michael stipe only at the the rehearsal or was he at the actual show as well?

He was at the show. He sang 2 songs with the band. Nightswimming and a song they wrote together for an upcoming charity type record. It was stunningly beautiful. Michael wasn't happy with the first take, so they did it twice. I think it was called In The Sun.

Dang man... that would be the time of my life!

^mine as well...

"No, that was rubbish. I (messed) it up."

 

 

"(messed)" eh? :lol:

I thought the same thing. :lol:

I'm so jealous. :D :D :D

lucky students :cool:

îndeed