Bart

Dang! That's an awesome offer. I might be right there with you. I have a pair to get rid of too. What is it about Merriweather that you have to give the tickets away!?!? When they played Wolf Trap a couple years ago, that show sold out quick.

what's the quality on the Wilco boston boot?

Sounds great. At first I thought it was a little bassy (sound that way on my computer's speakers), but in headphones I didn't get any over blown bass at all.

Grab it!

Nice job on the "proselytizing" as he called it! Bless your heart, Bobhund's heart and the hearts of tapers everywhere!

We live in an amazing age!

I just downloaded the show from last night. It took 4 minutes and 39 seconds and I have it less than 24 hours since they played the first note! Back in the old days I used to marvel at the fact that I got a batch of Grateful Dead tapes 2 or 3 months after the show was played! (And I knew tapers!) The "immediacy" of that used to blow me away. And that was weeks or months later, on cassette, with a trip to the post office.

To quote Homer, "What a world we live in"

Both nights are out there to be had in FLAC form. Check the BT section of the Via Chicago.

Where is this located? I didn't know such a place existed.

up on the bt.etree site. If you don't do that, feel free to send me a message with your mailing address and I'll burn and send.

Thanks! I'll grab it tonight. I've been looking there for new stuff, but haven't found any. Probably operator error.

There's an excellent recording of the Saturday night Solid Sound circulating, you can hear Standing O live there. I can hook you up with the track, or the entire show. Sounds great live to my ears.

Wha? Where is it?

I love that song, but I need a full show!

Thanks!

I wish I knew they were selling it before I ordered it. I'm seeing them on Sunday and I don't expect to get the disc until Wednesday or Thursday (I hope no later than that!). I don't understand the idea of starting a tour before the album you're supporting is available though. Seems like putting the cart before the horse.

I've been looking at a few theads in here and it seems like some/all of you have heard the new album and know it backwards and forwards. How is this happening? The NPR stream?? Is it out there in a downloadable form anywhere? I'd like to immerse myself in it before the Sunday show. (Yes, I ordered and paid for a copy! Just don't have it yet).

My second question is, have any live shows from this tour show up on BT sites yet? I've been checking Dime and etree but the most recent I can find is from Japan in July.

Thanks!

Bart

Interesting! I"ll give it another try or 2, but right now I have to force myself to listen to it instead of not being able to wait to listen to it.

I used to love Pavement/Malk, but after a couple of listens to his new album I've sort of forgotten about it. The one song that stuck with me reminded me of Wowie Zowie era Pavement, which was great, but reminded me of "what might have been." To me it seems each one of his solo records is worse than the last.

This doesn't look good. Your tickets are better than the ones that I just posted that I'm trying to sell, and they're better than the one that I'm keeping for myself. I should have just ignored the presale and waited until now to get some great seats!!

I'd beg him to stop writting songs in alternate/non-standard tunings. I've got nothing against those songs, but I'm not retuning my guitar to play one song! I hate tuning!!

I have 2 extras for Merriweather for this Sunday, Sept 25th.

They're inside the pavilion in Row GG. Just looking for face value.....40 bucks each. Would love to get some the, ahem, "convience" fee back, but I'd rather they go to a good home.

Thanks.

So basically these are for super fans who will pay whatever?

Pretty much. I mean, it's 2011 and this is a big hunk of plastic with what, 6 or 7 minutes of music on it? For about the same weight you could fill and ipod 1000 songs!

I doubt this is a big money maker for them. I wouldn't be surprised if they lost money on this. Think of it as labor of love from them to you.

Very cool. I sort of wish he changed the last line to, "I don't believe in Wilco, I just believe in me, Susie and me"

Awesome dude! Thanks!!!

While you're at it, can you take a stab at "Just A Kid"? And if it's in a weird tuning, can you fake it in standard tuning? I hate tuning the guitar in standard tuning so songs in alternate tunings are non starters for me. I know, bad attitude. I probably need more guitars.

You forgot that Speed Racer Nap Recorder is always right.

Hey Speed Racer aka Recorded Nap......we traded some Wilco stuff a few years ago. You sent me a couple Austin City limits dvds and I sent you some DC show I recorded. Small world. Now I'm arguing with you on proper use of language and the Wilco suck quotient.

Hey Atticus! You're the guy made famous on one of those Living Room shows. Great name, great show......I'm jellous of you for both!

My Darling makes me cry.

That one gets into that syrupy sweet, almost cheesey category for me. But "Please Tell My Brother" on the other hand, hits me like a truck......in a good way. Brilliant, beautiful, touching.

My friend John just posted his recording from the balcony as well:

 

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=540844

An embarrasment of riches! Thanks to both of you.

I downloaded Craig's version ("cdb") and it sounds fantastic. Long live the tapers!

You forgot that Speed Racer Nap Recorder is always right.

Me no understand, but did Recorded Nap used to be Speed Racer?

I've always found it useful when correcting someone to actually be correct.

Damn! Don't I feel stupid. I always thought it was "and".....like "I made my case and I made my point". I'm not sure I even understand how the "in" works in that phrase.

Anyhow, back to the discussion.......I'll paraphrase Homer to get back to where we left off, "Wilco sucks. They are the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked"

When you say "downloaded" you mean you did the whole bit torrent thing, right? If your answer was, "yes" you now have to convert the FLAC flies to WAV files and then burn them to a disc. You can't put the FLAC files on a disc and play them in a CD player. You can download FLAC converters for free.

Case in point.

Case *and* point.