sweetheart-mine

 

Information wants to be free.

analogman, well put, that is a really great belief and line. i want to see it every day. i can write it on my wall but also want to carry it around with me. maybe a bumper sticker?

You can stream or download the show here: http://www.visiblevoice.net/new-posts/jeff-tweedy-live-at-the-state-theater-portland-me-32611.html

wow, i just relived saturday night, great sound -- thank you!!!

totally agree with all of the recent comments... crowd was very respectful of the performer and the uniqueness of the setting... lots of goodwill between the audience and jeff, i thought... sang along where appropriate and enjoyed the clarity of his voice and wonderful guitar when not joining in.. and my 15 year old daughter loved it... her "second" show.. she saw wilco in newport when she was 8 or 9 but doesn't really remember... a great time for us and a great road trip to see jeff.

 

highlights for us.. via chicago/remember the mountain bed/iattbyh opener was killer.. that "blue light" guy was right in front of us.. hilarious... haste ye back/"salted milk" exchange... is there a seal in here? all awesome.. you are not alone was fantastic... several songs cast a spell including the new one... magazine called sunset got everyone going... shot in the arm, of course.. and the finale featuring walken (with fantastic guitar) and acuff-rose minus any amplification was inspired.

 

jeff never disappoints... and this on the heels of the 3 hour, 37-song "an evening with wilco" tour shows such generosity as a performer that you just don't see.. amazing, really. can't cherish these shows enough... seriously

very well said, thanks -- and also for reminding me of the "salted milk" stuff, which slipped my mind by the end. that and the blue light and seal exchanges were very witty friendly-irreverence. loved it. the three-song opener was killer, absolutely, and i also especially appreciated the gorgeous one wing, plus jesus etc, shot in the arm, and passenger side -- all songs i was dying to hear him do as a first-timer. my husband was amazed when jeff stepped out from the mic and did walken and acuff rose. i know from reading the forums and from you-tube that he does this, but my husband appreciated the intimacy of that as much as i did.

a generous performer and performance, i couldn't agree more. i haven't come down yet. maybe never will, and it's sure all right by me.

Seeing tweedy in madison tonight - but will be pressed for time. How long is the opening act? opening act starts at 7;30 - so tweedy at around 9:00?

they started at 8 o'clock in portland and played for 35-40 minutes. jeff came out at 9.

i really liked the crowd also, after being worried at the thought of not being able to hear or see jeff if people were loud and jumping up and down. we could feel while listening that the crowd loved jeff, and the great enthusiasm -- loud and lengthy whooping and clapping -- between songs and at the end of the show was delightful.

maybe it's weird only if you go to wilco or other band shows too, in comparison. i live in maine, am no spring chicken, and sang along plenty last night. i've been to band concerts in boston and nyc too many to count since god knows when -- and had a great time for the most part -- but i'd take a jeff performance over any of them any day.

hi everyone, he did play "solitaire," and also "i'm the man who loves you" rather than "i'm always in love."

this was my first ever tweedy or wilco show, and it was FABULOUS. i absolutely loved every minute of it. jeff was in fine form musically, and friendly, funny, and charming. we had great seats in row 10, i love the state theatre. since the excitement of seeing the beatles at forest hills in nyc in 1964, this was the the most excited i've been to see anyone. i was so hyped up i thought i'd have a panic attack! my husband got me three glasses of wine to calm me down!

for me it was a major thrill and couldn't have been better. thank you, jeff!

sweetheart-mine

r.e.m.'s "shiny happy people" had just ended as i wandered around the goodwill store in south portland, and then "you and i" came on. it was my first ever hearing of wilco outside my car or house. i about dropped dead, and yelled wow, it's jeff!!! never thought i'd post to this thread. had to do it.

I had laproscopic surgery on my knee today and while other will be outside enjoying the three day weekend, I'll be inside hepped up on Vicodin

So, based on this thread and that heard Jeff likes cross-word puzzles, I thought I might try a simple,amatuer-hand at designing a Wilco T-Shirt. Nothing fancy, but I thought this might be a great design for the non-wilco lover to purchase for their spouse. I think I will print this out on one of those iron-on paper sheets and steam it on and old shirt. Attached is a couple examples in some different fonts.

ha, excellent! certainly reflects me, for one, and clearly i'm far from alone. my husband will be calling you.

my husband is sick to death of jeff tweedy, but he's smart enough to say so only once every couple of months, and besides, he knows i can't help it.

When all is said and done this will be considered one of their best of all time.

i think you're right about that, and it won't surprise me one bit. i loved SBS the very first time i heard it. to me it has everything: magnificent lyrics, musical complexity, at times elegant simplicity, and jeff's totally unique, unmatched, and beautifully unpredictable voice.

another reason it "has everything" for me is that i know it better than any other music i've been listening to during my fairly long life (and that's a lot of music). i know it backwards and forwards, upside down and inside out. this is because in the fall of 2007 i suddenly woke up one morning with very bad tinnitus (and it's been with me ever since). it scared the hell out of me and i was miserable for months, and listened to no music at all during that time. i thought music was gone from me. then someone knowledgeable about tinnitus advised me not to give up on music, and to get it back into my life by picking one about-hour-long album and listening to it all the way through, once every day, with the volume very low at first. i picked SBS and started out at a very low volume, raising it ever so slightly each week, until months later i was listening at a normal volume.

it was a thrilling experience. at first i was scared i would hurt my ears, and scared that i wouldn't be able to really hear or feel the music because of the tinnitus getting in the way, and so on. but soon it became the high point of my day, going into a room in late afternoon by myself, settling into a chair, and listening to every note and every word of SBS for the whole hour. it didn't hurt my ears, and it rebuilt my relationship with music. i heard things i'd never heard in SBS before and looked forward to those secret moments. i came to know and love the album so much that i was almost glad i'd gotten the tinnitus that ended up making me listen to it so carefully! (but hey, i really would rather the damn electrocuted crickets just be gone gone gone.)

this is a great thread, thank you for starting it.

