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Holy heck.  20 years.  So good to see so many familiar faces (? names?)  in this thread.

I had bumbled my way to VC after posting on the frikkin' Wilcofilm forum for a bit (really just a chronological list of messages, I think, not a real forum).  I feel like someone may have posted a link there about VC and I ended up here not long after first seeing them in April 2002 at Union College in Schenectady, NY after missing out on NYC tickets.  I still have the ticket!  Also, on the Wilcofilm thing, I always thought it was sweet that the first post was from Jo Tweedy, thanking Sam for making a movie about her son.  And if memory serves (rarer and rarer these days), I believe I got a sweet 'welcome to VC' DM from @pnêyu not long after that. Hi, U!

I'll never forget the times meeting actual internet people in real life, first at/after the Wilco / Sonic Youth show at Central Park (the day after seeing Neil and Crazy Horse ON MY BIRTHDAY) in June '03.  That group pic has to be kicking around somewhere.  And then notably at the Irving Plaza AGIB show in June '04, which was one of the first few with the "new band" and being up front with the gang (still have that ticket too).  I still rank that as one of the very best concerts that I've ever seen - amplified by the personal connections, the ordeal in lining up in person for tickets, getting a couple extras (one of which went to a friend of Laura's, the other to...  fellow Canuck... @Dreamin' Judy, perhaps?), the post-show hang at Coffee Shop (I think?), the pre-scouting of Duke's as a post-show hang with Mart and Drew (Maybe?  Mart for sure, but I don't know if I'm imagining Drew @tongue-tied lightning being there).  Meeting up with Karen, Josh, and Paul to watch Mart burn the Red Lion down to the ground on a Tuesday (to paraphrase the man himself: "an NYC Tuesday night is better than a Saturday anywhere else") - @bböp I still owe you a meal if we ever cross paths again, after you sneakily paid my bill on your way out.  And then of course the two tribute albums, which were great fun to be a part of.  I should dig those out again as a VC birthday tribute.

Unfortunately, my old avatar seems to be broken, but I do believe I have that file kicking around on a drive at home somewhere.

And, lo and behold, I log in here for the first time in years and years and I get a pop up that there's a five-year-old DM waiting for me from @lizish - replying a year later after mine to her.  Ha! Hi, T!  Hope things are well!

Thanks to Jeff and Chris (RIP) in setting this thing in motion and, of course, the indefatigable Donna for forever being the champion of all things good.  

  Adam

oh, and ... i cannot wait to see and hear this thing :agg:

PS: Pssss... someone that met you in NY told me that you are such a great person....