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I have 2 mezzanine level box D row 1 tickets for Monday nights show. I am willing to eat the Ticketmaster costs on the pair. Tickets are electronic, my wife and I are going to Monday’s show so if buying these type of tickets scares you, we are happy to walk in with you.

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Jeff made an appearance outside the Papst about 15 min after the show. He signed a few items (a poster for me, a guitar pick which he just put an asterisk, and somebodys wallet???). I didn't waste much of his time just got my poster signed, got a handshake, and told him I loved the set.

 

The set was amazing and though there were songs that I wanted to hear and didn't, I honestly don't know what song I would replace them with. Lost Love, Box full of Letters, Laminated Cat, Dreamer in My Dreams, and Screen Door were awesome. and if your're wondering where We've been Had came from, it was this guy in the fourth row. Thank you Jeff.

Were you also the guy that kept yelling "Hoodoo" ???

Am I alone in thinking that would have near ruined this perfect set?

Jeff gave Champaign another jab last night as he compared the clapping of the Milwaukee crowd saying something to the effect of even if you guys are not great, you are soooo much better than Friday's show in Champaign.

Personally I think Champaign smells when the wind blows right and the kids are lame. And there is no comparison between Foellinger and Pabst. That said Champaign is a nice place to visit for a show as the people were all generally nice and you never know when you might run into Borat.

"After forty years of recording acoustic music, it's not very often that a new band catches (and keeps) my attention. Old School Freight Train has done that and more. Their finely crafted tunes and innovative arrangements bring creativity, taste and wit to a broad spectrum of contemporary styles - vocal and instrumental, all firmly rooted in many traditions. They are certainly an emerging force to reckon with in today's wide world of acoustic music."

- David Grisman

For those of you who don't know...David "Dawg" Grisman collaborated regularly with Jerry Garcia and is considered to be the father of bluegrass music. Sorry, Skian, if bluegrass music isn't as POPULAR as rock but these guys are good and deserve more respect than that - Pickin' On Wilco isn't their only good work.

Anyone on this board who does not know Grisman's music should check it out. For years he shunned any commercial spotlight, never even selling his albums in music stores. A lot of that changed when he and Jerry started formally making music together in the early 90's. He has a great website called acoustic discs. He is not the father of bluegrass music nor would he want to be considered that. Bill Monroe, one of his heroes and the man his first born son is named after would be much more the father of bluegrass, but David has been called the best Mandolin player in the world and the inventor of "Dawg" Music which is somewhere between bluegrass and alt country

I had the exact opposite experience at my local Best Buy.

I stopped by during lunch on Tuesday and was nosing around the music DVD's. An employee came up to me and asked if he could help. I said a new music DVD just came out today, and he had a sly grin on his face as I said "Sunken Treasure" He said he knew I was going to say that. I said good, that means it must be selling. He replied, "I do not even work in this department and this is the third one I got today." He cruised to the back, took about 15 seconds and returned with my (now 3x watched) DVD.

But I agree this is an exception rather than the norm. It always surprises me how ignorant most people are about the best band making music today and the top singer songwriter of an entire generation.

Jeff was amazing last night. He went 22 songs with a heavy heart and an understandable desire to be elsewhere. He said in typical Tweedy fashion that his mom would have been so mad at him if he had not been there last night. Well he made her proud witih an extremely emotional performance. Hopefully it provided a release for him. He dedicated the 2nd encore "What Light" to his aunt Judy, another nice family moment.

Revolver

Blonde on Blonde

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

All Things Must Pass

Abbey Road

White Album

Summerteeth

Being There

Highway 61 Revisited

Rubber Soul

What this should be is top 10 albums that do not include Beatles Dylan Wilco.

Taking out those bands my top 10, reads:

Pet Sounds

Smile

Blue

American Idiot

Joshua Tree

Nothing's Shocking

Bookends

40 oz. to freedom

Midnite Vultures

OK Computer

AM: Passenger Side / Shouldn't Be Ashamed

BT: Both song 1's / Monday (bad idea to sell Wilco, Wilco sells itself)

MA1: Hesitating Beauty / Hoodoo

ST: Summerteeth / Future Age

MA2: Remember the Mountain Bed / Blood of lamb

YHF: Poor Places / Heavy Metal Drummer (so disassociated, I am not sure it still exists)

AGIB: Spiders / I'm a wheel

Sean and Dhani master fathers sound and looks, team with Ringo and Paul for new album

The Hulkster had "I am a real American"

The Macho Man had "Pomp and Circumstance"

I would use the Pieholden instrumental

31/M/Chicago. Not normally interested in boards. If you read this thread through you may understand why. The posts on topic are genuine, and inspiring that so many of you love Wilco as much as I do.

I found Wilco in a backwards way. Grew up in Chicago, in high school for UT's years (89-93). Spent my youth listening to the great singer songwriters. Lennon, Harrison, McCartney, Dylan, Brian Wilson, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon. As college turned to real life and Wilco was releasing great albums I was listening to great albums by Pumpkins, Beck, Radiohead, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Urge Overkill, Sublime, Pearl Jam, U2, White Stripes, Weezer, Beasties, Tribe, etc. occasionally hearing Wilco songs thanks to XRT. Music has always been my main passion and has helped define me as a person as well as definitive life periods. So by early 2004 after years of hearing about wilco, and even taking yoga classes with JS without really knowing who he was, I decided it was time to hear what all the hype was about. I had a void in my life and to say it was filled by YHF is a MAJOR understatement. Within months, BT, ST, AGIB both MA's, and now all UT, Smog, Autumn Defense, and on and on. Sometimes I get angry that it took me so long to find them being someone who claims to like music. But I am more than making up for lost time. I promised myself after Palooza that I would listen to other music, but with another show coming to Indiana in October and the boys tireless touring, I may continue only listenting to Wilco for the forseeable future. They are to my adult life what the Beatles were to my childhood.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I truly love the band and feel connected that so many of you do as well.

He was definitely joking on the 1/3 happy to be here comment. Every single band that played the most amazing concert venue anywhere commented on how excited they were to be here. And how amazing the setting was. Well in typical Jeff sarcasm, he said that 1/3 of the band was happy to be here.

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