Magnetized

Well, I'll be damned. I can't believe I never noticed that. I just listened to all 7 versions of this on my iPod (3 Tweedy solo, 4 Wilco) and it's not a fluke. Sounds like "a plot device and. . ." In every version. What gives, I wonder? I've never known bemydemon.org to get something so obviously wrong.

You've got me grinning from ear to ear. What a perfect way to describe that show! My mouth was hanging open while I was watching that thing.

It was 7/25/12. It's for sale from Wilco as roadcase #5. And I agree it is a glorious show.

Great comments, lost highway! Dylan is a fascinating character, literally. If anyone hasn't seen the Scorsese documentary "No Direction Home," I can't recommend anything more highly. I'm sure it's been discussed on here before (maybe even by me) but in addition to all the great footage and history, it's got some of the most straightforward interviews with him that I've ever seen. I was really struck by the part where he says he's convinced that he was born to the wrong parents and in the wrong place--he never really was Robert Zimmerman from Hibbing, Minnesota. In a strange way, I believe t

Agree! I've loved almost everything he's done, starting back with Fevers and Mirrors. I didn't think his latest (People's Key) was up there with the best of them (Wide Awake and Cassadega), but he can be great. I don't care if he is whiny and self-indulgent and if his voice is wavering. That's all true, but he can still be brilliant, and he can also be mesmerizing in concert.

[and with a nod to Arnold Horshack] Ooh! Ooh! Rufus Wainwright!!

Maybe Justin Townes Earle? He's got a ton of potential and he seems ambitious, and I think he's getting healthier.

I sometimes feel like such an uncritical fangirl but I have to say I also miss the rawness and sense that something really unexpected could happen. They are so perfect right now and everyone in the band is such a master at what they do. It sounds like an odd complaint ("You're just too awesome!") but I think there's something to that. Especially given the alternative/punk ashes from which they have arisen like a phoenix, etc. There's no one in the band I wouldn't miss if there were to be a shakeup, but human nature being what it is, there probably will be a shakeup at some point, and it prob

This is on now. It's selections from th e festival, and there seem to be at least 2 separate episodes. The first aired from 9:00-10:00 and featured 2 songs from Wilco-- Art of Almost and Side with the Seeds. The second hour is on right now and Wilco hasn't come on yet. Edit: Wilco came on about halfway through and sang Born Alone. In case anyone is not familiar with Palladia, its a high def music concert oriented channel that comes with many expanded service cable packages.

Bravo! Now I'm even more humiliated that I can't find the time to clean up the piles in my little apartment.

Lotti's on the right track. Yes, Jeff, give the coat and hat a rest and pull out the spangled cape. You're 45 now, dude--time to go a little wild. And a big happy birthday to you, my hero!!

I've tried hard to like What Light because I think it's a song where Jeff was trying to summarize a lot of his feelings about art, but the song is just too literal for me. I can't say I hate it--like all of his songs, there are some good sentiments--but this one just doesn't do it for me. And I don't see much that's very catchy in the melody either.

Boy, I'm really showing my age in these recent threads, but since the cat's out of the bag I'll just share this. . . It was the summer after my junior year in high school when this song came out, and I remember being completely unaware of what it was about when I first heard it. I guess I was a kind of sheltered dork, living in Norfolk, Virginia, but I had never heard one word about the whole hippie/flowers in the hair/ love-in thing up to that point. I was barely aware of marijuana and didn't know anyone who indulged. By the end of the summer word had started spreading, even here in the hi

When I first posted this I had forgotten that Tony Scott also was the creator of The Good Wife, one of the best shows on network TV. He didn't appear to have been in a major career decline.

I really enjoyed watching this show last night. The placement of Hummingbird as the last song in the main set was perfect.

Sad news, just reported from the L.A. Times. He was the director of Top Gun and the brother of director Ridley Scott. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/tony-scott-death.html

As to whether you can or should be able to appreciate music from someone whose political perspective differs from your own, there are lots of factors and degrees in play. I could probably enjoy an opera or a piece of jazz or other instrumental music without knowing or caring about the composer's beliefs. And theoretically I should be able to enjoy love songs and ballads from someone who's a gun toting, pro-life Republican, since those beliefs wouldn't necessarily translate into the songs. But for music I feel passionate about, I need to feel a connection to the artist, and it just intensifie

I'm glad you posted this link. I hadn't read it initially because I don't always follow everything in the non-Wilco forums, and I would have been sorry to have missed this. I would love to have had the opportunity to meet George Martin! As to Beatles songs I don't like, well, it's different for me than for most of the people who are commenting. I was 14 in 1964 when the Beatles came to America and I so vividly remember being gathered in front of the TV watching Ed Sullivan, catching the fever from all the other screaming girls. "My" Beatle was John--to the extent that I had scrapbooks with

Conor Oberst is one of those polarizing artists. I really like him too but I get why people don't.

Boy, that was wonderful. Like you, I have only the barest notion of what he's talking about but he is clearly so into it, and he's just the most genuine, down-to-earth guy. Also, he's amazingly articulate, isn't he? And certainly, as he says right up front, loquacious! I get the feeling he could talk musical gear all day and all night, when everyone around him would be nodding off. . . .

And don't forget Dr. Dog at Red Rocks.

Her birthday was August 12, and with her hubby away in Europe maybe she needs a group hug from us. (Or maybe she's there with him?) At any rate, thank you, Susie, for organizing Jeff's charity shows and for the countless other things you do as the coolest ever "woman behind the man." Brava!

Umm, well, I watched it. I guess I'm just not evolved enough musically to get it. It's something that will probably appeal to Nels Cline Singers fans. What totally puts me off is her mannered vocal style. Betcha Nels will sit in. He'll dig it.

Where I live the local PBS affiliate is rebroadcasting the ACL show eifh Fleet Foxes and joanna Newsome this Saturday (today). Your market may differ.

Ha! I remember noticing that when I first watched the performance. And yeah, he didn't wince or scrunch up his face or anything, but you know he had to have noticed. Mr. Smooth!