JazzCat

I believe it was Shake It Off. The show was pretty amazing. It was a very good set list. Sunken Treasure was a great to start it off. I think though, it was Handshake Drugs that got the crowd going, especially Jeff and Nels' guitar interplay towards the end. Nels seemed supercharged, frantic and spastic in his solos. He had a nice solo on the end of In A Future Age, which faded very nicely into Spiders. I thought A Shot in the Arm was also particularly rousing. Jeff challenged us (in regards to the pot smoke) by say that we had a long way to beat Portland. At the end he said "you

I agree with Greg more often then Jim. Jim's a joke. I was disgusted when I found out when I learned of his hatred of Tom Waits and his mixed review TV on the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain. I was really surprised when neither one of them would give a "buy it" to Arcade Fire's Neon Bible. But he did write that really scathing of review of Ryan Adam that made him go all Courtney Love on Deregotis.

I don't understand why they assign a guy to review a Wilco album who doesn't appear to like Wilco at all. Even their review of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was so full of hipster attitude that it almost made me forget why I liked it in the first plaace. Pitchfork seems to be more obsessed with whats current and ground breaking (or at least what they tell us is current and groundbreaking), that they have lost all sense of the things that really make music great. The people the write these reviews come across as such losers to me. Every rewiew turns into a contest in who can make the obscure referen

Nels played two sets at Yoshi's. He opened both sets with a tribute to the recently departed Andrew Hill, playing Hill's Reconciliation the early set and Dedication the later set. Tunes I remember from the early set are Sunken Song, A Mug like Mine, A Cause for Concern, Ghost of the Pinata, Something About David H. Some of these tunes were played (unintentionally, he said) as a suite. The first set were mostly earlier compositions, while the second set were newer ones: Blues too (dedicated to Jim Hall), Fly Fly, an interlude of Sonic Youths Mildred Pierce, and a few selections from the upc

Because the easy thing to do would have been to make an album full of songs like Spiders and I am trying break yours heart, but instead they did something else, something that everyone seems to think is necessary to point out like it surprises them in their reviews.

I saw Nels play with his band, the Nels Cline Singers at Yoshi's in Oakland a couple weeks ago. Yoshi's is a great jazz club, but the acts that come there are sometimes on the smoother side of things, but Nels fucking blew the doors of the place. It makes you see why Jeff asked him to join in the first place. I spent sometime talking to him between sets and after. He said he had a great time playing in Australia. He seemed very happy. He said everyone in the band was having a great time and getting along well. I heard him joking about how maybe the summer tour will get cancelled because

In general, I've noticed that there has been a historical divide between British and American tastes. This kinda reminds me of when Dylan came to England with The Band, and then everyone wanted him to be there a little folk god, but he wouldn't play down to them. They were to preoccupied in pretentious notions of "selling out." Wilco has made a daring album and thats evident by the fact that every review mentions how it doesn't sound like YHF or Ghost. This makes it just as challenging as anything they have ever done.