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If You Could Read My Mind was awesome. "More Money, More Fans" should be the next Wilco/Jeff album title, LOL. The poem should of course be on there Honestly I think Wilco's audience is right-sized. If 10 million people were tuning in and commenting it would be overwhelming and we wouldn't feel as intimately connected.

Hard Times News, a few days ago: https://thehardtimes.net/culture/insane-clown-posse-announce-inaugural-distancing-of-the-juggalos/ "“If we can all come together by staying apart, we know the ‘Distancing of the Juggalos’ can and will be every bit as dope as any Gathering. Whoop whoop, cut a motherfucker’s head off, and so on.”"

Agree. Even if the curve is flattened I don't see any big public events happening this year at all. No sense getting things under control somewhat only to have it blow up again and set us all back however many months or a year. Even early 2021 seems doubtful to me now for shows/sports. The only show I don't yet want a refund for is Pearl Jam, just because of how hard it is to get tickets. They can keep me on the list and hold on to my money until 2022 or whenever the show happens.

That is impressive. I usually go to 20-30 shows a year, but there have been months without shows before. And there have been months with 5-6 shows, maybe more. Heck there have been weeks with 4 shows. I will now have to look at my list and see what my longest months' streak is. I think we can dismiss April 2020 to whenever things open up again in terms of your streak I mean we're all in the same boat and you're not missing any actual public events.

I think the thing with John Popper was that Jeff went in to the office get a band aid and John Popper was going around the room giving people cigars, and when he got to Jeff he closed the cigar box. LOL. The Clients sparked a conversation that "John Popper was dead (to them)" leading Susie to think that John Popper really was dead.

Nice! Yes I remember 2 or 3 other small groups of fans at the bus. The first few years I was going to shows I was "too cool" to ask for photos/autographs, to my regret, so I only have memories from that night. Now I don't mind asking at all - you never know when you'll get that chance again. What's crazy is that was 20 years ago this summer. Sheesh. Half my life ago, almost.

It was billed as the American Folk Music Tour, or something like that. The show I attended in Danbury, CT was not "in the round" as Jeff seemed to indicate that tour was. There definitely were more people there to see NM than Wilco, I think she was a bigger name at the time. That show was the one time I met the band after a show, we bailed halfway into NM's set and found the guys outside their bus..

I am listening to a 1995 show on Owl and Bear and there is a nice version of Reincarnation that has become the Tweedy Show ending credits song. I know it had been done with Golden Smog but hadn't heard a Wilco version yet. Edit - dang looks like that link just goes to the full show archive and not directly to the song. Anyhow it is Track 21.

Jeff said that Jackfruit Brisket is his new stage name. LOL. I guess Scot Summit has long since retired. Didn't they do a Billie Eilish song last week?

I was prepared to not like Gigaton, based on the DOTC and Wolfmoon singles. I am happily surprised to like it. Comes Then Goes, Seven O'Clock, and Retrograde are my favorite songs.

Spiraling - Do You hear What I Hear (Baba O'Riley mash up) Pearl Jam - Don't Believe In Christmas - (Original by The Sonics but this version is easier on the ears). Pearl Jam - Santa God

Another Elf Done Gone At My Mistletoe Sad and Lonely Sleigh Ride To Heaven Bull Black Red Ryder BB Gun North Pole Queen Santa For President Forgot the Presents Hesitating Rudolph Saint Nicholas Done It Again Jesus Came Along To Me (if we counting anything from Mermaid Ave) "There's a random painted fireplace, and a Stocking of Coals" "Someone's Else's Gift, from a Holiday Not Long Ago" (for the White Elephant regifting parties)

No particular order: Joseph Arthur - Come Back World Mdou Moctar - Ilana the Creator Mark Knopfler - Down the Road Wherever Trapper Schoepp - Primetime Illusion Joan Shelley - Like the River Loves the Seas Lana del Ray - Norman Fucking Rockwell Wilco - Ode To Joy The Who - WHO Ohhme - Parts Locally (Hudson Valley NY), I really enjoyed The Warp The Weft - "Dead Reckoning" I haven't picked up Mark Lanegan's new album yet. Usually he's near the top of my lists. The brief samples I've heard haven't really been my thing. I'll probably pick it up soonish though.

Since I posted this to another forum in Top Ten format... Top Ten, er, Eleven: 1 Joseph Arthur - The Ballad of Boogie Christ 2a/b. The Spring Standards - Would Things be Different; Yellow/Gold 3. Drive-By Truckers - American Band 4. Lucius - Wildewoman 5. Trapper Schoepp - Run Engine Run 6. Wilco - The Whole Love 7. Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral 8. Joan Shelley - Over and Even 9. Eric Stuart Band - Lipstick and Barbed Wire 10. Mdou Moctar - Ilana the Creator Honorable Mentions in no particular order: Erika Wennerstrom - The Sweet Unknown; Old 97s - The Grand Theater Vol 1; AA Bondy - Believ

Lucius Trapper Schoepp Joan Shelley Mdou Moctar

Jeff solo tour winter 2001... At Irving Plaza Jeff mentioned that someone in the audience sent him a book that their publishing company put out about Bob Dylan, that claimed Dylan was the first musician to blow in and out of a harmonica. Jeff then said he was the first person to strum his guitar strings up and down, back when he was "inventing alternative country." That was also the tour where Jeff told the story every night how, as a kid, he and his friend would say things were "cock", so he changed the names of his songs to "____ cock." People started shouting out "Box Full of Cock" "What's

Here you go: "Music To His Ears."

Not sure how cold this one was but it looks chilly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e7f-2hBFm8

Only if 45 minutes north of Manhattan counts as "upstate"!

Well, he also has a phobia of pronouncing "swords" (10/12/19) and he says AL-bany instead of Awl-bany and ROE-chester instead of Rah-chester (Solid Sound). I guess people from the midwest just pronounce things differently!

Haha, great stuff. Congrats Paul on the video spot. Ohmme & Wilco sounds like a good combination indeed.

You and I by Lucius would be nice. There is a video of the Spring Standards covering I'm Always in Love; would be nice to hear a proper studio take by them. Tom Petty doing You Never Know would have been perfect, especially as the music is so similar to Jammin' Me anyway. Los Lobos - Secret of the Sea Mark Knopfler - One Sunday Morning Ben Kweller - Box Full of Letters Old 97s - Candyfloss Soul Asylum - Student Loan Stereo I'm trying to think what song would be perfect for Joseph Arthur...perhaps You Are My Face. Or maybe How Do You Fight Loneliness. Good choices for Pearl Jam up the

Joe DiMaggio Done It Again - still can't believe they didn't try this one in Cooperstown 2012, at least. Blasting Fonda - well, I guess I am not surprised they don't play it. But I've been waiting a long time to hear it. Finally got my What Light at Solid Sound this summer. Agree that Magnetized and You Satellite should be in regular rotation.

No wonder why you got so hooked! Did I not know that was your first show? For some reason I thought you just missed the Jay Bennett era. I must be thinking of another long-time Wilco friend.... We must have shared some elbow room at the stage that night?

Indeed.. probably because the other guys were using their leftovers in GS while Kraig's songs were his best. Still, that's pretty admirable given how awesome many of those "leftovers' are! Dan has also recently become active on instagram. Here's to hoping for a few more one-off gigs at least.