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If the guy's going to leak it, he's going to leak it, and while that may not be the most "moral" thing to do, it happens and bands understand that. What's completely odd is the system people are trying to devise to determine who should hear it. That's going way too far in my opinion. Edited: By the way, the Oracle hangs out here from time to time, so don't think she's not clever enough to find out what you're talking about. I doubt she'd be impressed or anything...

I think this is probably the worst idea ever. It's just bad behavior. Even if the demos aren't leaked by "true" Coldplayers, how would the band react to this weird lottery system to get to their illegally-gotten property? :\ And the chances of leaks are pretty much 100%. It's just my 2 cents as someone who rarely posts, but I think this whole thing should be dropped.

I'm excited to be among the road-trippers hitting up Dallas then Houston!! I managed to trade my extra pair of Dallas tix for some Houston ones. It'll be the first time I go to 2 shows in a row! Woo hoo! :D

Hey all, I posted in the tickets for sale thread but thought I'd post here as well. I have an extra pair of tix for the Dallas show I'm selling at face value. They're in section 205. If you're interested, PM me! I'd also be willing to trade for Houston tix of comparable value...

I have 2 Dallas tix for sale. The show is July 21st. Section 205, Row DDD, Seats 13 & 14. I have hard tickets and am asking face value. PM me if interested.

Completely agreed. Welcome to the forum.

Yeah, definitely. Very interesting!

Haha, yeah I know...just couldn't get into that album though. I'd be willing to give their others a listen...

Review of LRLRL Hi everyone, I'm a very frequent forum visitor, very infrequent poster. ;) But I posted a review of LRLRL on my blog a few days ago. Here's the link if you'd like to read it. Thanks!

I can confirm that they will exchange your tix if you are super nice in asking. I got my tickets for Dallas changed to the pit after they opened it up. I had to keep persisting through several "no"s, but it definitely paid off! :D Here is the link to find the number to call (in the US): http://www.ticketmaster.com/h/customer_serve.html Good luck!!

I got to meet him (and the rest of the band) during that soundcheck! No hug, but I did get to shake his hand and he complimented my shirt. Yes, he did look damn good that day...;)

coldplagiarism - you've spent a whole lot of time and effort trying to sway people into seeing your opinion of things. whether or not you accept it, other "scholars of music" may or may not agree with your assessment of things. unless you're a copyright lawyer, your opinion is just about as meaningful and relevant as the opinions of everyone else here. it's a little more than absurd to imply that satriani has an airtight case because he "owns" the intellectual property of that sequence. if owning the intellectual property of a sequence of chords is automatically copyright infringement, then coldplay would have agreed to pay up by now. i don't think they ever claimed the music wasn't similar, so you're just choosing to ignore the other side of the coin. like it or not, this is no clear cut "case closed" issue. edit: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/12/12/072725.php

"Now you're arguing my point. They're music that's board-room produced to make cash, they make bland music that people can tap their foot to while doing secretarial work or playing nintendo. The music is MADE to appeal to the masses, made to be generic, of course it's going to sell well." I guess that's what you tell yourself to legitimize your belief that they ripped off your hero. Sorry, but I used to live in a city known for it's love of guitar rock and I hate to break it to you, but they used to play Satriani constantly on a well-known generic, inoffensive radio station that people listen to at work. It became sort of a joke to count how many times a day they played the same set of guitar-rock songs that also sounded exactly the same as the next one. I'm not arguing that he's not talented. My point is that you shouldn't come here bashing people's love of one band as fan-ish by using the same exact method to defend Satriani. Regardless of what you may think you know about Coldplay, if you don't even listen to them, you shouldn't be making ridiculous assertions on one of their fansites.

It may be true that not everyone knows the name of Coldplay's guitarist, but a whole hell of a lot more people know Coldplay the band than know Joe Satriani. It's also true that Coldplay have been around for a relatively short period of time, so really, it's kind of silly to compare Jonny to a guy who's been around as a solo artist for decades. But hey, thanks for enlightening us to the fact that apparently, discovering an new artist if you're young makes you a "fanboy". You must be bored today!

She was in the soundbooth at the Dallas show. On the floor, in the back.

I hang out on this board constantly, even though I rarely post, so I know the Coldplay karma thing had something to do with that luck! ;) Thanks for reading!

okay, i tried a different site altogether. i couldn't figure out what was wrong. i hope this works! http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=d40d3c50cbe6e045&sid=0AatnLdm4YtGTiY by the way, they're not in order timewise. sorry about that.

should be fixed now.

After reading the updates here, I thought that might have been you, but I wasn't sure! Yeah, it was definitely us. We remember you too! What a coincidence!

which link didn't work? we do have more videos, but they're taking forever to put up. we might do some more tomorrow. :)

