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Wow. That's amazing. The piano, the guitar and the falsetto are clearly straight from the Band's version, which is awesome.

Red Butte is a great venue. As a Utard, I can confirm your information regarding recent renovations. It wasn't bad before (the setting was the same) but the sight lines were bad. I would say only 50% of the crowd could see the entire stage under the old setup. Regarding the crowd being subdued at first - that's typical at red butte, since the shows usually start before sunset. Ryan Adams played there last year and he seemed pissed that people were sitting down. He played about 10 songs and left just as the sun went down. As Wilco showed, you just need to play mellow songs until the sun g

Didn't they do Any Major Dude for a movie soundtrack? I would love to see that live. Also, I think Wilco could do a great job covering the Band or some of the Dylan/Band material. Jeff and John could both do well with any of the Rick Danko vocals. Ferdinand the Imposter anyone?

I love this song. I've always thought it was a pretty straightforward story - Guy drunk out on the town, runs into his ex, for whom he still has a lot of feelings, but also some resentment, hooks up with her, and decides either before or during the encounter that he's just doing it to get back at her, to break her heart. The individual lines are probably more open to interpretation and attachment of personal experience, i.e., "I assassin down the avenue" seems to me to be that feeling of "man, I'm pretty cool" that comes after a few drinks, with the use of assassin as a verb maybe showing t

Please come to salt lake city. I know grand junction is close (5 hours or so), but it's on a weeknight and I have a job and kids. Please book Salt Lake City on the next tour. It's been too long.

I think nels is fantastic. He shreds his 'featured' solos but his additions are much broader. I was watching the youtube of forget the flowers recently and was really impressed at how he knocks out a country music lead like that. I think that some who don't like his solos think that's all he adds. One of my favorite things about him is the counter points he adds to jeff's solos and some of the subtle flourishes he adds all over the place. The guy appears to have no ego - he is certainly the best technical guitarist in the band, but he does not need to be the center of attention on every so