TCP

On 4/17/2024 at 10:44 PM, Wilc Os said:

I've just had the worst RSD day news in a long time; The Whole Love Expanded LP has zero copies sent out to New Zealand (where I live).  Not a single copy of the 4500 has reached these shores.  I guess I won't be queuing up early on Saturday morning after all.  I was looking forward to this so much and am majorly disappointed.  This on the back of Wilco not including New Zealand on their recent tour "Down Under" (Which I travelled to Australia to catch).  It feels like Wilco has abandoned our little country - And its fans here (although I know this is a label distribution decision, and not a Wilco Band one).

So, ISO - The Whole Love Expanded 3LP.  Will cover shipping to New Zealand, paypal fees etc.  But I'm not interested in Discogs style "Flipper" pricing.  If you're nearby (Australia perhaps) and find more than one copy at your local record store on Saturday, and feel like giving some Wilco Love to a fellow fan then I'm your man.

@bebop @froggie @visions @theashtraysays Perhaps one of you can help??

Keep an eye on the Wilco World US store in the next few weeks, I believe RSD stuff has popped up there afterwards in limited quantities. 

Good for Glenn!! 

@radiatortunes sent this to me before my alarm went this morning, so after I turned it off this tweet was the first thing I saw. I admit in my still mostly asleep state of mind my initial thought was "fuck, that won't fit on my record shelf".

But if they're teasing us, maybe an actual announcement is imminent?! 

On 3/8/2024 at 6:48 PM, Brian F. said:

 

I really find it works best on paper.

🫨

I know what you're trying to say BUT... view the actual book as the liner notes and the CD as a release called "The Wilco Book"!

Great recap Vince! Please bring me back a boomerang. 

Fair dinkum, that's a bloody good review Paul (and Vince).

On 3/9/2024 at 1:57 AM, befubashi said:

8 March 2024, Osaka, Japan

As mentioned, the band moved pretty quickly from song to song. Jeff's comments about communicating through music came after an American-sounding guy in the crowd yelled three times demanding that Jeff "say something". Jeff responded with exasperated looks the first few times (my wife said she thought Jeff flipped him off, but I didn't notice that).  Then, after a song, he said that "an American in the crowd is trying to make this all about himself, as Americans often do." (I'm American too, so it was embarrassing but I had to agree). It was quite the put-down, we didn't hear from the American guy after that. Then he talked about wanting to avoid talking since he didn't speak the language, and preferred to speak through music. He also said a little later that he has never had a bad crowd in Japan. The crowd was very positive and happy. 

 

During California Stars in the encore, he brought out Finom, the opening band, including Spencer on drums. The two women from Fincom sang backup and a verse, and Spencer shook the shaker for half the song, then he and Glenn did a carefully choreographed switching of seats midway, so he could play the drums for the second half. They all stayed on stage for Spiders, the final song, and participated in the audience a cappella  sing-along of the power chords in the second half. Jeff gave Spencer a sweet hug on the way out after the song.

 

All beautiful.

 

 

 

Thank you for the recap! 

On 3/8/2024 at 10:00 PM, theashtraysays said:

…Which was the show that almost wasn’t, at least for me.  

After a rough night without much sleep and perhaps some bad midnight udon noodles, I almost didn’t go to the show cause I felt like crap all day.  Waiting for the delayed bullet train on the 34F degree platform for almost two hours did not help. Apparently there was an incident involving a train and a person somewhere that delayed all the trains from Tokyo to Osaka (including, according to Cheryl’s post) the band.  But come showtime I thought I was stable enough to make it so I went on in during the Finom set which made the wait much less.

Sadly I didn’t make it all the way through the show, having to exit the front area about 1/3 of the way through.  I did manage to get back in to the back area for a few more songs before having to bail before the encore and head back to my hotel.  I’ve never left a Wilco show before the end in my life.  Sigh…

So, Namba Hatch is a somewhat older venue than the Tokyo pair, with a similar setup of open floor and smaller seated balcony.  Much smaller room than the Tokyo ones, with a funky spaceship-like motif inside and out. Once again great sound.  And once again minimal banter, although Jeff did offer this explanation for that while i was still there.   He said that he isn’t talking very much at these shows because he can’t speak the language. But what he can do is play music, and he wanted to communicate with the audience in the language of music.  This did get a very nice response from the audience. 

The setlist had a few nice swap outs, and I was fortunate enough to hear Muzzle of Bees before I had to skip out.

