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Or maybe Late Greats.

The camera work is really bad. But a great Wilco vibe here, if my damn computer didn't keep dropping out.

Lots of new stuff--I imagine that cd is close to being completed.

Next? Walken!

I have a feeling that tonight they will play Box Full of Letters.

no

Yes?

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock

PdP is pretty awful, no?

Wilco, we're waiting.....

Spent my days with a woman unkind,

Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.

Made up my mind to make a new start,

Going to california with an aching in my heart.

Someone told me theres a girl out there

With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.

Took my chances on a big jet plane,

Never let them tell you that theyre all the same.

The sea was red and the sky was grey,

Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.

The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake

As the children of the sun began to awake.

Seems that the wrath of the gods

Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;

I think I might be sinking.

Throw me a line if I reach it in time

Ill meet you up there where the path

Runs straight and high.

To find a queen without a king;

They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.

La la la la

Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn

Tryin to find a woman whos never, never, never been born.

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,

Telling myself its not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

August is a big anniversary month. Ours is 8/25--16 years!! I can summarize my emotions with the smilies:

We're heading for the Atlantic tomorrow, to Folley Beach and Charleston, for a week. Then return home for two days before traveling west, to the beautiful Pacific for a few days in N. California, then begin our road trip along the northwest coast before settling in to Victoria for the Fall.

Should be an adventure...

Yes, which means the AntiChrist is:

 

Surely you're all much more interesting that what you're revealing here...

Tattoos?

Piercings?

Unusual Jewlery?

Scars?

I've got a skull ring (please tell me that's the first time anyone on this board has used the dead smiley face!).

Want to get an AWATT tattooed on my arm--kids love the idea, students would dig it, but the wife will kill me, divorce me, or have me committed, not necessarily in that order.

I'd rather not say.

I wish to hell I was going but can't wait to hear the reports. Can't make the Folks Festival as originally planned either. Thank God for the upcoming dvd.

I'm a little slow but finally got my hands on this (instead of Ryan Adams, though someone was nice enough to send me the Cold Roses collection), and I love it. Analogman, did your opinion change yet? This is not the instant classic that Weird Tales was for me (Until You Came Along, Lost Love, Making Waves, and Fear of Falling being particular high points) but still a solid effort. At the moment am enamored with opening three songs and other Tweedy cuts, my kids love Corvette, and one buddy is now only listening from track 7 on. I'm sure it's going to grow on me. Not sure if someone pasted this piece from Billboard, but here it is again.

Golden Smog In 'Fine' Form On New Album

February 23, 2006, 10:55 AM ET

Wes Orshoski, N.Y.

Lost Highway has set July 18 as the release date for "Another Fine Day," the first release in eight years from Golden Smog. The lauded supergroup features Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy, Big Star's Jody Stephens and the Jayhawks' Gary Louris, Marc Perlman and Kraig Johnson.

Again sporting separate songwriting contributions from Tweedy, Louris, Perlman, Murphy and Johnson, the band's fourth album is composed of 14 originals and a cover of the Kinks' Dave Davies' "Strangers," sung by Louris and Tweedy.

The first Golden Smog album to follow both Wilco's ascension to "it"-band status and reports of a Jayhawks break-up, "Another Fine Day" was recorded last year in two separate sessions, the first sans Tweedy and Stephens in the south of Spain, the second with the full band in Minneapolis.

The songs from the first session, captured in Puerto De Santa Maria, feature Linda Pitmon (Steve Wynn, Zuzu's Petals) on drums, and vocals from Muni Loco, wife of Paco Loco, who co-produced the disc with Ed Ackerson (Mason Jennings, the Jayhawks) and the band.

"Another Fine Day" began to take shape when bassist Perlman was asked to write a song for a Guy Ritchie-directed Corvette commercial. While the song was never used in the ad, the core band of Perlman, Louris, Murphy and Johnson got together and began writing the first half of the record. "It was four guys mumbling into a microphone for a few sessions and going, 'Oh, this could be a song,'" says Louris.

On the band's previous, Ryko-released discs, the songwriter who wrote a particular song usually sang it. But perhaps due to how "Another Fine Day" was born, it sounds like more of a band effort, and less easily divisible by songwriter/singer.

Yet there are definite specific songwriter vehicles, like Murphy's "Hurricane," which while slightly twangy is driven by his trademark, revved-up Soul Asylum riffing. The harmonica-punctuated, piano-dusted "Gone" is pure Louris. Meanwhile, "Corvette," the song that started it all, is vintage power pop, and Louris and Tweedy's "Listen Joe," is a sparse, acoustic song for a long-gone friend.

Debuting with a covers EP in 1992, the occasional band has at different points also featured Soul Asylum frontman Dave Pirner, ex-Replacements drummer Chris Mars, Noah Levy of the Honeydogs and violinist Jessy Greene of the Geraldine Fibbers. Although Golden Smog had been virtually dormant since wrapping a tour behind 1998's "Weird Tales," last year, Louris, Perlman, Murphy and Johnson played a handful of Golden Smog dates sans Tweedy.

ACATT

Sorry, a lame contribution to this fascinating thread, but I'm tired.

Thanks for these treats, froggie!

I was wondering if you would ask. A thai medley, take out.

In the cd store I had Ryan Adams' Cold Roses in one hand and GS new one in the other. I went with GS and got the poster.

At the moment, my favorite is Wichita.

Is it just me, or do the Jayhawks sing a lot about death, murder, heartbreak, outcasts, the dark side....? No wonder I like them so much.

Are we going to vote on these or something? If so, Dick Fitzwell gets my vote.

People who sit around all day doing nothing but staring at their computer....

Wait, that's exactly what I've been doing all freaking day!!!

I deleted everything from my ipod that is extraneous to my current musical madness--first, middle, last, it's AWATT!!!

Yuengling's good, but its alcohol content is a little low.

Alcohol content is always the prime consideration.

This morning, it's the usual: Starbucks.

Cheap wine.

The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby, by Mark Prendergast? A student just gave me a copy to read and I must say it looks quite interesting. Just curious if any folks here know it and recommend. I suppose it has nothing to do with Wilco.... It's now in the queue after Chronicles and The Devil in the White City.

Missy Hardman