lost highway

What if they played The Hideout?

I'm pretty sure the package that holds the CDs is the exact same book that comes with the LPs. Tweedy talks in the interview in the liner notes about how badly JB wanted to rack up as many credits as possible by overdubbing endlessly. In the end the songs went through so many processes they were unable to accurately attribute every element to its creator with everything from Ken Coomer drums towards the beginning of the process, to Jim O'Rourke overdubs towards the end. For that reason it's always been credited to a list of names without specifics. "Wilco is/was..."

^ Yes to all of this! What secrets are in the AGiB vault? Are there Ken Coomer drum tracks in any of this stuff? I keep thinking there was a piece of promo material where Jeff ran down the parameters of each disc, but I can't seem to find it. I strongly suspect Unified Theory is the JB version of YHF, but that might not be entirely true.

I'm 98% sure you're right. I've seen videos from this era. Leroy and Glenn had their hands full.

This is fascinating. Right now I only have access to the Unified Theory version on Spotify, but had to pony up and get the CDs so I could hear the other discs. The early version of Hummingbird is straight out of the multiverse. Early Poor Places sounds like a Being There song, and I kind of love it. I kind of want to smack the synthesizer out of Bennett's hands on Pot Kettle Black. But we must respect that these are all of the explorations they never thought they'd share until they got to the ideal version.

I seriously can't wait to play every version of Camera back to back. It will be like a master class in production and arrangement.

Company In My Back! That's the one setlist pick I'm jealous of having seen the night before.

Solid outing. It was interesting for the devoted Denverite to see Wilco 3 years ago, indoors, heavy into Ode to Joy, then outdoors with a very different vibe at RR. My friend and I both stopped 30 seconds into US Blues wondering "What song is this?!". 30 minutes later us in the car on Spotify, "Yep. It's the Dead." I prefer the Wilco version

That's so cheap it's hard to figure how it'd make 11lps profitable. Maybe Amazon only wanted shelf space for x amount and they're hot to unload slow moving copies.

^ Love it. Awesome. I like that of all albums, that dude is all in on AGIB. Radical.

So I imagine the digital release will be equally delayed?

^ Yeah, and producers like Burnett, Lanois and Rick Rubin seem most useful at helping artists get out of their own way, to get down to the basics, and to let the songs flow. Kind of artist-whisperers, zen guru type of guys. It so happens that Jeff is one of the least needy songwriters in this regard. He's literally written books about how to achieve these frames of mind. Again, I don't think the guys need a producer, and I'm pretty sure they don't want one, but as a matter of mash-up curiosity in addition to the Nigel Godrich idea, I'd be curious to see what would happen if they wo

There's something to this in that Tom Schick has been pretty firmly in the engineer role at the loft. He faithfully captures the sounds being made and uses his skills to present them in the way the artist/producer directs. Since that's Jeff the basic vibe of the presentation, the sonics, is coming from Jeff. I'm sure some of it is collaborative, it always is, but Schick is there to accomplish what the people he's working with are asking for. You could also point to The Whole Love which is the only Wilco record co-produced by Pat Sansone. There is a different kind of meticulousness

Never thought I'd catch Margo Price. Opening for Wilco at Red Rocks, good enough!

Yes! I didn't even know about this. Thanks guys.

I think Wilco needed a producer when YHF was a messy pile of layers in want of direction and they were lost. Jim O'Rourke helped them find their record. These days they seem to know exactly where they're headed. Whether it's to your liking is entirely up to you, but I don't think they're looking for someone to provide direction.

This makes all kinds of sense. Also you wouldn't want to build up to the YHF reissue in order to have it eclipse the news around a new physical release. It would be better to let one record have it's moment of hype, then roll out the other on it's heels. Their publicist will thank them for it.

Yeah in other interviews he mentioned that there was already an album worth in there. On his substack this week he said he didn't have any news that he could talk about 'yet'. Which could be anything (or nothing) but part of me imagined the boys manically releasing a double album followed by a single album in the same year. Far too much to ask but a fan can dream

How different are the versions from the ITMWLY single?

The story about Trump fighting the secret service for the wheel of the Presidential limousine was priceless.

I did not know that. Is it the same at futbol games? I suppose the toreadores no hablan Catalan! Back on topic: another nice recap bbop!

It's on YouTube for anyone who didn't preorder. Much crunchier and kind of slick version. I wonder if that's Glenn on there.

Excellent.

Couple quick things: 1- Bbop I love these recaps especially when the boys are in some of my favorite places playing in unusual circumstances. 2- Castilian pronunciation- "thar-ah-go-tha" is spot on. It gets extra fun to my North/South American Spanish dialect ears to think of a Spaniard going to the "though de tharagothah" (the Zaragoza zoo if they even have one). In the efficient nationally preferred word for casual approval, I say "Vale". 3- provincial mockery of the Welsh or any other GB culture is always welcome, lads. You can pretty much make them up and an American

I would actually be into both of these versions. I love TWL and it could continue it's kaleidoscopic approach for another 10 songs. I'd also add London Calling is another classic 'variety pack' double album (as is Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness by that other Chicago band). You might be on to something.