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Can't believe no one has suggested staying at the hotel at the Casino Queen. And you could hop on the metrolink and go straight to the venue.

Jeff and Nels should join up with the remaining Dead members with Jeff covering the Jerry vocals and Nels on guitar. That would be the best post-Jerry lineup ever. Short of that I say Jeff should step out w/ Ratdog and do the Jerry vocals in Jack Straw.

I don't know if anybody mentioned this in the main controversy post but that VW commercial with Nick Drake's Pink Moon is has to be one the best commercials of all time, and as lame as it sounds turned me onto his music. I personally thank VW for that. Also for running the full page ad in Rolling Stone and other mags when Jerry G died, featuring the front of a microbus with a tear falling from the headlight. So yeah, I'm down with Wilco music in the VW ad. Maybe some folks will be a lucky as me w/ ND.

The response to this posting has exceeded my wildest expectations, touching on everything I could have hoped for, the band, coffee, the Starbucks phenomenon. Knowing that I started a discussion here is so totally validating.

Sorry if this has been covered but SBS was in the featured CD rack at my local Starbucks. There was recently a NYT article on how Starbucks influences modern culture in so many ways like telling people who wouldn't otherwise know what music is OK to listen to. I don't know about that but I wonder if there is any solid information about what being featured at SB's does for record sales.

The chord progression in all the references I have seen is B F#m E. In the acoustic version at the beginning of the movie, its pretty clear it is played with a capo on the 2nd fret with chord shapes A Em D. But when Jeff plays it on Sunken Treasure, the third chord is some minor variant of E (or the D shaped chord capo 2). And I can't for the lift of me figure it out. And I am about to pull my hair out over it. It is such a nifty sounding chord Imust figure it out. Any ideas? I have looked throughout this forum and havent' been able to find the answer. Please excuse if already discussed.

Wasn't Jeff dating his current wife when this is supposed to have happened? Wonder what her take on all of this is. Did Kot interview her? Color me skeptical of the Jay Story. Seems if he could no longer make music with Jeff after the incident then how did he make the Athens Ga album and Anodyne?

OK so the Band's legacy will be more important, I'm just saying wrongly. Hence the IMHO in my post. I'm a Wilco fan so I'm posting here and not on the Band's website.

Wow, what an interesting discussion. Here's my 2 cents. The Band had broader popular appeal. But imho the Band's contribution to the progress of music as art is not as important as Wilco's. And I really don't like Robby Robertson (although I must say that The Night They Drove Ole Dixie etc. is an amazingly evocative song, but how a Canadian evoked the pain of the Civil war I will never figure out), his guitar playing is just pentatonic wankery and the fact that he is singing his lungs out on The Last Watlz into a mic that's not even plugged in says volumes. All great music has some connectio

Chinese made guitar that looks except for the peghead just like a J45. Got the punchy J45 sound to my ears. Seemed very well built. Can be bought for about $400, but is it sacreligious?