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I only made it to Tuesday night. And I thought a really great aspect (I don't want to say best b/c the whole night was a "best") was the fact that I was in this section in the center balcony that kept standing up and pissing off people behind us. I understand there is a whole concert etiquite thing, but screw that, it's a wilco show, when else am I going to stand up and sing b/c I'm so into the music????

You can see our section on some of the pictures posted by chaslor- http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?showtopic=33738

We are the only people standing up top! it was awesome!

Thanks for the MP3s. I know FLACs are better and all that, but downloading an MP3 is so much easier, b/c i have to convert them anyhow (b/c i'm addicted to my ipod!)

I just got a pair for tomorrow!

How exciting, I thought it was hopeless. Now I have to put in to get Wednesday off.

were people selling tickets outside?

Not necessarily while I was "out and about", but I heard Uncle Tupelo's "screen door" on the radio in Milwaukee today. This would be the first time I heard Uncle Tupelo on the Radio

I have 2 Friday tickets and would like to trade for a 1 Monday and 1 Tuesday. Please email kidsmoke@comcast.net.

Live close to the Rivera can meet somewhere close.

If you don't find anyone to trade with, I'll buy them from you.

Thank you for the help

Just FYI ... if your company cares about such things, the hold music you play is subject to BMI and ASCAP licensing. Unless you use music that is royalty-free, your employer is technically supposed to hand a wad of money over to BMI/ASCAP. A decade ago that would have been about $1600 total; it may be more now.

 

I only know this because I was charged with the same task several years ago for a company I used to work for. My employer eventually decided to go with royalty-free music, which was godawful to listen to but kept them out of trouble.

 

I don't know what the chances are that someone would bother to check up on your company's licensing status, but you should at least know what you're (potentially) getting your employer into.

 

If you can justify the cost, Muzak actually has some pretty cool music channels, and when you subscribe with them the licensing fees are included. Their service is cheaper than purchasing BMI/ASCAP licenses separately (or at least it was in the mid-'90s).

How do you get royalty free music. Is there anything that is royalty free that is good? What about radio stations? Do I have to get permission to play a radio station on hold, is that a bad idea?

I have to make a cd of "hold music" for my work. Any suggestions?

Anyone seen these guys live? I have tickets to see them on Feb. 2nd, but it might mean that I go to a show by myself (gasp!), which I've never done. What do you guys think?

Congrats!

Cool, thanks for the advice. I'm very excited about the show. And if I see anyone in a bright green phish shirt i'll say hello.

i plan on doing the same.

What bar are people going to hang out at before the show? Any recommendations? I'm so excited!

I'm still burning through a couple itunes gift certificates. I found Paul Westerberg's "Be bad For Me," a song that was on a compilation of some sort years ago. I never found the album, so grabbing the song off itunes was a treat.

 

If I want to buy an album, I buy the album. I still like having the hard copy. Mainly I just use itunes to get a song or two that I like from an album I wouldn't buy otherwise.

That brings up a good question. How many people buy from iTunes and how many buy an actual album? I hate to admit that I buy a lot of stuff off of iTunes, mostly out of laziness. I hate to buy "just" songs, because I think songs should be kept with the album to get the "whole picture", and I'm a little anal, and when i see a lonely song in my libary it bugs me. But that is a really smart way to get a taste of bunch of different stuff.

I completely understand this. The drug thing was an imposition at best, and regarding the gate-crashing I'll just say this: when the fences at Deer Creek came down I was in the 6th row with my friend who I had followed the GD with for 15 years and we both just looked at each other and said (at the same time) "well, this is the last straw for me - NO MORE!"

 

One of the saddest days of my life - it had to happen in my backyard you know.

"I was happy just to be alive

On my yearly Indiana vacation

But that was cut short by a bunch of jealous,

party bashin', buzz thrashin', gate crashin', stinky bastards

And if you're one of them

And you hear this song

F* you

You c* sucking motherf*" ~Keller Williams

Are you alowed to swear in VC? It's more profound if the swears are in there.

