Bhickman

Cannot wait for tonight's show.

This is not yet a done deal, but I'm still praying.

there's a Jeff Tweedy credited with photos for the new album by the singer Sia...Wilco Jeff or Diddy Jeff or wholly unrelated Jeff?

If you're upset about Wilco's songs being used in a commercial, turn it around and ask the question: why am I watching commercial TV?

I hope Jeff remembers who was defending him. We're the real heroes.

amen to that.

I really want to check out both bands in that park. Awesome.

Well, I'm just outside of Chicago, so that may not be a problem.

So about $18 - 20,000 per show?

more reasonable, for sure.

1. No set price; this is an auction, so it depends on who is bidding. Last year I think the shows raised a total of something like $56,000.

2. Again, all of the shows discussed here have been the result of a specific auction at a specific December charity event (Letters to Santa), offered generously by Jeff and Susan for the past three years. None were randomly commissioned.

3) The auction specifies the number of people the show is for. The first year it was 20, the past two years it has been 30.

4) Specific contact details have typically been arranged with the winners at the auction.

5) There's no rider, but any and all of the above have been provided in the past.

 

There are many threads in the archives about the individual shows and also the Letters to Santa event itself, if you'd like to read more discussion.

Thank you!

So does anyone want to start gathering together to raise some money? $56,000 is an awful lot of cash to drum up...

that's even better!!!!

No rehab mentions!

que?

Hey there. Those of you who've organized or been to the living room concerts that Jeff has done, I have some questions.

1) How much does it cost?

2) He does them if the money's donated to charity, right?

3) How many people typically buy in?

4) Do you contact his booking agents or TMM?

5) Do you have to provide transportation, food and diet coke?

I think that's all I got for now...hope this isn't somewhere else and I'm adding an unnecessary topic.

Thanks!

According to Hits Daily Double, they dropped to #16 with ~31,500.

they stayed in the top 20??? Freakin' cool! That's a great second week...they outsold The Bravery! Hahaha...

Mistakes like this are often less the case of the writer not knowing than the writer slipping up and no one catching it (editors). It happens a lot for our site, but we're not a major publication and don't have the time or resources to always catch these things...try as we might. Not sure how a fully staffed, paying publication like a major daily newspaper makes them...but we're all human.

I'm not a fan of cars or sports...so I'm with you on that. I find that, if there's a car I like the look of, it was made decades ago. Granted those cars are wholly impractical in a society where gas is nearing $4 a gallon...

Jim was a real drag on that interview. He made comments to Jeff that felt awfully insulting (my son listened to it as well and voiced that opinion to my agreement)...and his take not only on the new album, but on what the band's last two albums meant for their times was a pretty bizarre reach (not to mention dead wrong when he stated that YHF was some sort of comment or something to that effect on the events of 9/11...granted the lyrics seemed terribly prescient of those events, but the album was done and over with before the attacks...it wasn't that long ago that this particular fact couldn't be recalled easily).

there are far bigger fish to fry and fuss over than corporate marketing seizing control over the stupid of the country. We all fall victim to it somehow...if you shop anywhere and buy anything, you're feeding it. So to argue against it is really a hard stance to take...unless you're living in the middle of the woods in a house you constructed from the trees surrounding you and grow your own food and hunt your own meat.

This whole society is festering...sorry...I'm a bit down about the state of the world and feel defeated.

Neil Young had it right for Neil Young. There are no absolutes in this world.

I prefer Pepsi One myself...

I thought that I was the only one!

jesus...why does anyone give a shit? radio don't play 'em, MTV/VH1 don't play videos...what's left?

It's amazing that Linkin Park can sell almost a million albums in one week.

It is and it isn't at the same time. Hardly anyone has sold over 100,000 copies in a week this year, but no one has really sold the numbers that Linkin Park did this past week in a long time. What Linkin Park's sales and Wilco's placement (as well as The Shins' and Arcade Fire's earlier this year) show is that people are willing to buy music if it's music that's worth buying.

I think Billboard's ranking of 4 is incredibly lame and I dont understand how Wilco wasn't ranked higher. I am outraged. Everyone knows it should have been ranked 1. Who are these morons at Billboard. Are they even relevant anymore?

 

I think this proves that Billboard, like Pitchfork and RS, is no longer relevant.

R U 4 Real?

So what's their "Magical Mystery Tour"?

and then does this mean that the next album will be their "Let It Be"?

It's not a surprise that Linkin Park sold as well as it did. Quite frankly, the band's pretty good at doing what they do and this new album is a leap forward for them.

But the fact that Wilco sold more copies in its first week than Gretchen Wilson, who only a few years ago was one of the biggest sensations in music, is a pretty big deal.

well that's a little annoying...I spent $24 on the cd/dvd package as it is now there's also a way to get a bonus two-track EP? I thought the message was funny, though.

I'm not a huge fan of The Minus 5's other output overall, as I feel that Scott and Peter's work is a little too scattershot, a little too jokey or rather a little too carefree feeling. But "Down With Wilco" was great because it matched the pair's obvious abilities and Scott's tremendous lyrical gifts with Wilco's very strong musicality and work ethic. It's still a wonder to listen to for me.

I can't believe Wilco fans don't love "Down With Wilco" ... that surprises me. To me "California Stars" is one of the most perfect songs ever made. But yes, "Mountain Bed" is very good.