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That's awesome!!!! Congrats Kalle.

I've used a lot of different products, had over 4000 LP's in my collection at one point... In my opinion the Discwasher is fine to use on "clean" records, i.e. records that are pretty shiny and maybe have a fingerprint or two + some light dust flakes on them. Use a small amount of the liquid, spread across the length of the brush on one side. With the platter rotating apply VERY LIGHT pressure on the liquid edge, and roll your hand counter-clockwise trying to "pick up" the dirt so it ends up on the middle of the brush. Be careful not to press down hard on the record, you could damage the

Yeah, agreed. WL was brilliant, the rest has been a bit Meh by comparison.

http://www.davidgray.com/news/ Anyone else looking forward to this? White Ladder is still one of my favourite albums ever...

Holy fucking runaway thread. Can't leave this place for 48 hrs without all hell breaking loose. C'mon, everybody knows Wilco will be a 25-piece jazz-funk orchestra by 2011. No subtracts, just adds. 3-4 VC'ers will be in the band by then too. New recordings on iTunes every month, to support the payroll. Nels will conduct the guitar section, and most local authorities will start to enforce the union rules that forbid his spasmodic fits of passion, thus solving the aging gracefully issue.

I don't know the Oar stuff but the idea of a Beck-Wilco collaboration is appealing....

I haven't tried it myself but two of my next door neighbours have, with no luck (one gave up after a few months, the other is still trying, almost a year now). The market is down here but they should have sold by now. Buyers seem to like the assurance they get by using an agent with a name behind him-her. And the money you'd save, you somehow have to convince the buyer you're passing some of that along to them. Just two of the many issues...

Agree about Rochester, from the opening bars of Forget The Flowers that show was pure magic, and the crowd really won Jeff over. I was also sitting much closer and the sound was good (if just a bit too loud). Sorry if my comments about Lewiston were negative....I've been in a funk lately in general. If I hadn't seen Wilco twice before (shows I liked more for various reasons), then this would have been the best concert I'd ever seen, hands down. I had a good time, aforementioned issues aside. Thank you Wilco for coming back to WNY and giving us a great show!

Poor Places-Reservations-Spiders....damn bastards. I haven't had that honor yet. But I did get my first Misunderstood in Lewiston on Sunday.....so I am happy. Nice to hear that some fans got to sing Cali Stars with the band; when Conor and the MVB's came up to join Wilco on Sunday, it was obvious none of them knew the words to the song!! Nice touch, but... Ummmm....

I hate it 'here'...sometimes.

I was about 20 rows back (row V) but on the far left..Nels' side. I enjoyed the show & glad I went....not complaining--at all-- that was a helluva concert for 36 bucks. It just ranks 3rd of the three Wilco shows I've been to.

Thanks for posting it. They didn't play Candyfloss either.

It was a pretty decent show, beautiful venue, overall good atmosphere, pretty energetic crowd...but the sound was a god awful mess. Nels`amps were drowning out Jeff`s mic a good part of the time, some songs didn't work well at all (Deeper Down), just too many overdriven amps competing during parts of songs that should have been audible. Also Jeff seemed "off" for most of the evening, my guess either tired from the long Wappingers show or he didn't really like the venue (management?), given some of the comments. He also told someone up front to 'get lost', not sure what that was about.

It was billed as their final show ever. CBC crews were there to make a tv special of it. The curtain went up in flames at one point, but the show continued after an awkward pause. I was really inebriated, danced in front of the stage most of that night. Thankfully I never saw the film footage of this.

Audiophiles get so caught up in the sound, and end up comparing the same pieces of music ad nauseum with every small equipment change or tweak, comparing remasters/reissues and different pressings, etc etc. Many audiophiles are obsessive, even neurotic, and can never be satisfied. Allocate all that "upgrade" money (and time) to seeing concerts and acquiring more music, you will be happier. I really believe listening to music should be a habit, not a sonic "event". Learned this the hard way...

I called and they said no cameras. I guess if your camera fits in a purse and you can use it discreetly (no flash), you might not have any issues.

What was remarkable about Rough Trade`s gig at The Spectrum in Montreal, Jan.1986?

This may be useful. Jeff Tweedy breaks down Sky Blue Sky: “Either Way” I wanted to start off this record with this idea of acceptance. “You Are My Face” It’s more of a family tree, but not necessarily biographical. This song is one of the more conceptual songs on the record. It’s trying to reflect a present, past and a future in a linear kind of way, with the explosive section in the middle that’s a lot more kinetic than the droning past and the ambiguous future. “Impossible Germany” This song reminds me of waking up at a certain point in your life, and you ask yourself, ‘H

Subjectively.......this record sounds ”good” on my Zune (with good earphones...mediocre on the car speakers), and thats how nearly all modern albums are made, to sound ”OK” on the playback medium that 99.8% of listeners are using now...earbuds, or cheap mp3 or computer speakers. Unfortunately that means loads of compression, but because of the advancements in encoding this artifact isnt nearly as bad as it was 8 or 10 years ago, when mp3 was barely listenable. An analog(ish) mastering played back on a good turntable in a real hi-fi system is always the way to go. Dont know whether Jeff or

If Big Star can make this list then I'd add a vote for Little Feat. And I guess Fleetwood Mac, while we're name dropping big 70s acts.

What about Sophie B. Hawkins, she owns 'I Want You'.

From this decade, I think my top 5 might be; Reservations The Ruling Class At Least That's What You Said You Are My Face Country Disappeared From the 90's.... Sunken Treasure, Via Chicago, She's A Jar, The Lonely 1, Shot in the Arm, maybe Acuff-Rose or New Madrid.

The Band

Bump and thanks to the admins for fixing the topic url. I'm still enjoying the hell out of this. The guy is just brilliant. Perfect music to fall asleep to with the iPod, for those of us with sleeping issues. That isn't a knock, it's the only time I can usually listen closely to something undisturbed. So many great songs...having this one in rotation also helps keep me from getting burned out on W(TA).

I think he botched the Country Disappeared lyrics a bit too. Shouldn't it be--- “So every evening we can watch from above/crush the cities like a bug/ fold our selves into each other’s guts/ turn our faces up to the sun.” ?