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Agreed. I got beer spilled on my head haha... But getting a Coldplay acoustic set played right in front of me for about $40 was definitely worth dealing with the sketchy lawn environment.

Hello there! Been awhile since I've posted 'round here. Lovely to see some familiar faces from when the album was dropping :) Anywhooo, I was at the concert last night. Lawn seats. RIGHT in front of the acoustic set. I attended the Cleveland show last fall and, aside from this show being better in some ways, the boys absolutely made my night when they showed up on the lawn to play for us. And they played Green Eyes during the set. Amazing. As for the rest of the show, the whole band was phenomenal. Chris was bouncing around like a mad man. He only played a few sour notes, but made up for it with The Hardest Part and Post Cards, both played beautifully. I can't remember exactly which song it was, but at the end of it he hit this ridiculously loud and straining high note that was held for at least 10-15 seconds. And then collapsed over the keys. The man is incredible. Will's drumming was perfect and powerful (especially on Yellow, the tempo speed-up was awesome). Jonny was adding some KILLER improv to his big guitar riffs, definitely more stand-out than the Cleveland show. And Guy was pretty much the only sane one on stage haha. During "I'm A Believer" Chris had a little crowd-involved section where he was asking everyone if they were in love. So when he gets to Guy he goes, "Guy Berryman, the only memeber of Coldplay most likely to be in a boy band, are you in love?" haha and of course we all lost it... The crowd was actually A LOT better than I had anticipated, minus a couple let downs. Viva's "oh oo oh oh ohhh" part was freakin' killer. My only bummer was that we couldn't get the cell phone arm swaying going durning the VLV techno mix! It was so cool at Quicken Loans arena, like dancing stars... And then of course only like three people around me joined in on Green Eyes last night so I don't know whether to feel proud of that or bummed that almost NO ONE got excited about that song haha :smug: Here are some crappy cell phone pictures! When my room mate gets his REAL pictures online I'll be sure to send them this way :cool:

Um I was totally one of the people jumping up and down and screaming with my friend in our floor seats. The crowd definitely joined in with the "woah-oh-ohh" parts but the dancing was WEAK. But the saddest part was that half the people around me weren't even singing the verses to some of the songs. Haha but it didn't matter cause I was yelling the words so I made up for the slackers... :cool:

CONCERT IS TOMORROW! We have waited since July 5th for this darn thing! Jeez it better be incredible. But its Coldplay, I have no worries! :cool: I'll be wearing my black viva t-shirt so holler if you see me! Im on the floor in sec 5 row PP! CANT WAIT!!

DAAHF!!?! WOOOHOOOOO! My wish came trueeee!! :D:lol: That set list is HUGE though. This concert must be amazing. Absolutely can't wait.

Ah! I knew Semy would turn up with something cool... Awesome job man, do you have any bigger sizes? Possibly 1440x900?

I is a Man.

I think what's important is that all these bass players have stand out songs... With Guy, just think of songs like Sparks with the bass carrying the song for the most part, and in Shiver where the bass plays a harmony-like riff over top of Jonny's edgy guitar perfectly. And of course my favorite on the Pararchutes album, Everything's Not Lost. Absurdly catchy and awesome filler during the choruses and intervals. But then on AROB, think of GPASUYF where without the bass line that main chord progression wouldn't be nearly as cool. And even though its quite simple, the chugging bass line in The Scientist brings another level of emotion to that second verse. Don't even get me started with Fix You. Guy's greatest work. The bass line IS the song. That organ just brings the airy and emotional aspect of the song, the bass line is the true foundation. But don't forget that final chorus in Talk where he plays a nifty little riff at about 4:30 that, in my opinion, should have been played far more often during the song. And lastly on X&Y, that bass in Speed of Sound gets me every time. Try to pick out the bass part by ear during the verses. Guy plays everything so smoothly and accurately that it sounds like the bass was molded into the other instruments. Notable mentions on Viva are Cemateries of London, the second part of 42, and of course my favorite song DAAHF. And I don't know if it counts, but the bass in LIT/Escapist, synth or not, is friggin' awesome. Such a great progression. So clearly, with Guy its not a matter of creating the most ridiculous ground thumping face melting bass lines, its about fitting the song like a glove and being consistent. Even since the first album hes found a way to make the bass stand out without taking control of the songs or going astray from the foundation of the music. Guy isn't the most amazing bass player ever, but there's no bassist that helps complete the Coldplay sound better than him. But thats true with all of those bass players in their respective bands, especially McCartney, who is in my opinion the best of all time. A genius of his craft and one of the greatest musicians of the century. My only problem with this list is that they failed to mention The Ox... Watch about half way through of this first video and see if you can pick out the bass line, then watch the second video where the bass line isolated from the rest of the music. Its insane. Also keep in mind that this bass line is nowhere near as simple as the album version of Baba. He was AMAZING live. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL4fVqlKWUw

Haha Semy will probably dominate as usual... But its worth a shot, I'll play around in Photoshop/iPhoto for a few hours tomorrow after work :nice:

Agreeeeeeeed! This is what I was hoping to hear come out of the Brixton show and it seems it still hasn't happened. They could play that final chorus "... I don't wanna follow DAAHF..." over and over. I garuntee that would be come an instant classic finisher just like Amsterdam and even Fix You, Lovers In Japan just seems out of place at the end... Its a great song but it doesn't belong there. Oh well, I think DAAHF just makes sense as the finale... You know what else is cool? Fix You and DAAHF are in the same key. How cool would THAT transition be if they played them back to back as a finale?? :o;)

Jeeez I never thought of it like that... I wish someone would do some research on this and come up with an estimation on what the real sales figures would have looked like without music pirating :shocked2: Maybe EMI should look into this to help prove they have the biggest band in the world ;)

Hey thats a cool comparison I never thought about that... I wonder if they're not too far apart in their musical key signatures or even possibly the exact same key? :surprised:

Sweet baby Jesus, that's ridiculous! :shocked2: I wonder if all the haters will see the light any time soon? This chart shows some promise ;)

Sweet baby Jesus, that's ridiculous! :shocked2: I wonder if all the haters will see the light any time soon? This chart shows some promise ;)

I think ROL is one of the catchiest songs on the album, it needs some meat on its bones, but its catchy... But I agree, I find myself starting the album from the beginning and listening all the way through. Or if its the CD in my car I just continue from wherever I left off from the last car ride haha. This album has become the soundtrack to my life an I'm so glad its finally here :nice: