rockinrob

so cool!

When I'm recording, I usually play an old song when setting up the microphones, just to get everything right, but not burn myself out on what I actually want to do.

In my imagination, this is a compilation of these off the cuff, mic check kind of performances -  I wonder what the process actually was?

HOLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been warming up my tube amp for a serious whiskey/jason isbell's new record session. 

He can wait, this Wilco sounds fantastic!

This album has it, whatever it is.  I know that I've heard it before, and that's what I'm hearing now!

Awesome shots!

 

I took a handful, but haven't had a chance to upload them yet.

Did you see the youtube link?  

They had mics facing the crowd, which are used in live recordings to keep from sounding weird, so this one was more than likely taped by them.  I guess we can only hope it gets approved for a roadshow release?

The hard rock nazis will probably keep anyone from hearing this one, even though it was a great show.  I wish I had tried to sneak my zoom record in...

Mr heartbreak is next to the guy with the red shirt and the fro

My wife was late getting off work, we just passed through Orlando.

I'm the guy with a flannel shirt and a beard. You'll recognize me.

My wife was late getting off work, we just passed through Orlando.

I'm the guy with a flannel shirt and a beard. You'll recognize me.

I'm coming from Tampa!  

I can't leave until 5 though, so hopefully I'll get there by 7.  Is anyone recording?  I could kick myself for not recording Tampa 2013, which was an AWESOME show that looks like went undocumented...

I don't have the best rig, but my zoom h2 does much better than nothing!

I just got my vinyl box in the mail yesterday.  

Really enjoying this set, even more than I thought I would.  I think between the TWEEDY album and this, I may be entering another deep wilco phase for a few months!

The 3rd record of this set is crazy great.  I think I will be playing that one often!

I loved this record on the first spin, and I only love it more now.  Such an awesome album.

An expanded 4-LP YHF 20th Anniversary release? I bet TMM is all over that (and yes I'll pay the $70+ for it as well).

With inflation it will be $80+

Im anxiously awaiting my vinyl box order from musicdirect...

where are you seeing this?

Lmgtfy.com/?q=Wilco+alpha+mike+foxtrot

The cd is 30ish and the vinyl box is $80

The tracks are all from cd singles, eps, downloads, promo discs, etc. so the live tracks are there because they were on the original releases.

For example, this release includes the entire super rare 10 inch All Over the Place EP

I'm choosing to see this as the beginning of wilco archival releases rather than a "that's all folks" open/shut vault.

It is a great release, and will be nice to get all of these in one convenient place.

I'm hoping for live career spanning anthology at some point, and album specific outtakes collections as well.

Also, it would be really cool to open up the road case to include less "listenable" studio material, like the agib experiments/jams

November 18!!!

D1

Childlike And Evergreen (Demo)

Someone Else's Song (Demo)

Passenger Side (Demo)

Promising

The T.B. Is Whipping Me (with Syd Straw)

I Must Be High (Live)

Casino Queen (Live)

Who Were You Thinking Of (Live)

I Am Not Willing (with Syd Straw)

Burned

Blasting Fonda

Thirteen

Don't You Honey Me

The Lonely 1 (White Hen Version)

No More Poetry

Box Full Of Letters (Live)

Red-Eyed And Blue (Live)

Forget The Flowers (Live)

Sunken Treasure (Live)

Monday (Demo)

D2

Passenger Side (Live)

Outtasite (Outta Mind) [Live]

I Got You At The End Of The Century (Live)

Outta Mind (Outta Site) [Live]

James Alley Blues (with Roger McGuinn) [Live]

At My Window Sad And Lonely (Jeff Tweedy Solo Version)

California Stars (Live)

One Hundred Years From Now

A Shot In The Arm (Remix)

ELT (King Size Demo Version)

Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (again) [David Kahne Remix]

She's A Jar (Austin Demo Version)

Tried And True

Student Loan Stereo

True Love Will Find You In The End

I'm Always In Love (Live)

Via Chicago (Austin Demo Version)

Can't Stand It (Live)

Airline To Heaven (Alternate Version)

Any Major Dude Will Tell You

D3

I'm The Man Who Loves You (Live)

The Good Part

Cars Can't Escape

Camera

Handshake Drugs (First Version)

A Magazine Called Sunset

Bob Dylan's 49th Beard

Woodgrain

More Like The Moon

Let Me Come Home

Old Maid

Hummingbird (Alternate Version)

Spiders (Kidsmoke) [Live]

Hell Is Chrome (Live)

At Least That's What You Said (Live)

The Late Greats (Live)

Just A Kid (with The Blisters)

Kicking Television

D4

Panthers

Theologians (Live)

Another Man's Done Gone (Live)

I'm A Wheel (Live)

How To Fight Loneliness (Live)

One True Vine

The Thanks I Get

Let's Not Get Carried Away

Hate It Here

Impossible Germany (Live)

I Shall Be Released (with Fleet Foxes) [Live]

What LIght

Jesus, Etc. (with ANdrew Bird) [Live]

Glad It's Over

Dark Neon

The Jolly Banker

Unlikely Japan

You And I (Live)

I Love My Label

 I was at that show as well and remember talking about it here. We were in the second row and when we made the rush up to the stage, Jeff was a bit surprised - he had made a remark that (because my wife was dressed so nice) he thought that we were just there on a date. I have only been to 4 Wilco shows, but this was my favorite. Jeff played a lot on the electric guitar and there was a "freshness" to the way everyone played since Nels & Pat had not been with the band for very long at that point. It was the first time I heard the alternate ending to Ashes and the live "feedback duel" between Jeff & Nels at the end of Handshake Drugs. I also recall the backdrop display was incredible - a series of photographs,film loops, ending with a picture of an outline of a hummingbird at the end of the show (before the encore). Never forget that night - wish they had commissioned a poster just for that show.

