lost highway

I've got one. But I've also got two or three other overdrive/boost/fuzz pedals. It is very distinctinve. Not so much a chord pedal, works better with single notes and leads. But you can actually turn off the part of the effect that makes it so freaky and its a pretty warm overdrive. How to explain......its like a really gnarly fuzz where you hear high harmonics on top, but when you hold a note the high harmonics change making this sweeping tone over the sustaining fundamental of the note. Or in other words it goes "Byuuuggge, byuuuuge!" Very psychdelic Nuggets type of lead tone. If y

Interesting......... I guess that's true about Z it does kind of lose its thread. Maybe those guys just have a different sense of symmetry. Oceanman-your love for Ween puts your love for Evil Urges in a new light. I get why you get it. The other thing I love is that we still have bands that are important enough to so many people that any new release causes such passionate conversation. That's why I feel extra impatient for the follow up to SBS.

Oh I have it then. Now I want to find the Denny version and compare. Ah, the dorky ways I get through my day.

You are after all the Analogman. I don't think I remember Dead Landlord. Have to look through my records.

Wait what? What leaked?

Thats actually a Leonard Cohen song. You should check out the original it's equally awesome. Yeah, I don't like Fairport Convention without Sandy Denny except maybe the S/T. 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes?' has got to be so classic its a freaking standard. Great voice. I need to check out the Fortheringay album. Good call Analogman.

Yeah those guys operate under total secrecy sometimes (re-new DVD?). They (probably wisely) don't talk about an album much until they know it is done. And the members are all prolific in other projects so recording can mean alot of things. But it could mean new Wilco.........

One of the most helpful things for me happens away from the instrument. (This works better with a whole band) I like to think of sounds when I'm driving or walking. Sounds of certain songs that I really like, that have a unique approach. I then mimic this idea or approach. Not melody or chord progression just general arrangement style/dynamic/tempo. So if I am really feeling "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" I don't learn it. Instead I write a song in a minor key with arpeggios from one guitar and fuzzy leads from another. Keep it slower tempo with some heavy downbeats from the drums. U

This is where we conceed that what we are arguing is so subjective that argument is a little funny.......and then continue anyways because we like talking about the band- 1) I've heard all the re-released demos etc. and they have never done anything quite like "Highly Suspcious" 2) Any argument that demands hearing obscure parts of an artists catalog to appreciate a new LP is 'highly suspicious'. 3) Even if you're sold on all of the songwriting on Evil Urges, do you really think it has as solid of a unity and flow as Z or It Still Moves? 4) The Muppet Show rules (maybe thats why Jim se

I've had more time with it (and I need to hear it at least 3 more before I know) and I think it's a mixed bag. I think the title track is fairly on cue with their 'new direction' and does so in an excellent way. 'Highly Suspicious' is a total throwaway. Some of the ballads don't seem like a step forward at all, which is fine, but they don't hit me as strong as the older ones. He also started employing a singing voice that is much more Dylan Nashville Skyline era, which is weird, because I already thought James had that tendency. Now it's just more. The closing track seems really interes

I like the fact that they mentioned recording.

Anyone not really loving this album right now. At first glance I think it is pretty poor.......but it is also a shocker.

Was Sam Jones filming several days in Chicago in a row evidence enough? I don't trust anything until there's at least some gossip. Gossip----someone's got some.

Seriously. Someone who knows these guys on here has to at least know if they got a look at Canty's footage and plan to do anything with it. Bueller?

Yeah, I expected at least a rumor about it being real at this point.

Also check out the Keeley Katana. It will boost your signal and make you say "hai yah!"

Incidently, (and off topic) I have always found that a musician or bands relationship between recording and live performance to be one of the most interesting balancing acts in all of the creative arts. Some people excel at one over the other, while less obviously a bands personality tends to lend different highlights and low points between the two. Wilco is a fascinating example of these two facets. I have had many debates with a band mate who believes I steer the ship too strongly towards writing, demoing, recording and not enough attention to live performance. I know repeated performan

I'm gonna try to put them all in education: Tweedy: Assistant Principal (the principal that gets to make jokes) John: Counselor/Psychologist (speaks very softly, has good connection with the difficult kids) Glenn: Elementary school art teacher (teaches kids how to make mandalas and Aztec calendars) Pat: High School Social Studies Teacher (the girls flirt with him and he talks about non violent revolution) Nels: Bio or Physics. Gets bricks broken on his chest and creates a human chain with a light bulb lit at one end and an electrical conductor on the other. (my highschool

No. I'm going to the show in sunny Grand Junction! Me and about eight or nine hundred other people.

So it seems this doesn't do 'subtle grit' it is a balls out pedal with three modes of balls out.

At least someone likes a pun. My girlfriend would like to drop kick me for that habit. Cheers.

Didn't someone post one time about how much Wilco hated St. Louis and how they were always skipping playing there and ever since UT went away Tweedy thinks he's too cool...blah...blah? Maybe I made it up, but I swear someone went off about that a year ago. So I guess what I'm saying is: It's all good now....take that(?).

The use of a heightened bit (rate or depth) is used to accomodate for a very real degradation of signal during digital processing. This degradation is difficult to explain, but is centered around the processed information being reincoded using longer number (in binary). The higher bit ("rate or depth") allows your computer or digital workstation to avoid having to round off so many encoded pieces of information; which alters the audio file (it also alters audiophiles). This result in its typically moderate state is scarcely identifiable to an avid listener, but a running headache for a mas

A great condenser mic for vocals/guitars/drum overheads/bass guitars etc. = the Audio Technica AT4033. You can get them for four hundred bucks or less new. Don't spend a thousand dollars on anything, until you don't know what else to improve for four or five hundred bucks, unless you're preparing to open a studio this summer. No, you don't need a higher bit rate than a cd plays at, at least not until you've spent thousands of dollars on other things.

I bet there's nine or ten new Wilco songs. I also bet it might be nine or ten months before anyone hears one of them (unless they're hanging out at the loft.)