What gives you the idea that there isn't any dissension in the band?

 

I'm not sure where you came up with your armchair psychiatry bit there at the end, but it's an interesting theory, I suppose.

 

i have no such idea. dissent and disagreement exist in any kind of group known to humanity. human nature.

"armchair psychiatry"??

umm, i'm beginning to wonder why some people seem to have a problem with wilco having jeff as its leader. (is this new?) he began the thing; it seems to have developed naturally that the individuals in the band have for quite a long time been content with the starter of the band being the leader of the band; all of them seem to feel that enough decisions get made collectively; and so far i don't see anyone miserable and jumping ship because of some imagined dictatorship under which, after all, they are perfectly free to come or go.

the resentment probably comes from some longtime fans not liking the last two or three albums. too bad. if you were in wilco, you could mutiny or jump ship, but those there now don't seem to be doing that, and the shows seem to be going spectacularly well. i guess if it makes some fans cranky, so be it.

i've been to the hell that is chrome. did not stay.

do you dabble in depression

I'll always be a SBS defender. First time I listened to that album i was wowed. lots of great songwriting...right off the bat!! either way? come on guys, there is nothing on the new album that compares to either way. SBS the song is a nice, chill, country-ish song that sounds like older wilco. then you've got the rockers.....germany, hate it here, side with seeds...and of course you are my face, which is a blend of a nice song with a thrashing rock song. awesome vocals and lyrics by tweedy all over.

same here -- i loved SBS from the very first listen. and i voted for it in this poll.

i don't dislike W(TA). the only really difficult thing about it for me is feist's too-smooth faux-sultry voice interfering with jeff's; that i can't take. so unnecessary and annoying. jeff's voice is at least 3/4 of the reason i was hooked in the first place, and still am. i like "one wing," "country disappeared," "you never know," and "wilco (the song)" very much, each for different reasons. overall, the guys sound like they're having a good time, and that makes me happy. also, several of the tunes are catchy and are stuck in my head, which is kind of pleasant.

SBS for me just has more of what i love most: exceptionally great vocals by jeff, extraordinary and compelling lyrics almost all the way through, and wide diversity musically from song to song (yep, that's how i hear them). the album makes me think and overall is top-notch. still listen to it often.

i will always be excited to have a new wilco album to make friends with, whether or not it ends up a favorite.

Just my gut, my feeling is that there was more pain than physical...he never should have been on that prescription, esp if he hadnt had the surgery yet

not wanting to pick on just one comment either, but this expresses the opposite of what in reality is often the case. anyone who has had a serious ruptured disc, for example, or countless other injuries or long-term deteriorating conditions (such as jay bennett unfortunately clearly had), can tell you that it is *before* the surgery when painkillers are needed, often to make life just barely livable -- just barely. after surgery, if it's successful you need almost nothing and for a very short time. and you're thrilled with that result. not much in life is more miserable than having nonstop severe pain and needing painkillers for it, which don't even really kill the pain. they just remove you from it a little bit. it's still there. the main tragedy here is that jay bennett's insurance company wouldn't cover a surgery that stood a good chance of relieving his pain and making medication unnecessary.

when the roses bloom again

cars can't escape

let me come home

ut: new madrid

am: passenger side

bt1: far, far away

bt2: sunken treasure

st: elt

yhf: war on war

agib: hell is chrome

kt1: at least that's what you said

kt2: radio cure

s.b.s.: impossible germany

w(ta): country disappeared

ma1: unwelcome guest

ma2: remember the mountain bed

ok, second round:

4. pieholden suite

5. radio cure

6. side with the seeds

EDIT: i want to replace one of my six with ELT, but i don't know which one.

hell is chrome

impossible germany

war on war

that's too bad. i don't know what happened. saw it on ovation tv and got it very reasonably priced via amazon in late 2007. i watched it over and over . . . until the sunken treasure dvd arrived in my mailbox.

What's everyone doing for election night? We're hosting a small get together.

husband is refusing to come home tomorrow until after 7 p.m., to spare himself my state of surreal anxiety for most of the day. then, if and when obama wins, we call all our ecstatic friends. then we take our champagne. we put it and ourselves in our truck and drive to massachusetts to pick up my sister. the three of us then drive to mom's place in southern mass. and drink and celebrate the gigantic relief and thrill the rest of the night and all day wednesday. drive home happily exhausted on thursday morning.

ny times:

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"This is huge. This is bigger than life itself. When I was coming up, I always thought they put in who they wanted to put in. I didn’t think my vote mattered. But I don’t think that anymore."

DEDDRICK BATTLE, who at age 55 registered to vote for the first time.

love this . . .

"bad at capitalism"

that's better. leave it to jeff sometimes.

If McCain loses, I'd like to see this ad:

(clip of John McCain last week guaranteeing he'll win the election)

Menacing voiceover: "John McCain guaranteed he'd win this election."

(clip of McCain conceding the race)

MV: "Now - he's flip-flopped. How can we trust a man who can't even hold his promises for a week?"

(shot of McCain giving thumbs up - fade from color to b/w)

MV: "John McCain - wrong on this election - wrong for this country."

-This message was paid for by The Committee of This Shit Ain't Over John-

haha. that's very good! you should be hired to make it. you'd have my vote. of course, you have to promise not to become a SOCIALIST.