The Story My husband and I agreed to go the AAC early yesterday to see if we could run into the band before they entered the arena. We honestly had no idea what we were doing or where we were going...but we were determined to try! We parked and walked over to the arena around 2:00. It didn't look good at first; there was no obvious entry point for the band. We continued to circle around the arena and we ended up seeing a sign for the Best Buy Reward Zone meeting area. We actually bought our tickets through the Best Buy thing, although we were pretty sure that we weren't invited to any sound check party. ;) Since we were already there, we just made the decision to stay and see if we could get in. They were starting to check people in around 3, so my husband ran to the car to drop off our stuff (we had brought a backpack full of books to read because we thought we'd be sitting around for hours!). Once he came back, we went up to the tent. We weren't on the list, but we begged the guy who was in charge to let us in. Unfortunately, he said he wasn't going to be able to let us in. We started to walk away dejected. I stopped and turned, we saw a women walking quickly toward us. She asked if we were big fans of the band, which was probably obvious considering I was wearing a homemade "V" shirt and carrying a copy of VLV on vinyl, and then I noticed she had two passes in her hand! She was letting us in! I couldn't believe it and we were both so excited. She told us we were going to watch the sound check and then get to meet and take pictures with the band...we were sooo extremely lucky and she was sooo nice to let us in. So, we had to wait about 30 minutes, get our security lecture from Jackie (who was awesome!), and finally, we all got marched into the arena and sat down. Once we got in, the whole thing was a little weird because the Best Buy people were very strict with us. We didn't get to sit in front of the band, as you'll see from the pics of the sound check, but we were sitting on Jonny's side of the stage a couple of levels up. I guess it’s understandable, and regardless, it was still really amazing that we got to be there in the first place! The band came out about 15 minutes later; Chris said hi and made some jokes (which you can see in the sound check videos someone already posted). They checked Life in Technicolor II, Prospekt's March, played Green Eyes by request, and practiced Violet Hill. Their run-throughs of the new songs were great. Even so, Chris apologized several times for the sound check; it was really funny. When they were done rehearsing, they walked to the middle of the floor for the pictures. The Best Buy folks called us down one row at a time, and we were in the second row. When it was our turn to walk up, I got very, very nervous. I never thought for a second that we'd actually meet them that day! I walked up to Will and shook his hand, and said, "Hi Will". He smiled and said, "Hi, nice to meet you" and it seemed that he liked the fact that I knew who he was. Next was Chris, and having a huge crush on the man, I shook his hand and said, "Hi Chris" and kind of stopped cold from shyness right in front of him. He smiled at me, and then I saw him do a double-take at my shirt. He said, "You have a V on your shirt", and I smiled and said, "Yes, I do!” Then he said, "I like that" and I said, "Thank you!” He was very sweet to me. I was far too embarrassed to say anything else and by then it was time to take the pictures. I was just kind of standing there lost in my own world, and then I felt these hands on my arms, and I was like, "WTF?” Then I heard Will's voice! He was positioning me for the picture! He told me, "You can move up into this little spot" and guided me there. Realizing that Will had just man-handled me in the absolute nicest way possible and then having the first picture taken; I had a feeling I had this weird look of disbelief on my face. And, you can absolutely see that in the first picture especially. Also, my husband hoped that at least one of his opinions would make it into this review, so here it is: "Will is the champion...the champion of kindness!” While I was standing there in between pictures, I could turn my head and see Guy right over my left shoulder and Jonny standing just on the other side of him. One thing that surprised me about all of them, but especially Guy, was how thin they looked in person. Also, that Will and Jonny seem to always look the same (they looked the same in pictures as they do in person), Guy looks very handsome up close, and Chris looks so completely normal, just like a regular guy you might see out somewhere. At one point, I heard Chris and Guy talking about how "bizarre" the strictness of the event was, and in my opinion they seemed kind of put-off by how fast it was all moving. We took 3 pictures total, and in the last one I looked back at something (I don't even know what), but it looks like I'm looking at Chris, so it's very, very funny to us. My husband is the one standing to the left of Will in the back row. The whole thing happened so fast that when the pictures were over, I was so happy about talking to Chris and the thing with Will, that I completely forgot to shake hands with Guy and Jonny. We got back to our seats and a few minutes later, all the groups were done. The guys started to walk backstage, and Chris walked by the crowd and thanked us for meeting with them and said, "We like meeting people; we never get to meet anyone. It's very lonely!" or something to that affect. We left the stadium close to 5:30. My husband and I went back to hotel to change and refresh ourselves from the day’s events, and got back to the arena just as Jon Hopkins took the stage. We were sitting on the floor right next to the sound booth. Jon's visual show was amazing! The illustrations were fascinating and the music was great. The boys took the stage around 9:12 or so, and as Life in Technicolor began, we saw a blond woman being ushered out right in front of our section toward the sound booth. It was Gwyneth! She was about 20 feet to our left and we could see her the whole time. We took a couple of blurry photos of her and a funny short video of her dancing at the end of "Viva la Vida". She sang along and bopped the entire time. The show itself was amazing...the band was on fire; Chris was charming and still making Joe the Plumber jokes, and talking about how bad the band smells. During The Scientist on the C-stage, he made the Guns N Roses - Dr. Pepper joke and ended the last line of the song with the beginning of GnR's Paradise City. The link to the video is at the end of this post. Well, that's it...sorry it's so long! Here is the link to view my pictures. Oh yeah, on the way walking back to our car, we were walking by some fancy shops near the W hotel and we saw an art gallery called Christopher Martin's and had to take a picture of that too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/11109942@N06/sets/72157609579827548/ [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Se8soMDx1k]YouTube - Coldplay - The Scientist (Live Acoustic @ Dallas, Texas)[/ame] Thanks for reading!

hey everyone! sorry it's late, but i'm working on uploading pictures and a video...we'll see if i can get it up tonight! also, I GOT TO MEET THE BAND! i'll have the story and review up soon i hope! :)

very exciting! :D

Thanks for the reply EnglishSilk!

Hi everyone, I've been a lurker/member of the boards for a long time, and obsessively check certain threads ;) but almost never post. I have floor seats for the Dallas show and am really, really excited! I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on getting to the arena early to try to meet the boys before they go in. Will the AAC let you into the parking lot or even into the arena? And what time does the band normally get there? I'd hate to wait around all day just to miss them. :\ Anyway, thanks for any info you might be able to provide! ~ V :)