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Yeah, event bright? Was I buying tickets or was it just telling everyone on facebook I'm going? LOL. Entering gender/birthdate/age for buying tix? That was new. I wonder if the will-call option is just the wrist-band or if they will indeed provide an actual hard-copy ticket.

Not sure if we have a "Wilco seen while out and about" thread or not, so dropping this here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BNuUVNChdGk/?taken-by=baseballcardvandals

Well, I've been listening to Temple of the Dog non-stop since I saw them last month. I had a copy on tape back in the day, but only liked 2 or 3 songs. Never got into Soundgarden/Cornell. But now I'm all over this one. It commonly takes seeing a band live for me to really dig their latest album, but that's usually not long after the record comes out, a few months maybe, not 25 years later, LOL. A more realistic example would be Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, generally regarded as Mark Lanegan's finest solo album, and probably better than anything by Screaming Trees. Back in the mid-late 1990s I

I have been having firefox issues overall for the last week or so. Runs sluggish at work, and seems to have some kind of complete java incompatibility issue at home, rendering certain buttons and videos on websites totally inoperable. To the point I had to download and install chrome if I want to buy something. I've heard from other people with similar issues, basically that "firefox is bloated" now and no longer such a reliable browser. Took me ~15-20 mins, but I scored rear orchestra for Sun & Weds. at Beacon Theater. I'm cool with that, especially as orchestra was less expensive than l

Highlights including last December, since this year's hasn't happened yet: * Neko Case at Apollo Theater, NYC - Dec. 2015. * Spring Standards - King Killer Studios Brooklyn, & Boxing Day show at Arden Gild Hall, Delaware - Dec. 2015 * Wilco - 3x but I guess I'll go with King's Theater Brooklyn 2/5/16 as the best, if only because it was my first time in that awesome venue. * The Who - March 14 Philly - might be my last time seeing them, barring me attending any other Desert Trip-like festivals. * Lucius - 4x in 2016. Daryl's House in Pawling NY June 24 was my favorite. Great to still be a

Drive-By Truckers - American Band Joseph Arthur - The Family Lucius - Good Grief Trapper Schoepp - Rangers and Valentines RNDM - Ghost Riding Soul Asylum - Change of Fortune Heather Robb - Heather (EP) Wilco - Schmilco Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Until the Hunter (just out/haven't actually heard it yet)

The closest I've got is seeing Ben Kweller open up for the likes of Jeff Tweedy (Irving Plaza) and Rhett Miller (Fez Under Time Cafe) in 2001, and also on his own at a number of very small NYC clubs, and then headlining Town Hall NYC (capacity 1500) around 2008? I did catch My Morning Jacket opening for Ben Kweller in 2002 at Bowery Ballroom, and Kings of Leon, also opening for Ben Kweller, at Irving Plaza (2004), but I never followed those bands on their own. I actually saw MMJ as an opener a number of times through the mid-2000s.

Drive By Truckers at Union Transfer in Philly was the place to be on the day after Election Day. Led onstage by Mike Cooley who announced "We're a goddamn motherfucking American band," they launched right into Surrender Under Protest, followed by a number of other songs that could well be considered protest songs. Cooley introduced Made Up English Oceans by retelling how his marching band played before Jimmy Carter in 1980, and the KKK happened to show up too, with the only difference between then and now being that they get their suits at Brooks Brothers and drive around in black SUVs with po

If so, I'm sure they would've teased us with "We Must be High" in the advertisements

I stay over in Williamstown/Hancock, never have an issue getting into/out of town. Then again I arrive early and take my time getting out, so I'm usually not in whatever the rush hour is for this event. Just obey the speed limit the whole way! Lots of places between Williamstown and North Adams for police to park their cars and wait for speeders to zip by. Since the last couple of SS's have featured a theme (covers/acoustic shows), what if any do you all think this year's theme will be? Does the "We're bringing our friends" tag line hint at a full-album performance of Being There, now that t

