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    a MarchMadness-style "bracket" for WILCO's greatest songs!

    in Just A Fan

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    excited to share a new "SHOVING WILCO" podcast where we've stacked up a MarchMadness-style bracket of our all-time favorite WILCO songs...  we're using a GoogleDoc for round-by-round voting and hoping that Wilco fans everywhere will help out by voting and sharing the link around with other fans.  Check it out and follow the link at the top of the podcast page ~

     

    March Madness! The All-Time, Indisputable, Totally-Your-Own-Opinion, Greatest Songs Of Wilco Bracket

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    Wilco - 10/2/11 Ryman Auditorium

    in After The Show

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    On 10/3/2011 at 12:14 AM, yohansen5b said:

    Also, did they only make like two dozen of the posters? Both nights, the person right in front of me bought the last one. I get that sometimes these things become collectables (see also: solid sound posters made on site) but the competition is a bit irksome when all I want to do is get a poster and watch Wilco bring the house down.

     

     

    over a decade later and I'm still looking for one of those Hatch Show Prints for my collection.  That was a great pair of shows and I had just moved to Nashville.  An epic failure to not get there early for the show poster... anybody know where I can buy one??

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    Hardly Strictly Tweedy

    in After The Show

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    nope... he loved music. I was thrilled that got to see him in New Orleans a year before he went "High Lonesome" for good. There's a great documentary about him and his music... I'll try to find the title, but it might be called, simply: "High Lonesome".

    Hardly Strictly Tweedy

    in After The Show

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    I think Bill Monroe would turn up his nose at this.

     

     

    I think you might be surprised how Bill Monroe would respond to this.... he was really a happy, loving guy. He was joyous about music and about musicians and the way they loved his music.

     

    e.g., The Granddaddy of Bluegrass said he felt honored when The King of Rock n' Roll played a new arrangement of "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (and Sam Phillips was afraid that he might kill him for recording it!!)

    Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, August 29, 2007

    in After The Show

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    once they got to Impossible Germany it was all downhill. Anyone else notice that they're just not rhythmically tight? They're speeding up all over the place. That didn't used to happen.

     

    ARE YOU INSANE????

     

    This band is so talented, so musically genius, so in command of their playing.... they are on top of the world and singing songs!

     

    I've seen Wilco at all the shows you mentioned.... EL REY, FORD AMPITHEATER, WILTERN, GREEK.... and last night was one of the best I've ever seen! The setlist was immaculate. The performance was spectacular. These guys are the most amazing band making music today (but, I don't have to sell that here at V.C.)

     

    I think you're confusing "rythmically tight" with "so talented that they can bend time itself". Glenn is a monster on the drums... John is at his most solid and subtle.... dynamic and loose and what a swing that they put on WALKEN... what an incredible crescendo and release to YOU ARE MY FACE.... a transcendant ON AND ON

     

    this show was like seeing The Beatles in '68. This band is now part of history, part of the Universal Consciousness....

     

    and last night was an incredible show. Thank you Jeff, John, Glenn, Mikael, Pat and Nels.

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