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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 explanation:

http://www.7dvt.com/2010what-long-strange-stupid-effing-trip-its-been

Fourth Row - Center for L'Olympia in Montreal!!! Very stoked for this... Enjoy whatever you're seeing this spring. There is a strong and well sourced rumor that the band is returning to Vermont to play the Green at Shelburne Museum right before the Solid Sound weekend...

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 Valley Fairgrounds. Unless the Shelburne Museum is putting something together to book their own shows, sans Higher Ground (and presumably they don't view Wilco fans as a threat like Furthur fans), but that would be surprising to me.

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 to be super self-conscious, or arty, or miserable, but there's a difference between a song with fun and humor, and a novelty. And I think Wilco were on the wrong side of that line.

But in the end, it just doesn't sound like they were pushing themselves to do something new. I might make similar complaints about Sky Blue Sky being kind of stale and dull in parts, but at least it sounds like an evolution, like the band members were innovating into a new sound and had new ideas. WTA just sounds like they straight up didn't have much in the idea bank.

It's not a BAD album, of course — I think Deeper Down and One Wing are among their best songs. But I haven't listened to it since it first came out. I won't make any pronouncements as to what the band SHOULD be doing, but I will say I liked Wilco's music better when it had an experimental, boundary-pushing edge, and that edge is totally missing on WTA.

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!

Ummm my post wasn't really getting all up in arms or anything. But given all the responses kind of backs up my point of some members maybe needing to lighten up. As far as Radiohead goes. They have released the aforementioned Astoria DVD. They also just released a special around the time of In Rainbows release in High Def called- From the Basement. It was up on itunes and I'm sure they will be releasing a DVD of it sometime soon.

 

In addition they have released Meeting People is Easy, which has a ton of live footage so that's borderline. The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time and a music video collection. So by my count that is four official released DVDs for a band that basically started releasing albums when Wilco did. I just read some previous posts saying they could take or leave the release and I didn't understand the apathy given as a official band live release DVD this would be the first for Wilco. Guess that's why I have never bothered posting much on this board. People seem to like to argue.

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 your position tenuous.

This is awesome news. The fact that Wilco is such a noted live band and still has not had a proper long form concert DVD before now is simply mind boggling. It is even more unbelievable that anyone here is not psyched for this release. They needed to do this a long time ago but better late than never and I hope it's not their only concert DVD ever either.

 

Some of you people need to lighten up. I don't hear Pearl Jam fans or Radiohead fans complain when they release a DVD and they have released plenty of them each. It's good to have this stuff when the day finally comes that Wilco don't tour anymore. We will always have the performance footage and the records forever. Maybe it will be even shown on cable and expand their audience a bit and then I won't read threads about how nobody knows who Wilco is. There is no loss of integrity in this day and age for releasing a long form video. Just my two cents.

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.

the worst experience I ever had on any substance was from a pot brownie......I thought I was going to die. seriously. I was high for over 24 hours. It was awful.

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.