TJ O'Pootertoot

Someone mentioned in a prior thread they didn't recall credit cards being usable at the Massey Hall merch table. Anyone have any issues with this is or is it cash only? Also, isn't the curfew in this town 11:00 for some reason? I never understood that and I DEFINITELY don't understand 10:30. Where did that come from? I don't recall ever hearing that before.

What time did Nick Lowe go on? Going to Toronto Saturday night and don't want to miss him.

So, my dad just bought himself a shiny, new turntable and been throughly enjoying the vinyl re-releases of The Joshua Tree and the Traveling Wilbury's. He's not a massive Wilco fan but I think he likes them that he would enjoy and appreciate the 180-gram Sky Blue Sky - but I've never ordered from the Wilco Store before. I wanted to find out if anyone up here in Toronto (and/or Canada) had ordered from there to see how much shipping was, if you got nailed for duty, how long it took etc. If anyone knows of a good source up here for getting vinyl, that'd be great to know too. Thanks! TJ

Just to defend my man, Bruce Springsteen. The tickets for this latest tour have been under $100. (They were over $100 here in Canada but that's because you Americans are having trouble adjusting to the fact our Monopoly money is now worth more than your prescious greenbacks.) He should not be in the same category as money-grubbers like Madonna, the Stones and (shiver) The Eagles. Anyway, this sounds like a show worth paying for so go for it. Maybe not the $150 seats, though. But don't do it on the condition that you'll be disappointed if Dylan and/or Tweedy don't show. (Heck, maybe the surpr

That's a good criteria. I'm trying to think of some unlikely ones in my own collection. Of course so much of it dependent on your age and even where you live...As for me.... The Traveling Wilbury's Vol. 1 - Already liked basically everyone in the band but this fun, superficial li'l album took me so much deeper into Petty, Dylan, the Beatles and Roy Orbison. Soon I was listening to Full Moon Fever, Mystery Girl and a host of great albums. U2 - Achtung Baby - I was a casual U2 fan. Then I heard The Fly and hated it. Then I heard the album and got the whole thing. My top three 90s albums are

Damn...I'm getting confused. I assumed there was a consensus and I was the only one who didn't have it figured out. I think you're right, Marjin but I dunno anymore. And as for your Q, Marjin...I don't have previous shirts so I can't compare. But I used to get concert XLs (cuz they shrink, I guess) and bought a L of this shirt and it fits great (I'm like 6', 180 for what that's worth...)

Here's my stupid question... Clearly it's Glen, Jeff, Mikael across the top. And that's Nels in the bottom middle. But I cannot, for the life of me, figure out which one is Pat and which one is John. I think Pat's on the left (more hair!) but I'm putting myself out there, admitting my ignornance...

2:35 and he is doing intro for Tweedy...and there's Jeff.

The show just started and the Tweedy bit will be on "sometime in the next half hour." http://www.cbc.ca/listen/streams/r1_toronto.html

Opinion, of course, is subjective but I think it's very specious (if you will) to suggest that Adams' other albums are duplicates of Heartbreaker. If anything (like Neil Young, as I said) Adams has a habit of putting out albums that veer all over the stylistic map. We can call forgive something like "Trans" in its spirit of experimentation but I doubt any of us are going to slip in the CD player on the way home from work today. You can't "forgive" young for it just because he also did "Tonight's the Night" (or "Harvest" or "Ragged Glory" or whatever your personal version of Vintage Neil is).

I'm with Cryptique - like Neil Young, Ryan Adams puts out a tonne of stuff so sometimes you have to work to separate the wheat from the chaff. That said, I don't think it's possible to listen to something like Heartbreaker and not see the talent there. Everyone one of his albums has some redeeming qualities even if, as a whole, they're indulgent. Either way, his music always heartfelt and honest. Sometimes its musically a bit tooo country or mopey for me but when he is on he is on. I don't expect everyone to like the guy but I'd think someone who has dug deep enough to find Wilco would app

Is that a compliment? If so, thanks. I had a friend who, way back when, was seeing Paul McCartney at SkyDome. Turned out they were filming and needed his seats on the 500 level for cameras. So they gave him lovely seats on the 200 level. THAT is how you do it. If Wilco is filming or something...well, that is still upsetting, I think. But if they actually took your purchased tickets and gave them to some suits while telling you some bullshit about 'production changes' or whatever...that's low. I'm sure the band doesn't even know it's happening - unless, being such experts in Krautrock, they

The good news is that you can walk up to where your original seats were. If it's some VW douche sitting up there...well, you can accidentally spill beer or something on him. In the meantime maybe we can hope (as someone said above) it means they're videotaping the show or something. I'm in Row S (or T?) on the floor so I haven't heard anything but I AM curious...