I forgot about the backdrop, it was amazing.  They hired an artist to basically make a video reel to go along with each song.  Some of the images were very trippy, and really added to the whole show.  I remember the spiders one and hummingbird ones being exceptionally cool.

So, does anyone have the FLAC files saved for me????

I really love all the DBT records, but the newest one is probably third to least favorite, 2nd being Pizza deliverance and 1st being The big to do. That being said, it is probably my favorite new album of the year so far.  It isn't it's fault, just the nature of a band with so many fantastic records.  On that note, I really don't get the hate for GGB some people have....

In other news, I was eating at my favorite mexican place in town, Taco Bus, when I noticed Patterson Hood and Jay Gonzalez were eating a couple booths down from me!  I told them I was super excited for their show that night and we talked about record stores.  Definitely one of my least awkward run ins with a musical hero of mine!

That is the coolest cover photo, I wish they wouldnt have used the brown border...

I bet theyve had some protools assistance on the vocals, which to me is okay for this kind of release.  Neil's awesome unreleased stuff on this make it worth picking for me. 

Check out "pushed it over the end"

I built this one a few weeks ago, Allparts neck, MJT body, Mare pickups...

Some of this collection is gone, and I have a few more things too, but this is still a pretty good picture of my stuff:

The Yamaha FG-140 has had its neck cut off to try and repair the terrible neck angle and replace the top to repair the pickguard damage and damage from the bridge coming unglued, so its final fate is undetermined...  I sold the '59 Premier Scroll Guitar, '63 Gibson LG-0, and '64 B-25, and added the tele above, an Ampeg V4 and acoustic 2x15 bass cab, and a '72 Nippon Gakki yamaha FG-180 exactly like Elliott Smith's (Found in a pawn shop for $60! It had nylon strings on it for at least the last 20 years or so, so the neck angle is still great!!).  I think those are all the new ones, I should make another group shot!

I may be biased, both because it was my first Wilco show and because I just started a thread to see if anyone could send me the flac files for it because I only have an mp3 now, but Tampa 2005/02/16 was a fantastic show!

It was in a nice performing arts center, with awesome acoustics, so the recording came out great.  On top of that, it was an awesome setlist, with a wonderful closing "I shall be released". 

This venue has a pretty big gap between the first row and stage, and after about 10 tunes, Tweedy said something about how far away everyone was, so at this point people started getting up.  My seats were about 15 rows from the front, so me and my friend I came with jumped up and went to the front.  I ended up leaning on the stage in between Jeff and Nels.  Holy crap, my face hurt from smiling at the guitar awesomeness 5 feet in front of me!  These early 2005 shows were really unique in that Nels was still learning the songs, so Jeff played more guitar than he has for many years, and Nels has more improvisational parts than he did soon thereafter.

They played a nice drawn out version of Kingpin, and in the middle of it, this teenage girl three people to my right was talking on her cell phone.  Jeff asked her who she was talking to, and she said her mother, so Jeff asked if he could talk to her!  He took the phone, and had a little conversation with the girls mom, including saying "I'm Jeff, the singer of the band"! 

Tweedy SG:

A lot of people have trouble with tuning new gibsons, and it can be a frustrating thing.  

The solution is almost never the tuners, the stock ones are fine.  In fact, gibson buys their "Gibson Deluxe" kluson style tuners (The ones with a screw on bushing, on most of the standard line guitars) from Grover!  The have the same exact insides as the rotomatics...

(This is the Grover stamped version http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/Guitar,_solid_peghead_tuners/Grover_Tuners/Grover_Deluxe_Keystones.html)

It is ALWAYS, one of these things:  The nut, the nut, your stringing technique, the nut, or your tuning technique

Take a look at the nut.  Notice the angle the G string has to take to get to the tuner?  It always catches there.  Think about what happens when you bend a string, or even just play the guitar:  The string moves in the nut slot.  If it gets caught in the nut slot, you will be sharp!  If you tuned down to the note, it may get caught in the nut and actually be flat, but caught in the nut, so when you move it, it fixes itself flat!

You can do some light filing that fixes many guitars by folding up some sandpaper and giving it a few strokes.  We are talking about a very small amount of material here, so take it easy.  Less than the thickness of paper should be plenty to help you in most cases.  

Tuning:  Always tune UP to the note.  If you go just slightly over, tune it down a 1/4 step or so and then back up to the note.  

Stringing:  Try to only get two wraps around each post MAX, and preferably learn the locking wrap technique.  

Vibrato:  I use a bigsby on my Les Paul, in a crazy Neil Young manner!  I am almost never out of tune because my guitars are very well set up, but if I am out of tune after vibrato use, I never touch a tuning peg.  hit the vibrato bar again!  If you look at the strings when you play the vibrato, your bridge rocks back and forth slightly.  Sometimes it gets stuck in a different place than where it began, so just move the bar and it will most likely go back to the normal spot!

Hope this helps...

Thanks for taping.

 

Please consider putting the show up at bt.etree.org instead of Dime a Dozen.

What's up with dime? I used to use that. I like etree, so I will follow your advice. I actually downloaded my first bootleg and wilco show, Tampa 2005, from the same venue they played at last night on etree! Hard to believe that was over 7 years ago...