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RE: Wilco shirt photos - Awesome project, great idea! Thanks for sharing. Cool way to break the ice and meet people too. Also refutes the very stupid "Don't be that guy" argument about wearing band shirts to shows.

Courtyard D needs a sliding roof like the new Miami Marlins stadium has, LOL.

La Pistola y El Corazon was the only Los Lobos tune to appear. I didn't know any other songs, but their set was great!

Speaking of the boxed water, for all of the environmental concerns addressed by the print on the box, I couldn't help but wonder how they justified putting a plastic spout and cap on the side. Why not just open it like on old school milk carton?

They justified it by selling it for 2 dollars. The cafe conveniently ran out of the one dollar bottled water not even midway through the event but they had plenty of the boxed water on hand for twice as much.

She has plenty of shows streaming on NPR too. I know that's she's against audience taping too, but I would guess that the radio broadcasts and archived streams are approved in advance, and hence free to share as links.

I think they pretty much do "demands" shows every night.They take requests on their website and play the most-submitted songs.

Gonna put this here right now since I don't see a thread for Night 2 in A Future Age yet...

Neko's set streaming on WFUV
http://www.wfuv.org/audio/archives/fuv-live/neko-case-solid-sound-festival-2013

I guess they streamed Wilco's set live too, but I don't see an archived stream for it.

Thanks for letting us know. I didn't know what it was that people were listening to and didn't wait around for a pair of headphones to free up. Would like to have heard the unreleased stuff.

Truly awesome. As a fellow music nerd I've been dying to hear any of my favorite bands do an all-covers night. So awesome. There were about 8 or 9 songs I never heard before, and most of them I really enjoyed. My evening highlight was James Alley Blues which appeared on one of the first Wilco mix CDs anyone ever made for me, back in the late 1990s. I was up front where that song got the quietest reception of the night, but I loved it.

Unfortunately I didn't get to see Tommy on Color Me Impressed even though I was up front - one of the pro-camera men was right in front of me and blocked my view. Actually he blocked my view of Jeff for most of the night too. Boo. So it was funny to me when Jeff called said cameraman out for not eating his pizza, haha (I think that was night 2). The guy actually took his pizza off the speaker stack and placed it out of Jeff's view, LOL.

Wilco - Via Chicago (as they so often did in 1999 when I first saw them)

Pearl Jam - Release / Long Road / Oceans

Soul Asylum - Somebody to Shove

I saw Morgan Freeman on the Daily Show yesterday.  It reminded me how much I'd like to sit down and have a drink and chat with the guy.  He's brilliant, unassuming, charismatic and funny.  I would love to have the guy over for dinner.

 

Who's at your imaginary dinner party?

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I'd invite Herb Brooks to dinner.

As a Rangers fan, Pittsburgh-hating is de riguer. Detroit just kind of annoys me. They are like the Yankees of hockey.

 Pretty sure Montreal is the NY Yankees of hockey. Detroit is the St. Louis Cardinals of hockey. Maple Leafs=Cubs.

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Oops, different band.

I never knew the Peter Laughner thing. Or rather, if I saw his name in the credits, never thought to look him up. Thanks a lot. I really like that song. His other stuff however, not so much.

Whoa, my CD must be missing one of those 12-minute songs.

They did, on the 2010 "Evening With" tour for sure. Then the ban seemed to slowly erode.

Glad you found it. I wish they would list the posters by date/venue, would make them easier to find.

Well, I still call it Not For the Seasons and I think of it as a Wilco song that Jeff and Glenn later recorded with another project, LOL.But no, I've never made a Jeff solo mix. When I'm in the mood for a Jeff solo compilation I just listen to his Irving Plaza 2001 show. Good idea though, to gather the studio versions on one CD. I have made several b-side/studio outtakes mixes of Wilco and other bands,a nd often prefer them to some of the actual albums.

I have been meaning to make a Dan Murphy mix however, of all his Smog and Soul Asylum tunes.

I second that recommendation. I hoped they might be on Wilco's radar and be picked for Solid Sound. Maybe next time. I took some pix at New Haven and posted them here.

"This includes Wilco songs as well as originals."

Shouldn't this be "This includes Wilco songs as well as covers"?

I hope they take some unusual requests instead of playing the same top requested songs that they always take!

Cool, thanks for letting me know the real copy is good.

Just noticed this, thanks a lot.

Question about the sound - it starts off nice and meaty and warm, and then at the 2:20 mark in Art of Almost it drops out and gets real tinny. And it stays that way. The bass drops off and the sound effects get muffled.  A flaw in Wilco's recording setup? Or something get messed up in the stream? The full sound kicks back in around the 2:35 mark of What's the World Got In Store. Haven't listened to the rest of it yet.

i'm not a huge PJ fan, but i love Yield.  good call.  also love those Mazzy Star albums.  i wore those out when they were released.

Cool, nice to see some acknowledgement for some bands often under-represented around these parts. A hard core fan might argue all the first five PJ records are 10/10, but those two are peak for me. And as hard-core as I am, I can say with certainty in my mind that PJ hasn't had a truly great record since Yield. Some good ones, but they haven't been back to that level. (A fun way to listen to Yield is to track it in order of the liner note lyrics, different than the actual tracklist.)

Yeah, Mazzy Star.. that was something. I guess they did some shows last year but they seem to be in no great hurry to release another album ever.

Pearl Jam - No Code, Yield

The Who - Quadrophenia

Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See, Among My Swan

Mark Lanegan - Scraps at Midnight, Whiskey for the Holy Ghost

Wilco - YHF (side two of the cassette that I kept in my car was a condensed version of the outtakes, I'd have to include that too)
 

There's certainly a ton of other stuff I have listened to millions of times as well and don't have any songs I skip over, but naming them all would make the list purposeless. These albums listed here are really a cut above all else for me.

Haha, I should have actually quoted the fellow who mentioned "The Who Live At Leeds"

Does Yes...Live at Leeds exist.  I tried to find it online and nothing.  I know about YesSongs which is great (classic lineup and get recording).