I've tried to buy Wilco shirts the last 3 times I've seen them and thought they were sucky every time...like the one with the moonbuggy they're still trying to unload on their website. I'm hoping they have something decent this time...

I saw the band on the first leg of the AGIB tour in a general admission club. Every 2nd person on the floor kept sticking their cell phones up in the air to take their crappy pictures. I must confess I wanted to give each of them the beats. You already have 10 blurry pictures of Mikael Jorgensen! Can't you take a break now so I can watch the show...? People just need to use common sense...that's my rant on cameras.

It's not just you. Listen to TICKET TO RIDE. Listen to A DAY IN THE LIFE or GOOD MORNING. Listen to COME TOGETHER. I could go on. Ringo was the perfect drummer for The Beatles and no one needs to apologize for his perceived lack of ability. John Bonham might be able to "outduel" him but since I have no desire to listen to either play a 10 minute solo that hardly matters to me...

Even though I'm on the Wilco mailing list somehow I TOTALLY missed hearing about the concert dates. Went to TM and they were sold out. Waited a few days and managed to pick up decent floor seats on the Massey Hall website....and I got those in the mail already. For what that's worth...

And if I can add my general drummer thoughts quickly - it's all about the right guy for the right band. Carter Beauford IS amazing (whether you like DMB or not) but he wouldn't fit in Wilco or, say, The Beatles. Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts and Max Weinberg are all pretty straightforward drummers who are nonethless crucial parts of their bands' sound. Ultimately this is like a high school debate about who rocks more...Kotche is awesome and (obviously) exactly what Wilco needed for what Tweedy was hearing in his head. I already mentioned Don Kerr who I love and I'll throw in Glenn Milchelm

I TOTALLY spaced on that and didn't realize I hadn't typed it. I meant Don Kerr though Wojewoda is also pretty great (he produced the Barenaked Ladies' first album and some other great Canadian albums too.) Anyway, apparently Don Kerr has a Myspace page (he plays cello too, for what that is worth). http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=83566826

I would guess no one on this board has really heard of him but there's a guy up here in Toronto who is awesome and similar in style to Kotche. He also rarely stands out but uses the kit and found objects as more of an insturment than a simple rhythm provider. He produces records and now tours with Ron Sexsmith but for a long time he was in a great local band called Rheostatics who recently played a farewell show after 20 years in the biz...

This has been Tweedy's MO for a while. I believe it's in Kot's book where Jay Bennett talks, with some frustration, about Tweedy cutting great songs because they don't fit the album - I have to say I agree with him, though I 100% acknowledge and accept Jeff's desire to create a coherent whole. I don't know about "mainstream radio airplay" these days but IMHO it's impossible to listen to this song or "Magazine Called Sunset" and not think "these guys should be huge!" These are just great songs. I mean, I don't expect your average FM listener to dig on, say, "Hummingbird" or even "Impossible

How did the thread go so far with no one using the words "Blues Brothers." I'm not from Chicago but as soon as I saw the address my brain processed that I knew it and immediately presented me with pictures of the displeased Illinois Nazis.

You can call it a mess-up in that he does not nail the note but that doesn't mean it's not conscious, stylistic choice. Obviously he could have rerecorded the vocal, punched in that one word or fixed it after the fact in Pro-tools. You Americans probably never would have seen this but right around when the Brits did "Do They Know It's Christmas" and the Americans did "We Are the World" the Canadians did a song called "Tears are Not Enough." There's a wonderful scene in the documentary they filmed where Neil Young is recording his bit and the producer (David Foster) tells him he's singing

Toronto rules. I got the 'deluxe' at Future Shop (a Best Buy competitor, oddly owned by Best Buy) for $18. The normal edition was $14. And that's Canadian money (so about $16/$12 US or so)

I think the Beatles ref is the most on. They're just having a laugh and I don't think it means anything at all. IIRC, on the commentary track on I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Sam Jones says something like, "Well, now everybody can tell what you're saying on the backing vocals!" because they show Stirrat while rehearsing the song. I STILL couldn't tell what it was for a while but it's definitely "smoke pot" and I'm pretty sure it's just the boys being silly.