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When I saw them in Chicago, I enjoyed Walk Like A Giant, quite a bit - definitely a "different" type of song. Were the people booing insufferable or the song?

Speaking of the Recovery, I am about finished with the above book. Informative and well written. He writes about all the successes and failures. Did bring up a lot of bad memories,though. Nice interview with author below. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2012/08/the_new_new_deal_a_book_argues_that_president_obama_s_stimulus_has_been_an_astonishing_success.html

That's cool. We need more people moving into the city. Welcome.

The President would - but the Governor's boys would beat him up afterwards, then Michelle would kick all their asses and Mrs Romney will then ride off on her horse.

Hey, I don't like it either, but it's politics and politics is about winning the message at the end of the day. All I am saying is that this Libya issues isn't going away. When it happen, I actually donated some more money to Obama because I figured he was going to need it. Sure, I was thinking of the 4 who died in the attack, but I also was thinking about the campaign - I was making it into a political issue myself. It's a "big f-ing deal" as the Vice President once said about another issue. I don't think making the death of 4 Americans into a political hot potato is necessarily right, b

This morning on XM's P.O.T.U.S., the Republicans were still winning. I think it will not sink the President - I am weary of the issue, though.

Kinda surprised the new one is not on the list.

Thanks for the link - on the Libya issue Republicans are winning on the message in the media (and not just on FOX) and in a election that's all that matters - regardless of the actual facts.

Between records and cd's, I'm pretty sure I have them all, with the exception of Love you Live - I had that on 8-track and never purchased the cd or record. I should get it some day, at least for the El Mocambo side, though I have a decent sounding boot of the El Mocambo show.

I agree with Jules - Libya is going to be an issue up until the election. The Governor is not going to let it go and I guess I don't blame him. I do think the President handled the Libya issue nicely last night, but the President's team message since the attack has been muddled and poorly played out.

I just heard Waiting on a Friend on the way to work and was thinking how great the intro and outro of the song is - it is a great tune and video. It's Only Rock n Roll is one of the few Stones records that I don't have cd, so I haven't listen to it in a long while. Also I enjoy Black and Blue quite a bit - Melody gets tiresome, though. For some reason I always like the record gate fold (both the outside and inside picture). Plus I always thought the below was cool.

I was at the above show - it was a nice song. The video doesn't give the "singer" justice - she was kinda of hot. Glad I was able to see a song debut. The whole stage set up - roadies, etc. - was fun - very thematic. A bunch of old guys walking around with computer tablets trying to coordinate every thing.

What site are you guys talking about - if you don't mind me asking - thanks.

Caught them last night in Chicago - great show. Got there about an 1/2 hour after the doors open and was about 15' back/dead center, which as great. All the new songs played sounded great - Ramada Inn perhaps was the weakest of the bunch, but still a good song none the less. He resurrected the Rust Never Sleeps stage setup theme, which was fun to see. Los Lobos's set was equally as great. Definitely kinda of a Dead theme in there set - they played a verse of Love Light, Not Fade Away, and Bertha. They gave a nice shout out to WXRT for playing their music over the years before they played I

Okay I concede Ryan isn't a dick wad for saying what he said about Hamilton - Shakespeare put forth a much better response. I haven't use the term "dick wad" in about 25 or 30 years - it was kinda fun.

Not trying to be a shock jock - I think it's dickish thing to say when someone is trying quit a bad habit. Hamilton battles addiction everyday, anyway. He wanted to quit another addiction, good for him. Being a dick is one of Ryan charming qualities.

Yep. Gotta love Ryan - dick wad.

Neil Young/Crazy Horse with Los Lobos.

Okay - mystery solved - thanks. Still think they should have mentioned the omission on the Roadcase release page. No real biggie, though.

Thanks.

I suppose you may be correct. There was an audio recording of this show. See http://viachicago.org/topic/48456-wilco-08142012/ I did not download the show show, so I haven't listened to it. It is on the tapers set list, though tapers do make mistakes from time to time. Perhaps someone who listened to the audio recording can chime in?

They above quote is from the After the Show folder That's a bit odd - I didn't see any explanation on the Roadcase Store page, either. I imagine they had technical issues - though I guess there is no "complete show" on the release information. I haven't been checking the set lists on the releases to the actual set list of the shows on the the Roadcase releases - is having a song or two left out the norm or is this show an exception?

Never listened to Side Trips or Hooteroll?. Vacant, you definitely should get the Keystone set. For some reason I was a little underwhelmed with Spring 90 set - the Keystone set made up for it greatly.

I think Lennon's legacy will be unharmed. I think anybody who knows anything about Lennon knows that he, at times, was a narcissistic dick - it was part of his character/being. I think the more stuff out there for people/historians to digest, the better.

http://dead.net/features/blair-jackson/blair-s-golden-road-blog-frost-memories Blair Jackson writes about in this week's blog.