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Thanks! Awesome is a pretty good word for it!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays old Photography Thread!!! You've given me a bit of purpose to pick up the camera and share what I've shot! Looking forward to more in the new year! If I wasn't so full after a huge Christmas Eve dinner I would upload some funny shots I took tonight. Alas, it is not to be. Off to Rhode Island out of Rockaway Beach NY early in the morn. Hope everyone's dreams are fulfilled tomorrow. Mine was two weeks ago when the wife told me we is expecting! It'll be a very awesome '10! Eat well, drink much, laugh loudly, and travel safely all!!!

Amen to that! Hoping that everyone has a very happy Christmas and holiday season! Hoping that 2010 serves us well. Really had a good year and 2010 looks to be even better! The wife and I just recently learned that we have a lil' Wilco fan on board that will join us late summer! Can't beat that for a Christmas gift! Eat well, drink much, laugh loudly, and travel safely!!!

Probably one of the funniest off beat sketch I have seen in a loooong time. I quote it all the time. People around me have no idea what it is I'm talking about but laugh nonetheless because it is that funny. "Your potato chips are safe in my presence..." really good stuff! I don't get Gilly but the dance she put on for the intro last night was classic. I had to rewind it several times to catch all her moves - hilarious! Also, in the gospel ending was that Jane Du'Bois from Good Times singing at the end? It looked like her a lot. If it was she hasn't aged a day!!! And also in the snippits

A great loss. Godspeed Spacewolf!

That's cool. I've opened for Bill Kirchen before. A complete gentleman. He really is - setting up the PA we were all going to play through. I didn't even know who he was and I handed him my cables and what not when one is setting up. He actaully came over to me looked at my pedal board and said no one's supposed to have a bigger pedal board than me! I didn't really get it because I thought he was part of another opening band - not Bill Kirchen himself. I realized later and yelled at my buddy who's band I was filling in for that he didn't let me know. I went up to Bill after the show to hang

Anini Beach, Kaua'i

Nice shots of the beach. I just recently moved to Rockaway Beach NY and have yet to spend the time I'd like to on the boardwalk taking some pictures of the surf! Especially in the fall/winter time when the light is washed out and gives a spooky feel.

I agree on the free thing for sure. We haven't gotten the music out there on a medium. So we made a batch burned off of a public access TV show which had good sound. We're going to give 'em out at the next show. I think this Summer we are going to go out of our range and play some shows out of state and see what happens. Thanks for the advice.

Upstate NY - 2009.

I was going to start a new topic but this seems like a good place. I'm now in a band that does 90% of my songs. We play our asses off and practice like no other band I've ever been in. We play out as much as possible. We also do a lot of benefits for all sorts of causes. I guess my question is how do you get people to come to your shows? We have friends turn out but you can't burn them out. We do add new songs for every show and vary the setlists greatly. We just don't get the showing. I've done some thinking and think that there are some things that we don't do and need to do: Give out

Not a Wilco song but Ryan Adams' Let it Ride. Any of you guys have clips of your band up on the tube or on facebook/myspace sites? Would love to check 'em out! Hope you enjoy!

Yup, I'm the one in the middle playing guitar and croaking it out. It is a cool little venue - very plush with couches and good beers on tap. A good way to spend a Saturday night. thanks for the kind words.

Hey - Don't know if this is the right forum to share but we played this last night at a cool bar in Brooklyn last night. We did it Friday night at a benefit for our Troops overseas (we raised a ton of money.) It went over really well at the benefit and last night. Hope you guys like it. Here's the link:

A fantastic show! I was there. Jeff was on - I thought it was hilarious that he threw his harmonica during the intro to Via Chicago as it was the wrong one. Some nice banter. Just wish they had some beer/wine as it was a Saturday night and a long work week as I remember it. Good times though. My first Wilco related show!

You are correct. It is more with a tube amp that the problems with caps retaining power. I still am weary of opening up an amp when I don't know what I'm doing.

Take it to a pro - unless you are studying electricity in college. Even while unplugged there are capicitors that hold power and can fry you. Good luck with it.

Funny thread to say the least. I think they picked Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street" ultimately. I would have voted for YHF. I'm not a Phish fan at all but I find the idea of picking an album to be excellent. And for the record Phil Lesh is a gentleman and upstanding citizen - he worked for the post office! I'm sure Tweedy and him got along famously!!!

Does it eat up tons of memory recording on the computer? I guess I'll just have to jump in and see what's what with it. I've had it for over a month and a half. Busy working on the house and work in general.

You mentioned ass backwards and I laughed out loud because that is usually the case with my songs. The first verse I write, 99 percent of the time is never the first verse of the song. I always change things around once its on paper and the song demands itself. Do any of you guys record on computer? Like I said I have the M Audio Fasttrack for guitar and I have yet to open it and try it out. I have a lot of tunes/pics/files that I need to remove to an external hard drive so as to not crash the system. I'm gonna get to it this week. But any heads up would be cool! Have a good day all!

I'll have to put this one on my list on my library account. Looks to be right up my alley.

I had a drum machine but couldn't figure it out. Got an M-Audio Box and am hoping to hook it up to my laptop once I get a portable hardrive to dump all my iTunes and other things on. I'm hoping to add loops and stuff on drafts and demos. I got it off Woot.com and it was like total - $60. Couldn't pass it up. I'll update when I hook it up. The drummer in the band usually throws curves at me - so that's fun. As for movies - I wrote a tune after watching "This Is England" a couple of years ago. Not the greatest of movies but it stayed with me long enough to produce what I think is a good tune.

I have read some William Blake - you are are not kidding the man was a wordsmith! I started the topic because there was one started here about a year ago (maybe less) and it helped me to be more pro-active about writing. I've never really written for any of my bands but have started in my newest outfit (going on almost two years) and I find once I get an idea of structure with lyrics and chords they ultimately help shape it. For instance, the latest tune, I had a pretty standard repeating A part and B part and my bassist suggested adding a C part as a substitution and I came up with a ch

I'll try that. Thanks for the idea.

Not that I'm in a slump but a lull sort of. Finished a draft for the band I'm in last Tuesday and recorded it and have been tweaking it all week - and plan to lay it down Thursday. I was just pondering what some of you all do to get your songs started. For instance, this last one I capo'd up and played in B which I would really never do. So that was a trick. I'm also reading a whole bunch and ripping phrases and titles from what I'm reading. Just words - so not ripping anyone off. Words that I don't normally use but find to be either really nice or strike a feeling in me. I also used to jou