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Date Posted: 18:27:38 04/21/09 Tue
Author: It's no wonder Paul could care less about breaking America
Subject: MODjerry
In reply to: MODjerry and the uninformed Americans 's message, "PAUL WELLER in the hot California desert - COACHELLA" on 18:25:38 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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[> 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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