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Rolling Stone did a pretty lengthy feature on Tweedy/Wilco when Ghost came out, I think I bought that one on the way back from Bonnaroo in 2004, anyway here it is from their archives: Cure for Anxiety Barbkm, sadly I am only vaguely aware of these John and Kate people are, but I seriously found your last paragraph to be hysterical and spot on. The decline of mainstream music magazines over the last few decades has been extremely depressing. --Mike

I think you have the More Like The Moon EP there, it was a free six song EP the band released on their website in 2003, you could download it for free when you had YHF in your computer's disc drive. There are some overlapping tracks on the engineer and regular demo set, but I think I remember reading that the majority of the engineer demos are the versions of the songs the band brought in to mix at CRC. The regular demos are earlier versions of the tunes in rougher-- though not necessarily lesser-- form. --Mike

Actually someone did rip a lot of the audio only tracks from the DVD awhile ago and some of the tracks are floating around in various forms on the web. I'll see if I can find anything for you. --Mike

I was thinking of doing this also, Speed. Good idea. 1.) Venus Stop The Train 2.) Cars Can't Escape 3.) Diamond Claw --Mike

Winston Wolfe? "I'm Winston Wolfe, I solve problems."

So far the reaction to WTA hasn't been that different from Sky Blue Sky, Kicking Television or even the stuff I have read in the archives around the release of A Ghost is Born, and I'm sure with Yankee and Summerteeth people had similar reactions, but those pre-date my time at VC. Some people love it, some people hate it, some people think it's okay, welcome to the internet. --Mike

Vibes from almost heaven, the land of lakes, rainy Florida (where I actually am now) and anywhere else I've been in the last year. Hope all turns out all right. --Mike

Yeah, I strongly recommend grabbing both Veckatimest and Yellow House, I really dig these guys a lot. --Mike

Did you see I got burned by that fine that post good sir? I didn't remember that it was in the inane comment thread and cited it in something else. Anyway good choices all around. --Mike

If you were to check the e-mail you use for your VC account you might find something that remedies your situation. --Mike

More piano and less noise? --Mike

. Awesome. --Mike

I meet Charlie at the Chicago Film Festival last year after a screening of Synecdoche, New York, I'm still kicking myself for not asking him for Donald's autograph. --Mike

Me too, I'd actually love to hear an entire album of BBN type songs, perhaps with Eno, himself, producing. That might be one of the greatest hypothetical albums I've ever come up with. --Mike

. As evidenced by my new status, I am a hardly an expert at keeping track of who posted what where, but yeah that was in the inane comment thread, and if it was a joke it worked. My bad. --Mike

Yeah, but if you play Sonny Feeling backwards the chords Mike is playing on the piano are the exact same as the song Radio Head by the Talking Heads. Fact: This is not a fact. --Mike

I have seen you post this comparison a few times but sadly I'm not that familiar with Neil Finn's work in either Crowded House or Split Enz where's a good starting point with him? Has Nels ruined Wilco? Well if guitar work like this is ruining them: , then sure he's terrible . --Mike

1.) Muzzle of Bees 2.) Poor Places 3.) How To Fight Loneliness --Mike

In the past two days I have seen Wilco compared to Dave Matthews and Hootie and the Blowfish here, two of the shittest fucking bands I can think of, maybe Panther had the right idea. --Mike.

I still think everything on YHF is excellent, there's not a duff track on that, but I understand what you mean. --Mike

Yep.

Ronald Jones Adrian Belew John Fahey Jim O'Rourke Thurston Moore/Lee Renaldo Johnny Marr George Harrison/John Lennon/Paul McCartney Jeff Tweedy Jay Berliner Neil Young

I kind of find James Frey to in the Dan Brown/Twilight category of literature anyway. If Million Little Pieces helped people get sober that's great, but I still found it to be it to be an incredibly shitty book, whether it was fiction or non. --Mike

There is a direct link to a blog with it up on my post on page 13 as well. --Mike.

This is exactly what I wanted to post. Good work. Also JB wasn't solely responsible for the band's edge, in fact probably one of their edgiest records, AGIB, was made without him. Tweedy, Kotche and O'Rourke were just as important to the band's mid-period records, which we're all fantastic, but they're doing something different now, it's not better nor worse, it's just different. --Mike.