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"Did ya see him? Chris Martin talked to my Pablo!!! Right after "Talk", he stopped and talked to Pablo from his piano! OH my gosh...Pablo is sound asleep right now WITH the drumsticks that he gave him....They had a little conversation and Pablo is over the moon. All these people were high fivin' him as we were leaving and we didn't know it but Pablo was on the big screen during the whole conversation! He's SO HAPPY, and that was so cool that Chris Martin did that. SO COOL. He asked him how old he is and told him that it's really cool that he came to the concert and that he's really happy that a 7 year old kid likes his band!!!! My little guy told me as we were leaving..."Mom, Chris Martin knows I'm a person"....."yep", I said.."he sure does". The drummer then gave his drumsticks to the roadie guy who came over and gave them to Pablo....and a few minutes later he brought over Chris Martin's playlist from his piano! Oh my god...I just can't believe it...for pablo, I can't believe that this happened for him. He's a music head. His sister is an academic and he's a music head. I decided to take him to this concert because I want to support his "thing", and inspire him...and inspired he is. He told me that he's going to sleep with the drumsticks every night...so that "I get Chris Martins germs"...hahahaha! my darling boy. Did anybody go? Did any of you guys see him???"

Okay, the mom's story is pretty cool... He just inspired someone to do something more with something he loves.

cool story! :D

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"Did ya see him? Chris Martin talked to my Pablo!!! Right after "Talk", he stopped and talked to Pablo from his piano! OH my gosh...Pablo is sound asleep right now WITH the drumsticks that he gave him....They had a little conversation and Pablo is over the moon. All these people were high fivin' him as we were leaving and we didn't know it but Pablo was on the big screen during the whole conversation! He's SO HAPPY, and that was so cool that Chris Martin did that. SO COOL. He asked him how old he is and told him that it's really cool that he came to the concert and that he's really happy that a 7 year old kid likes his band!!!! My little guy told me as we were leaving..."Mom, Chris Martin knows I'm a person"....."yep", I said.."he sure does". The drummer then gave his drumsticks to the roadie guy who came over and gave them to Pablo....and a few minutes later he brought over Chris Martin's playlist from his piano! Oh my god...I just can't believe it...for pablo, I can't believe that this happened for him. He's a music head. His sister is an academic and he's a music head. I decided to take him to this concert because I want to support his "thing", and inspire him...and inspired he is. He told me that he's going to sleep with the drumsticks every night...so that "I get Chris Martins germs"...hahahaha! my darling boy. Did anybody go? Did any of you guys see him???"

Ahhh, thats really awesome and really special:D

I emailed all of my pics of the acoustic set (not 10 feet from my seats) to myself and, not surprisingly, they're pretty damn blurry/grainy. Oh, well, I suppose that's what I deserve for carrying around a 5-year old cellphone. :furious:

 

I'll upload them to Photobucket later and post the best one or two here just in case anyone's interested.

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"Did ya see him? Chris Martin talked to my Pablo!!! Right after "Talk", he stopped and talked to Pablo from his piano! OH my gosh...Pablo is sound asleep right now WITH the drumsticks that he gave him....They had a little conversation and Pablo is over the moon. All these people were high fivin' him as we were leaving and we didn't know it but Pablo was on the big screen during the whole conversation! He's SO HAPPY, and that was so cool that Chris Martin did that. SO COOL. He asked him how old he is and told him that it's really cool that he came to the concert and that he's really happy that a 7 year old kid likes his band!!!! My little guy told me as we were leaving..."Mom, Chris Martin knows I'm a person"....."yep", I said.."he sure does". The drummer then gave his drumsticks to the roadie guy who came over and gave them to Pablo....and a few minutes later he brought over Chris Martin's playlist from his piano! Oh my god...I just can't believe it...for pablo, I can't believe that this happened for him. He's a music head. His sister is an academic and he's a music head. I decided to take him to this concert because I want to support his "thing", and inspire him...and inspired he is. He told me that he's going to sleep with the drumsticks every night...so that "I get Chris Martins germs"...hahahaha! my darling boy. Did anybody go? Did any of you guys see him???"

