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Thanks for the recap U2!

Long time VCer first time SSFer here.

Play the new album in full! Do it Jeff!!

Wow, some hot takes in this thread. I for one love internet hot takes and this message board needs them!! But.... Count me down as someone desperately wanting new Wilco music. Star Wars and Schmilco are objectively great albums, if you'd rather hear Heavy Metal Drummer for the 2000th time, that's on you. Obviously Being There - A Ghost Is Born are hard albums to top but you also need to be aware of your own nostalgia for their old albums. I wouldn't read too much into setlists to what is essentially a warm up tour before they start promoting new material in the fall. Or a one off show from the

Outside of the 6 members of Wilco, I think the most prominent person I noticed was bbop himself, boping his head along to the songs in the crowd! I tried to see theashtraysays but didn't see him, though I did see his sign during the beginning of Nova.

It's disappointing that for all the narratives they made up, they still included Allen Ginsberg. I mean, you're making stuff up, why not just exclude him entirely?

Wait wait, she yelled for Mountain Bed DURING Reservations!? I saw someone on the Facebook group bragging that Jeff played Mountain Bed for them, which sounded like a feel good moment, but not if she interrupted a song. Anyways, great recap bbop as always. It's a great feeling to have Wilco shows to be recapped.

I'm not a Blues fan, but I'm happy for them and their fanbase, it's a feel good story. I'm also happy that the Bruins lost. Best of all, the Leafs now have sole ownership of the longest Cup drought. That's just good stuff!

Personally I hope this means Wilco XI is a concept album about The Dark Knight. Odes about Nightwing, ballads about Harvey Dent, and a jaunty waltz about Harley Quinn. Honestly they could probably repurpose The Joke Explained as a song about The Joker.

I already have Wam and Warmer LPs but the completionist in me needs that bonus track. Hmm......

I've been predicting an October release for awhile now and I'm well known for my Nostradamus-like Wilco predictions.

Is anyone in the Neil Young Archives? It's a subscription service but each subscriber gets a unique code for each show, so there's not anywhere near as much competition as a regular pre-sale. Not only that, but most, if not all, of the first few rows are reserved for subscribers. I can't help but feel Wilco, while not the most popular band, has enough hardcore fans they could do something like that and tie it in with a quarterly or annual vinyl release or streaming access to the roadcases or something like that.

I miss Winamp. Anyone remember Winamp?

I can't load the article quoted in the OP, but the first iPhone was released less than three weeks before this thread was made. Think how much of a non-issue filming concerts was back then compared to today. Obviously some phones could shoot video in 2007 and lots of phones could take pictures, but none of that was anywhere near as common place as it is today. I would have agreed with Ben even back in 2007 but we had no idea how bad it was about to get.

The Wilco Facebook page describes it as "The first leg of the fall tour" so hopefully some mid-west dates are coming later.

NAILED IT!!! ....No shows anywhere near me. Disappointed. I wasn't expecting a Winnipeg show but I was hoping for Minneapolis. Maybe in 2020...

Well.... next week for sure guys. I'm rarely wrong twice!!

If it's a joint Wilco/Beck tour that gets announced soon, I will look like a genius! I don't know this Albany station, but it's possible if Wilco is playing Albany that the radio station could be involved in promoting it, which would give them inside knowledge. Otherwise I question how much early access to singles a radiostation that isn't KEXP/KCRW/Siriux XMU, would get for Wilco in this day and age. Lots of bands are announcing fall tours this week and dropping singles. Sufjan Stevens and Sleater-Kinney both released singles this morning. So I still feel strong about something happening

Oh good point about the Tuesday thing. Ok, so, not to beck pedal, but if not this week than next Tuesday. Further predictions: No album announcement, but I could see a single getting dropped like Locator did before Schmilco was announced.

I have a good feeling the North American tour will be announced this week. If this doesn't happen you can all blame me.

...Don't laugh at me.

I highly doubt a small sign held briefly at shoulder height would be as obstructive for the people behind me as say, me with my (admittedly) large head and 6"3 height. Hey I'm the first person to suggest we keep things from getting too US centric but this will be the majority of festival goer's first Wilco show since the Schmilco tour, so I think we can understand theashtraysay's point.

Great recap! Do you think there's time to mail your sign??

New record is great, I listened to it last night and (some of it) on the way into work this morning. Matt's voice sounds great when mixed with the female harmony vocals. Over all I get a more positive hopeful vibe from this album than Sleep Well Beast. I will say, it's a good example of an album that could probably lose a few songs. Not that anything sticks out as a bad song, but when it was over, I didn't want to put on side A again, which is not the case for a shorter more concise album like Boxer.