LouisvilleGreg

No, it's good, think of how difficult it would be to get tickets if they were even twice as big as they currently are. Truthfully, I have no doubt that Wilco is going to be a band that will be immeasurably larger twenty years from now, than they ever will actually be while still around. The Velvet Underground is a good reference point.

I can't believe I missed this thread for so long. I just did a count of my Kiss vinyl collection and it stands at 23 total records, (second only to the Stones) that's to say everything from the '74 debut through "Asylum" including both of the live records, all four solo records, the sort of rare on vinyl, "Kiss Killers" German import up to "Asylum," which I recall buying on the day it was released at Airway Department Store in New Albany, Indiana, 1985. I have many of the original album posters, stickers, booklets, etc. The only albums I listen to on anything resembling a steady basis are

A single implies radio airplay and some sort of promotional push. I think those days ended for Wilco with "Can't Stand It."

Wow, if this is the mellow record, then I should probably start worrying now, I can't imagine songs more mellow than the bulk of AGIB.

I'll add to the growing list for "Born To Run." I don't know if there's any other album that packs as much of an emotional wallop. The title track is as perfect a rock song as has ever been written, "Backstreets," is as depressing and inspiring as they come, "Thunder Road," "Jungleland," "Meeting Across The River." They're all so epic. It seems as if they were written with a very cinematic flare, I can close my eyes and see feature length films playing out to the stories and characters. The overall flow, production, playing and cohesiveness of the record is top notch to me. I don't think it ca

I think they put "On&On&On" on the album to spite the overwhelming majority of us who voted it least likely song to appear on the album. All of that aside, I'm more nervous about this album than I have been in ten years of being a Wilco fan. I'm really worried that the mellow is going to takeover.

Where the fuck are My Morning Jacket at? They are the only band to play every year and they put on the undisputed best show ever at B"Roo. Who on the current list will fill the 12-3 am slot and tear the place apart?

Not a fan and don't care too much but how many original members of Wilco are there left? Son Volt? Just curious what the big deal is that SP are reuniting with only two original members?

"According to high road touring's biography on Wilco, "Two of their earlier albums, 2002

What makes you so sure that the new album will go gold fast? YHF probably went gold due to the massive media blitz surrounding the label fiasco, the movie, and the brilliance of the album. BT and the movie are gold based upon totally different standards. Each BT sold counts as two sales,as it's a double album and the movie going gold only accounts for 50,000 sales or thereabouts. It's feasible that all of the Wilco catalog will go gold over many, many years, but I think it's highly unlikely that any album would ever go gold very fast, that would require something Wilco has no part of, catering

I feel somewhat stupid for asking but are SonVolt based out of St. Louis? I notice a huge gap in the tour around there and for whatever reason I guess I always assumed Jay started anew elsewhere after UT split.

neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea

A-Man, I believe there were a couple of Camelot Music stores in the malls, but when I hit fifteen in 1989 I got into punk and discovered Louisville's many excellent independent record stores, some of which still exist. I did on occasion go to a late 80's/early 90's suburban chain called National Record Mart though. They shortened it to NRM by '91 or so, due to them no longer carrying vinyl, but all of the clerks were very educated in underground music. They tipped me off to the first Fugazi ep. Where did you go In WVA, or did you live elsewhere? Greg

Nope, I bought all of my records in the mid to late 80's at an old chain department store called Airways, which I believe was bought out by Target. I don't think there was a Borders anywhere near Louisville.

I bought my first Prince record when I was ten, "Purple Rain," when it was first released and then went back and got the first five, which are all good to great. But if you really want to hear Prince at his absolute peak go get 1987's, "Sign O' The Times," which borders on brilliant in places. If that album doesn't slay you, then you probably just don't get it, Greg

Nothing concrete here, but at some point in the recent past I saw numbers for AGIB and it's nowhere near gold (500,000) copies yet, which YHF surpassed at the end of 2004.

Anyone going to see them in Athens or Asheville next month? The Orange Peel is probably about as small a venue as they are likely to play anymore and as a great big bonus it's GA. I may make the trek from Richmond. I know it would be worth it, Greg

I'm posting this just for the sake of being an archivist and a completist, it ran in the Times Dispatch today in Richmond, and well, it isn't done very well at all, and in my opinion, does a fairly poor job of painting a picture of the show in Charlottesville. But you decide for yourself, Greg "Tweedy, listeners develop rapport" BY AARON KREMER SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Feb 2, 2007 MUSIC REVIEW JEFF TWEEDY AT: Paramount Theater on Wednesday A black-clad Jeff Tweedy could do no wrong at a sold-out, solo show Wednesday night in Charlottesville. Start over when a guitar riff doesn

1. X-Mas Curtain 2. One Big Holiday 3. Bermuda Highway

There's not a song in the running for SBS that would knock any off of the above list.

Just did a little exploring on HighRoad Touring and what do you know, look who's available for show bookings in the very near future. Let the speculation begin, Greg Wilco March - April April Festivals / One-Offs Colleges

There's a great alternative (real alternative) radio station in Louisville, Ky that I listen to when I'm in visiting family that I've literally heard dozens of Wilco songs on, as well as the occasional UT, Son Volt, G Smog, L. Fur and even some of Glenn's solo album. How's that for a fantastic radio station?

For those of you who were listening at home, I hope it seemed half as special as it felt in the theater. Here are a few words I posted in After The Show, that I thoguht I'd repost here: I have never, ever, in twenty years of concerts/shows, seen a crowd as totally dead silent, as was the case during last night's set closer, "Acuff-Rose." It was very powerful to be amongst a thousand people with the kind of camaraderie that you can feel only in complete quiet. Jeff was on stage's edge just pouring his heart out as if he was a twenty-year-old kid in a bar trying to prove himself,

I have never, ever, in twenty years of concerts/shows, seen a crowd as totally dead silent, as was the case during last night's set closer, "Acuff-Rose." It was very powerful to be amongst a thousand people with the kind of camaraderie that you can feel only in complete quiet. Jeff was on stage's edge just pouring his heart out as if he was a twenty-year-old kid in a bar trying to prove himself, his voice just cutting right down to the bone. It was transcendental. Glad to have shared it with my great friend Nichole and my super sweet new pals Courtney and Pete all the way down from the Chicago

front row left for me, should be a good one.