 

Awww......... that is such a nice story!!!!!!!!

 

And little Pablo sleeping with the drumsticks........ :heart:

 

***heart melting***

That review,a few posts back, by Jason Harper was pretty negative.He said everyone except Chris looked like they didnt want to be there. I love coldplay,but many times at interviews I feel so uncomfortabel because they do look miserable...

 

And also about the backtracking.Dont other bands backtrack??

 

What did you all think of that review.???

I've just updated my stats

 

http://coldplay-vivalavida-tour-stats.blogspot.com/

 

 

:cool:

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"Did ya see him? Chris Martin talked to my Pablo!!! Right after "Talk", he stopped and talked to Pablo from his piano! OH my gosh...Pablo is sound asleep right now WITH the drumsticks that he gave him....They had a little conversation and Pablo is over the moon. All these people were high fivin' him as we were leaving and we didn't know it but Pablo was on the big screen during the whole conversation! He's SO HAPPY, and that was so cool that Chris Martin did that. SO COOL. He asked him how old he is and told him that it's really cool that he came to the concert and that he's really happy that a 7 year old kid likes his band!!!! My little guy told me as we were leaving..."Mom, Chris Martin knows I'm a person"....."yep", I said.."he sure does". The drummer then gave his drumsticks to the roadie guy who came over and gave them to Pablo....and a few minutes later he brought over Chris Martin's playlist from his piano! Oh my god...I just can't believe it...for pablo, I can't believe that this happened for him. He's a music head. His sister is an academic and he's a music head. I decided to take him to this concert because I want to support his "thing", and inspire him...and inspired he is. He told me that he's going to sleep with the drumsticks every night...so that "I get Chris Martins germs"...hahahaha! my darling boy. Did anybody go? Did any of you guys see him???"

 

That boy was so adorable. He was only a few people to my left when Chris was talking to him. On their way back to their seats, I tapped her and gave her a thumbs up. They both looked so happy!

Spotted myself in a picture posted above!

 

 

 

Meant to be, yes?

Coldplay

November 13, 2008

Sprint Center

By JASON HARPER

Photos by SCOTT SPYCHALSKI

 

To the question at hand: is Coldplay cool? Cool enough, that is, for a discerning, punk-bred, 45-collecting, uncomfortable-shoes-wearing music blog reader such as you?

 

Well, if you’re reading this review at all, most likely you already love Coldplay and you’re just waiting for me to (a) report on awesomeness of band and give the setlist so you can feel affirmed, or (b) dis Coldplay for being loved by squares so that you can eviscerate me in the comments.

 

But on the chance that you are a certified hip dude who thinks that Coldplay is the Target of major bands, let’s look at a few attributes of the band. First of all, these guys are British. Next, they have guitars -- lots of them -- plus lasers and glowing orbs and waterfalls of butterfly confetti when they play live in enormous, sold-out arenas. Feeling like a chump yet? No? Alright, one of them – the good-looking one – is married to a famous, beautiful actress, and they have a child named for fruit. The other members of the band are fruit – two grapefruits and a pummelo, to be precise.

 

They dress like extras from Les Miserables.

 

They’re wildly successful and play songs that boom in your miserable skull for years.

 

Get the picture, hipster douche? They’re cooler than you. On to the show.

 

The first words out of Chris Martin’s mouth, and people were singing along. It was a new song, “Violet Hill,” but never mind that; people were prepared.

 

(White people, of course. Many of them hot and svelte. In fact, one of these hot-svelte people asked me and the people around me before the show began, “Do you smell Plato?” “Plato?” people asked. “Yeah, Plato – everyone’s been saying they smell it!” I leaned over and asked, “Plato or Play-Doh?” “That’s it!” he said.)

