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Yeah, it's not exactly like he's Bill Wyman is it? Anyway, dating a 19 year old model is kind of what I'd expect from Guy.

It's especially great results given that MX originally looked like it was going to drop rather quickly. The album has really proven to have exceptional legs (and not just in the UK)

0I'm pretty sure this is Guy's new girl: She does look a bit like Jo, but I think it was her in the clip.

I think it's worth keeping in mind that although Paradise is seen as somewhat subpar and overplayed by a lot of people here, it remains their 2nd most successful single, proving especially commercially popular in the U.S. radio market. I suspect that's the primary reason it was chosen for their grammy performance.

Most of those bands use sidemen and backing tracks. Muse especially, they have 1 additional musician but also make extensive use of background looping over and above what he's adding.

It is, but it happens with all the guys' wives. There have been many hurtful things posted about Jonny's wife as well. (she deleted her twitter account because of some of them.) It's awful. :cry:

Ah yes, I remember that quite well. All of it never made much sense to me, because IMHO Jo was/is the most attractive of the 4 coldplay wives. Not putting any of them down mind you...

My take on all this: First, I should state that I'm not 100% on board with the notion Chris' songwriting has changed all that much (Us Against the world being probably the most oft cited example of an "old coldplay" sounding track on MX), but even the newer songs like ETDIAWF still have segments of the lyrics that sound totally Chris-esque (for lack of a better term. For example: The line "SO YOU CAN HURT, HURT ME BAD BUT STILL I'LL RAISE THE FLAG" Really sticks out to me as sounding like classic Chris. That said, to the extent that his writing may have changed, and that change is influenced by factors in his life, I still don't think you can put that change solely down to fame and Money. When he wrote Parachutes, he was a shy university student new to London in his early 20's. Now he's a (presumably) happily married family man with a couple kids in his mid 30's. Rich and famous or not, he wouldn't be the same person now as he was then. Also, many of his early songs were about unrequited love in some fashion or other, which made sense at the time because he was by all accounts fairly hapless when it came to the girls, now he can't write such lament filled love songs because he's (again, as far as we know) in a long term loving relationship. In fact, to the extent the songs on MX sound different to my ear it's because they are more upbeat and positive. Chris (and the rest of the boys), surely all have plenty of things in their lives to be positive about these days so again that makes sense. Chris is also influenced by additional styles of music (such as his well documented fondness for pop) than he was when they started. Again this is because the past 10+ years of his life have exposed him to a variety of new experiences. That happens to everyone, famous or not.

I wouldn't cross my fingers on that one. promoters in far flung regions often have to promise huge guarantees to bring big production arena shows to their territory. It sucks, but it's the economics of the concert industry, and I doubt it's going to change anytime soon. :cry:

No surprises there. Dave Holmes said the who idea was to do a windowed launch awhile back.

I honestly doubt that anyone purposefully stole anything from anyone else. Sometimes people create really similar music independent of each other's influence. In this case however, I think Coldplay at least will be in the clear, as their song was one of the earliest known MX songs to be publicly registered.

I don't think Guy's wholly afraid to sing. He sings lead vocals on one of the songs from the 2nd Apparatjik album.

That's just it, they're way more forthcoming than a lot of other live acts regarding the amount of looping they use, and even the specifics of same. If they had something to hide, I'd expect them to be a lot more cagey.

If you're talking about the lost clip from glastonbury, the audio and the video are notably out of synch. They do use a ton of background looping (too much for some people's taste's), but to my knowledge the only time they "pretend" to play something that's actually looped is when Chris would put his hands inside the television/keyboard during the VLV tour. Judging by the fact that they seem perfectly willing to stand around while looped parts play around them (see liT), it really doesn't make sense to me that they would feel the need to mime other looped parts. In my opinion, when you see them playing/singing they are, when there's clearly instrumentation while they're just kind of standing around (which is fairly often) those are the looped parts.

They don't mime. As others have said you can hear their individual voices (and their mistakes :\) Guy and Jonny are just mixed lower than Chris and Will so it's harder to hear them in a full live mix, especially on video. When you see them live, it's easier to pick out their individual vocals.

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Personally, I think the Parachutes era songs are, as a whole no where near as good as their later work (from any later era). I know around here that's practically grounds for getting tarred and feathered, but it's my honest opinion, and I've been into them since I saw them way back on their second American tour in 2001.

I'm not 100% Guy is the one on the left. It does look more like how he looks now, but in photos of Guy from his early 20's he's a lot more round faced than he became later and his brother is supposed to resemble him quite a bit. Also, the kid on the right really, really bears some strong points of resemblance to photos of Nico. I think the kid on the right could be him.

You do realize that youtube videos are not the best source to determine such things, right? Most of the videos on youtube have at least a small degree of seperation between the video and the audio, it's very rare the elements are perfectly synched. Additionally many uploaders combine the best video available with the best audio elements which may not be original to the video. The bell is real, though the sound it produces is a midi process effect., as are the small keyboards which are likewise midi. Coldplay does make significant use of looping live, but it's for obvious elements like strings, synth, and many of the unusual ethnic instruments used in the songs from VLVODAAHF Their "main" instrumentation (guitar, bass drums) is always live. If you've ever seen them play live, it's pretty clear they don't care if people know there's a looped track playing (perhaps best seen during performances of Lit), so I don't see why they'd feel compelled to hide it during other songs.

It's pretty hard to argue with his results though. ;)

I guess the thing that bothers me most about Spotify (and to lesser extent the other paid streaming services-most of which pay more per play in royalties) is that they're attempting to set themselves up in a profit making enterprise without kicking any significant money down the chain to the people who are supplying them with their product. I'd imagine that's really what galls some artists/labels about the whole thing. That said, I still say that when big commercial acts can still generate tens of millions of dollars in sales and shift millions of units via traditional channels (which Coldplay has with MX), the industry has a lot less incentive to change radically anytime soon than some people would like to believe.

It's definitely not the RV5. I'm pretty sure it's the Eventide. It's a combination of Reverb, Tremolo Picking, and an oscillating effect (this last is the really tricky part.) You might have better luck replicating the sound with a leslie simulator of some kind (like a Rotosphere) than with a Reverb.

I think the confusion here probably stems from two factors: 1. The article deadline may well have been awhile ago, while the platinum certification was fairly recent. They may have used the most recent figures they had available which may not have been the actual most recent figures and 2. RIAA certifies releases on the basis of units shipped as opposed to units sold, so while Mylo Zyloto may have shipped a million units (and the label and the band have been paid for a million units), the album may not have actually sold that many. That said, I'm not aware of any organization that can track accurate album numbers besides the RIAA, so I'm not sure there's publicly available information on actual U.S. retail sales.

Maybe now people will quit giving them a hard time about that massive security fence the wanted to (did?) put in. :\

True. However the Times' Rich List (which is where the 32 million figure comes from) is notoriously inaccurate. Since they don't have access to how much money each person actually has, they estimate by using "tangible assets" that are a matter of public record. In Coldplay's case this means that each of the band members is probably ascribed a fourth share in whatever value the Times places on the band as a business entity, plus the band's commonly owned property etc. They're all loaded no doubt, but I'd be surprised if they actually had anything close to that in actual personal wealth.