jimthedrummer

For what it's worth...

http://www.festheads.com/index.cfm?fA=fest.main&fid=143

Right on! So excited. E22 & 24. Say hi!

We're E26 & 28, so yeah, we'll say hi!!

5th row right orchestra for Boston! Wooooo!

Same here!!! see you there...

I am quite certain it is from the DVD that came with Sky Blue Sky.

 

Correct you are, Wilco Worshipper... It's from the "Shake It Off" documentary that came with the deluxe release of Sky Blue Sky. You are quite knowledgable!

I REALLY want to see them play Mountain Park, the new Iron Horse outdoor venue in Holyoke MA... but the Solid Sound five year North Adams plan may keep them away for awhile. It would be a GREAT venue for them though (and SO close to home for some of us!)

Now the holidays are over, the countdown to the NYC shows begins... CAN'T WAIT!

Smog!!

Gwar

Funny stuff right there...

Our friends who we travelled to SSF with last year tried to book us rooms, couldn't find anything... so booked a 5 bedroom MANSION 3 miles from MassMoca. This is gonna be EPIC!!!

Just bought tix for both nights at the Webster Theater, NYC... SO PUMPED!! Thanks for the heads up, folks!

Is this the full band ala Solid Sound does anyone know?

I am going this Friday in Columbus with my daughter (good father-daughter bonding time).

I am really, really excited about this! !

You have EVERY reason to be excited. Ellen (Wilco Worshipper) and I saw the show last Friday in Hartford and it was beyond words incredible... A show for the ages. I can't wait for the DVD!!!

To quote myself (my facebook page), this was "the single finest weekend of my life... no lie". Words WILL fail me here, but I'll try. I used to go to ridiculous lengths, sacrifice, and expense to catch the Grateful Dead whenever and wherever I could. Few of my family, friends, co-workers understood. But they never experienced those "moments".., a six hour drive each way, madness in the parking lot before and after the show, a blown radiator on the beltway at rush hour, etc, all for that "moment". Everything would click musically, a Stella Blue, maybe a Crazy Fingers, it didn't really matter what song, but it always came at least once per show, when I knew I was standing exactly where I was supposed to be... at the fleeting, floating center of the universe. In that moment I would be moved to tears by the majesty, the beauty, the frailty of our existence, and my soul would be flooded with the purest of gratitude that I had been simply allowed to stand right there, right then. I felt that way again, some fifteen years later, during Jeff's set, standing in the rain, the Berkshires as backdrop. Some three thousand people, a festival audience no less, outside, and you could hear a pin drop... Such respectful, loving fans of a such a respectful, loving band.

Thank you Wilco, thank you MassMoca, thank you Higher Ground, and thank you EVERYONE that performed and attended. It was wonderful beyond my feeble words.

Yeah... I LOVE 'em!! Down By The Old Mainstream is one of my all time favorite discs at this point (and I never listened to them until '07). Great band. I actually just found "On Golden Smog" at a used CD store in Northampton MA for 5 bucks about a week ago. Cowboy Song may be in our setlist soon.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm on the west coast - so I set it to tape. I haven't seen the movie... dig the soundtrack though.

Yeah, I thought you West Coasters might be appreciative... you're welcome. I'm really enjoying it.

It's on HBO "Zone" right now... started at 7

I seemingly got tickets, but no confirmation e-mail... should I be worried?

We caught his tour of last year at Fenway Park, and it was one of the top three concert experiences of my life (last night at Lupo's made the list also!). Just AMAZING!! Band:great, setlist:great, Paul's voice:great, hearing those songs LIVE with that voice belting 'em out: PRICELESS!! I have this current tour on my Pollstar and Ticketmaster "alert list"... I'm going to at least one this Summer if humanly possible.

P.S. I bought the CD/DVD combo of the tour, and have watched it in it's entirety some seven or eight times... it's that good.

i saw world party in a club circa Goodbye Jumbo and not only were they incredible, i was blown away by what a great guitarist Karl Wallinger is

He's one of those great at everything guys... World Party CD's were often Wallinger tracking on top of himself, many times. Great writer, great vocalist, great multi-instrumentalist, great arranger, great writer, great writer (yep, I repeat myself when it bares repeating repeatedly). I was lucky enough to be at a sound check a few years ago in Long Island for the tour after his rehabilition from the stroke/aneurism.. Watched him making fret marks on the side of his guitar neck with a sharpie because he lost quite a bit of his eyesight. And the show ROCKED!!! Why he's not a legend will always mystify me.

World Party

Dada

and a big second that motion for Blue Rodeo

As was The Corner, and as will be Treme when it premiers in April (which I'm really excited about).

I just saw this thread exists, and won't read the whole thing, but I need to just say I LOVE The Wire. I have seen it from front to end at least three times, and each time a new season started, I'd watch the preceding... So I've seen Season 1 like eight times, season two seven, etc... It never gets old!!! Brilliant TV.

I'm also VERY excited for Treme. The fact that it's Dave Simon and Ed Burns is reason enough to be excited, then consider the completely intriguing premise/setting/acting ensemble, etc. I love New Orleans and its music, so bring this one on!

HBO rules

Anyone seen any of these small venue shows? I'm going tonight to the Calvin in Northampton, and am pretty excited. I was a big fan back in the day, but haven't seen them in fifteen years or more.

I'm about 2 1/2 hours south of Chicago. I'd rather do almost anything else than drive in that city but I think I'd make an exception for this.

MB, it's SO worth it... I missed this tour, but I saw them do the Lamb tour, and the Selling England tour. To see Supper's Ready performed in full costume, etc.. was a dream come true. Or Watcher of the Skies with that big triangle head Gabriel wears on the "Genesis Live" cover. It was incredible. I had to drive to Boston for both of those tours (they played at Berklee), and didn't mind a mile.

Peter Gabriel is one of my all time musical heroes... Those years of Genesis were the band's finest, and some of the most remarkable rock music ever recorded, imho... It's not easy stuff to grasp with casual listens (much like Wilco, let's face it), but like Wilco, it's music that fifteen, twenty spins later, means more than you could ever have grasped/expected. They SO deserve their spot in the HoF. But which Genesis is being inducted? Invisible Touch sold a hell of a lot more "units" than Foxtrot. But I know which record remains in my playlist.

Try listening while watching the Wizard of Oz...