 

As the band rolled through a set weighted on the Viva la Vida side (not surprising, as it’s their richest, most musically sophisticated one ever) and peppered with songs from X&Y (three years ago) and A Rush of Blood to the Head (SIX years ago) with maybe just a sprinkle of Parachutes (like, 30 years ago), the stage setup moved from simple and livingroomlike to A Space Odyssey. At first, the only screen being fed by the two closed-circuit video cams down front was on a tiny antique TV on a pedestal. The backdrop was the Renaissance battle scene from the cover of the album: goddess with tits out, Frenchmen with muskets. Then, the big orbs descended from the ceiling, flashing marble patterns that eventually became images fed from the cameras. Later, a giant screen came down, showing chopped and screwed images from the stage.

 

Musically, the sound was BIG. Way bigger than four guys with one instrument and microphone apiece. How's that? Backing tracks, that's how. For all of Chris Martin’s wide-eyed, sweating-on-piano, knees-bent-running-about charisma and his switching between piano and craftpainted guitars, live, Coldplay’s music tends to plod along, dependent on the musical prowess of three-fifths of its members (Martin, drummer Will Champion, the aforementioned backing tracks) and is all but weighed down by the other two-fifths: the guitarist and bassist, a.k.a. two dudes who should be absolutely thrilled to flash their chops and strut around before crowds of thousands but who look and play, most of the time, like cranky old fudders stuck playing at a fairground on the off season in Blackpool.

 

In short, I was shocked to learn that Coldplay doesn’t do bona fide live versions of its songs.

 

Johnny Buckland, guitarist, did have his moments, most notably when he and Martin wound up on the stage-left platform that jutted a dozen rows in the audience during “Clocks,” playing off each other like toy soldiers reenacting the French invasion of Russia. But let's stop a minute: When critics compare Coldplay with U2, they seem to overlook the fact that Buckland and the Edge have only a rhythmic-echo sensibility and a chorus pedal or two in common. Buckland is the diet, caffeine-free Edge. (Likewise, for those who insist on comparing Coldplay to Radiohead, God is in the guitars.) He even flubbed up one of his only spotlight moments, the jig-like riff from “Strawberry Swing,” which, oddly, occasioned one of the only smiles he and Martin shared the whole show.

 

And what’s with the frownies? Even when the four dismounted the stage and wound their way high, high into the crowd to do two remote acoustic numbers – “Scientist” and the delightful, Champion-sung “Death Will Never Conquer” – all three except for Martin looked like schoolchildren forced to learn recorder (only in this case, it was guitar, mandolin and resonator guitar; why not, like, just one guitar and four guys singing and having fun?)

 

Maybe they’ve been on tour too long. Or maybe they just had an off night.

 

In the end though, as a whole, they ended up sounding fine and putting on a good show. They’re Coldplay after all. Cool as hell.

 

Setlist

Life in Technicolor

Violet Hill

Clocks

In My Place

Glass of Water (unreleased)

Speed of Sound

Cemeteries of London

Chinese Sleep Chant

42

Fix You

Strawberry Swing

God Put a Smile Upon Your Face

Green Eyes (solo Martin)

Postcards from Far Away (piano solo)

Lost

Viva La Vida

The Scientist (acoustical jam)

Death Will Never Conquer

 

Encore 1

Politik

(piano solo)

Lovers in Japan

Death and All His Friends (Will Champion, drummer, sings)

 

Encore 2

Yellow

 

Critic's Notebook

 

Personal Bias: I like guitarists who can make it howl and move.

Random Detail: Coldplay has sold somewhere around 40 million albums since forming in 1998. Oh, wait, that's not random at all.

By the Way: I came down with a cold right in the middle of this show. For real.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://blogs.pitch.com/wayward/2008/11/concert_review_coldplay_at_sprint_center_kansas_city.php

 

Ouch. Poor Jonny :confused:

:heart:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJv_torIj20]YouTube - Coldplay - Green Eyes - Kansas City 2008[/ame]

*sigh*

 

Love it:nice:

Green Eyes

 

:bigcry:

 

So. Damn. Beautiful.

 

:bigcry:

I know!!!

