LFDianne

Ok, I couldn't resist. It's our favorite Will-ephant. Love the pink toenails and pink polka dot ears.

The monkey looked upset to see him go.

KROQ gave us a poster, too. That's my pink "winners" wristband, too.

He didn't even mention having to load out from the Ellen Show at 5pm the night before the KROQ show. Ellen ended about 5pm, and they had to be totally off her stage before 6pm, when her next show was being taped. Then they had to drive the 20 miles or so to KROQ, in rush hour Los Angeles traffic. I was talking with some of the KROQ folks and they said the roadies were there very late setting up and then back again at 6am for the 7:30am broadcast. Will played his bass drum instead of the Viva tympani at both shows, and I noticed for the first time at KROQ that the Viva bell now has MX painted on it - don't know how I missed that before.

Coldplay.com was wrong. It's on tomorrow night in the US, so Friday morning for you. You should double check the time differential, too, using a world clock converter. http://24timezones.com/ Here is the information about the show: http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/10/17/coldplay-to-play-colbert/

Thanks :) I just listened to the podcast again, so now I know what I sounded like :\ Even though I was standing right next to Kevin and Bean, I couldn't take my eyes off the band, and barely noticed when they stuck the mic in my face. They didn't let me finish talking either - because I would have said I'd watched all the livestreams and been to 3 full shows, plus Ellen and KROQ, since August. Oh well...hope I didn't look too bad. And Chris came to my defense, too, when he looked confused that I knew CB. LOL Then he was happy that I'd been to several shows. I :heart: Will

From the ColbertNation website: Coldplay to Play Colbert! In what is sure to be one of the greatest meetings in the history of people with "Col-" names, it has just been announced that multiple Grammy winners Coldplay will appear on this Thursday's Colbert Report where they will perform a song from their upcoming album Mylo Xyloto on TV for the first time. A second performance will be available the following day exclusively on ColbertNation.com. This is all clearly the culmination of Stephen and Coldplay praying for each other over the past three years. (Warning, the audio in this clip plays at the speed of sound)

Thanks Tracey!

Not the most attractive picture of my husband and me, but that's me with the purple purse. And this is my husband's back and arm.

Hi Amanda! Oh, it was incredible. I thought Ellen couldn't be topped, but KROQ did! My story is on the KROQ live thread, of course, and some of the (bad) pictures that I took. But they had a photographer there, so I will use his pictures :) Way better than anything I could have taken and he had the same view I had. And, as you can see by my new avi, I got to meet somebody! :drummer::dance:

If that's what she meant then I will stand corrected. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Are you talking about the picture of Joan Baez, with her guitar, whom Steve dated before he married? And what exactly do you mean that "Steve really liked the boys?" He was married and has 4 children. Just because he supported gay rights, doesn't mean that he was. I also find it despicable that members of that horrid Westboro Baptist Church based in Kansas were planning on picketing outside his memorial service.

Um, well, technically the album isn't coming out until Monday - how does this person know the lyrics to a song that hasn't yet been released? Oracle didn't call them out on this...I'm surprised she replied to this question.

So sad. The boys have been busy in California this week, though.

We both forgot to mention, that when Chris and Jonny came out to talk to Ellen before they performed, Chris brought her one of the elephant heads. She didn't quite know what to make of that. It was rather funny.

You're in Italy? At the specified time, local time in Rome is 9 hours ahead of Irvine Irvine (U.S.A. - California) Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 11:30:00 PM PDT UTC-7 hours Rome (Italy) Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8:30:00 AM CEST UTC+2 hours

http://www.colbertnation.com/ 11:30pm PST time on Thursday, Oct. 20.

I saw them at Ellen on Monday and KROQ in Tuesday. They played Viva, Clocks, Paradise, Fix You, and ETIAW on Ellen. They played Yellow, Viva, Paradise, Fix You, Charlie Brown and ETIAW on KROQ on Tuesday. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I still can't quite wrap my head around these last 2 days. I need to come back down out of the clouds and back into reality. I feel so fangirly, but I have reason to be!

No! I wasn't the one who grabbed the sticks. Will tossed 2 sticks to the crowd, someone caught one of them, the other one landed on the stage. A woman went up on the stage at the end and picked up that stick. Hoppy was standing near us at the end of the show, and I'd pointed him out, so my husband went up to him and started asking a lot of questions about Chris's piano and how it plays piano and organ sounds, so Hoppy tried explaining it, but then said he wasn't very good at it because he takes care of guitars. I said "you take care of Chris's guitars?" (knowing full well he does) and he said yes, and I asked if there were any picks laying around. He asked me to wait for a minute, and I asked if he needed to be doing something and he said he was told to wait. LOL While we were waiting for Hoppy, I went up to Matt McGinn, who was starting to put away Jonny's guitars and said "Hi Matt, I read your book." He stopped and asked "really? Did you like it?" And I said I did like it and he thanked me for reading it and asked what else I thought. I told him I thought it "was well written and that Coldplay are my very favorite band." He said they are his favorite band too. He seemed very happy that I knew who he was. Awwwww. :bomb: Then I asked if he any picks, so he went to get a few, and Hoppy came back and gave me one of Chris's. Bash was starting to take down Will's drums, so I walked up to the stage to meet Matt who was walking back and I asked Bash if I could have a drumstick. He pulled one out of Will's "stash" and I died right there. They were all so nice and I thanked them profusely.. After we walked outside, I saw the black SUV's in the parking lot, and asked one of the KROQ guys if the band were still there. He said they were in the dressing room and I asked if we could wait. He said not there, and I had my handful of swag, so we started talking about the roadies and how hard they worked. They came straight from the Ellen show yesterday at about 6pm, set up the stage, and everything and were there late at night, then they were back first thing this morning.

