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    Your Dream Wilco Setlist

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    That's not much of a dream setlist. 90% of that gets played all the time.

     

    It's not so much the songs in the setlist as the order and placement of them. Airline hasn't opened since 2006 I think, and you never see Monday out of the encore unless it's a main set closer. When writing setlists, whether for my own band or as a fantasy for another band, I always take into account the flow of each song into the next.

    Your Dream Wilco Setlist

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Don't think this has been discussed here before. Anyway here's mine:

     

    1. Airline to Heaven

    2. Company In My Back

    3. Monday

    4. California Stars

    5. Muzzle of Bees

    6. A Shot in the Arm

    7. You Are My Face

    8. Kamera

    9. Side with the Seeds

    10. War On War

    11. Handshake Drugs

    12. On and On and On

    13. The Late Greats

    14. Pot Kettle Black

    15. It's Just That Simple

    16. Walken

    17. Jesus, etc.

    18. I'm The Man Who Loves You

    19. Impossible Germany

    20. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

     

    encore 1:

    21. Hate It Here

    22. I'm A Wheel

    23. Heavy Metal Drummer

     

    encore 2:

    24. Via Chicago

    25. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

    My attempt at the Impossible Germany solo

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Nice work. I'm trying to get our band to do that song but have not learned it yet myself. Hard to mimic that intense right hand vibrato Nels does, especially without a whammy bar! Is that a 52 reissue Tele?

     

    It's actually a Frankenstein Tele made from a late 1980s Squier neck, a Warmouth body, and EMG pickups. I got it for just $425, but it plays better than a 52 reissue IMO.

    Christ for President in Religulous

    in Just A Fan

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    Sorry for mixing you up with somebody else, bobbob. At any rate, orchestra's got the right idea. I presented numerous examples of how religion poisons thought in that other thread, ranging from the myriad ways it inspires violence and war, to the knack it has for stifling free inquiry at even the most basic and unconscious level.

     

    You might argue that you're protecting only moderates with your well-intentioned tolerance, and that may seem fine to many on the surface; moderates aren't as constrained in their beliefs as fundamentalists, but they nonetheless enable the destructive fantasies of, say, hardcore Christianity and radicalized Islam to tear a rather horrifying swath through 21st Century reality by providing cover for the beliefs of their adherents. "What they believe is valid," argues the moderate brainlessly, "it's simply a rigid, authoritarian version of the word of god. Times change, and so too must the unchanging law of god. We just don't say it like that, of course!" Among non-believers, the "permissive atheist" provides the same kind of cover for the fundamentalist. If you're going to call yourself an atheist, the very least you can do, in my opinion, is call religion on the carpet to atone for its "sins."

     

    Religion does damage. Individual beliefs in unprovable nonsense have a way of becoming collective beliefs in unprovable nonsense. One has a way of becoming many. This is how cults tend to function, regardless of their size or tax-exempt status. Unprovable nonsense has a way of wanting to indoctrinate, coerce and otherwise assert its wild truth claims pertaining to nothing less than the entire fucking universe. We have seen this again and again and again and again throughout our history. Empires frequently cite divine providence as a justifiable cause when supporting their state-building enterprises.

     

    Sure, there are more land claims in the Middle East than you can shake a stick at, but most parties agree that they are there according to the will of god. Muslims resent Jews and have done so for centuries. I don't think anybody can accuse me of tarring with a broad brush when I say that many in the Middle East would not think twice before visiting bodily harm on a Jew (or Christian, for that matter). We see this frequently with incursions into Israel's borders, usually involving bullets and rockets. Meanwhile, Jews make assertive, often callous land-grabs based on little more than mythology dating to the Old Testament. Top elected politicians in the modern democratic state of Israel refer to Palestinians as being "no better than dogs." The president of Iran, meanwhile, denies that the Holocaust ever happened and refers to Israel as a "rotting corpse" while threatening to erase it from existence with absolutely stunning regularity. Crazy, crazy motherfucking shit happens in the name of religion. We need not look back to the Crusades to find further examples of this insane behaviour. We see other struggles around the world even today, pathetic and tragic as that statement surely is. The Sunni/Shia split. The sinister influence of Islam in Europe. India and Pakistan. There can be no religious solutions to religious problems. (I would apologize for appearing to "pick on" Islam in these examples if I gave a flying fucking shit about offending Muhammed, PBUH. Fortunately, I do not.)

