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He wore yellowish coat on Thursday.

I really thought you knew her - didn't realize until after the show - that you didn't ---- I would have had helped you out a bit. In general, I thought the crowd was fine or typical for a GA crowd .

Night 2 was just a broadcast (audio).

Finally getting around to read the below --- Kent passed away last week - he was a teacher of mine while I was in college and we didn't see eye to eye in a lot of ways (he did give me a B, begrudgingly I believe) - but I was a drunk at the time and in hind-sight I missed a really great opportunity to learn something. I think I stopped reading his stuff out of spite --- which is ridiculous. Half way through and it's great, great stuff.

Yeah - Definitely nice words from Billy Bragg. (starting at 6:35 or so) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04t6t60

The White Sox are doing pretty good this off season, too. Hopefully it will be a great Spring/Summer/Fall for Chicago.

To write this about a school system and to write that it does not "provide my family with any service whatsoever" is pretty ridiculous --- even if your family is grown and living in CA - the students that your tax dollars serve now will provide a service later on in life, it may not be directly, (though it very well might) - but the majority of the students that you are helping pay for through your tax dollars (like the people who helped to pay for your kid's schools, even though they may have not have kids in the system) will benefit Texas, as well CA and the rest of the country, by hopefull

Yeah --- after I hear both, I may have a different opinion. I kinda know what I am getting with the Basement Tapes, though --- the Basement Tapes never has appealed to me as much as his other output. I don't have any illusions the standards set is going to be better the Basement Tapes, though - but it's something new and different from him. Hell over the past couple of years, I have listened to Dylan's Christmas album more than I have his Basement Tapes or A Tree with Roots. I do love playing the Basement Tape songs on guitar though---mostly because they are easy and fun to play/sing.

I am probably the only Dylan fan who looks more forward to the hear to the Shadows in the Night record then I am the Basement Tape release -- which I am a still on the wait-list for the 2 disc set from the library.

I am assuming his touring band will be backing him -- which is a good thing. Nice to see that it was done live, too. Their take on Stay With Me was really something in a live setting. Always loved That Lucky Old Sun. Threw on his Christmas CD on the way to cut down our Christmas tree this past weekend -- my five year old was disappointed that he didn't cover Jingle Bells.

I think Friday was the first time since 99 or so that I was at Riv' Wilco show and I wasn't part of a taping crew --- it was nice to be 10' dead center from the stage.

Sorry to hear -- the stream of the show also helped out a friend of my wife's, she lost a very close friend earlier in the day ---- nothing beats the power of music... As my wife wrote her last night - the show is "a sonic shoulder" to lean on.

They do have a coat check - it's down in the basement, I believe.

Thanks --- now that's a name for an instrument.

Nels on dobro and Pat, banjo - sounds great. Plus Mikael on the little mouth tube through to keyboard --- not sure what they call it.

Haven't heard that (Dark Neon) live before . Nice. Red Eye and I Got You - I still always think of Bennett when I hear them.

I am listening to it on an old fashion radio - well at least an actual FM signal - sounds nice - John sounds great.

And right into At My Window Sad and Lonely - very nice.

Nice to be at last night's show hearing that version and now hearing this.

Definitely subdued - nice, though.

Read that Ian McLagan was about to open some shows for Nick Lowe before he passed - was he supposed to be on the OTSoFM bill, too? (Just checked - he was - all the times Mac passed through Chicago and all the times I didn't go see him, definitely sucks.) (Also, nice week of shows, there.)

The Art of Almost was nice, as was the Camera - loved John's 8 String bass- between that and Nels' guitar, it was very Spinal Tappish. Sounded great. The Camera was well placed, too - the On and On and On was perfect. As noted by Tweedy - it was weird/different seeing him sing without a guitar so much last night.

I think the Soldier Field gig was in the parking lot - could be wrong though.

Now that links states that he passed away - fuck sake.--- another Stones connection, too. Sucks, indeed.