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Thanks ... I am debating biting on a good pair of Loge Box seats from a season ticket holder, first base side for a not-too-terrible price (considering the $85 face value and inevitable service fees) but I will hold out a bit longer.

Thanks caliber - just anyday now huh? Keeping the fans on their toes ... I like it.

I sure hope I can get a liter cola there - what kind of place would it be otherwise?

Have single game seats (the small amount available, at least) gone on sale for the whole year yet? The Red Sox's site shows single game seats for April/May/September on sale, but I am going to be in Boston for the 7/18 (Wednesday) game against the Royals and I would like to go to Fenway for the first time.

Buying tickets right from the source is ideal but I'm sure also unlikely. If they have gone on sale, and thus sold out, does anyone have any suggestions on the best place to buy tickets? I'm fine with paying over face value, I just don't want to get completely ripped off

not surprising in the least honestly

Nope - certainly not if you've been watching in the past ... eight years or so.

If they had repeated another song it would have almost been a feat. They even had repeats in sequence, which I thought was cute

All in all, a good show, but there was really nothing out of the ordinary - even the spots where they usually freak out a bit were cut a bit short (especially Handshake) ... Ashes of American Flags was great - even Tweedy commented on it.

With a major label contract and sell out shows, why should Colin give a crap what anyone thinks about him or his band.

Exactly ... there seems to be success and adoration for his music on at least a certain level. I think if I was a musician who had attained at least that level of success, I would find some comfort that my music was able to piss off this critic who seems to make a living of being pissed off at shows.

Having said that,

The show even closed with an inept band-orchestrated audience-participation re-creation of the final battle scenes from "The Hobbit," cute but apparently arranged for the group's own amusement, because it ended the evening on a pointlessly silly note.

Oh. My. Dear. God.

I don't suppose there was any chance this was taped?

I was parked on 48th and 8th (not a bad area of town)

Sorry that happened ... just because they call it Clinton now doesn't mean you weren't in Hell's Kitchen

Jeff did appear to have a song list on his stool next to his harmonica, but he also took at least 3-4 requests from the audience ... it was too much of a coincidence that he played Bob Dylan's Beard, Lost Love and Screen Door right after well timed requests for those songs. Overall a great show!

Carrie

Was it? I thought it was one of the Dark Tower books ... I could be wrong.

Edit: I was wrong It was Carrie.

This is Spinal Tap, Special Edition

(MGM, 2000; list $29.98), 5.1 Dolby digital stereo, encoded, letterboxed, DVD, English / Spanish / French

This enhanced version of TIST includes fresh commentary by the band and a new digital transfer

I bet that new transfer makes the opening shot even more black. You can't dust for vomit, though.

Hearing Garcia sing that song is the best, especially on a top notch version like Fallout From the Phil Zone.

You can stream the version I mention above here:

http://www.archive.org/details/gd95-03-18....1362.sbeok.shnf

"In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes

I bargained for salvation an' they gave me a lethal dose."

(Shelter From The Storm)

"He hears the ticking of the clocks

And walks along with a parrot that talks,

Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailers all come in."

(Simple Twist of Fate)

Up on Housing Project Hill

It's either fortune or fame

You must pick up one or the other

Though neither of them are to be what they claim

(Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues)

"The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain"

Visions of Johanna

 

By the time I reach that point in the song, I'm practically in a trance, and it gives me goose bumps. What a work of art that thing is.

Hearing Garcia sing that song is the best, especially on a top notch version like Fallout From the Phil Zone.

Neko Case also does a great version of Buckets Of Rain ... wonderful take on the phrasing.

Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window

For her I feel so afraid

On her twenty-second birthday

She already is an old maid

(Desolation Row)

He tried to grab the woman's hand,

Said, "Here's a ring, it cost a grand."

She said, "That ain't enough."

(Black Diamond Bay)

I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees,

while the springtime turned Slowly into autumn.

(Idiot Wind)

You lose yourself, you reappear

You suddenly find you got nothing to fear

(It's Alright, Ma)

I bargained for salvation an' they gave me a lethal dose.

(Shelter From The Storm)

Like your smile and your fingertips

Like the way that you move your lips.

(Buckets Of Rain)

and on and on and on

blueroom.att.com has three songs from their webcast archived ... they were not allowing recording rigs into the grounds, nor did I see any set up, unfortunately.

Should appreciating a band be this difficult?

No, a big part is the sheer history and breadth of their catalog that you can buy. Any number (50+) of officially released live albums (untold countless on the trading market), years of studio discs and many band changes make for a tough place to find an "entry point". Add to that the general stereotype and "hippie aura" of the band and I think many people who would genuinely enjoy their music are stopped from listening to it before they would even start. Even if you never make it through a long Dark Star or grow to like "Live/Dead", the quality of their songwriting is incredible ... something many Wilco fans would really appreciate.

That's why I always recommend Europe '72, since you get the live loose-ness they are famous for, with the added benefit of a young band in good voice with some of their best songs represented. It's like someone new to Miles Davis saying "where do I start?". The number of albums you could by is overwhelming, and when you ask for suggestions you'll get everything from Kind of Blue to Bitches Brew, two opposite sides of the spectrum.

It's great when people start getting into them, as there is great music to be heard. I would love to discover it for the first time all over again

man I travelled with the rainbow people when I was 17, on the eve of a "Jerry Tour".......I know of what I speak......kind brother.

Well that's your first problem

They have a big, vast catalog of live albums that can be overwhelming. They span so many years and a few different configurations of the band that you can get drastically different sounds as you delve into them.

I would start with American Beauty and Europe '72 - roughly the same time period, one studio and one live (albeit doctored a bit). Both will give you a good base of exposure to their songwriting side and the second disc of Europe '72 will give you a good intro to their improvisational prowess.

Have fun!

i love the new stuff..

 

one thing people havent mentioned is that his voice is better than ever, which suits the up-beat stuff

He definitely seems to be loving the upper registers more. I really enjoyed hearing the new songs at the fest this weekend, I've been hoping to hear some new Wilco for a while. Walken I had heard, but the rest of those were breand new to these ears and I really, really enjoyed one in particular, not sure which one it was. I really don't like the phrase "impossible Germany" at that point in the song for some reason ... it's such a minor quibble but for some reason I hear that and wince. Briefly, but I still wince.

MKW is good, but dbPowerAmp will convert virtually anything to anything ... you have to download some plug-ins to add certain audio formats (iTunes M4A, for example), but once you have everything you need you're set for good.

Wow ... I had no idea they were going to be on Letterman - they just played Schubas here in Chicago a month ago!

You guys are ridiculous I'm with you cryptique ... 9 and 18 are just teasing me. Just so you know, if I do actually send in the winning entry, I'd either done the $500 winning to a music charity or buy everyone that helped a CD

Hey! I was just posting one to come clean To be fair, I'll give you the one's I've gotten already ... I just want to figure them out.

http://www.hydeparkrecords.net/covers_contest.htm

#2: The Beatles - Let It Be

#3: Joni Mitchell - Blue

#4: The Cure - Staring at the Sea: The Singles

#7: David Bowie - Let's Dance

#9 I think is some jazz fusion album or something ... it's familiar.

#10: Ozzy Ozzbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

#11: Black Flag - In My Head

It's so familiar but I can't place it! (it's only part of the cover )