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The boys were definitely in good form tonight. I'm at work and people kept coming up to my office for help so I had to keep leaving, and only got to see a portion of it. GRRRRRRRRRRRR. . Crap, I exceeded my megaupload limit doing the first part. I have to wait 6 hours until I can do the rest. Oh, well. Thanks JRiordan.

Grant Lee Buffalo - Dixie Drug Store.

It was muggy July around supper time

When i pulled into New Orleans

I got dropped off at south rampart street

I was hungry for a plate of greens

I made my way down the banquette

Where i could see an open door

And overhead a sign made of painted pine read

The dixie drug store

Peppers and roots were hanging

From the rafters above

There were oils and sprays all on display

For money luck and for love

I reached down to pick one up

When a dark hand grabbed my arm

And before i could see just who it was

She said you don't want that charm

The last man to walk that thing out of here

Just up and disappeared

Found his wallet and his wingtip shoes

Near a tombstone down in Algiers

What you need my travelling friend

Is a place to wash your jeans

And i wouldn't be the least surprised

If you were hungry for a plate of greens

She beckoned me on up the stairs

For she'd done made up her mind

Said take off your hat and kick off your boots

And leave your pride behind

She was turnin' tricks and nothing clicked

And the room was black as pitch

She had me backed up against the wall

I was fumbling for the switch

I could hear her crack the shutters

As i felt a little draft

When she gave me a shove into the tub

And said it's time to take your bath

I lay there in my stockinged feet

I was soaked from head to toe

At the same time down on rampart street

I heard the trumpet blow

Sparks started poppin' from an old tin cup

Sitting on the window sill

The whole place smelled like matches

And onions on the grill

I was catchin' cold and i told her so

As i let out a little cough

She told me since my pants were clean

Why don't i just dry off

I found myself a little tea-towel

Wrapped it around my waist

I was standin' there half naked

When i noticed we were face to face

And now it seemed the picture's

Gettin' pretty strange

Stripped bare in her chamber and

I hadn't even asked her name

I started to inquire

She knocked me upside the head

My noggin felt on fire

As she pulled me into bed

You needn't ask no questions

Of the things that don't concern you

If you aren't afraid of the fire son

Fire it won't burn you

She took me down to a secret place

In the bayou of her blankets

She offered to share her bourbon

I thanked her then i drank it

Thru a small crack in the ceiling

Burst the Louisiana moon

It shone down on our bodies

And we began to croon

Like a couple of coyotes

We were howling thru the night

And i swear they were a beatin' those

Congo drums outside

I told her she was crazy

And she replied it's true

And she finally introduced herself

As the famous Marie Laveau

I said now come on darlin'

She died a century ago

Don't believe the paper she said

It simply isn't so

I shot back that's impossible

There ain't a ghost of a chance

But i wouldn't turn a pretty ghost down

If she asked me up to dance

We laughed until the mornin'

By then my pants had dried

I picked up my hat and pulled on my boots

And i gathered up my pride

I figured she had done stepped out

I didn't see her anywhere

And i set out to find her

I headed on downstairs

Got down to the bottom

I couldn't believe my eyes

Gone were all the bottles

And the remedy supplies

I shouted out for Marie

I darted out the door

An old man on the wooden porch said

What you in there for

Son you got no business

The hoodoo store's been closed

Long as i remember

A century i suppose

But mister i just spent the night

With a young gal named laveau

He said the widow paris

Done had a little laugh on you

I said you mean to tell me

That was the voodooin'

He nodded yes none other

The queen of New Orleans

Something you might want to try is getting an effects processor. I have a Digitech GNX 4 and it has any possible effect that you could want outside of a Leslie. But the GNX 4 is pretty expensive, around $500 Almost any company that makes effects pedals makes a processor and you can get some decent ones for around the same price that you can get some of the boutique type pedals. I recommend Digitech but that is just my opinion. They make some around $50, and it would help you play around and decide what tone you really want. But no matter what, the most important element to getting the tone you want is in your fingers. You would be surprised what a good consistent finger tension will do for your tone. It took me a while to figure out that you don't have to mash down on the strings to get it to sound right.

This may be old but I just found this great video of old Uncle Tupelo playing the Munsters theme at a Halloween show. This was back when they were called the Primitives though. I never thought I would get to see Tweedy in a dress. The user has a bunch of old Tupelo stuff.

