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The whole thing is on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayBigPLuXAk

OK, tickets purchased for Kansas City. See you all this summer!

It's weird to me, too. They just put out a smokin' live album (for free, no less) and seem to be on a run of pretty strong albums.

What VIP gets you is shorter lines for booze - you're in a roped-off section with your own vendors - plus you get closer access to the front of the stage, an area that GA can't access. At least that's how it was the last time I was there. But GA is fine, really. Totally open space, like a giant lawn. There are bleachers on the sides.

Blitzen Trapper announced that their RSD release will be their live cover of Harvest in its entirety. Calling it Live Harvest. And they're going to play the album in full at a few shows on their upcoming tour.

Caught the show at CrossroadsKC 10-13-2007. It was and still stands as the best Wilco show I've ever seen, even edging out "An Evening With" in 2010. Great balance between albums, including 4 tracks from A.M. and 3 from Being There. I recommend getting there early, grabbing some pizza or any of the other delicious menu items from Grinder's, and then head out the backdoor to CrossroadsKC, grab a beer and get ready to rock. http://wilcoworld.net/#!/tour_date_type/2007-10-13-crossroads-kc-at-grinders/

Agreed. I'm also going to start using that phrase, thank you.

Sorry - not meant as a dig at you! I was really into jam bands, er, improvisational rock, in high school, and have recently started getting back into Phish. Among the groups I listened to in high school (which was only 15 years ago) were Galactic and Soulive. I really like Galactic's Crazyhorse Mongoose and Soulive's Rubber Soulive, where they cover a bunch of songs by The Beatles in their instrumental jazz-funk-fusion style. Interesting, at least to my ears, to listen to some of those beloved songs played by an organ trio (drums, guitar, organ). Haven't thought about or listened to them in ye

Remember the "All-Star Tribute" to Marvin Gaye and "What's Goin' on?" I can't decide who's worse, Nelly or Fred Durst. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2hPhILxez8

I did find it interesting that the Help! and Rubber Soul discs both came with the original 1965 stereo mixes tacked on. Why just those albums?

How interesting! I too wondered about that. Thanks for sharing.

I still vote for The Lonely Ones.

That Vegas run in the fall was incredible -- probably the best run of the era since Dick's 2012 -- as were the shows at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium right before. Those Tahoe shows were solid too, especially the second night. I really like their sound right now - more equal between the four players. I like Trey's "less is more" approach. I don't need to hear 1,000 notes to be blown away. If I'm in the mood for the old manic stuff, I've got plenty of it on my hard drive. I just sort of chuckle at the people who continue to gripe that Phish isn't the same band they saw in 1995. It's not 1995. If

Quoting myself...that's supposed to say "lovely *pop* moments" above. Phone auto-corrected that to PPP for some reason.

Read that yesterday, made me chuckle just a little. As a whole, I hate Clickhole, and I wish The Onion would stop linking to their articles.

I would too, actually - but technically MMT isn't an album, but a double EP. Rubber Soul is probably one of their best pop albums, as opposed to the psychedelia of Sgt. P, Revolver (which itself has some lovely PPP moments) and MMT, or the more straightforward rock of the White Album and Abbey Road. They're all brilliant.

Where else? I always love to read that stuff.

That seems to be one I come back to a LOT... ...and then there are these, too. They really are interchangeable. Sometimes it's hard to even fathom it's the same band that went from the sounds of Rubber Soul to the White Album in three years.

When I was a little boy my dad taught me all about the baseball greats from his era, including Ernie Banks. Loved reading about Mr. Cub and all the other iconic players from that time period. You just don't see many guys like this anymore.

Cute and hilarious!

Hardly my dream MMJ set, but I too am surprised at the lack of love for the band. I was into them long before I got into Wilco and really love their first four records, five if you count the Okonokos double live record, which slays. It Still Moves is one hell of a record, probably my favorite studio album of theirs. Highly recommend it. Wilco has since surpassed MMJ in my favorite bands list, and I've yet to see an MMJ concert, but like tinnitus, in my circle of friends/music lovers, there's a great deal of crossover between the two. I didn't get a chance to hit an Americanarama show, but p

New home and remodeling projects (to commence in February) Read more, look at phone less Play my guitar(s) more Some type of vacation Considering a career switch

I bought the whole run of Winterlude shows and while I'm only two shows in, I must say they're an absolute pleasure to hear. The band sounds super tight, yet relaxed -- like they're having fun commemorating the anniversary. I'm particularly enjoying hearing the rarities, super-rarities and other older tunes that don't get in the rotation much. Blue Eyed Soul, The Good Part, Dark Neon, Hotel Arizona, Secret of the Sea, PANTHERS. The setlist variety is great -- doesn't follow the "tour template" and feels more like "shuffle" Wilco. The "hootenanny" arrangements are great, too. Highly recommen

The concert posters make lovely album art for the iPod. Much better than the standard black Roadcase art.