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To go back even a bit further....for the spirit of living on the road and making music, I'd highly recommend the 2005 biography Ramblin' Man: The Life And Times Of Woody Guthrie. Fabulous reading, it captures a side of Americana we rarely think about nowadays.

you mean the technical/sound, or the performance? I missed the whole fuckin thing.

Sweet, thanks for posting that. I love the Wilco VU meter.

I'm getting 11004: Server Not Found.

At 42 I mostly worry about becoming irrelevant. I'd like to say I ain't nobody's well trained maid, but I'd be lying. Still, I credit my kids with giving me a purpose for living, so no resentments.

Ok.

What a bizarre trailer.

And it shows me that people take the time to listen to his records.

Sure, if we're just getting occasional stills. The band and lighting never vary much in those, may as well see the crowd and how intense the vibe is.

+1 This show seems to be a pretty traditional setlist, little something for everyone. Maybe a little extra because of the webcast.More crowd shots would be nice too.

No but Wilco's ppl read the forums, so....that's my input. Ah, Cali Stars. Unfortunately most of it was unlistenable. Wow...they're still going. Spiders

nice... still choppy but better than nothing. I wish they'd charge $5 and give us a really good feed.

Hummingbird and ITMWLY did sound good. Maybe they're just getting warmed up after the sick break... Shit. Tried to fix my streaming, now get no audio on the encore. (HIH)

Is it just me or do they sound kinda sloppy tonight? I just tuned in on Jesus etc.

How long have you been a Dylan fan?

I hear what you're saying. I think most artists appreciate that too, and often try to work harder to create music that's still vibrant or relevant. Sometimes it works. Gotta keep an open mind....

Yeah for my money Creedence was the greatest American rock'n'roll band. A guy I know saw JF in Montreal last month, said it was a great show and that he still has the chops. Bit of trivia....John was 14 in 1959, when he and his brother started the band that became CCR. 8)

Fair enough...how about Elvis Costello? Mark Knopfler? XTC? All those guys are pushing in their 50's. That's just crazy man. A record like H61 or BoB comes along once in a generation. But if you mean in the sense that Modern Times is the finest record of this decade, then I say Hell YES. And TOOM/L&T/MT stands with any three consecutive releases by anyone, the only comparable output I can think of would be Wilco.

I can't tell you "how", but sometimes they do. Modern Times is a masterpiece, so is Leonard Cohen's 10 New Songs. Van Morrison and Paul Simon also have made some of their best work pretty recently. I wish I could say the same for Neil Young, but it's really all a matter of taste.

You should listen to Straight Time again, or pretty much anything off Ghost.

I know, I know. But how far "in the know"? I think it, er, "evolved" from this;

Yep, I got them here. http://www.cafepress.com/buy/wilco/-/pv_de...pt_/pg_/c_/fpt_ Not sure about the fish, really. No one's commented on it, I think people may just assume it's a jesus freak sticker.

I can do better than this.... from my solo camping trip last week in PA.

+1 and the same for Ghost of Tom Joad. The last one was very good also.

Ummm. I took the news bits we've seen to mean that the MDB's will back up Vedder along with other lead singers, i.e. the way GE Smith's band or Booker did for Bobfest in '92. I hope Vedder's not an actual "member" of this band. The calibre of the other musicians is way too high.