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Jerry, I read that on Paul Weller News Page, as you said, makes you wonder why he still plays in your neck of the woods, except he just might treat it as a holiday... -- A.K, 22:08:24 04/21/09 Tue
>Coachella ‘09: Paul Weller Gets Robbed, Johnny Marr
>Saves
>April 20th, 2009 by: Ben Wener
>
>
>I could go on endlessly about the excellent yet
>heartbreaking Paul Weller set no one watched. I just
>might blather more about it once I get home and have
>time to properly assess and convey why it was such a
>meaningful (albeit needlessly stopped) performance,
>both for artist and audience. (It also might make my
>annual Kill List, a rundown, in ranked order, of the
>weekend’s greatest performance. Look for that sometime
>Tuesday.)
>
>After roughly a half-hour of top-notch rock ‘n’ soul,
>culminating in some extra-fine space-jamming on
>“Porcelain Gods,” Weller was informed that he had a
>measly 15 minutes left. “Just not long enough in the
>desert,” he sniffed in between expletives.
>
>He had every right to be pissed. There was no reason
>to quit early: Public Enemy didn’t need an hour to set
>up, it wouldn’t have harmed My Bloody Valentine any to
>have Weller carry on, and yet another rumor that No
>Doubt would turn up for a five-song surprise never
>came to pass. Let the man play! Imagine how much more
>fulfilling this set could have been with more morsels
>served up within another 20 minutes, instead of a flat
>50.
>
>Not exactly the right way to treat a Coachella
>forefather.
>
>But suffice to say -– and I’m talking to you,
>Mozheads, after you watched your ’80s idol act the
>diva Friday night –- this is how an English icon
>soldiers on when faced with a demeaning concert
>situation. Like Atmosphere says, when life hands you
>lemonades, you paint that s*** gold, (bleeper-bleeper)!
>
>Had Weller been squeezed onto the main stage, people
>might have at least taken notice of the old leader of
>the Jam and the Style Council. Perhaps then he’d have
>gotten his due around here, maybe via the chanting of
>“Eton Rifles,” one of the most biting Jam songs, about
>a different, even refined sort of class struggle than
>the Third World uprising M.I.A. calls for.
>
>Surely casual ears would have recognized “A Town
>Called Malice,” although probably only as “that song
>by that guy who did that other song.” They still would
>have bounced and wiggled along to its deceptive Motown
>glee.
>
>Instead, to cap his Sunday show, the now silver-haired
>Weller, looking Armani casual cool in a black outfit,
>was left to kick against the pricks in a chugging
>rendition of his minor MTV hit with help from … well,
>how nice, former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, who
>strummed a bit and shared in on the bop-bop-bop-bop
>harmonies.
>
>Wait, what? You didn’t catch that killer moment? Oh
>well — your loss, our gain.
>
>From The OC Register
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AK-I'm SO HAPPY that he still plays California. I'm just embarrased by the lack of any promotion. Doesn't make any sense for a musician as important as WELLER. HE deserves BETTER!!! -- MODjerry, 17:45:47 04/22/09 Wed
>Coachella ‘09: Paul Weller Gets Robbed, Johnny Marr
>Saves
>April 20th, 2009 by: Ben Wener
>
>
>I could go on endlessly about the excellent yet
>heartbreaking Paul Weller set no one watched. I just
>might blather more about it once I get home and have
>time to properly assess and convey why it was such a
>meaningful (albeit needlessly stopped) performance,
>both for artist and audience. (It also might make my
>annual Kill List, a rundown, in ranked order, of the
>weekend’s greatest performance. Look for that sometime
>Tuesday.)
>
>After roughly a half-hour of top-notch rock ‘n’ soul,
>culminating in some extra-fine space-jamming on
>“Porcelain Gods,” Weller was informed that he had a
>measly 15 minutes left. “Just not long enough in the
>desert,” he sniffed in between expletives.
>
>He had every right to be pissed. There was no reason
>to quit early: Public Enemy didn’t need an hour to set
>up, it wouldn’t have harmed My Bloody Valentine any to
>have Weller carry on, and yet another rumor that No
>Doubt would turn up for a five-song surprise never
>came to pass. Let the man play! Imagine how much more
>fulfilling this set could have been with more morsels
>served up within another 20 minutes, instead of a flat
>50.
>
>Not exactly the right way to treat a Coachella
>forefather.
>
>But suffice to say -– and I’m talking to you,
>Mozheads, after you watched your ’80s idol act the
>diva Friday night –- this is how an English icon
>soldiers on when faced with a demeaning concert
>situation. Like Atmosphere says, when life hands you
>lemonades, you paint that s*** gold, (bleeper-bleeper)!
>
>Had Weller been squeezed onto the main stage, people
>might have at least taken notice of the old leader of
>the Jam and the Style Council. Perhaps then he’d have
>gotten his due around here, maybe via the chanting of
>“Eton Rifles,” one of the most biting Jam songs, about
>a different, even refined sort of class struggle than
>the Third World uprising M.I.A. calls for.
>
>Surely casual ears would have recognized “A Town
>Called Malice,” although probably only as “that song
>by that guy who did that other song.” They still would
>have bounced and wiggled along to its deceptive Motown
>glee.
>
>Instead, to cap his Sunday show, the now silver-haired
>Weller, looking Armani casual cool in a black outfit,
>was left to kick against the pricks in a chugging
>rendition of his minor MTV hit with help from … well,
>how nice, former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, who
>strummed a bit and shared in on the bop-bop-bop-bop
>harmonies.
>
>Wait, what? You didn’t catch that killer moment? Oh
>well — your loss, our gain.
>
>From The OC Register
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