Lukestar

The best of all time was seeing you in the audience on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last year or whenever. You are like VC's Zelig.

I saw that, very funny. I yelled at my wife "There's bbop! He's everywhere!" Including Ashes...(if you haven't already spotted him).

Thumbs up to you bbop. I am indeed someone who regularly awaits your setlist/review. Hope to see you in Rochester....NY!...soon.

Nice shots.

The show from the Highline two nights before is up on archive.org. They put Interstellar Overdrive in the middle of I Ride My Bike and it is pretty awesome.

Thats Nates, the guy I collaborated with. He does a lot of creature mash up illustrations. You may recognize me from recent Wilco posters such as Atlanta 2010, Scranton 2010 and Richmond 2010....haha catch the Simpsons ref there?

Scranton was the only show I caught this year and I came home with one of your posters. It was a nice one, good job. I really like the Tweedy solo posters too, btw. Very cool.

What about her?? White people like her too.

 

LouieB

She's great and, yes, I know. I'm one of them.

I simply wrote her name in (unquoted) reply to the vibe that was coming from this thread when I was reading it that Wilco, and/or Tweedy, do not appeal or relate to diverse enough crowd.

Mavis Staples

O.K., here's a dumb question, and it probably comes down to semantics.

 

Looking at Nonesuch's Web site out of curiosity to see what they're selling the vinyl set for, they have a joint press release announcing the release and the start of the current tour. Among the "personnel," it lists:

 

Mastered for CD by Nick Webb at Abbey Road, London, UK

Re-mastered for vinyl by Robert C. Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, ME

 

So, my question is, "re-mastered for vinyl"? Does that mean Ludwig remasters the master done by Nick Webb, which was done for CD audio? Or would Ludwig go back to the original mix from Jim Scott and Stan Doty and move forward? If it's the former, how much would vinyl enhance the experience? One of the knocks of digital vs. analog is the issue of ambiant noise, and that it doesn't neatly fit into the world of ones and zeroes. A master made for a digital environment ignores, or at least doesn't acutely consider those aspects that make vinyl listeners ooh and ahh.

Legit question. Ask them and find out.....

http://www.gatewaymastering.com/default.asp

...let us know if you hear anything.

Just a mediocre happening today which I thought I would share with all you good folk.

 

I was listening to my iPod, on shuffle. A live Wilco track comes on (forget which one...), at the end of the track someone in the crowd screams out "I'm a Wheel". My iPod then shuffles to "I'm a Wheel".

 

Highlight. Of. My. Day.

 

I think I need to go back to work already.

 

[corrected tpyo]

Huh, what's it say about my life if your post is the highlight of my day? Just a bunch of average Joe's here on the internets, I guess.

Happy news about your expected baby, Hi-Rose. Good luck seeing Wilco, hope you get to. If not, maybe you can take solace in that I think you've just named Wilco's next album...

Mischief of fate...?

I'd love to hear them do "Powderfinger." And for some reason, "Pardon My Heart."

Ooo, either one of those would be good.

Tonight's the Night! Live Rust style!

That was great! I actually logged on while it was playing because I wanted to say how I thought that maybe JT's comments may have been misconstrued, but then he started bantering about rednecks before they played "Casino Queen", and that was feakin' hee-larious. His expression was very funny. What's the deal, indeed.

I am now listening (not watching because I'm typing) to Neil sing "Sail Away". I am very happy at the moment.

Join yer local CSA, Co-op, go to the public market, whatever have you. Eat up and enjoy.

Nice! Thanks Wendy!

I've been out of town working all week and therefore missed all of this. I love that they came out with BBN at Farm Aid, I bet Neil likes that song. Anyways, I'm intrigued by what these comments from Jeff were. He's a polite guy and I'm wondering if it was apparent to the crowd in general that they were directed to anyone in particular.

I happened to be working in Maui (beats working in Toledo) and I was driven through Wille's town where he owns a house, past his street. Very cool.

However much I envy you, thank you all for the reports. They make me smile widely and I too am looking very much forward to the Them Crooked Vultures release. Everybody's gotta rock hard once in awhile.