Oh, and I was able to meet Hi-Rose (Rae)at this show who asked if I knew Kidsmoke (the VC person, not the song), and of course WHO DOESN’T??? Nice meeting her and also Osamu at these shows… good to see Japan has their share of rabid / long term loyal fans too.  

 

 

Hopefully there were others who could chime in with any other notable moments. And btw I am feeling quite a bit better today as I make my way to Australia “via Hong Kong”.  

See y’all soon. 

Vince

Glad you're-- wait hold on.

Glad you're feeling better!! Hopefully Australia is full of sickness free.

The timing makes sense for a fall release. Hopefully this means we finally get the Wilco Book on vinyl.

On 1/2/2024 at 1:40 PM, TCP said:

Confirmed:

MJ Lenderman

Sleater-Kinney ✅

J Mascis ✅ 

Waxahatchee

 

Not officially confirmed but almost definitely happening:

Japanese Breakfast

Wet Leg

Foxwarren

 

Hopeful:

Adrienne Lenker ✅ (and or Big Thief)

Courtney Barnett

Bright Eyes

Rolling Blackouts CF

Decemberists ✅

Kiwi Jr

Nnamdi

Mac DeMarco (with lyrics!)

Perfume Genius

Iron & Wine ✅ (third consecutive year listing Sam, it has to happen eventually right?)

 

Not bad for album releases/announcements only 6 weeks into the year. I think this is going to be a good year for music releases.

I've been doing my list in the past few years as a video for friends and family:

But here it is in list form if you don't want to read!

Just for you folks here's my favourite live albums of the year, in no order, featuring new and archive material:

Iron & Wine - Who Can See Forever

Sloan - Alive & Alright

Neil Young - Odeon Budakon (I know technically it came out a few years ago but it's first time on vinyl was 2023 so I'm counting it)

MJ Lenderman and the Wind - Live and Loose

Alex G - Live from Union Transfer

Frank Black & The Catholics - Live 2006

William Tyler - Secret Stratosphere

The White Stripes - Live in Las Vega

Confirmed:

MJ Lenderman

Sleater-Kinney

J Mascis

Waxahatchee

Not officially confirmed but almost definitely happening:

Japanese Breakfast

Wet Leg

Foxwarren

Hopeful:

Adrienne Lenker (and or Big Thief)

Courtney Barnett

Bright Eyes

Rolling Blackouts CF

Decemberists

Kiwi Jr

Nnamdi

Mac DeMarco (with lyrics!)

Perfume Genius

Iron & Wine (third consecutive year listing Sam, it has to happen eventually right?)

I was not planning on going but that's a pretty compelling line up. A lot of artists with genuine AOTY contenders... Joanna Sternberg, Wednesday, Ratboys. Isbell will be a crowd pleaser for sure. 

6 hours ago, Boss_Tweedy said:

Wow! Wednesday and Ratboys were two of the three bands on my wishlist. This is a fantastic lineup!

Same here! What was your third?

8 hours ago, tongue-tied lightning said:

June 13th, 2003 

what a day, VC always feels like home 

Two decades!! 

One of the finest recaps of a book tour show I’ve ever read. Thank you Vince!

Honestly, more bands need to start evolving like Pokemon.

The venue staff were great on night 1 but on night 2 they tried to get us people in the pit to swap seats. Essentially what had happened was for both nights, the venue staff had told the people in the pit that if you were a low seat number you'd be on Pat/John's side. If you were a higher number, you'd be towards Nels. This is contrary to what the seating map had detailed when tickets were purchased, and opposite to how the other seats in the building are arranged, but I don't think the pit people (it's just two small rows) really cared (I was row A, just behind them in night 1, and second row pit night 2). Well, last night literally two minutes before the band came out, staff came and told everyone we had to move. Bbop was sitting opposite end of the row from me, and after we didn't get up the staff went over and talked to them, I'm not sure if bbop heard me, but I yelled out "let's just stay seated". Either way, due to years posting on Via Chicago @theashtraysays @bböp and myself were on the same page and we, along with the people sitting near us, remained seated and everyone got to enjoy the show when the band came out seconds later. I'd be curious to hear what transpired from bbop's perspective.

American rock ensemble.... Wilco!

20 hours ago, bböp said:

The thing with audience interactions is that sometimes you're not exactly sure what's happening or what's being said, depending your vantage point. That wasn't the problem tonight for me and the friends with whom I was standing — at the rail in front of Nels — because it was just our luck that the disrupters did their disrupting literally right next to us.

