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    Billy Joel - The Stranger

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    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.

    Val Air Ballroom

    in After The Show

    Posted

    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.

    Des Moines Queue - March 9

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    It is your duty! But it's his duty to have shortbread shipped over along with proper Cadbury chocolate, crisps from Sensations as well as a big bottle of paracetamol :) Will you be missing class on Monday?

     

    Unfortunately, no.

    Des Moines Queue - March 9

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    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. :thumbup

    SNL!

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    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.

    10/13/07 Crossroads KC, MO

    in After The Show

    Posted

    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.

    10/13/07 Crossroads KC, MO

    in After The Show

    Posted

    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 recording for weeks-- I was just expecting a little more variety.

     

    The band played amazingly and I never said I didn't have a great time. I only said that the show was my least favorite Wilco show I've attended. That's like saying it's my least favorite briefcase full of unmarked, non-consecutive, hundred dollar bills.

     

    Kansas City just rubs me the wrong way.

    10/13/07 Crossroads KC, MO

    in After The Show

    Posted

    The show at Crossroads last night was about my 10th Wilco show, I can't recall exactly.

     

    While I love the current line-up, I didn't exactly "love" the show last night. It was the venue that pretty much ruined it for me. The band seemed to be annoyed b4 the show, as someone else posted as well. I saw a few of them when I was walking in and they were all on their cell phones and looked irritated. And I saw Pat after Bird's performance and he looked "highly pissed off".

     

    Anyway, the "MC" as ppl have complained about was/is the owner of the restaurant, Grinders, and I assume he also owns the venue. He is, indeed, highly annoying . As for the comment he made about Elton John? I didn't hear it, but I doubt, very seriously it was inflammatory to Sir Elton Hercules John's sexual orientation, as the MC/Owner fella is from what I've read a homosexual himself. At least I read that anyway. And, he addressed me as "babe" one time in his stinkhole restaurant, and I am a male. Another thing that annoyed me was the ppl that continually would walk right up in front of me and stand right in front of me, no more than a foot away... and I wasn't close up, at all even. Just completly oblivious to anybody but themselves and their stupid Jayhawk hats. As for the fireworks? Meh. They were "Fair" at best, but it was a nice thought.

     

    I don't think I'll ever attend another concert at the Crossroads, the staff is too rude, and you have to be pretty much in the center to see the whole stage... at least w/ the setup from last night. I didn't think the sound was so good either. Also, as for Tweedy stating that the crowd was "amazing" or whatever? Well, I think if we were to take that same crowd and put them in an indoor theater, he would have thought differently, the crowd, from all 4-5 different places I was at was very talkative and loud and if we were to have been indoors it would have been much more noticeable.

    Also, something was "amiss" with the sound during Bird's performance... Nels was standing behind me (slouched in a corner leaning against a beer stand) and he stated that he hoped it didn't happen when they were performing. And, for the person that stated that it's hard to "sing a long" to Bird's performances? Good. There is nothing more annoying than ppl that sing along to performances. Just a "head's up". We don't pay 30 bucks to hear you sing. Yeah, there's times to sing a lyric or two duiring Wilco shows, but singing along to a song so that you are trying to impress everyone around you is borderline criminal in my book.

     

    The band was in good form tho, as usual. Quite a bit more distortion coming from Nels than I ever remember. Haven't seen as much banter out of Tweedy since a few years ago when he got on a girl's cell phone, while on stage, and had a conversation with the girl's mother.

     

    KC people, don't take offense to my writing. I'm a jerk. I must admit, I suppose it was somewhat pretextual, as I very much dislike Grinders. That place is a dirty, dirty restaurant with an "i'm cooler than you" staff that seems as tho they have never worked a job b4, left alone in a restaurant.

     

     

     

    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.

    10/13/07 Crossroads KC, MO

    in After The Show

    Posted

    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?

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