COLDPLAY...

Last Wednesday night was the big Coldplay concert at the American Airlines Center.We struggled to find a babysitter, and quite frankly I was very upset that Morgan waited until the last minute to start asking people! Luckily my wonderful Young Women's class volunteered to watch Jocelyn and Beckton as a service project! So the class president came over earlier and stayed later. We were so grateful for them and the kids had a lot of fun with them too!

The concert was set to start at 7:30, we were late getting there and hadn't reserved a parking spot so we were a little anxious as we drove around the center, there weren't very many open spaces. We drove around a few blocks and were offered some Platinum Parking Passes from a guy on the street corner! Of course I was hesitant and thought it was a scam, Morgan bought the pass and it turned out to be amazing. They were in fact Platinum Passes that took us to a very private, one level underground parking garages with only about 50 spaces. Our Ford, as nice as it is, was out of place with all Luxury cars. We had VIP entrance to the concert, VIP elevators and attendants. It was great; no crowds to hassle with and hardly and walking! When we left the concert there was a Maserati parked next to us, ahhhh... so gorgeous!

The concert was a lot of fun, I'm glad we went. Morgan has very happy to have the opportunity to see them live. He had the chance to see them in Boise (Idaho) years ago when they were hardly known in the US and couldn't go. He was afraid that he missed his chance... But not to worry he finally saw COLDPLAY! We had fun watching the spotlight guys climb the audio/light tower, I though we were at the circus for a minute! There was a local band from El Past, sleepercar, that opened (not bad, nor our taste and their bass was too loud couldn't hear the vocals). A second guy, Jon Hopkins, did some really great trance mixes. Morgan oogled over his very fancy keyboard. Then the concert started, after 9pm and we were nervous about our baby sitter. Coldplay is pretty awesome live, they played most of their popular songs and even ventured into the audience to play. We had great seats, in the first section and pretty close to the stage (we watched Chris Martin sweat like a monkey, and dance like one too). He is a very talented man (and lucky to have the beautiful Gweneth), he played the guitar, piano, then keyboard and harmonica!

All in all it was a great night, although I was disappointed that I left my camera at home (being a good and sometimes timid person, I obeyed the "no cameras or recording devices allowed" rule, apparently no one else did). So I tried to get some footage with Morgans phone, I have no idea how it turned out because I can't figure out how to retrieve it!

Until I figure out the phone here's just a taste of what we saw, all from youtube (the lights were awesome to watch, not so awesome for recording apparently), it was so much better LIVE too! Most of these recordings are pretty far away from the stage, but the sound is better/vice versa!

In the crowd,"The Scientist" acoustic, awesome and Chris plays the harmonica! We were on the same side as them too just closer to the stage!


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