 

After reading your post I have come to the conclusion that I need to pamper myself a little more. Thanks

That is funny. That is the exact same shaving set-up I use. I love the aftershave gel. It doesn't matter what I use though. I always end up cutting the crap out of myself shaving. They used to make fun of me when I was on ship in the Navy. I would come out of the bathroom looking like a horror movie because the ship would rock back and forth while I was shaving. Not to mention after you have been out to sea a while, the only thing the ship store carries shaving wise is really crappy razors and foam shaving cream.

Grant Lee Buffalo: Might Joe Moon. - The song Mockingbirds is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Almost every musician has had a moment in their life where they heard a band or a song and something inside of them clicked and they thought "That's what I want to do for the rest of my life". Mockingbirds was my moment. Grant Lee Phillips' voice is haunting and he is my favorite vocalist. Like a lot of other bands at that time, GLB came out right as grunge hit and didn't have enough of a mainstream sound for that movement.

Natalie Merchant: Tigerlily - This album garnered a little attention because it was her first after leaving 10,000 Maniacs, but she never got the credit due her for her songwriting abilities. Not to mention that she has one of the best female singing voices I have ever heard. A lot of people don't like her voice, saying it is a bit weird, but I love it.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers : Stadium Arcadium - Yes this album might have had a couple of hits off of it and I'm not sure if they are done releasing singles off ot or not, but if you sat down and listened to both discs of material you would be amazed at the amount of truly phenomenal material. Most double albums could have maybe one or 2 songs off of each disc that could be considered truly great songs. Between the 27 tracks on both discs combined there is probably 13 or 14 of them that give me chills (no pun intended) every time I listen to them. Not to mention the fact that John Frusciante, in my very humble opinion, is the closest thing to Jimi Hendrix that this generation has to offer. A lot of people say that his playing isn't technical enough or that he plays too sloppy. That may be true but he can play a single note and bring your entire universe crashing to the ground. Only the true great guitar players have that ability.

SUWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! Thanks for the info.

Nov. 12.

Sweet, thanks. Now I need to drop hints to my wife about it for my birthday.

Read the Kot book.

The sad part is, I have the Kot book. I don't remember anything about it. I haven't read it in a couple of years. I guess I'll have to read it again.

IATTBYH seems pretty much the least likely to be written in a random way, given the structure of creating so many phrases made of words starting with the same letter (american aquariam assasin avenue and big-city blinking and bible black and disposable dixie-cup drinker)

Yeah, that does make sense.

Wilco's version of 'Dick in a Box'

Probably my second best all time SNL skit behind Cowbell. In case anybody doesnt know. Here is a link to the skit. The sad thing is that I heard that Timberlake actually does this song live.

LINK

Wow has this thread gone sideways. Froggie you are an evil genius. Well for the fun of it, here I go:

Casino Cock/Cock Queen

Box Full of Cock

I must Be Cock

(Was I ) In your Cock

Company in my Cock

You Are My Cock

Heavy Metal Cock

Bob Dylan's 49th Cock

I could amuse myself with this all day but somebody else deserves to have fun too.

I was reading the Wilco article in Wikipedia and in it, the article mentions that some of Wilco's songs have had their lyrics written using "cadavre exquis " which Wiki describes as "an exercise where band members take turns writing lines on a typewriter, but are only allowed to see the previously written line". While their understanding of Cadavre Exquis varies from my understanding of it, I was wondering if anybody had heard the band mention anything about it and if so did they give any examples? Just going through the lyric catalog in my head I could see that maybe IATTBYH was written that way. Which coincidentally would explain a lot about that song. The lyrics for it have always confounded me. Maybe also Candyfloss? Anybody got any idea?

The most important question is - When can we get it?

All I know is that Interpol raided the dudes workplace. Something tells me he is now unemployed. There isn't really a "Sorry for getting you strip searched and cavity checked in the lunchroom yesterday" type Hallmark card that you can get for your boss.

If I had to listen to any one of those ten songs I swear I'd kill myself.

Oh, come on "The Final Countdown" is a good song. I'm not being facetious I really like that song. Honest story, the first 2 cassette tapes I ever bought, were Europe "The Final Countdown" and Aerosmith's "Greatest Hits". I was a freshman in high school at a new school. There was girl named Carrie that went to the school and Europe had a song named, oddly enough, "Carrie"on that album, which is why I bought it. My plan was to play the song and to sing it to her. Unfortunately, she started dating some guy 4 years older, and much, much bigger than me and he ended up beating me up when he found out I had a crush on her. Ah, those were the days.

