lost highway

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.)

I don't want to fire this up again. But really.....on Okemah when you hear him referencing Highway 61 or bellowing "The words of Woody Guthrie ringing in my head." It seemed to do little more then reference the most boringly obvious points, like 'wow! you're so folky for dropping broad side of a barn references to Dylan and Guthrie'. That said, its good to dig what you dig, that's just where I jump off the boat.

Do you guys think that there could be any hidden agenda behind all the smaller venues? I mean, maybe it's just because those things are way fun, but could they be filming more, or road testing new songs? Probably not, but you know, we always crave news around here.

I have tried with that band and most of it is a little too syrupy for me. But I'll tell you what, "The World (Will Soon Turn Our Way)" is beautiful in a kind of kitschy way. Feels like it could be in a movie like Harold and Maude. I even put it on a mix tape for someone once. Listen to the sample on itunes and see if you agree.

Really all it comes down to is taking an existing hole in your guitar where the strap button is (which is a little over 1/8" I believe) and turning that same hole into a slightly larger one (I think around 1/4"), you still have a strap button, but a cable plugs into it. I agree, there is nothing like a microphone on an acoustic guitar thats why I don't used the pickup much to record. Likewise there's nothing like spinning around and marching over to the electric guitar player in your band to stick your tongue out at him while he takes a guitar solo. The M1 passive has allowed me to do thi

I can't speak for the active as I have the passive. However, most venues have a DI box themselves negating your need to drop more money on one. Also if you're playing a tiny stage (with no box) with a desktop mixer, you can simply plug into the mixer from a 1/4" and adjust the gain accordingly. I would be curious to compare the sound quality of the two and their tendency towards feedback. And to ease your stress of damaging the guitar, the cable doesn't hang out of the sound hole on either model. It plugs into a jack where your button for your strap goes. If someone dumb trips over your

It grew on me on listen three. Now I like it, but don't love it. The bridge has really cool changes, the rest is kinda catchy but a little....how you say, lite.

When you spend three hours making your sister a 'best of Wilco' mix for a stocking stuffer, and then sigh discontentedly when she opens it and you realize it is missing multiple key tracks and resign yourself to the fact that only a double disc could have completed the task.

Anyone know how these things sound. A traditional overdrive, or a more drastic fuzz?