LouieB

Well hardly anyone showed up for this (I invited other folks I knew, not just VCers and everyone pooped out), so let's try again on July 3. Von and company were very fun, but low key. He warmed up quicker than usual and the band was hot as always. Vonski reminded everyone that he would be 85 on his next birthday. The usual bartender seems to have given up her job at the New Apartment, although she did show up to hang with the customers and drink. (She held this gig down for 25 years.) I suspect this is really the end of an era, so y'all can't miss this next time out. LouieB

yup... LouieB

I love the foaming at the mouth that goes on when the Eagles are mentioned. The band everyone loves to hate. LouieB

Well yea...your point is??? LouieB

What was it Frank Zappa said about rock critics?? "People who can

It may have been. (seems to be out of print.) I have Roots and Crowns and Candlesnakes both on vinyl. Thrill Jockey often has both CD and LP releases. LouieB

Yeah!! Special guest from California. I wonder if she has been at the Hideout before. LouieB

I guess no one in Chicago is interested in hosting the SP for a residency. Or maybe this is more of a woodshedding thing. LouieB

Well AGIB is about total disintegration of a person (again, not necessarily Jeff), so it has to be more optimistic than that. But if you are celebrating not being dead, that is not really happy. LouieB

Since everyone is posting stuff from whatever source, I figure this is a good one too. Note the refrence to cylinders.... LouieB Wilco pares down for simpler, more intimate work By Greg Kot, Tribune music critic. Greg Kot is the author of the 2004 biography "Wilco: Learning How to Die." May 13, 2007 Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy sits at the kitchen table in the band's rehearsal space and recording studio, a third-story loft on the city's Northwest Side, and indulges a fetish for antique art. He rips open the plastic wrap on a rare double-album vinyl copy of the band's sixth studio alb

This review at least listens to the content. SBS is not a happy album, it has an over-riding sense of resignation and tentitiveness about the future. All one has to do is listen to the words (which in most songs are not that complex) to understand this. The review hits it right on the head. Good for him. LouieB

I mean I suppose if you are looking for something between 9 and 10 you could go with 9.5 or something, but come on. Even in movie reviews of four or five stars, a reviewer usually will go with a half star or something, not .23. Go figure. LouieB

Amazing it is.. I just don't understand the decimal points. How can anyone break down a rating system that far? LouieB

That would be the best and lots of people will end up with overly expensive copies of older issues that they can fume about. LouieB

Yea..really. At this stage of Wilco's career (as a mature and critically aclaimed band), why does anyone think (see other threads) that all these albums have to be equally good to everyone? No artist consistantly puts out albums that please everyone. SBS is a good album, which may or may not be up there with the greatest stuff they ever did (or will do). After months of hearing that people wanted a new album, all of us should be pleased we finally have a new one and another new one on the way in the not too distant future. LouieB

Yea, of course, but by the time it gets here (midnight tonight), everyone will have listened to it so much it promises to be an anti-climax. Ah for those carefree analog days of yore.... Even I have listened to this far more than any album I don't own. I listened a bit to the feeds on YHF and I tried to beg a tape copy from someone of BT and I do own an imcomplete copy of AGIB from pre-release, but this is the first time I have ever given any album such a going over prior to actual release (remember I am old...) With the amount of disonance regarding SBS, I do hope Wilco lays out another

The orginal Robert Mitchum would have loved it.... LouieB

And it will end up costing a bit more than $10 too, I bet. LouieB

If TWE can play it, I can dance. LouieB

Be there or be square... LouieB

Yea, mine too.....time for more dads..... Meanwhile it is time to move on to the next Wilco release. LouieB

Jim was really not very postive about the album in general, but I figure he had to go with it as the home town critic, though clearly Kot is the main booster for Wilco. I really dislike their show in general. I never can figure out who is talking. One of them needs a voice transplant. LouieB

I am surprised no one has yet mentioned Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) LouieB

I recently saw a used LP copy for a reasonable amount of money at a local store. LouieB

It sure sounded like Jim was going to give it a "burn it" designation, but he changed course at the last minute. LouieB