lost highway

That was life-affirming and awesome. I'll echo what people have been saying on this tour: these guys are on fire. A couple randome observations: War on War is sounding especially good. The crescendo at the end was so perfect thanks in part to Mr. Kotche's musicality. I couldn't resist the urge to point at Pat to my buddy while he was doing some excellent glockenspiel work with one hand while playing the organ with the other. While I've seen the similar setlists posted here, as Jeff would emphatically point out, reading a setlist and being in the room for it are two totally different thin

I can't for the life of me discern the purpose of a bot uttering such arbitrary banalities. Maybe if we engage with it, it would try and sell us tickets to Hawaii?

Can someone please tell me what is happening?

Yeah, I think it was a short-lived experiment. A lot of people have a hard time getting used to those little ear monitors- doesn't feel as rockin.

Or you just haven't purchased a crummy pressing.

Yeah my Ode to Joy has a few tracks that are totally undermined by the pressing quality. That and the latest Andrew Bird... a few others I can't think of. Bad vinyl has such a distinct sound, it pretty much just sounds like there's lint on the needle when there isn't.

Hey gang, I'm being a little hyperbolic to inspire discussion, but I'm starting to think the standards for pressing records have gone down. Several brand new records I've purchased (including one by Wilco), all on bigger indie labels have pretty poor audio quality compared to the cd, or download. Lots of distortion and muffling. The range of clarity depending on the track is pretty huge. Any LPs outer grooves will sound a little better than the inner ones, but a half dozen records I've bought over the last year or so sound like there's lint on the needle. I started to think my turntable, or

Yeah the footage from the end of IATTBYH with Leroy and a laptop is interesting. They were using in-ear monitors and using lower stage volume. It was the most mini-ensemble they've ever been.

That's an astute, musical observation.

The best one!!! I really hope they get that one going before they make it to my town in a few weeks.

Same here, it's awesome to take risks when covering something. Their risk just wasn't very rewarding. Whereas Twin Peaks and Nora Jones didn't take much of a risk at all, and it was just kind of 'meh' (for lack of a more intelligent word). What I did love was Ohmme, Sharon Van Etten, Mountain Man (holy shit!), Courtney Barnett, Low, Jen Cloher, Jim Elkington, Liam Kazar (doing Sunloathe no less) and Handsome Family. In fact I think I'll put those 9 on a playlist and listen to it a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8DxQbIhRkg Took me two minutes to find Mikael, I thought he sat this one out. Also, Glenn's ability to flip his brush around for some fills, and take others one handed is pretty sweet.

This is an interesting pickle to me that I can't relate to, but I can understand. I can see how folks with these tastes are less thrilled with Ode to Joy than I am, but I don't see any future album really scratching your itch. To me that's like wishing Radiohead were more of an alternative rock band, or that Portishead would release an album that's more hiphop, or wanting Sturgill Simpson to release a straight-ahead country record, or that Fugazi had been more of a hardcore band. You get what I mean, these acts- like Wilco- all represent people who were steeped in a tradition and spent the m

This is all fair, and fine although I'd suggest we'd all be better not to take a sweeping critical dismissal to heart as a personal affront. To me these discussions can take the same jovial rudeness as dismissing a sports team and all of their fans. More on topic: does this particular preference in rock music lead to dissatisfaction with much of Wilco's post-2000 output? Less on topic: do you dig Hiss Golden Messenger? That's a pretty good example of a group doing nothing new, style-wise, that I find very enjoyable.

I had to visit the dentist for a crown this afternoon. During the portion where they had to drill out the cavity, between bursts of drilling sounds I heard the unmistakeable groove of 'Everyone Hides'. Just as I got excited there was more drilling. It was like the 'Less Than You Think' remix of the song.

Dang.

Are they taping either of these gigs for the ACL tv show?

Did you hear the new Wilco music they made? Maybe philosophical musings on the socio-political ramifications of creating art in the current climate, and how much you care about your fans shouldn't be considered within the same part of a conversation. I think if you read a little more, especially some of the group's comments on the community present at Solid Sound you will find that Jeff and the gang are plenty appreciative of their fans. I think the mercurial element of Jeff as an artist is a key component in what makes him and what he makes captivating. His lack of interest in simply maki

To Brooklyn hipsters, or wealthy upper-west siders yes. To the rest of us, no. :-)

This book has been blowing my mind. Humboldt's life brings you on a journey that collides with Goethe, the Enlightenment, colonial South America, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, Thomas Jefferson, the birth of environmentalism, Darwin and I'm not even done yet. Best non-fiction I've read in some time.

You must be from upstate NY!

Mine would be Citizens. I actually don't dislike it, it's merely the song I like. The rest I love. I keep thinking White Wooden Cross is like a 21st century Motown, or Stacks ballad. I can imagine the Supremes doo wopping through imagining if their nearest and dearest was spontaneously killed in a car accident.

^ The Spaniards get it. Que padre.

Did anyone see Glenn use the "marching machine" contraption Jeff talked about on any OTJ songs? I missed the first half of the stream and thought I saw it next to his kit.

Nels is sitting for Empty Corner and Mikael is getting really jazzy!