     

    Since this thread is about a Larry Charles film, does anybody remember the astonishing scene in Borat during which an American politician suggests that Jews will not ascend to Heaven because they haven't accepted Jesus Christ as their personal saviour? It's a rather disquieting moment, and it's an interesting proof of how even "nice, upstanding" folks can be polluted by their religion into thinking less of people who do not subscribe to their patently ridiculous beliefs. This is how sinister religious thought truly is, and it's a fine illustration of how holy war is perhaps not even the most appalling "sin" committed in the name of religion. Religion is far from innocuous even among those who do not engage in violence or acts of war.

     

    For example, Bible-based arguments abound which prohibit sex education from being taught in a transparent, shameless and comprehensive fashion even in many North American schools. Instead of teaching the Third World to embrace safe sex, the church has encouraged a veritable holocaust of poverty, starvation and AIDS, all for the sake of a bunch of phoney-baloney bullshit that is not only manifestly untrue, but which does us no good whatsoever.

     

    The resurgence of polio in North Africa and the Middle East also owes a tremendous debt to religion. Last year in Pakistan, a senior government official was killed when he was returning from a tribal council to convince people to immunize their children against the disease. Armed "prayer leaders" warned the politician's entourage against dispelling local misconceptions about the vaccine's benefits. These same men had earlier informed the tribe that the government was there only to spread "Western vulgarity," and that the polio vaccine would in fact do them harm. I wish I could say that this sort of calamity were some kind of fluke, but the fact of the matter is that this sort of thing has been happening in Africa for years. And polio is gaining tremendous ground in this part of the world. Thanks again, religion! For nothing at all. (On-topic! I'd like to thank religion for NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING at all.)

     

    I personally stand to benefit from an economy the size of the United States experimenting in an unhindered fashion with stem cell research. So do millions more. I like the idea of millions and millions of madmen not wanting to see you, bobbob, as well as I, as symbols of "Western decadence" that must be destroyed. I don't like it when fat, stupid, useless, stupid, disgusting, stupid, inhuman, stupid, cunt-for-brains assholes like Falwell and Robertson blame our gay friends for 9/11. I don't like it when sexually ambiguous teens are murdered with astounding ferocity because their PERCEIVED lifestyle is "against god."

     

    You cannot deny that religion is the greatest poison of all fucking time. I simply don't understand how you can call yourself an atheist, a materialist, or a secular humanist and pretend that you don't observe archaic religious thought poisoning the living fuck out of our planet on an almost hourly basis. Please do not deny deny this.

     

    I'm finished with this subject on this forum. I hope at least some of you will read this and think about it.

     

    I agree with every single word in this post. :thumbup

    Wilmington Show

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I hate all of you who are going. :realmad

     

    Anyone have an extra ticket for someone who wasted a half-hour on the presale and an hour calling for the tickets and came out with nothing?

     

    Pretty please?

    Sky Blue Sky

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    "Impossible Germany" is one of my favorite songs of all time.

     

    The rest of the album is pretty damned impressive too. And to think I was quick to label it as "boring" when I first heard it...

    Best live Impossible Germany solo?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    i kinda like the less restrained ones that they started playing when they debuted the song...where the last verse would come after.

     

    -justin

     

    Hey, Justin, you're on here too? It's TWD from the pool!

     

    I'll have to check all of these out, thanks. Keep them coming, guys!

    Are we ever gonna see Jeff sing the 7th inning stretch

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I thought GBA was now the standard 7th inning stretch (since 9/11?)..?

     

    GBA is sung occasionally, but not at every game. At the Phillies-Mets game last Sunday (which I attended) they had someone singing it but I don't think they had anyone sing it at any of the Phillies games I went to last year. Take Me Out To The Ballgame is sung at every game though.

    Presale RANT

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I sent an angry e-mail to a scalper selling tickets for $150 apiece on Ebay. His response: "It's capitalism, baby!" Yes, but that doesn't make it right. I'm pro-free market, but there ought to be laws preventing things like this from happening.

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