Legendary jazz performer Ornette Coleman collapsed onstage Sunday while performing at the monumentally lame drippy-hippy-fest Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee. A powerful freethinker and musical iconoclast, Coleman recorded some of the most mind-blowing records in the history of popular music and is used to performing at really cool festivals like the Skopje Jazz Festival in Macedonia and performing at sweet-ass venues like Carnegie Hall in New York City and Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo. As Coleman was wheeled into the ambulance that would take him to Coffee County Hospital, the 77 year-old performing veteran could be heard murmuring "so many hippys...so fucking retarded...drowning in hippy bullshit..." Coleman's physicians do not expect him to have the same problem at his next concert, scheduled for July 6 in Kongsberg, Norway, since the crowd there promises to be totally rad.
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