craigwinn

It has taken many months, but Der Hoff's review of the Wilco shows in Hamburg and Dresden from this past May is finally online! http://www.kalimotxo.co.uk/live/dresden.htm Here's an excerpt: "My favourite of the new songs was

well, it's a collection of words, alright, but i prefer it when paragraphs make sense, and advance an argument. this is gibberish.

much better is the article from 2001 in the New Yorker that called YHF a masterpiece of the decade and Jeff Tweedy a genius of music for all time. The critic who wrote this latest piece, Sasha Frere Jones, meanwhile, recently wrote an unbelievable puff piece on Mariah Carey which basically argued that she's better than the Beatles, Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin put together. He was creaming in his jeans...unless Sasha Frere Jones is a woman, in which case she was creaming in her jeans.

Um. No. My geographic knowledge is quite extensive, actually. I'm well aware of the size of the UK, its proximity to the rest of Europe, and the ease with which British citizens travel abroad despite the various taxes and fees associated with flying on Ryanair and EasyJet. If you can manage a stag night in Vilnius why not a Wilco show in Barcelona? All Americans aren't fat and stupid Bible-thumpers, just like all Brits aren't drunken hooligans with bad teeth. As for the football player's comments--yeah, I guess he spent most of his time in college in the weight room. Would be fun to stack hi

Suggestion all my British friends: Why not just go see them in Spain? Can't you fly there for like 50p and get a nice hotel room and eat decent food for a change, all for less than a night out in ol' Blighty would cost you--what with the outrageous Tube fare and the overpriced pints and bangers and mash and what not? True it ain't good for your carbon footprint karma, but we can ask Al Gore to excuse it this one time for Wilco's sake.

This is really cool. But how come Jeff's voice manages to drip with sarcasm even when he says something as simple as "Thank you, John"?

the end of "I'm the man who loves you" into the feedback that starts "Pot kettle black"

The BBC is airing a promo for this program that shows these two handsome fellas kissing each other to the erotic strains of..."On and On and On." This is even better exposure than a VW ad.... You can see the trailer . Check out the first comment from a Youtube viewer! A future Wilco fan!!

yes it says in the appendix to the Wilco Book that they actually moved one of the towers over a few feet to the left.

VE VILL VAIT!!!!!

Good point. I do check the site pretty regularly....

another approach=answering the fellow's question

Ciao. They recently played a tour of clubs in Britain and Germany mostly, but also stops in the Netherlands and Belgium. Great shows all. Subscribe to wilcoworld.net for their newsletter and you'll be kept up to date on the next European tour. They make it over here every year or so and they don't just play festivals.

Nooooooooooooooooo!

Well, not constantly... I take a few days off every once in a while and listen to other stuff. Lots of other stuff. And I go through phases in which I'll listen to different Wilco albums. Lately it's all been Sky Blue Sky of course because it's the first Wilco album my wife actually likes. She always kind of tolerated my Wilco fanship before but she is even more obsessed with SBS than I am... Also now I'm listening to vinyl versions, the Being There and YHF lps are actually mixed differently, so there's some variety!

Can you post something soon, Baab? This board is in fierce great need of some of your insights.... That is all.

Holy crap. It's like Courtney Cox is a Flaming Lips groupie and shows up at the wrong video shoot and is upset about it so they try and accomodate her by acting all Flaming Lips and stuff.

Let's don't overwhelm the new fans just yet.... But seriously, welcome aboard, and just to let you know what you're in for: I've been a Wilco fan for five years and I still listen to them almost constantly.

Great clip. Interesting debate in feedback section over whether that's Mikael or Jim O'Rourke on the synth. To me it isn't clear til the very end, when you can tell it's Jim.

Hey there, thanks for helping to make that show a memorable one. "Ve vill vait!!!!" became the slogan of our trip to Dresden...

Better be careful, I once had to leave a great Lucinda Williams show during the encore to catch the last train back to Brussels. They should have a later train!

Still waiting to get mine! MusicNextYear more like it. When they ship internationally they send it on a freaking rowboat, apparently. My last vinyl order from them, of YHF and AGIB, took a MONTH to arrive....

I've had the copy for quite a while. I'm counting the days until my SBS LP+CD arrives and I see the band live three times in the space of a week!! Hamburg, Dresden and Gent!!

It is great. Weird bit of trivia: the son of the guy who recorded that album is the American al Qaeda dude. The kid being tried for treason.

probably also a nod to the Beatles' "smoke pot smoke pot everybody smoke pot" refrain even though they were saying "everybody's got one". I forget which song it was in... i wonder what causes such short-term memory loss