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Oh.... I think I see where this is going. The 'huddled masses' kind of idea. You know like "Wilco will love you baby", all of the people in line, the band is shining beacon of light etc. etc. (?)

OOOOOh Red Rocks volume 2. That's awesome.

It seems the few openers for big touring shows like this, who haven't gotten butt hurt or gone down in flames have put out a tone of "Oh, hey we're the other band that's playing- which you don't care about. If you half way enjoy us we are so honored." Opening for big acts is always tough unless you are one.

I can't wait to hear exactly what that entails. I smell a funloving/silly aspect to the album art this time around..... or maybe there will be serious pictures of people from Milwaukee in their liner notes.

It is this very backhanded pretension, this swaggering dismissal of someone who does not agree with what is at least a very difficult theory to explain, that makes conspiracy theorists look like abrasive wing nuts. I do not believe, nor have I seen evidence to believe that Obama is destroying the dollar to unveil a global currency. I do know that if I did believe that, I would put it across with a little more evidence and a little less snottiness. I like my local public radio's quote of "If you think you fully understand this economy then you do not understand this economy."

Taking bets on how soon it leaks.... I've got 10 to 1 odds on this week, 5 to 1 on the end of April, if you want to play it safe boys we've got 2 to 1 odds on mid May here....

I'm pretty sure if you get the DVD anywhere you will get audio tracks from the DVD. Historically Wilco World has put up and maintained bonus tracks for any of the releases which only require inserting the cd (or DVD) into your computer to access.

I'm going to my local record store on 4/18 to find out. Woo hoo.

I went in Boulder last night. Wow. I can honestly say it exceeded my expectations. This has the makings of being up there, top ten concert films (but then again, I only think about a half a dozen are truly that good). The composition in some of the shots was gorgeous. The footage from outside of the concerts was also great. Something about the vibe of the sound-check performance of Wishful Thinking was awe inspiring. I'd put it up there with the rehearsal footage of Jesus etc. from IATTBYH. All in all it reaffirmed why Wilco is one of my favorite acts. There is something life-affirmi

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It's all about the vinyl with the download code. MP3's you can burn or throw on an ipod and a big fat chunk of gatefold art with a slab of vinyl inside. That's how I like to see it done.

Ha! I got my chronology wrong- I believe it preceeds two of their best.

Might be the worst Sonic Youth record. But it's sandwiched between two of the best. I think anyone who has put in years doing anything creative (writing, painting, songwriting, whatever) can tell you you never know. Genius, or mediocrity are always around the corner. People's predictions of these forecasted trends in someones creative abilities have no bearing on my experience of reality. Long career artists have shown how often the quality control can sink, and then skyrocket (the Boss, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, even the Beatles).

I own neither. I'm guessing the Crocs correlation is closer with Wilco than Radiohead.

My girlfriend and I enjoy both. It is because they are awesome. If you don't like Radiohead but your new squeeze does maybe he/she can help you see why they are awesome.

Sorry, Wesley Willis reference, the guy is kind of obscure: He also said "Whip a water buffalo in the ass wif a belt!" For more on the late artist visit: Wesley Willis on Wikipedia

AGIB rules. SBS is really good. This thread sucks a giraffe's balls with Heinz 57 sauce.

To ease your whining, I suspected- and more tech savy member confirmed: shooting something in HD has a positive effect on its quality no matter what format it comes out on. The DVD will look good, because Brendan Canty and Christoph Green are good with cameras, and they use HD ones. It's not as if you're buying something that was recorded in stereo and pressed in mono. It will be awesome, don't worry.

Op Ivy is on the list! That is amazing. I was suprised to see Marquee Moon hasn't already been done. That should have been in the first twenty they wrote.

Why aren't these escorts saying anything about this? Were they sworn to secrecy?

I think it is fine, and fair. I just keep holding my opinion until I hear the real deal. I heard the live debut of "The Late Greats" and it was pretty lame. Early live recordings showed "Impossible Germany" to be promising, but it wasn't yet essential- but it is now. I guess if I were to drop any judgement on a slap-dash collection of solo, and full band live debuts: I would say it looks promising. I really like SBS, but I think this might even be better. +1

Yeah. I'm not sure hearing the early live versions of most of what might be on the album puts anyone in a better position to know what the thing will actually sound/feel like. Again, the reviews are coming in before anyone has heard the thing. Dude it's Jeff Tweedy. Look at the man. Par for the course in my eyes.

Totally. That's a good observation. I also notice touring bands tend to play the last album a little less on tour. It's like they're getting tired of the last record's songs, because they had to represent every night. I have also noticed a lot of bands playing more of the songs two albums back, like they've rediscovered that once over-performed song cycle. When I saw Wilco touring for AGIB they only played a couple YHF tunes and seemed to be relishing in the summerteeth. After SBS I found a lack of AGIB songs in their set. Maybe that's a crap theory, but I've seen them do it, and Radio