Actually the first time I tried out a Coldplay song at church. It's a bit of a train wreck due to my not knowing the words to the tune as intimately as I do now and guitar crapped out in mid chorus for a few seconds. Tried to make up for it by yelling. Hey, I'd only been listening to the band for a couple of weeks at that time. Filmed by Juan Pablo Camargo on May 31, 2009.
Side one of the Lead's first EP from 1985 performed on acoustic at church. I really don't do justice to the first song, which Nina wrote (both her songs on that first EP just kicked - and they still do), and I loosen up a little for the second song which I wrote anyway. This is better on electric, even if there's no bass/drums in the BG. Oh well. Have fun watching me be a shell of what I once was. Filmed by Juan Pablo Camargo, May 17, 2009.
Here's a dead guy worth remembering.
Dennes Dale "D" Boon, guitarist and lead bellower of the mighty Minutemen, the funkiest and most cerebral of the So Cal punk groups of the early 80s.
I missed my chance to see them open for REM in November 85 due to illness, but Nina went and managed to get his autograph for me. He died in a car crash a couple of weeks later, and Nina ended up writing a song that she recorded for her first solo album a few years later.
The first song was first successful songwriting attempt to marry el rock punk with los lyrics Christian, back in the spring of 1980 as riots erupted in my homietown and we were preparing to get invaded by a bunch of Cubans in boats. The second song was written about a year later when I had a better idea of what to do. I heard the melody in my head Paul McCartney style as I was attempting to wake up to go wherever I was 'spected 'round them times. That song made it into the live set of my first band the Visitors and both songs were recorded by Loogie Soup on their lone castanet release in those wild days of '96. Recorded live at the International Church of South Florida by David Yuen on May 3, 2009.
Coldplay was a nice surprise to this jaded middle-aged man that I am. I'm no big fan of U2, but somehow I love these guys that are a semi-blatant imitation of that self-righteous overblown pompous Irish band (with a little "easy listening" style piano thrown in for good measure). Coldplay's music is bubblegum for the 21st century, and I mean that as a compliment. So anyway I did this semi-punked up version of one of their ballads at church today, mostly because that was all my chops could accomodate with 20 minutes of practice the night before (like all good bubblegum, this band's music can be played by most anybody in a few minutes). Filmed at International Church of South Florida by one Jon Doozan.
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