 

More to come...

Oh my now this is a tease!!

After hearing about the shenanigans today from Wilco diehards @theashtraysaysand @radiatortunesI have to say, I think it's kind of a selfish thing to request a song by yelling at the band midset. That's an uncomfortable position to put Jeff and co in.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a second single yet.

Hopefully my last post didn't come across too snarky! 

Courtney Barnett also had a Spider sounding song on her last record too.

Meanwhile, 19 years ago on the Neu! message boards:

"This Spiders song sounds like Hallogallo".

So I publicly question why Wilco isn't playing a particular song and then they just randomly start playing it?? Obviously I will claim full responsibility for this. In which case...

Why isn't Wilco playing Too Far Apart??

You're welcome Europe 😁

I know the days of the band playing yet-to-be released songs is over but it's interesting that Evicted hasn't found it's way on the setlists yet.

7 hours ago, TCP said:

Because I am a huge nerd, I was trying to compile where we heard all these songs from before. Maybe this would be interesting to someone else? Probably not. Since this albums writing is both in The Tweedy Show era an the Starship Casual era, we potentially have some unique opportunity to watch songs evolve when compared with the final album versions.

 

1) Infinite Surprise 
     -Played solo by Jeff x3 in 2023
     -Performed on The Tweedy Show 101. 
     -Performed The Tweedy Show 137. 
     -Performed on The Tweedy Show 188. Recording lost.
2) Ten Dead 
3) Levee
4) Evicted 
     -Performed on The Tweedy Show 218 (at the Largo in LA). 
     -Performed on The Tweedy Show 220. 
     -First single 
     -Phone recording released on Starship Casual
5) Sunlight Ends 
     -Played on The Tweedy Show episode 161. 
     -Played solo by Jeff at Largo Feb 28 2022
6) A Bowl and A Pudding

     -Originally released as Not Saying Anything on Starship Casual April 17 2022.
7) Cousin
8) Pittsburgh

     -Early version released on Starship Casual August 28 2021 featuring Andy Shauf, Glenn, and Spencer.

    -Played on The Tweedy Show episode 183.
9) Soldier Child

     -Played on The Tweedy Show episode 175.

     -Work in progress version shared on Starship Casual March 25 2022 

     -Played on The Tweedy Show episode 217. 
10) Meant to Be

     -Performed live on The Tweedy Show episode 165. 

 

If I did this properly, the Tweedy Show links should be time stamped. Let me know if I missed anything.

Shout out to @u2roolz for his extensive note keeping on TTS.
 

Ok this post has been updated, thanks again for u2roolz pointing out that Pittsburgh and Soldier Child has been played on TTS. I also found an earlier version of Soldier Child from episode 175. Also some people have been uploading videos of songs from episodes that didn't get uploaded, so I was able to add links for most of the missing songs. If I missed anything else let me know, I will keep updating.

Because I am a huge nerd, I was trying to compile where we heard all these songs from before. Maybe this would be interesting to someone else? Probably not. Since this albums writing is both in The Tweedy Show era an the Starship Casual era, we potentially have some unique opportunity to watch songs evolve when compared with the final album versions.

1) Infinite Surprise 
     -Played solo by Jeff x3 in 2023
     -Performed on The Tweedy Show 101. 
     -Performed The Tweedy Show 137. 
     -Performed on The Tweedy Show 188. Recording lost.
2) Ten Dead 
3) Levee
4) Evicted 
     -Performed on The Tweedy Show 218 (at the Largo in LA). 
     -Performed on The Tweedy Show 220. 
     -First single 
     -Phone recording released on Starship Casual
5) Sunlight Ends 
     -Played on The Tweedy Show episode 161. 
     -Played solo by Jeff at Largo Feb 28 2022
6) A Bowl and A Pudding

     -Originally released as Not Saying Anything on Starship Casual April 17 2022.
7) Cousin
8) Pittsburgh

     -Early version released on Starship Casual August 28 2021 featuring Andy Shauf, Glenn, and Spencer.

    -Played on The Tweedy Show episode 183.
9) Soldier Child

     -Played on The Tweedy Show episode 175.

     -Work in progress version shared on Starship Casual March 25 2022 

     -Played on The Tweedy Show episode 217. 
10) Meant to Be

     -Performed live on The Tweedy Show episode 165. 

If I did this properly, the Tweedy Show links should be time stamped. Let me know if I missed anything.

Shout out to @u2roolz for his extensive note keeping on TTS.