I would think that nut width would make more of a difference than fingerboard radius to those of us with smaller hands. I checked out their website, and I could find precious little about nut width save for a description of their replacement necks, which are an aircraft carrier-sized 1.71 inches (Gibsons and modern American Fenders are typically 1.6875"; vintage Fenders are 1.625"). Scale length would also make a difference, but since you play both Gibsons and Fenders (24.75 and 25.5 respectively, I think) this doesn't seems like much of an issue.

 

I hope this helps.

I helps quite a bit. Thanks.

percussion.

 

check out this video

Definitely interesting. I've never been one for straight instrumental type music unless it's very melodic. That man has outrageous timing. I wish I had that kind of timing. Every time I get behind a drum kit I do fine until i try to incorporate my feet and then it just goes right out of the window. I'm more of a meat and potatoes kind of musician I guess.

Is Glen's music all percussion related or does he sometimes don a guitar and sing also?

Wilco isn't the American Radiohead, Radiohead is the British Wilco

You, my friend, are gifted and wise beyond your years.

Has anybody played any of the Carvin Models? I am intrigued because you can get them on the website set up with the hardware and everything the way you want it. I'm especially intrigued because you can get the smaller radius necks which I would like because I have smaller hands. I play Les Paul's and Strats now with not a whole lot of difficulty but a smaller radius neck would help my playing get better technique wise. The only problem is, since there is only a handful of stores that sell them, and I live on the east coast, you can't just run down to the local Guitar Center to try one out. So if anybody has played one and has an unbiased opinion (I say unbiased because I would recommend a Les Paul to anybody no matter what the situation is) it would be appreciated.

You can get an Epiphone White Dot at any Guitar Center for $250. Obviously they are not as good as their Gibson ES-335 bretheren but I have played them in-store and I was fairly impressed. They were a lot more sturdy and had better craftsmanship than other Epiphone knock-offs. I was going to get the one that I was looking at but I was also getting a new Strat at the time and wife wouldn't let me get both. This was around the time I was trying to convince my wife to let me mortgage the house so I could buy a vintage Les Paul Gold Top. Once again I got shot down.

I live in a lonely little shelterd town where nobody has ever heard of Wilco. That being said, after seeing them live in Detroit last week I have been screaming their praises to anybody willing (and sometimes, unwilling) to listen. No matter who I tell about Wilco one of 2 questions come up, "what kind of music is it" & "what do they sound like". I have been at a complete loss as to how to explain them to people. Normally I just bust out the MP3 player when it is available, or I have made a CD for someone also. I have never been one for categorizing music, but it is hard to explain to someone what a band sounds like with out some sort of reference. I have heard the media label Wilco as "Alt. Country". I personally hate that phrase more than anything because the minute you mention country, no matter what is in front or behind it, people automatically think of rednecks driving big trucks, spiting tobacco and line dancing. Obviously Wilco is about as far from that as you can get so I don't like to use that phrase. I have heard them labeled as "American Alternative", "Folk Rock", "Roots Rock" and the stupidest one I have heard - "Electric Folk". The best I have able to come up with is to tell people that they are a cross between Neil Young, and Frank Zappa with a little C.C.R. thrown in. Mind you, most of these people are fairly oblivious to anything outside of mainstream music so I had to stay away from the more obscure references. I tried a Replacements comparison once but just got a blank stare. Does anybody have a better way of describing Wilco's music?

Even though the Detroit show rocked, I am so jealous of you guys. The fact that they played Hoodoo Voodoo is phenomenal! I almost Hoodoo Voodooed in my shorts when I saw that I could download the set. Thanks to the person who posted it.

I hate to be the one to say it, but I can't believe that nobody has entertained the possibility that this could mean that one of the current members of Wilco could be on their way out. I'm not saying I want that, or that it's inevitible, but there is a weeeeee bit of a history for such an occurence.

 

I hope I'm wrong though.

True, very sad, but true none the less. I heard all of the the ex-members of Wilco are getting together to form The Polyphonic Spree 2.

I have a feeling in 10 years Wilco will still be around, and be as relevant to as many people as they are today. Then when you mention the Shins people will glare at you with a confused look. The Shins just seem like more of a 1 hit wonder type of band to me. Just my opinion though.