H to the ickle

I love Billy Joel. Billy Joel, Steely Dan, Cat Stevens, The Who and Neil Young made all of the music I listened to when I was really young and since Billy Joel was my mom's favorite, Songs from the Attic and The Stranger were nearly always on the turntable before my dad got home from work (I'm only 21 but we were too poor to upgrade to cassettes, let alone CDs until I was about 12). Also, Turnstiles is an awful record.

This is an old promo video for the video game Team Fortress 2 and I just put it together that the song he's playing on his guitar is "Someone Else's Song". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i68cEsALWt0 Doesn't seem to be any mention of the band or anything (even on the developer's website) but I don't know what the rules are on that sort of thing.

I've seen him six times and they've all been pretty good. The best by far was seeing him solo at Mississippi Nights (RIP).

Doesn't it always?

I think it sounds pretty great.

That Stones cover was really intense. I drove up from Columbia, MO with my friend Rob (from England) and drove back all in the same night. It was quite a trip what with me having a midterm the next morning at 9am. All worth it for such a rocktastic explosion of explosiviosity.

Yeah. I have a test the next morning at 9am.

Unfortunately, no.

Me and a buddy of my from Manchester, England are going. He's studying abroad at the University of Missouri in Columbia and I got him to come see them when they played at Summerfest (my favorite Wilco show to date) and then again when they play KC about a month later. I like to think that introducing him to the band and taking him to three Wilco shows in the one year that he's here is just my duty as an American.

Jeff's jacket during Walken was off the charts. I usually hate it when a band I really like is on SNL because for whatever reason, bands always sound like ass when they play in that studio. Now Wilco certainly didn't sound like ass but I don't think they really did themselves justice either.

Wilco - 4 AD - 1

That's how I play it, I felt like a champion when I figured out the descending turnaround part. Thanks for posting it and verifying that I wasn't playing it the wrong way.

I'm going to drive up for the first two shows... Pretty pumped.

My dad's 49 and he's been to two shows this year with me (I'm 21). Good taste doesn't have an age.

That's hardly even a song. Just a bunch of half-cocked, unformulated accusations with a boring guitar riff behind it.

Mine ears... They bleed. How can something be so off-beat?

I get sick of people shitting all over Pablo Honey because it's a good rock record and not a "Radiohead" record. I love it.

They regularly play Casino Queen, Box Full of Letters, I'm Always in Love, What Light, and few others on 102.3 here in Columbia.

Yeah, I'm not much of a University of Kansas fan either. I am sorry I forgot about Boulevard... It's KC's saving grace IMO.

I have friends in KC and they don't like it much either. Maybe the reason I haven't seen the best side of the city is I'm only ever around for a few hours on either side of the show I've seen. On the positive side, the Uptown Theater is one of my favorite small-to-medium sized venues I've ever been to. I wasn't trying to insult anyone, just the city.

Use "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" by Billy Joel.

I just don't like KC. It think it's stupidly laid out and has little to no personality. I've been there for probably six shows (including another Wilco show) and have never had a good time in the city (though the Wilco show was my first, so it was great). I think the main reason I didn't have as much of a killer time at this show was just the fact that the set was almost exactly (with a few great exceptions) the same as the set they played in Columbia, MO on September 19. I was floored by that set (and the venue and the crowd and the band's high spirits) and had been listening to the recordi

I did, I was out of that God-forsaken city 15 minutes after Spiders was done.

I agree with this in its entirety. This was by far my least favorite Wilco show and it had to do with the venue, the crowd, and the general lack of energy in the crowd. It also doesn't help that I think KC is a shithole and never go there except for concerts (and this last show will keep me from going to Crossroads again). Also, MU lost to Oklahoma just as Andrew Bird's set was ending, I think that's why Wilco was annoyed.

It was definitely a fun show. Even though with the exception of Company in My Back, Box Full of Letters, She's a Jar, and Pick Up the Change, it was the same set they played in Columbia in a different order. Did anyone else just want to hit the "MC" in the eye with a cinder block?