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.

This goes out to the 300-plus people that viewed my train wreck rendition of Glass Of Water. It’s a punk-bordering-on-metal dismemberment of that gentle ballad about dead people by everybody’s favorite band that rips off U2 but sounds better than them anyway. Thanks to my fellow congregants at International Church of South Florida for their tolerance and support in my quest to irritate Coldplay fans, and to my favorite cameraman, the CEO of Techno-Coatings, Juan Pablo Camargo. This act was perpetrated on August 23, 2009. Thank you.

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.

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.  June 14, 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.