I really do wonder what sort of backstage banter there was between these two bands, if any. They couldn't really be more polar opposites, but they are both two of my favorite bands (QOTSA, that is. JPJ goes without saying as a favorite.)

Nice setlist for a festival.

Non-Wilco question...does anybody know if Them Crooked Vultures were surprise performer at the fest? Did anyone see them? And if so, how were they?

My wife and I were watching "Ashes..." last night and lo and behold, there was the ubiquitous bbop down front at Tipitina's. How do you do, bbop? We met at the first MSG show last year, I introduced myself after I recognized you from a photo on this here fan site. I thought it was funny spotting you in the film and since I enjoy reading your reports and appreciate the dutiful setlist updates, here's your official thread (is there another already, perhaps?)

We were at the Ryman show up in the balcony and were fooling around with our 7yr old son, asking him if he could pick us out of the crowd as we paused the DVD. We were watching the movie out of order, so it was a surprise to actually see a familiar face in the crowd after all.

Anyways, here's to the current streak the band is on and we'd love to get to Toronto. Lewiston was great and I'm greedy for more. I've written somewhere else that hopefully we'll hear some official live recordings at some point, as the performances on this tour are the best I've heard yet, and I'm sure they will continue.

Doug in Rochester

I've seen them a dozen times since '03 including 2nd row at the Chicago Aud, Radio City, the Ryman and up close in my own hometown of Ra-cha-cha last year and this last one ranks with the best. 2nd only maybe to the Ryman show last year (and only becuase of venue prestige.) These guys brought it on Sunday and I thought the sound was fine (from row S, at least.) I agree that At Least...was a barn burner and Hoodoo was something that I've never seen before, and I felt like I was witnessing a great and lost artifact from a beautiful and psyche wrenching plane of consciouness (call me gushing.) Have never seen Can't Stand It that I can recall and it rocked more than I thought they could rock it. California Stars was simply a harmonic party and Bull Black Nova borders on high performance art. You Never Know would've made me levitate but you can't have everything. I love this band.

Quick sidenote, hindsight is 20/20 of course, but I think they may have pulled the trigger a little early on the tour doc. These shows need to be filmed and here's hoping some official live audio recordings are put forth sometime.

David Dye - World Cafe, today he played Bull Black Nova. You heard right. He's played Wilco (The Song) recently and I believe I've heard You Never Know, as well.

Jeff also did a funny (at least to me) Springsteen impression at the start of the encore when he emerged sans jacket in his sweat-soaked black shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbows and Stratocaster dangling behind him by the strap. Maybe you had to be there.

Ha, that is funny. I can see it. Witty fellow, that Tweedy. Those guys are living the life, I'm telling you. Playing with all these musical icons is becoming commonplace for them, but they do show their respect and admiration. Who's left for them to play with for crying out loud(another thread)?

Nice report bbop!

Doug (guy at the Garden)

But I don't really know. Wilco will endure this little mess.

They will get by.....

I just downloaded the Washington show from the DVD and i was hoping it was from the 1-26 show which featured Blood of the Lamb... But anyways does anybody have a sendspace link or something of Blood of the Lamb from any 2008 show, Nashville would be awesome because I was there...

I'm just chiming in to say how much I enjoyed that song at that Ryman show. Great rendition with the Total clarinet playing Pro and very cool lighting design. I was sincerely hoping it would make the DVD (we saw the cameras and knew one would be released ultimately...given Sunken Treasures' success and all.) I have that visual burned into my brain.

Sorry....had to do it.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Trump hearts Neil.....

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...s-donald-trump/

When asked what he thought of Wilco...Trump replied "I think they really brought the rock, very marketable. Which one was Roger?"

nudie! I just read your post. What a great story! Thanks for sharing it.....thanks also for the brief new album report. I love how approachable those guys are. Also, your kid deserves a beer when he's old enough(?) for saying what he did to Noel. Great stuff.

Thanks for the review Paul! That's the show I was expecting when I bought our tickets for 12/15, before they up and scheduled the second 12/16. Oh well, I ain't complaining. We got the rock, too....and I can see it pretty clearly in my mind's eye anyways. Very, very fun.

KORITFW,

doug