If I listen to the same album, or even the same artist, over and over again, even within a week or so of each other, I get really sick of hearing them. Yet, it appears that many of you do not. I find this odd.

 

Do you ever get sick of hearing a particular artist or album that you like? Do you ever burn out on it?

 

I always make sure to space out my listening, so that I don't get too sick of something. Even if I get a craving. Especially if I get a craving. I don't want to ruin it for myself.

 

Do you ever ruin an album or artist for yourself with repeated listening?

 

If so, why do you do it?

This intrigues me.

There are only a few bands/albums that I can listen to constantly without getting tired of them. Wilco is maybe the only artist, Silent Alarm from Bloc Party, Harvest from Neil Young, The Story of the Clash, I could listen to at any time for any amount of time. Otherwise I get sick of stuff. I pretty much ruined The Postal Service by listening to them too much.

That is incredibly nice of you. I hope you have a wonderful time at the shows.

Like many others, I received an iTunes gift card this holiday season. I always feel overwhelmed when I buy music, or at least when I don't have specific album in mind. I was reading a lot of the threads on top albums of the year, and suprisingly felt even more overwhelmed when I saw lists of 20+ albums with a paragraph description of each. So here I am with two questions:

1. What is your most critical, must-have, cannot live with out album?

2. Any iTunes hidden gems out there (collections, podcasts, essentials, etc.)?

Thanks for any advice!

One of my favorite songs that wilco performs is Remember the Mountain Bed. I know it's a Woody Guthrie song, but Jeff singing it is just amazing. my favorite lines are:

"Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine

Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled woodvines twine

Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see

I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me."

I still haven't seen this song live. it moves me when I'm sitting in my PJ's eating cereal, I can't imagine how I'll react when i see it at a show!

I'm sure there are hundred's in front of me, but if anyone has any extra tickets (5 day pass, or any random night) I'd love to buy them from you. Congrats to anyone who got them!

I recall in March 05 ambling up to the ticket window at HOB in cleveland and buying tickets a few days after they went on sale. Has Wilco really gotten that much hotter in three years that it's now a mad dash for tickets?

I was wondering the same thing. I've been a wilco fan for some time. I used to be able to buy tickets the day of a show with no worries. I'm frustrated and proud at the same time. I'm happy they are so successful, and that more and more people are on board. But, i'm sad that the "old days" of just walking up to the box office and going to a show are gone. That's why I got into them in the first place, and for Chicago shows that is probably gone forever.

I agree w/ Jerry's kid. Why not make the show a will-call only ticket? The Riv is a great venue, but it isn't huge. It's not like it would take hours to get into the door. If they prepared for will-call only it would be a graet why to ensure that only people GOING to the show would be able to buy tickets.

Anyhow, I'm one of the poor saps who tried at each ticket sale (wilco pre-sale, xrt pre-sale, and public sale) to get seats and couldn't .

I need help: Do I A) stick to my morals and not buy from a broker and miss my favorite band in my home town for five nights, or B ) suck it up and buy over priced tickets from some jerk who screwed me out of getting them the first time around? Any ideas?

i think youd be better off seeing one of the tour dates that isnt a festival date

I've seen them at a festival only twice, both times at Summerfest in Milwaukee, both were decent shows. I've seen them a bunch on different non-festival tours. Do you think they have bad festival shows?

I just looked online, there are about 4,000 fixed seats and 7,000 lawn seats. So they had about 400 rsvd seats and 700 lawn seats for the presale. I hope I do better with the public sale on Saturday. I'll be real bummed if I don't get tickets. If I don't get them I think i'm going to splurge and go down to New Orleans for the voodoo music show. Anyone heard stuff about that?

I'm trying to get tickets now, are they sold out already? I can't get lawn or rsvd seating!

I know this is last minute, anyone know of any good campgrounds around Indianapolis? I'm going to the show tonight, and don't want to drive back to Chicago. Thanks!