Chris was just adorable. During one of the breaks, a girl asked for a pick then all these other hands went out so he took a handful of his picks and passed them out. Will tossed 2 drumsticks into the crowd. I was standing right next to Kevin and Bean and was just singing my little heart out to Charlie Brown. Little did I know they were watching me and when they made that comment about. "someone knowing all the words to all the new songs and did I have a bootleg" they were talking about me and then next thing I know, their mic is in my face. I started to say "it's because I've seen them 5 times since August and all of the live streams" but they didn't let me finish. I was shocked they signed autographs but very happy they did! People kept trying to get them to sign things then Chris asked everyone to hold off and that they would sign at the end. Some woman In the audience walked up on stage during a break and handed Chris a book, so he flipped through it. That same woman took off the scarf she wearing and went on stage and handed it to Will. She was like meditating with her eyes closed the whole show. Rather odd. Chris's shirt kept riding up in back and getting caught on his transmitter. We saw a little skin :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

More from today. An article about the Kevin and Bean Show this morning with Coldplay. http://kroq.radio.com/2011/10/18/coldplay-is-not-too-yellow-to-answer-kevin-beans-questions-give-amazing-performance-at-the-redbull-sound-space/ Considered internationally as one of the most inspired bands of both the rock and pop genre, Coldplay transforms the sounds of many genres with their note-defying, expansive instrumentation, and bittersweet lyrical storytelling. The British band brought their iconic and intimate sound to the Red Bull Sound Space at KROQ, playing songs like “Yellow,” “Paradise,” “Viva La Vida,” “Charlie Brown,” “Fix You,” and “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall.” Despite the early hour, lead singer Chris Martin met Kevin & Bean‘s quips with cheeky, self-deprecating humor and adeptly answered questions about their age and the longevity of their songs, whether they are going to “get fat like Axl Rose,” the quirky name of their upcoming album, how their original name Starfish first came about, and how a certain Coldplay song may or may not have inspired an impotent horse. Drummer Will Champion, considered by Martin to be the voice of “sonic reckoning” in the band, told Kevin & Bean that regardless of the age of “Yellow,” the song “still means the same thing…Like Chris said, it helped us immensely when we first started out.” Just as they ostensibly started their career with the song “Yellow,” Coldplay also started their set at the Red Bull Sound Space with the same song. A song about unrequited love, “Yellow” still sonically swells with an innocent hope, perhaps an entreaty of acceptance to their then-new audience. Even though they started out as appealingly naïve and girl-crazy young lads at university, these days the members of Coldplay seem more accomplished as both artists and adults. Age has served them well as artists and the band jokingly said that they plan to live it up while they can. “We’re all between thirty-two and thirty-four now, so we only have a limited time with our bass player being so handsome,” quips Martin. “We can go painting and rock climbing when we’re a lot older.” “ It's a strange title. I agree and I'm sorry for that...But it had to be called that. ” Chris Martin on 'Mylo Xyloto' Known for his light-hearted sarcasm on stage, Martin is charming albeit a bit nebulous when talking about the meaning behind the title of Coldplay’s upcoming album Mylo Xyloto. Martin apologized for the confusing name, but not without a wink. “It’s a strange title. I agree and I’m sorry for that…But it had to be called that. Maybe it’s because it couldn’t be called anything else…Like Dr. Pepper, or Coca-Cola or Google.” In fact, Martin recently gave another equally vague answer to the New York Times, saying: “Music comes from a place we don’t know…It sort of comes through the fingers and toes. So we came up with the idea of, what if you had musical digits, like xylo toes.” And according to the same article, Mylo is “just a great name for anything.” Regardless of the name of Coldplay’s fifth studio album, the cohesive, almost cinematic album full of what Bean described as musical “vignettes” is also heavy with single potential–like their second single from the album, “Paradise.” “ We try to make it like journey and a story from start to finish...not just a collection of singles in a row. ” “We are really trying to make albums like we’re putting together movies,” explained Martin. “We try to make it like journey and a story from start to finish…not just a collection of singles in a row.” “Paradise” creates a sort of musical portamento with their first single “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall,” even containing a tie-in lyric with “the wheel breaks the butterfly, every tear a waterfall.” For their second song of the morning, Coldplay performed “Paradise,” an anthemic Coldplay ballad with viscid strings, expansive guitars, and fluid piano. Despite what Kevin & Bean insinuated as their British penchant for “self-deprecating” humor and tongue-in-cheek humility, Martin said that although many consider them to be the “biggest band in the world” that “it really doesn’t feel like that when you’re in the middle of it.” “Like this room feels very similar to the first room we’ve ever played