It certainly feels more specific than most of their other albums, but Ramon Casiano could have been written 15 years ago; WKRP in Cincinnati had an entire episode (in the 1970s!) about banning Imagine; Kinky Hypocrite could be about any televangelist/politician from the past few decades, etc... What It Means may be the only song actually that could be specifically dated, but even Hood mentioned that a shooting 20 years ago inspired the song (the Ruth Street mentioned in the lyrics). So I don't see it being anymore tied to this present moment than any of their other records, though it certainly

My CD finally arrived last week. The package looked like a dog chewed on it, it was even taped back up where a large hole was punctured, but the CD was fine. I guess I never frequented novelty stores much as I thought the "gum" was going to be actual gum, LOL. And the shocking really messed with me too.

Eddie Vedder & Mike McCready first performed Masters of War at the Dylan tribute concert in 1992. I don't know how these tribute/benefit shows go but I bet the bands are asked to perform a song, not that they get to pick it. So that song was in their back pocket long before Bush II was president.

She wasn't making fun of Aleppo. She was making fun of some guy, ostensibly a candidate for President of the USA, who doesn't know what Aleppo is. (Before the skit they ran a clip of the interview in which Gary Johnson admitted he didn't know what Aleppo was).

She could have gone with "I'm the Man Who Loves Aleppo" but she already used up an Aleppo joke (and a good one).

Still "in transit", with an expected delivery date of "Saturday, September 10, 2016". Might be time to file a claim with USPS. I suppose it's outta Kungfu's hands at this point, and even if I get a replacement CD I guess I'll be missing out on the shocking gum =/

Everybody get their Kungfu store preorders? I'm still waiting on the CD. USPS says it has been in transit from the shipping warehouse in NJ since 9/9/16. I live just north of NYC.

I'm confused. What night did they play What Light? It wasn't in the setlist at the top of the thread nor in the 9/2 thread. And What Light isn't on AGIB.

"Buried you alive in a fireworks display raining down on me." Actually the opening line of that song might be even better.

I feel like we have this thread already, or maybe this is the one I am thinking of: http://viachicago.org/topic/49758-your-favorite-big-shows-and-favorite-small-shows Anyway, i order of them popping into my head: 1. Soul Asylum, September 11, 1999 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ 2. Pearl Jam, July 11, 2003 - Acoustic Set, Mansfield, MA 3. Pearl Jam - October 31, 2009 - The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 4. Pearl Jam - July 18, 2013- Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL 5. Wilco - September 19, 2000 - Irving Plaza, NYC 6. Wilco - Covers Show, Solid Sound 2013 7. Neko Case & Paul Rigby duo, opening for Mavis

Trilogy? I remember way back when that meant Red Eyed > I Got You > Someone Else's Song.

Joseph Arthur. More of a wishlist item than prediction.

I thought the band signed a five "year" agreement after the first festival, which was essentially a one-off , so that'd mean festivals in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 and 2019. I recall reading/hearing that in several places at/after the 2015 festival but internet evidence is scarce. I found this: "But he did thank Mass MoCA for being a great host for the festival. And to the City of North Adams “For making us feel welcome and so special.” That made one feel truly proud of Mass MoCA by working with Wilco to create what will continue, at least for the next three years of a five year agreement, a

And if you turn up the volume *really loud* just before EKG, you can hear this: "It is a period of War on War. Bull Black Novas, striking from Hotel Arizona, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Kingpin. During the battle, Laminated Cats managed to steal a Box Full of Letters to the Kingpin's ultimate weapon, the BLACK MOON, an armored Airline to Heaven with enough Hoodoo Voodoo to destroy an entire Capitol City. Pursued by the Kingpin's sinister Spiders, Casino Queen races home aboard One Wing, custodian of the Secret of the Sea that can save her people and restore fre

The Boys Are Back In Town, for perfect summer nights Either Way, for rainy-ish days like Cooperstown