LouieB

Got a copy via Amazon which I will listen to on the way to the east coast... LouieB

I usually don't travel to see shows, but having been to the Pines last year (further than Tanglewood) and a kind offer from some folks I met on the streets of Uptown, I really don't want to miss this. Plus I have not been to Tanglewood since I was a kid and my family went to some of the classical programming there (did I see Van Cliburn there or maybe Rudolph Serkin..can't remember...) when I lived in Albany. So so long ago. LouieB

I'll be there all the way from Chicago thanks to Rick and Laurie. LouieB

I used to have a roommate who's band played that song..... LouieB

Actually it is called "Chris Mills is Living in a Dream" but it does refer to Richard Pryor (I suppose this is the companion song to the Joe Henry song.) Hey did anyone watch this vid?? Just curious. In the near future Whiskey Bender will have a new website with better resolution. LouieB

Happy Birthday!!!! LouieB

Oh yea I forgot about that.....I guess he got the Rubin treatment too. LouieB

Keith knows how to pace himself.... LouieB

I am particularly fond of the Wall to Wall Sessions... LouieB

Okay fuck it...I'll start a non-Wilco thread on this event, since I know people will report on Jeff's solo set and certainly the Wilco set. I am interested in how it is going for people (we are dodging the really hot weather) and hear the bands people saw and how they liked them... LouieB

Old Jerry really fucked up. He had a great thing going, but just couldn't stay off the hard stuff. Still makes me sad really and I am not even a Deadhead. The man had it all and he couldn't keep it together. At 66 he could still be going strong (hell he died younger than I am now) and still touring for the fans and making boatloads of money (and taking all the soft drugs he wanted.) It really sucks.... RIP Jerry..... LouieB

I like both Simon and Los Lobos. Although Los Lobos was certainly a national act by the time he did Graceland (86 and How Will the Wolf Survive 84), old Steve Berlin should count his lucky stars Los Lobos took him on. His former band (and one of my all time faves), The Blasters broke up and certainly never achieved the fame Los Lobos did. They have made plenty of money in their own right and Steve is hooked up with some great songwriters. This all seems sort of petty on his part. He could be back in LA playing in some lounge at this point, were it not for the guys for East LA taking his gr

Yup also on his first recordings (single and EP now on one CD...) too. Glenn has played with lots of Chicago musicians, back when he didn't have have as many demands on his time from Wilco and the Kronos Quartet. (Every Night isn't that good an album actually, the stuff after that is better...) Too bad Chris moved to NYC, but so it goes... LouieB

You are right.. Anywhere a female rock musician gets up and let's it all out, Patti Smith is there....it does look pretty cool (although I do wish she would give up the clarinet...) LouieB

Leonard comes out against abortion on the album, one more downer... LouieB

That would be a bit early to have kids actually if the first one was born in about 46. I suppose a few baby boomers had kids then but I didn't have any until the 1980s and I was right in the middle of it. Yea, all that. I have a friend born about the time you were who always likes to be considered a boomer rather than a GenXer. Whatever that means. In the old days (whatever that is) a generation was about 20 years. Things happen faster now I guess. In any event Bob Dylan was born at the tail end of the depression generation and at the beginning of the war, still a few years prior t

bumpity bump... LouieB

Yea, I skimmed the article, being too busy getting ready for work to read it carefully. I am sure Paul Simon can be an ass. Some things suck in the music biz, but then again Los Lobos benefited from being on Graceland (although their work is the least exciting on the album) and they haven't done too badly for themselves over the years... LouieB

Well since they were two different groups CSN and CSNY, both first albums (the couch album and Deja Vu) are all you really need....agreed. As for the article on Patti Smith..it is just down the line on this same forum...its about a movie about her.... LouieB

Remember all you Lolla goers, it is gonna be hot and humid out there this weekend.....drink plenty of water and put on lots of sunscreen. LouieB

So what was the problem with Los Lobos playing on Graceland? And are we going to rehash Paul Simon's appropriation of world music again? No one benefited more from Simon than Ladysmith Black Mambazo. They still tour and are world famous because of Graceland. (No one gives Peter Gabriel shit for doing basically the same thing..>) LouieB

Great minds think alike.... (see above..) LouieB

While the Rubin produced records of Cash are certainly the high point of Rubin's taking old musicians and giving them a new audience, I never found those albums nearly as compelling as Cash's original recordings on either Sun or Columbia. Don't get me wrong, there is alot of good stuff on those albums and they are more than worth listening to. What Cash had going for him was one of the great voices in American Music, something that frankly Neil Diamond doesn't have. As was pointed out there are a ton of folks out there that could use a make over like Cash got, sing a few songs (maybe newer

Even though the hot weather will come after Lolla is over and maybe the lake will keep things down, it is still gonna be plenty hot and humid. Take lots of sunscreen and hats and drink lots of water...(yes....dad....) LouieB

As much as I would like to claim Bob Dylan as part of "my generation" he is actually from the one before, since he was born May 24, 1941 near the start of WWII and not after the war. Neil Young is right on the cusp at November 1945. The Baby Boom started in 1946 when the troops returned home and actually had time to make some babies. Actually born in 1967, Jeff is just at the tail end of the boom and just at the beginning of whatever Gen X is. LouieB