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I feel like they're a little bit of a lot of styles-- Psych, experimental, folk, rock, indie, country, etc. and can be tangentially placed with a lot of other bands in a lot of genres and fit. But they've never fully been one thing or fit one description. So I can see how playing something from Being There or Kicking Television wouldn't be out of entirely out of place on a jamband station. But then there are albums they've done like Summerteeth that wouldn't fit that format at all. Electicism may be their greatest strength, this is a band that can play shows with Deerhoof one gig, Nick Lowe th

Neil Innes is a tremendous songwriter as well, some of those songs: Doubleback Alley, Let's Be Natural, Living in Hope, etc. are almost as good as their Beatle counterparts. Interestingly enough Neil dealt with some Rutling when Noel Gallagher lifted the melody of How Sweet To Be An Idiot (the title track from the well worth seeking out Innes solo LP) for Oasis' Whatever. I may know All You Need is Lunch by heart. "Their breakfast long since gone. Rodently chewed. Mouse masticated. In a word: eaten by rats." --Mike

"His father wore trousers in the bath to keep him from looking down on the unemployed." When I was about eleven I had little concept or interest in music, but one night I was going through my Dad's VHS tapes and he had the Rutles film taped from a mid nineties broadcast on Comedy Central. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen and became instantly obsessed with discovering all of the inside jokes. I watched that film at least one time for twenty-one consecutive days and it led me into my massive passion for the Beatles. It was odd getting into the Beatles through the parody band,

I'll see what I can find and keep the thread posted in terms of rip. We might be able to get a video of the archive. Will check with the people who are more technically apt than me that make these kinds of things happen.

I hear the similarity in Alright and Dawned on Me, but I am not ready to claim Tweedy has gone to the Noel Gallagher school of songwriting. It's different enough for my ears at least. --Mike

That is a gorgeous looking Rickenbacker.

That was my first thought as well when I saw the news today: this just leads into the inevitable reunion tour in 5-10 years. Shit, Guided By Voices is back together already they were gone for what? Six years. I feel like there will be another REM tour. Love the band, I go through phases where all I want to do is listen to Murmur or a single song like Man on the Moon or Losing My Religion, they have a tremendous catalog. Glad I caught them live when I did. --Mike

Yes, Autumn Defense started in 2001 and had two records out before Pat joined Wilco. --Mike

One Sunday Morning is the pick for me.

Sunken Treasure Remember the Mountain Bed One Sunday Morning Chinese Apple Born Alone Summer Teeth Pot Kettle Black Poor Places Reservations Not For The Season Art of Almost I Might War on War Handshake Drugs Muzzle of Bees Hummingbird Encore one I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Jesus, etc. Pieholden Suite Capitol City Ashes of American Flags Cars Can't Escape Spiders (Kidsmoke) Encore Two Monday Outtamind We've Been Had Say You Miss Me

Great read, happy Pat contributed what he did on this record. It sounds amazing, and his influence is much appericated. --Mike

Yes!!!

That's probably why I like it so much. --Mike

Like a cloud his fingers explode On the typewriter ribbon, the shadow grows His heart's in a bowl behind the bank

In a Future Age is a favorite gem on Summerteeth, I can't get enough of that one. --Mike

That is a hell of an open. --Mike

The very first time I heard of twitter came through VC, someone was live posting the sets to the Residency shows and being very much a nerd at the time I followed along. I have pulled out a cell to track a setlist once, and left a voicemail to a good friend of mine (they went into Cars Can't Escape, I had to!). If people can do this without being dbags, I have a hard time getting my ire raised too much about it. Just don't talk on the damn thing during a show, particularly a solo one. --Mike

Me too. Hope my ex-girlfriends never get together and compare mixtapes cause that song went on all of them. Some thoughts on this 10-day-old record. Imagine my surprise when listening to Art of Almost for the first time, in the slower part of Nels solo before he goes to Defcon 9 or 10 whatever the highest Defcon is, I was relaxing at the pleasant rhythm and began humming Lindsay Buckingham's Holiday Road of all things (I heard traces of it in there) and then the hammer dropped. Holy shit is Nels' face going to look awesome when he plays that live, poor guy may burst a blood vessel. Two yea

If it was televised or webcast it's okay, if it was filmed by someone in the audience and uploaded we try to keep those off the board since it's against the band's policy for audience members to film shows. --Mike

Sadly it was back in 2004, right before the smartphone era, and I am not sure if we could have taken a video camera inside of the Graceland mansion. They didn't give Rob Reiner permission to shoot the Spinal Tap scene on the actual grounds, they had to re-create the grave. While no video exists, there are a few pictures, I'll see if I can dig up and I have written about the trip extensively and it may appear in something, I'm hoping to publish soon. This is my favorite scene in the movie. Everytime I see him tuning the violin... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4UJkl6eaGQ

A 320 transcode of the webstream is floating out there, everything on the web right now as far as I know originated with the web stream a leak of a promo copy hasn't happened yet. --Mike

Muzzle of Bees War on War How To Fight Loneliness Poor Places Not For The Season (live versions 2002-2003) Pieholden Suite Jesus, etc. Summerteeth Hummingbird Hotel Arizona

My father, brother and I re-created one of the finer moments of that film when we went to Graceland. At Elvis' grave we sang Heartbreak Hotel off key exactly like they do in the movie, ending with the great lines you quoted as it does in the scene. I'm pretty sure the people standing in line with Elvis fannypacks on didn't quite find as funny as we did. --Mike

That was a Lennon/McCartney decision, John and Paul mixed the whole thing in a 24-hour session, and picked the tracklisting. If they had listened to George Martin, the White Album would have been a single disc as he suggested, and I'm sure Rev. 9 wasn't on his list of one's that would have made the cut. --Mike