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Banter Corner: "When I get to play outside with my acoustic guitar and it's a day this nice, I always feel I should cancel. Because all my songs are so sad. I don't want to ruin this day for you. I've been kind of sad lately. Let's all enjoy my sadness together. It's my first father's day without my father so - yeah I'm just gonna pour it on, everybody. Save yourselves, run for the exits!... We love you - me and my guitar love you." "One time I played an outside festival like this and there was a band on before me that had everybody in the audience with their hands in the air singing "Everyt

I had low expectations especially after the lead single came out. Besides that song, I like the rest of the album. Dark, angry, pissed-off records are what we need these days.

1/2-2/3 of Schmilco Outside of that? Hm, there really aren't many I skip. Maybe Dark Neon.

As in, Drew Emmitt's songs were songs with genuine lyrics and structure. Herman seemed to be making his songs up as he went along. At one point it seemed he was just throwing random syllables out there.

Leftover Salmon. I loved that album Euphoria when I was in college, I played it so many times. Finally went to see them at Bowery Ballroom in the early 2000s. Literally ten people were in the room during the opening act. Very awkward. Somehow the room filled up between the end of the opening act and LS, who didn't go on until very late, well past 11pm. I had to leave early to catch that last Metro-North train home, so it is one of the very rare shows I did not see all the way through. Which was fine. I think they only did one song that I recognized from Euphoria. Drew Emmitt's stuff was somewh

Thanks for the tip. That guy sounds really good.

Lucius at Town Hall NYC. Also saw them on Sunday in Woodstock. They've added True Love Will Find You to the setlist, and continue to cover Strangers. Of course I consider both to be "Wilco/Tweedy" songs.

It wasn't my cup of tea either. On the bright side, the singles haven't always been the best songs off the albums, so there is still some hope.

New single just released, "from the band’s forthcoming album."

I guess this is "Live! Last Night!" but Eric Johnson at Infinity Hall in Norfolk, CT. I hadn't listened to the album in a long time but I was recently reminded that Ah Via Musicom might be one of my top 10 desert island discs (Eric is playing the album in its entirety on this tour).

Can't believe I forgot Ben Kweller. I saw Ben open for Jeff Tweedy on the Feb. 2001 tour as was immediately hooked. BK Baby How it Should Be (Sha Sha) Launch Ramp maybe a few others too....

Pearl Jam - Lukin Setting Forth and No Ceiling from the Into the Wild soundtrack by Eddie Vedder.

I seem to have forgotten that there was an official live take of Strangers on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhbQTDDHd8E And a studio version on a Deluxe edition of Good Grief. Huh. I should have known better. Never mind then! Wish they'd put these things on the dang CD in the first place rather than a deluxe digital download.

Woulda been cool to hear a proper studio version of Strangers, which they frequently did in the acoustic portion of their live show a couple years back. And I know it's a Kinks song, but in my mind is is a Tweedy/Smog tune.

I would love to see a Smog set at Solid Sound sometime. Seems especially unlikely nowadays however with Dan Murphy out of the music business. I also get the sense that a lot of Wilco fans aren't really into GS.. As for expanded Smog reissue, what could they put out besides live takes (but some official live releases would be sweet!)? Seems unlikely there are unreleased GS tunes, since GS tunes are essentially outtakes from the various members' main bands to begin with.

pretty cool, thanks for posting that pic. Here's an alternate view, looks like that building was built into a hillside and was two stories at the "stage" end.

Nice, thanks for the reminder. I preferred the August timing at first, something to look forward to all summer, but I now think June is much better.

I was thinking he looked like Martin St. Louis. circa 2004 Stanley Cup winner, LOL.

Any real-life conversation that begins with "we should talk" is never good. That being said, I don't think the sky is falling here. At the 2015 festival, a Mass Moca staffer told me what I think was widely known then anyway, that there was a five-year contract with Wilco, starting with 2011, and going through 2019 (2010 was a one-off when it occurred). The comment about Solid Sound not being anyone's best pay day suggests the event still doesn't make much money, and to bring in more people or to raise the ticket price exponentially would mar the goodwill the event has established. But to

LOL, gotcha. I was looking up and down for it, haha. I read "favorites" as being favorite versions of Spiders. Anyhow, good to have an prompt to dig into the vault, something I rarely do anymore. Thanks.

Spiders isn't on my copy of 10/5/01 and doesn't appear on internet setlists. Did it really appear that early? This thread made me dig out some live CDs from that era. Man, Jeff's banter was a bit rough back then.

Thank you, kidsmoke!

A few from Sunday.

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Pro-shot director's cut of Temple of the Dog performance at the PJ20 festival was posted to youtube last night. Eddie Vedder gives a nice introduction to Chris beginning around the 7:20 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHIz3qWy8oI Great thing about the "Seattle scene" was how much camaraderie and encouragement there was between many bands. Chris rightfully so appears in much of the early part of the PJ20 documentary for helping Stone and Jeff move forward after the death of Andy Wood, and for helping Ed find his footing as an outsider coming in.