lost highway

You Are My Face. Probably.

I got tickets forever ago. That place is gonna fill up, but I'll be curious if it will really sell out two nights in a row.

What about the crazy feedback/violin intro to Misunderstood?

Maybe horrific would be more appropriate. Even if you have a soft spot for that song you will probably agree it sticks out in their catalog (hence the thread) its no shocker that it turns a few stomachs.

An 80's Gibson SG with a Seymour Duncan JB (for Jeff Beck) pickup in the bridge. An Alvarez Koa acoustic with an L.R. Baggs pickup. into: A Boss Tu2 Ibanez Tube Screamer Keeley Fuzzhead Crowther Prunes and Custard Boss Digital Delay 6 EH Holy Grail Boss EQ (for boosting solos and the acoustic signal) Boss RC-2 Loop Pedal Into a 70's Traynor tube amp that I always forget the model number.

I need to hear that song stripped down. As it stands on the record, probably one of the worst atrocities the band has ever commited. The way the vocals come in on the first verse "yuck". Its the closest wilco has ever gotten and will ever get (and at that its no where near as bad as) to Smashmouth. Sure Smashmouth would never have the Brian Wilson edge that song has, but I can still imagine it on a Shrek 3 preview "The way things go," (green Mike Myers hugs his donkey) "you get so low" (the princess gets kidnapped).

My enjoyment of that song seems heavily impacted by my mood/time of day. Sometimes it seems so serene, otherworldly. Othertimes it just sounds like a miss placed B-Side. I guess its best kept for driving in the late evening, early night. I can't imagine a live version being particularly memorable.

overrated-Candyfloss, ELT. underrated-Wishful Thinking, In a Future Age, The Lonely 1,

Yeah, but you want to talk elititsm, lets talk Mandarin Chinese. I never know what those people are talking about, and I know they know things that I don't. Just kills me. Same with Hindi, and apparantly those ancient Egyptians thought they were pretty fancy too.

Nels Cline is an alien flower pot.

Would aliens be able to make a good record without theory? Yes.

I just thought it was an interesting conversation with lots of little debates going on. The title of the thread is "How much theory does jeff....?" While no one seems completely sure its an interesting question and it has lead to a much more interesting question: "does theory matter?" Incidently, the Dylan argument keeps coming up, but it seems off the mark. I love Bob Dylan. What makes his songs amazing is his lyrics, his narrratives, and his dramatic delivery. Saying Dylan doesn't need theory is the same as saying Peter, Paul and Mary don't need theory, but that's not what makes eithe

I thought they all were.

Like it or not, all of western music uses the same chromatic scale. It's arranged into keys. You can know what key your in or not, but it doesn't make you better to not know. You can talk all the time, but it might not hurt to know you're speaking English and that it has a system of grammar. Glenn is very much academically trained. He can compose melodically as well as rhythmically. Look at Mobile. It is absolutely stemming from an academic interest in rhythm. But he has said he intends on using his rhythmic experiments to create something anyone can enjoy. The two sides of the proce

Jeff did take a crash course in music with the fellow from Television, which I believe included an overview of the keys, scales and chords. When Nels Cline plays a solo I can tell he is distinguishing each chord in the progression and what notes are part of that chord and what notes are good passing tones between those chord tones, he is often thinking modally. As opposed to just running over the same blues scale for all the chords. I get the feeling Jeff is doing something similar but less academically, I think he's played those songs so many times that he probably sees a picture on the

As much as they've been visiting they might soon pickup a little Catalan. That would really make a Barcelona crowd cheer.

Candy Floss It's Really That Simple Can't Stand It Kingpin (live) I am lucky that most of the stuff I don't like aren't really staples in their catalog and live show. Some of you have harder luck.

Well said and very true. I think if anything it would be easier for an Iraqi version of Guthrie to emerge (that almost sounds oxymoronical) they have a very extreme set of circumstances surrounding their lives that would be quite easy to rally against in the simple form of song. When I say those of us in the U.S. I mean don't mean to say that we have more problems (we may have less), but instead that our ability to respond to them is fragmented by our cultural position. It is much easier to write about a bad harvest, or a needed union then urban alienation and geopolitical skepticism. If a

We live in a world too fragmented with problems (especially those of us in the U.S.) to stand against one unifying issue. Can there be a definitive song against global warming? that song probably sucks. I will admit that the backlash to the Iraq war has been slightly less witty then that against the Vietnam War. No one has directed lyrics against Irag as well as John Prine or Phil Ochs did against Vietnam. Wilco definitely knows better artistically then to try to be a Guthrie.

Yeah those things sound bat shit crazy. I bet he uses it in noise parts more than anything.

Ron Sexsmith is freakin awesome, so it should follow he would enjoy something even frekin awesomer like Wilco.

I got mine. Woo hoo!!! little expensive, but so worth it.

Wait, wait, which one of us do you mean?

I am a definitely a Pearl Jam fan, but you can't deny that no matter how much they switch their set it's gonna be sonically way more consistant than the most standard Wilco set. A Pearl Jam show might bring out: "can you believe they rocked 'State of Love and Trust' straight into 'Insignificance' followed by 'Daughter' and 'World Wide Suicide'?" (which definitely would be a kick ass time). Not quite covering as much musical ground as a fairly standard Hummingbird, Poor Places, Spiders with a suprise Hoodoo Voodoo. Respect to Pearl Jam for aging like a fine wine and still dropping great reco

Has anyone ever noticed the back half of Anodyne is comparitavely weak. Fifteen Keys, High Water and Steal the Crumbs aren't bad at all, but they're not nearly as engaging as Chickamauga, New Madrid, Acuff Rose, Give Back the Key...etc. Its as if you can actually hear the band slowing down into retirement. Still licks A.M.