in.” Life is still very much the same for the band who still gets a “rush” when they hear people singing along to their songs; still gets “tingly” when they hear their songs (even if someone else is singing them); and still loves hearing heart-warming stories about their fans such as the pair of Coldplay fans that met at a Coldplay gig, walked down the aisle to a Coldplay song, and named their baby “Chris Martin.” “ In life, it's good to learn how to take negative stuff like that and turn it into positives. Every time something happens like that, we just flip it around. ” Chris Martin Martin said sincerely: “We’re just so happy to have our job at this point. If somebody doesn’t like us, we don’t care. We only care about the people that do.” And the self-deprecating humor is not an act, more like a way to turn unfortunate life circumstances into more agreeable ones. “I think we’re interested in turning negatives into positives. Every kid is trying to do that at school…if we talked about it, it’s only to say that when people are really mean to you…don’t let that distract you from your vision,” Martin explains. “In life, it’s good to learn how to take negative stuff like that and turn it into positives. Every time something happens like that, we just flip it around.” “Have you seen Kung Fu Panda 2? Po learns how to turn that force around and send it back twice as strong.” Which is essentially the message behind the next song Coldplay played this morning, the Frida Kahlo-inspired “Viva La Vida.” One of Coldplay’s most extensive storytelling songs, “Viva La Vida” jumps from grandiose instrumentation to gossamer vocals. Mylo Xyloto was also sparked by artistic sentiments. Bassist Guy Berryman explained that the album is “very much inspired by street art and graffiti in ’70s and ’80s New York….to find these kind of splashes and color and expression in these otherwise kind of grey areas was very fulfilling to us.” “ We heard that there was a guy who couldn't get his horse to breed probably and he played 'Fix You' and low and behold sexual intercourse took place. ” Chris Martin Coldplay’s fourth song of the morning, “Charlie Brown,” alluded to that shimmer of color and light in the dark moments of existence, like the expressive street art of New York. A fiery, uptempo dance-jam with hints of ’80s pop, “Charlie Brown” brandishes evocative lyrics like “all innocent and wild, we’ll be glowing in the dark.” When the band was “innocent” and, perhaps wild, their first name was Starfish, a name that barely lasted and which Martin joked was the product of his dad’s encouragement over breakfast sausages at a “railroad worker” café. A joke, of course. In fact, what one might not ascertain from listening to a Coldplay song is that Martin’s comedic timing is almost equal to his lively stage presence. When an audience member asked him what the “best story” he had heard from a fan that affected him was, Kevin & Bean were afraid he’d get too “gooey and emotional.” Martin blithely retaliated with “we heard that there was a guy who couldn’t get his horse to breed probably and he played ‘Fix You’ and low and behold sexual intercourse took place and now he has the most expensive stud farm in Britain.” “It’s not true of course. “ What is true is that the fifth song of their set, “Fix You,” has touched many of their fans around the world. “ We had quite a lot of fights early on but learned to get over them...We're not the best musicians...but we have the chemistry of each other. ” Jonny Buckland So many of them that they are able to see past their personal differences in an effort to continue vivifying their audience and regardless of an early tendency to tiff. Guitarist Jonny Buckland explained: “We’re quite nice to each other. I think that helps. We have good lawyers…We had quite a lot of fights early on but learned to get over them…We’re not the best musicians…but we have the chemistry of each other.” Competition within the band seems to have quelled and friendly competition with other artists like Kings of Leon, U2, Arcade Fire, and Adele keeps Coldplay on their toes, although the band cites artists like Lana Del Rey and Aloe Blacc as some of their favorite new artists. “ I think one of our dream things...is if we could get the original Guns 'N Roses line-up to get back together. ” Chris Martin They would also love to see what Kevin & Bean described as a “fat Axl Rose” perform with the original Guns ‘N Roses again. Martin explained: “I think one of our dream things if we could ever make it happen is if we could get the original Guns ‘N Roses line-up to get back together. How can we do it?” That prospect certainly seems unlikely, but with performances like Coldplay’s sixth song of the set, “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall,” music fans will have plenty to keep them entertained. They will just have to live with “Paradise” instead of “Paradise City.” Will Coldplay be performing while in their older years as they wish Guns ‘N Roses would? “It all depends on our hips,” jests Martin. “Whether they can withstand the pressure."

:wink3: But my husband took the picture. :confused: He was so sweet when I gave him the gift. Don't know if he'll even like it, but it made me happy.

I'm sorry :( But your time will come! :nice: I've been waiting years for a day like yesterday and today.

Oh, yes, it was rather awesome. I gave him a gift, too. I was dying and still can't believe it. The boys were amazing, signing autographs, taking photos, and Guy even texted someone from someone's phone. So much freaking fun!