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Are you sure it wasn't this band? (jump to 0:40 mark) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZyaOlrb7E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV5M4YNw2xE

That's one of my favorite lines from Family Guy. Well played.

A new book on the life and work of Bird, written by my friend and host of "The Fish Fry," Chuck Haddix.

Recommendations from The Bitter Southerner's "Top 13 of 2013." http://bittersoutherner.com/13-best-southern-albums-of-2013#.UsLQB_RDt8E

I can't recommend the Isbell record enough. Every track on it is a winner. Even the country rocker "Super 8," which lyrically, thematically and musically is different than everything else on the record, tells a fun story. To me, in the midst of a record that's for the most part deeply emotional and serious, it's refreshing to have a song that's sung from the point of view of a guy with a fuzzy memory of a night of drunken debauchery on the road with his band. It's like a more violent and detailed "Casino Queen."

Fixed it for you.

I really think we're making a stretch here. I'm not hearing how this and "Sunken Treasure" are "almost identical."

This is by far one of the most creative and fun cross-forum threads, ever. OK, here I go: I'd use my role as a diplomat to make all concert-goers get along with one another -- standers/sitters, cell phone users, talkers, requesters, people who've been overserved, etc. I'd probably turn into a bird so I could quickly fly from conflict to conflict, turn back into myself and then resolve the disputes. Then I'd turn into an owl and join my brethren in front of Mikael's keyboard world.

"What we need is for you guys to deliver a 'One Headlight.'"

Agreed. That's a good one.

You could definitely tell he's fighting something. But he still seemed to be in good spirits.

i wouldn't be shocked if he still does on occasion.

I would be The Diplomat, and get my wife and my mom to be best pals.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. The local deli in my town did a special the other that was a peanut butter-bacon-honey sandwich, and it was phenomenal. I must try this.

To me, Handshake Drugs is made by everything going on in the full band arrangement. I think I'd be bored listening to a solo version of it.

I can't remember if it's the Wilco show at the Fillmore in May 1997 or their two-night run at First Avenue in October in Minneapolis that same year, but on one of those live recordings, Tweedy does make a Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown comment. If you've read Learning How to Die, you may recall that toward the end of the Being There tour, the band had grown tired of Bob Egan's pedal steel playing and was prepared to give him the boot. At one of the aforementioned shows, during the Kingpin jam, Tweedy makes a remark about how Bob is a "real c*cksucker" and how that pedal isn't welcome in Wilco anymor

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Just listened to the recording from the 9-4-2003 show at the MacDonald Theatre in Eugene, Ore., this afternoon. Great version of Cars Can't Escape at that show. I really like the live arrangements of YHF tunes from 2002-2003.

Paul tries to catch a t-shirt: http://deadspin.com/paul-mccartney-wants-t-shirt-doesnt-get-t-shirt-beco-1484914365

Outside of Wilco, I loved hearing "A Long Time Ago" twice on this solo tour. It was my request for Kansas City, the opening night of the tour. The verses and chorus are relatively straightforward chord changes, but in the middle there's an absolutely gorgeous fingerpicked passage. The solo arrangement of "Spiders" also reveals a tune with more depth and intricately played parts, over the bombast/guitar pyrotechnics of the full band, rock arrangement (which also is awesome).

Seeing him play Radio Cure solo also is terrific. It really reveals the complexity of the chord changes in the song and is a wonderful display of Jeff's acoustic guitar style. While I love that song in any form, I think a lot of that gets lost within the soundscapes of the full-band context.

Me too. He played it in Denver and I was completely mesmerized. Really interesting to hear the solo arrangement of it.

Hummingbird - most chords of any Wilco song? Agree with your selections here, and will add One Wing, Nothingsevergonnastandinmywayagain, and Side with the Seeds.