 

*Cry's together with Mel:bigcry:

from the floor after i got upgraded, you could barely even see my old seats

that's all i got

Hes voice sounds AMAZING!

Does anyone have a mp3 of green eyes form the concert??

She gave the girl hes harmonica....u can totally see almost at the end......VERY LUCKY girl!

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAQ_F1zbIMM]YouTube - Coldplay - The Scientist (Live)[/ame]

Thanks!

 

This pic looks like the boys were miniature versions of themselves and the person (actually clapping) is carefully reaching out with her/ his hands to grab Chris!! :laugh3::laugh3::laugh3:

 

Or the other way: A giant reaches out to grab Chris...

 

(It's 2:39am already and it's getting harder to transform thoughts into words :))

Or to CRUSH HIM.

This is my first chance at a computer in two days, so I thought I'd say that the Kansas City show was awesome.

 

I wasn't much for Sleepercar as openers, but I thought Jon Hopkins' act was impressive. The video that went along with his live mixing was pretty cool.

 

We had seats in the middle of the first section on the floor, and it was definitely closer than I expected. When they did the techno God Put A Smile Upon Your Face, they moved over right in front of us, and we ran up to the edge of the extended stage. I was standing right in front of the piano and directly below little 7 year old Pablo. That was so cool of Chris to talk to him! He commented on how Pablo would one day be a bigger pop star than Coldplay and The Jonas Brothers. That last one got a huge reaction from the crowd. I loved Glass of Water, and I had downloaded a bootleg when it first came around, so I was ready to sing.

 

That scathing review by Jason Harper a few pages back was unfair. The only person not smiling by the end of the night was Guy, which he doesn't seem too fond of doing lately. I thought Johnny really got into it, and did a great job. And I am constantly amazed at the way reviewers slip in comments about Gwyneth, Apple and Moses, but don't actually talk about Coldplay's music. But they can throw in a few comparisons to U2 and Radiohead.

 

All in all, the night was fantastic. And I am many, many butterflies the richer.

Here's my take on set list:

1. Life in Technicolor

2. Violet Hill

3. Clocks

4. In My Place

5. Glass of Water

6. Speed of Sound

7. Cemeteries in London

8. Chinese Sleep Chant

9. 42

10. Fix You

11. Strawberry Swing

12. GPASUYF (techno)

13. Talk (techno)

14. The Scientist

15. Green Eyes

16. Viva La Vida

17. Lost!

18. Will Champion (solo)

19. Politik

20. Chris Martin (solo)

21. Lovers in Japan

22. Death & All of His Friends

23. Yellow

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"Did ya see him? Chris Martin talked to my Pablo!!! Right after "Talk", he stopped and talked to Pablo from his piano! OH my gosh...Pablo is sound asleep right now WITH the drumsticks that he gave him....They had a little conversation and Pablo is over the moon. All these people were high fivin' him as we were leaving and we didn't know it but Pablo was on the big screen during the whole conversation! He's SO HAPPY, and that was so cool that Chris Martin did that. SO COOL. He asked him how old he is and told him that it's really cool that he came to the concert and that he's really happy that a 7 year old kid likes his band!!!! My little guy told me as we were leaving..."Mom, Chris Martin knows I'm a person"....."yep", I said.."he sure does". The drummer then gave his drumsticks to the roadie guy who came over and gave them to Pablo....and a few minutes later he brought over Chris Martin's playlist from his piano! Oh my god...I just can't believe it...for pablo, I can't believe that this happened for him. He's a music head. His sister is an academic and he's a music head. I decided to take him to this concert because I want to support his "thing", and inspire him...and inspired he is. He told me that he's going to sleep with the drumsticks every night...so that "I get Chris Martins germs"...hahahaha! my darling boy. Did anybody go? Did any of you guys see him???"

 

Awww! CUTE! :blush:

from the floor after i got upgraded, you could barely even see my old seats

that's all i got

 

Mister Martin is getting his curls back! And it's all cute and lovely and at the top of his fringe! :cheesy: