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Grrrr....I can't get any decent sound. Cutting in n out; I've been trying all night. I'm hanging up before I pull my hair out!! I hate missing out on what sounds like a great show!

Cool! Maybe we will have time to track down a beer or two before the show!

So the tickets say the show starts at 8pm. Is that Wilco at 8 or is that the opening act? If the opening act, what's an estimate for Wilco to go on? Maybe 8:30? I'll be cutting it close with travel time and need to know how stressed out I should be if I'm still on the road at 7:50 or so.

The Kicking Television version of Poor Places when Jeff's sings "sailors sailing off in the morning". His voice kind of wavers at "morning".

Also "Wake up fool, there's no time for a shouting match" from Mike Doughty

My brother and I will be there. But by the time we get off work and hit the road, we'll be lucky to make it before Wilco's start time of 8 so no pre show gathering for us. Getting excited with only a week away!

Okay, so I'm thinking of having a Wilco dvd viewing party for a handful of family and friends. The challenge is that most of them haven't listened to Wilco and are only vaguely aware of them from my regular announcement of Wilco events (concerts, new albums, this dvd, etc). I'm thinking of luring them in with the offer of sampling some home-brews that I'm working on. Beer seems to be the magic touch for having people stop by. (Maybe that says more about me than my friends...?) But anyway my plan at this point is to put the dvd in, keep the beer cold and hope people are interested enough to let me watch it. That seems pretty lame though. Anyone have any more concrete suggestions on pulling this off? Oh, because of scheduling and other activities, I probably won't be able to make it happen until mid-May or so, but there's small chance of this group catching the show on their own. Another question, though; do I wait and watch it at this party? Or watch it ahead of time so I can enjoy it without interruption from people who may not appreciate it?

I waffled around too long, but finally decided to get tickets to the Bloomington show. Late night, low money and during the week, but I just couldn't let the guys get this close without seeing them. Looking forward to it now that tickets are purchased!! Not great seats, but oh well. Taking my brother. He's humored me, at best, with my Wilco fanatacism. Maybe seeing them in concert will convert him to a true believer.

My wife and I met Jeff after the 2007 show in Indy. He was gracious enough to let someone take a picture of the three of us; twice actually, the first picture was messed up somehow. But I need a lot of work on my intelligent conversation abilities since I wasn't able to get out much more than "um, wow, uh....great, um, you guys are...um well, um awesome show...um, great, uh, geee...that was, um...uh, great..."

I wish I could have eloquently told him how much I really appreciate the music, how much enjoyment Wilco has given me over the past few years and gotten out the sincere "thank you" that I wanted to express.

Um, well, uh....gee...um, ya know?

I thought the show was fantastic! I was thrilled to hear Remember the Mountain Bed and Hoodoo Voodoo; two songs I had talked up on the way to the show, hoping they would get played. I took my wife and two of our sons (ages 17 and 15). This was the boys first Wilco show; our (wife and I) third. I really wanted the boys to be excited about this and have a great time. They don't listen to much Wilco, but were familiar with a few songs (Handshake Drugs had become a family favorite, so was also glad to hear that one too). Our 15 year old ended up with an upset stomach as the show started so he was kind of in and out as far as pumped up with excitement. But I prodded him to watch Nels during Impossible Germany, Handshake Drugs and others. The Hoodoo Voodoo battle really got him going. Older son stood during the whole show, as did I. He really thought the Spiders "explosion" after Tweedy led us all with hand claps was extra cool.

We had a couple-hour car trip home and, with pitch black skies and lighting flashing constantly all around, we were all settled in our seats quietly watching the display when oldest son blurted out rather loudly, "that was just so cool!!" (referring to the show, not the lightning). Which got us all talking about the show again.

Thanks Wilco, for providing for us what's becoming a rare opportunity to enjoy a fabulous experience together. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that some of the Wilco bug will carry on with those two. And 17 year old just told me that he's going to wear his newly purchased Wilco shirt to the first day of classes when school starts back up next week. Wow!

Got my Indy tickets yesterday! Cool.

Now I just gotta figure out which 3 of 5 family members get to join me.

I had originally decided to not get Indy tickets due to the cost and extremely busy at work during late summer. Going to a concert on a Monday night wouldn

Our local paper's Sunday crossword puzzle (3/30/08), clue 74 across says:

"Guitarist Cline of the band Wilco"

My wife actually saw this. Neither of us ever do crosswords either. Just caught her eye I guess.

By the way, the puzzle is from the LA Times Syndicate.

"Don't let anyone change your pants"

Company in my Pants

Thanks all. I'm ending my day much lighter than a few minutes ago!

I always love HD's

is this an interview from 2004

I think he said the interview was done in the basement of the 9:30 club earlier this evening

43. Glad to see am not the only oldster here. Board seems to be short of thirtysomethings tho?

I'd like to be thirtysomething...instead I'm 41.

YES! I figured it out.

Thanks Oceanman for pointing me in the right direction.

And especially to Soundboy for taping and posting the show!

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I guess I'm not getting it either...all of my files were saved as .shn also. How do I turn those into music; what do I do to make them play? Sorry, I'm a newbie with this stuff and can't figure out what I need to do. I really want the Indy show though, so any help is really, really appreciated.

Did you get your son to download it, or do you have the Bit torrent thing down now? You should learn, etree is a great site.

 

Tell your wife I said hi; You guys were great company before the show.

I wasn't able to get to this at all last night; sounds like I missed the chance.

I guess this is a dumb question at this point, but now there's no way to get the Indy show?

Well, thanks for trying. Still have great memories of the show.

I'll pass along your "hi". Next time, I'll actually buy you that beer!

Great!

Thanks, Andy. I've been looking forward to it...

Also: Mike in a t-shirt and shades, what the hell? haha.

Yeah, I had to do a double-take to figure out who that was in the back.

Murat Folks,

 

I recorded the show, I am tracking and listening to it as I type this. I need to do a bit of mastering to it so it will be up in a week or so on www.bt.etree.org.

Soundboy,

Was it you that let my wife and I share a table with at the Rathskeller before the show? If so, hope your hotel room was reasonably decent and you made it home with no problems.

Wife surprised me with buying The Wilco Book as an early Father's Day present. Then we hung out after the show. Jeff Tweedy autographed the book AND we got our picture taken with him. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful day and a fabulous show!

Can't wait to hear your recording of the show.