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Some of my favorite recordings to really hear what Glenn can do behind the kit are the live shows from 2001 when Wilco briefly toured as a quartet -- Jeff, John, Leroy and Glenn. The songs are really stripped-down, and there's definitely a hole in the sound without Bennett on guitar or keys. Glenn fills out the sound really well with his drumming and other percussive touches. And of course, Jeff's electric guitar playing in those shows are great too. Messy and raw, yet beautiful.

Man, he's good. Hardest-working member of Wilco right there. It's so much fun to watch him play.

The Loft's Facebook page posted about this today -- with a cool picture of Jeff rocking a Strat! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=570313826417961&set=a.381616861954326.1073741829.380452572070755&type=1&theater

As Wilco fans, we could get behind your song choices. To the general/casual listener, Misunderstood > I Am Trying to Break Your Heart > Handshake Drugs is a pretty dense trio of tunes. Hope you can track down some videos!

Outside of Cream or Derek and the Dominoes, Eric Clapton's best work, IMO, is the record he played on with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.

Cool photo. I have that same Wilco dump truck poster.

I'm a total sucker and will probably shell out for some of this stuff. Don't know if I'll go all out and get the companion tracks on vinyl...maybe just the original albums, and get everything else digitally. I love those early Zep performances, so I'm excited about the 1969 show.

I wondered when bleedorange would chime in. I agree with you that it's not the return to form that many of the media outlets seem to peg it as. There are some rockers for sure but it also has some of that groove-oriented Truckers sound.

They did make a limited run of blue vinyl and I think they were packaged randomly or something like that. Or it's a RSD special. Mine are black.

The album sounds great on vinyl. Matt Patton's bass, in particular, is a pleasure to hear. His playing is deep, punchy, in the groove and very melodic. Great addition to the band. Downside to the vinyl -- it's three sides. There's nothing cut into side four. They could have easily put the Dragon Pants EP tracks on it. :-|

St. Louis here I come.

They've released a ton of new stuff in the Roadcase.

Chatter in the "After the Show" forum indicates night No. 2 is the best.

Those are kickass photos.

I remember going through the same exercise when I first discovered DBT. And when I first heard Uncle Tupelo and having to figure out Farrar and Tweedy.

I agree. Jason is making the best music of his life right now.

Why is it a shame? Is it not a good thing to encourage people to clean up their act?

I didn't realize that Shonna had gotten together with John Neff. She really loved to date fellas in the band, apparently.

I'm expecting my copy soon as well. I think some of the advance reviews were off by saying the record was a return to form and rocked harder. It does have some good rockers, but it also is subdued in some spots -- which I like. Not every track on their earlier records was a full-on rock n roll song. I look forward to spending some more time with it when it arrives.

Wilco, Liberty Lunch, Austin, TX, Nov. 5, 1996. One of the shows in 1996-97 where they played the album version of Passenger Side instead of the thrash version. http://sooutoftune.org/concerts/497

Ringo's pitter-patter drum fills in the coda of "Come Together." Or pretty much the entire drum sound on Abbey Road.

What is "allsome?"

That's a cool story - thanks for sharing.