blue_94_trooper

If they're going to be available via official channels they will turn up here...

http://wilco.kungfustore.com/posters.html

The Wilco baseball card (issued by the Mann, not the band) was a nice little treat, too. 

I didn't get one coming in the back gate

The Mann's been doing that for a few years, I've got Nick Cave, Sigur Ros, & Vampire Weekend cards.

The sound was amazing.  I was three rows behind the Pit on Nels' side and could clearly hear Pat's maracas in the mix with everybody else playing.  RT's guitar during California Stars may have been the only thing partially lost to the mix.

Bet you wish you had lice.

LOOKN FOR JESSICA (YOU TOLD ME YOU ARE 34 AND I DIDN'T BELIEVE YOU ;-) FROM PHILLY SHOW @ ELECTRIC FACTORY!!! YOU WERE WITH AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN AND I STOOD NEXT TO YOU IN BAR ALL EVENING. YOU ASKED ME MY NAME...PLEASE EMAIL ME!

I liked this movie better with Madonna and Rosanna Arquette.

Suggestions on music for me to pick up are welcome.

Sounds like you could start with the #1 Record/Radio City combo Big Star disc.

The theme to that 70's show?

You really need to visit your local record shop.

edit- the little riff there reminds me of "box full of letters" a bit

Considering the chronology you might reverse that.

in atlanta, the venue was almost 7,000 seats...

4,700, which is still too big for a Wilco show.

The Gong Show

not a big fan of the boisterous Pat strut during this tune...

You mean he's not being ironic?

Walken is pretty damn good live...

I can only really enjoy it by watching Pat in his full-on 70's rock-God mode. Other than that I'm tired of it.

they should keep doing these webcasts

and stop doing Walken

Isn't smoking anything pretty much illegal in all enclosed establishments in MA & even NH too?

I agree, it's unusual to see the obvious smoking of anything nowadays.

I'm not quite sure I understand what he's trying to say with this sentence. Is he saying that "It's Just That Simple" sounds like New Riders of the Purple Sage? Or is he saying that it is one of their songs?

"In the style of"

I'm all in.

Too late.

They must have all been feeling heightful tonight and decided the intro needed an intro.

Yeah, sounds like hateful with an Australian accent.

Yea, like Claire from Lost.

I'm pretty sure Australians don't write with an accent.

Besides Hateful is a Clash song and I don't think Wilco have ever covered it, with or with out fake accents.

The opener will be different on April 3rd, I bet.

How much?

I knew they were going to open with Wilco(the song) but I wasn't aware of the cute thing they do towards the end of it. I was glad I didn't because I got a kick out of it.

If you want something to surprise you, don't go poking around YouTube.

Did anyone record this show?

I didn't see any obvious rigs. I hope somebody got it, I always like having copies of shows I've been to.

the venue was oversold

I guess you weren't at the Starland Ballroom NJ show in '06. Last night was positively roomy by comparison. It was certainly less crowded than sell-outs at the Electric Factory in Philly and many other venues I frequent.

the sound was mediocre at best

Where were you standing? In the middle, 8 feet in front of the soundboard I'd have given it a 7 out of 10.

for those of us that know how crowd attentiveness plays a direct role in the bands performance. i wasn't feeling it last night, and i'm pretty sure, neither was wilco.

Tweedy was in as good a mood last night as I have ever seen him. Although you can get a good show from the surly Tweedy too (see the above Starland show). There was some occasional chatter near me but nothing out of the ordinary. It's 2010 in the USA, a large percentage of the sub-30 population appears to have the attention span of a flea. If you're expecting a crowd quiet in rapt attention, it's not going to happen.

My bet is that if you had moved to a different spot (WRT the PA and the chatty neighbors) your outlook might have been completely different.

They said family matter but I think ticket sales were weak.

The family said, "Gregg, you're not going out on tour if it's going to lose us money"

these probably wont be ticketmaster tickets. The are extra promoter's, record label, etc. So they werent going to go on sale they were left for industry people and friends, but they arent being used, so now they are going on the band's website.

They actually did link to Ticketmaster (at least Philly, Scranton and Pittsburgh did). Still some tickets left for Pittsburgh.

The link from the email just goes to WilcoWorld as explained above. I'd suggest you start there.

Some of the shows were originally on Ticketmaster and it's possible these extra for those shows will be there again. Or not.

they all show sold out no options to purchase the extra tickets

Email said they go up at noon today. Some shows had as few as 20 tickets. Better be quick with a mouse.

The Scranton Cultural Center has a ballroom (where Wilco is playing) that holds 2400 and a theater that seats 1600.

The TM sale page shows the theater seating config. That's going to confuse some people.

Pictures of the Ballroom on the Cultural Center website look nice.

It was WAY oversold. Tweedy also seemed PO'd, IIRC there was somebody towards the front heckling him.

The music was solid but the overall experience was less than stellar.