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Furthur was supposed to play there in the summer, show was announced in March and sold out within days. A week before the show was set to happen, the plug gets pulled. The Shelburne Museum (venue) blamed town officials. Town officials say they had nothing to do with it. Venue backtracks, essentially says that they're afraid of legions of ticketless hippies showing up anyway and destroying the idyllic grounds of the museum. Higher Ground (local rock club + promoter of Shelburne Museum shows) didn't know the plug was getting pulled, either. That's how I remember it, anyway. Here's a better ex

Sorry to reply to a month-old post but I just read through this whole topic...I live nearby-ish and I was under the impression that Higher Ground is no longer putting on shows at the Shelburne Museum after last year's Furthur debacle. Ben & Jerry's has moved their sponsorship to Higher Ground's concert series at the Fairgrounds (previously they sponsored the Shelburne Museum series), and they've yet to announce a single show at Shelburne Museum for the summer. So if this is true and Wilco does come back to Vermont this summer, I'm thinking they will actually be playing the Champlain Val

On the plus side, she does sound much better singing other people's songs, given how bad her own lyrics are.

Most of the songs sound like stale rehashes of things they had done better before. Sonny Feeling and Everlasting Everything sound like second-rate Summerteeth rejects, Bull Black Nova sounds like a bad rework of Spiders or another YHF/AGIB-era "experimental" song, Wilco The Song sounds like a neutered version of a Being There rocker (and way too similar to Werewolves in London, while we're at it)... I also think the whole "fun, loose" thing works against it a bit. Honestly, Wilco The Song sounds like a novelty, not something I'm supposed to take serious. I certainly don't think music has

Ack. I can't stand Grace Potter and this does nothing to sway my opinion!

Nope they didn't play Woods, or Blindsided. I think other than that they played every song from For Emma and Blood Bank. I was hoping for a barbershop quartet rendition of Woods, but it was not to be.

Hey, I was there too. The Jayhawks song was Tampa to Tulsa. Really great show. Much more "rocking" than I expected. Highlights for me were Lump Sum and Creature Fear, both of which featured some really cool effected guitars, brief spacy ambient passages, and generally chaotic percussion. Added an entirely new level to the tension already inherent in Bon Iver's music. Very cool show, absolutely thrilled he came to such a seemingly random and out of the way place.

http://www.folkfestival50.com/ Pete Seeger, The Decemberists, Arlo Guthrie, Fleet Foxes, Joan Baez, Neko Case, Billy Bragg, Campbell Brothers, The Avett Brothers, Josh Ritter, Gillian Welch, Judy Collins, Del McCoury, Iron & Wine, Joe Pug, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, Balfa Toujours, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Tim Eriksen & Shape Note Singers, Langhorne Slim, Ben Kweller and Low Anthem I'm there.

Radiohead and Wilco are my two favorite bands, and I don't like one more than the other. Should I just kill myself then?

The Fiery Furnaces early last year. I was expecting them to do the usual indie-rock thing, playing uninspired versions of songs for an hour and then show's over. They turned out to be one of the most energetic and intense bands I've ever seen live. Songs running into each other and shifting form constantly, seemed very off the cuff and inspired. And they took an audience poll for the encore. Brilliant.

Still looking...is there any hope?

Anyone have two extra tix to Jeff Tweedy in Burlington? Waiting until my next paycheck was apparently a bit too long. Send me an email at kmachado@smcvt.edu if you do, please!

Well I Am Trying To Break Your Heart occupies a similar space in the Wilco canon that Meeting People Is Easy occupies for Radiohead, and you could also make arguments for the Sky Blue Sky DVD and Jeff Tweedy's solo DVD as well. Admittedly I had forgotten about Live at the Astoria, but that one consists of just a small chunk of Radiohead's career (just early takes on Bends material, and songs from their first album which most people seem to consider awful)... But you seem very eager to crucify Wilco on their attitudes towards DVDs, while simultaneously praising Radiohead, which seems to make y

Can't speak for Pearl Jam, but Radiohead's never released a live DVD. Settle down.

So I just discovered the Owl and Bear Wilco archive and I'd like to download some shows from across Wilco's career. Right now I've only got recordings of Wilco shows I was at, which have just been in 07 and 08. Are there any real definitive Wilco shows from various tours that are absolute must-haves? I've got no idea where to begin. aaaand I meant to post this in the Just A Fan forum. Oops.

Got into them when they were playing with the Boston Pops in 2006. Didn't go to the show, but they had picked The Slip (one of my favorite bands ever) as an opener, so I figured a band with such refined taste must be awesome themselves. In retrospect, I should've went to the show. Nowadays they're not quite my favorite band, but damn close. Have to say I love Tennessee Fire and Evil Urges equally (but I love It Still Moves more than all of them).

Mike Gordon from Phish played a free show here in Burlington last week. Since it was free, I went, but I left about halfway through the third song. Too jammy and boring. I don't know why I was expecting otherwise, though.

I saw her back in September, and it was great, except that she only played for barely an hour which was rather disappointing (given the $30 price tag). All those 2 hour Wilco and Radiohead shows have spoiled me I suppose.

8/12 - Wilco/Andrew Bird 8/13 - Radiohead/Grizzly Bear A good two days.

I don't even want to know how bad it'd skip, though.

Same thing happened to me a few years ago. That was my first experience with pot, and my last for sometime. But then eventually I discovered that smoking it really wasn't so bad and the rest is history.

Lou Reed also wants you damn kids off his lawn.

I kind of see this album as the weird little brother to Sky Blue Sky--ditching overdub fancypants effects in favor of crazy spacey guitar work that's totally off-putting to the indie scenester denizens. I love it.