The Coachella Music Festival has rolled around once again.
Seems like just yesterday, I was musing about Prince's much-anticipated appearance on the Southern California stage last year.
The old blended with the new, a host of celebrities added glitz to the country atmosphere, and die-hard music fans lapped it all up.
In fact, some went overboard, I expect.
The police reported 18 drug-and-alcohol related arrests prior to the penning of this post.
Ecstatic fans welcomed former Beatle Paul McCartney, nonetheless, who sparked up his concert gig (his 1st appearance as a solo artist at a U.S. Music Fest) with a handful of olden-goldie mop-top tunes from yesteryear.
Renditions of "Eleanor Rigby", " The Long and Winding Road" and "My Love Does It Good" revved up the crowd right off-the-bat.
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" ended the rousing set which triggered memories of trippy-hippy days for many who crawled out of the woodwork from communes around the country to catch the much-ballyhooed musical extravaganza in Indio, California.
McCartney didn't let creeping "old age" bog him down, either.
The long-in-the-tooth musical great held his own for the two 1/2 hour set - all-the-while - sporting a youthful image in trendy boots, black pants (with spiffy suspenders attached), and classy white dress shirt.
The first day of the festival also featured Leonard Cohen (a fellow Canuck), the Hold Steady, Franz Ferdinand, Morrisey, and the popular Ting Tings.
The high-profile line up drew a number of young Hollywood stars to the desert to party-hearty under a wide blue sky, too.
Anne Hathaway chatting up fans in patterned harem pants and a cardigan; in contrast, "Twilight" actor Robert Pattinson was inclined to go casual in body-fitting cut-off jeans.
Kirsten Dunst basked in the glow in a short-sleeve mini-dress backstage in the VIP section, along with other fringe celebs like "Weird Al" Yankovic, Chloe Sevigny, Kate Bosworth and Zoe Kravitz.
One of my favorite bands, The Killers, is lined up for a Saturday performance!
Despite tough economic times, Coachella has not experienced any fall-out or even faced the need to cut-back on the festivities!
Tickets have sold stridently and attendance is at an all-time high.
If music be the food of the soul, then there appears to be a lot of spiritual nourishment going down at Coachella this week-end.
In addition to a lot of good old-fashioned high-spirited fun!
Seems like just yesterday, I was musing about Prince's much-anticipated appearance on the Southern California stage last year.
The old blended with the new, a host of celebrities added glitz to the country atmosphere, and die-hard music fans lapped it all up.
In fact, some went overboard, I expect.
The police reported 18 drug-and-alcohol related arrests prior to the penning of this post.
Ecstatic fans welcomed former Beatle Paul McCartney, nonetheless, who sparked up his concert gig (his 1st appearance as a solo artist at a U.S. Music Fest) with a handful of olden-goldie mop-top tunes from yesteryear.
Renditions of "Eleanor Rigby", " The Long and Winding Road" and "My Love Does It Good" revved up the crowd right off-the-bat.
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" ended the rousing set which triggered memories of trippy-hippy days for many who crawled out of the woodwork from communes around the country to catch the much-ballyhooed musical extravaganza in Indio, California.
McCartney didn't let creeping "old age" bog him down, either.
The long-in-the-tooth musical great held his own for the two 1/2 hour set - all-the-while - sporting a youthful image in trendy boots, black pants (with spiffy suspenders attached), and classy white dress shirt.
The first day of the festival also featured Leonard Cohen (a fellow Canuck), the Hold Steady, Franz Ferdinand, Morrisey, and the popular Ting Tings.
The high-profile line up drew a number of young Hollywood stars to the desert to party-hearty under a wide blue sky, too.
Anne Hathaway chatting up fans in patterned harem pants and a cardigan; in contrast, "Twilight" actor Robert Pattinson was inclined to go casual in body-fitting cut-off jeans.Kirsten Dunst basked in the glow in a short-sleeve mini-dress backstage in the VIP section, along with other fringe celebs like "Weird Al" Yankovic, Chloe Sevigny, Kate Bosworth and Zoe Kravitz.
One of my favorite bands, The Killers, is lined up for a Saturday performance!
Despite tough economic times, Coachella has not experienced any fall-out or even faced the need to cut-back on the festivities!
Tickets have sold stridently and attendance is at an all-time high.
If music be the food of the soul, then there appears to be a lot of spiritual nourishment going down at Coachella this week-end.
In addition to a lot of good old-fashioned high-spirited fun!
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