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Jack is primarily black lab, we think there may be a bit of greyhound or whippet in him because of how he runs, he may have a bit of dalmatian (in the shape) too. Very well tempered, basically my shadow. Tried to teach him how to "Tebow" during the playoff game last night, but he was having none of it. Must be a Steeler fan. --Mike

Big fan of that record, really like the two guitars, keyboards, drums sound. The music video for Romance is one of my favorite things of the year also.

No, it isn't. But you did make me use the google machine to double check. http://atagong.com/iggy/archives/2011/01/iggy-the-eskimo-phones-home.html

They played almost everything on AGIB on the YHF tour before any of the songs were officially released. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlmi4W9DyIU With all respect to Bennett and Cline, Jeff is my favorite lead guitarist the band has ever had.

It's a tailor made message board debate, and it just is going to suck us back in everytime. I fear we'll all be wheeling around the nursing home one day going back-and-forth, "it's not 2001 anymore, man." "What did they ever do as good as Jesus, etc. after he left... I'm waiting..." I'm just not ready to let it go quite yet.

I don't think it's talking too much of out school to point out the Being There tour wasn't exactly Tweedy at his healthiest. Some of those boots are hard to listen to in between songs, but the band was gloriously sloppy in those days. --Mike

There's a boot on the Being There tour near the end of Egan's tenure where Jeff introduced Bob as "this is Bob Egan, he used to be in Wilco." Jay certainly impacted the dismissals of Max, Bob, and Ken, but anybody Jeff still wanted in the band would still be in the band. All three of those lineup changes had as much to do with the band's changing sound as anything else. By the time they were ready to do Summerteeth, they really didn't need a mandolin, fiddle, or pedal steel player anymore. --Mike

So much so that Jay started re-doing a lot of drum tracks. From what I understand, he just started re-doing some of Ken's parts particularly on Summerteeth. He's only credited in the booklet for drumming on A Shot in the Arm, I believe, but I have a feeling that along with the glorious keyboard overdubs, he was handling the drumming too. There were a few YHF tracks he played along Kotche's parts on a smaller kit, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart for sure. I have a feeling much as I love the Tweedy/Bennett partnership given Jay's tendencies eventually Wilco would have just been the two of them w

I think he's just overshadowed by how popular Kotche is. It's the slag the old guy to praise the new guy syndrome, it happens, it's hard not to do sometimes. Does kencoomeristrappedinmybasement still post here? --Mike

He was a fine trumpet player as well, as evidenced by the famous Minus 5 cover of King of Carrot Flowers. --Mike

Art Garfunkel.

It also inspired one of the greatest things ever on the Internet: http://channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=152

Discussion and opinions even dissenting ones about the band are completely fine here. There is nothing wrong with expressing dislike for records, live shows, songs, etc. Or suggesting changed you'd like to see. But coming here seemingly to troll up traffic for a webboard well, otismyman, pretty much took care of expressing my thoughts on the matter. Bad timing, post-WTA, this would have been a lot more interesting, but as far as I'm concerned Whole Love was their shot in the arm, and all is well. Seems a lot of you feel the same way.

Otismyman, I like your style.

Ringo, I'll give you, but let's not get carried away here. The Fall may be greater than George post-76. Hex Enduction Hour certainly has held up a lot better than say Cloud Nine (thanks, Jeff Lynne), but I am still going with the quiet Beatle. --Mike

I feel closer to Al Neri, but none the less, point taken.

The umm… forum was deleted off the main page of the website this morning. Though the forum will no longer be active, everything is in the process of being archived and will be migrated back into the boards within a few weeks. I'm handling the technical side of things, which undoubtedly means there will be a few screw ups, but I'll make sure we save everything. The decision was based primarily upon relatively low traffic there in the past year and a feeling that Tongue Tied Lightning was strong enough to carry the weight of all non-music topics. I thank everyone who contributed there and I pr

Damn it! Alan Partridge hacked into my account again.

And when she talked about the fall, I thought she talked about a season. And when she talked about the fall, I thought she talked about Mark E. Smith, I never understood at all, all. I never understood at all. If our criteria for greatness are "name checked in Jens Lekman song," "frontman with tremendous dental issues," and "seminal influence on Pavement," I have no problem with the thread title. I do really like some Fall albums, but no one is better than the Beatles except maybe "the band the Beatles could have been," Paul McCartney and Wings. --Mike

The Cros! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ONOqTtKTxw

The name of my vote is Talking Heads

Excellent! I went Bee Gees (their sixties albums are brilliant, and the disco stuff gets a pass for the brilliance of the "we can try to understand the New York Times effect on man" line in Stayin' Alive) in the first one and then my beloved Go-Betweens in the second. --Mike

Write in vote for the Go-Betweens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1s6FCEoZM

50/50

I Can Hear the Heart is probably cut for cut their strongest release and also one of my favorite records. If you like their mellower stuff And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out is a gorgeous sounding record in places. As much as I love this band, I am a bit ignorant of their pre-Fakebook releases. And I don't listen to the earlier stuff nearly enough. They put on a hell of a live show, enjoy! --Mike