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Probably the reason I return to early- to mid-period recordings of The Beatles above others. I really love hearing the growth and development of budding songwriters. For The Beatles, it’s from late 1964 through end of 1965 — Beatles for Sale, Help! and Rubber Soul, plus the singles of the era. Their country, folky, Dylan phase. Love that stuff.

Never ceases to amaze me how many G > C songs Jeff has written, and how he's been able to write melodies for each. I can see why this didn't make the cut, but I absolutely love Jeff's songwriting/growth period from 1993-1999...Anodyne, A.M., Being There, Down By The Old Mainstream, Weird Tales, Mermaid Avenue, Summerteeth. You could include YHF in there too, considering a handful of its tracks were starting to pop up in solo shows or Wilco shows in 1999.

Agreed. It’s thumpy and “hoofy.”

John’s bass playing has been incredibly melodic and deftly played from the start. I don’t feel like his bass has been at the appropriate level in the mix on studio records until latter day Wilco. Hopefully these reissues shine a light on his excellent playing on those early records.

“She Don’t Have To See You” is in the track list for the deluxe version of A.M.!

Paste has the scoop. I dig the tune - fun to hear another John song. https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/11/wilco-previously-unreleased-myrna-lee.html

You should poke around in the "In a Future Age" forum. Perform a search before starting a new thread; I'll bet you'll find something. http://viachicago.org/forum/29-in-a-future-age/

The Beatles never played "Taxman" live, or anything from Revolver. In fact, Brian Epstein usually enforced a policy that they only perform their singles in concert, which explains why "Paperback Writer" made it to the stage a few times, but that's the only Revolver-era tune that did.

He's a giant douche who loves to flaunt his excessive guitar collection, plays with no soul and in general, is a tool.

I wouldn't say I'm ever in a hurry for a Nels solo. I dig his playing, but more so the tasty licks and soundscapes than the elongated IG solos. That being said, the IG I heard last month in Kansas City featured probably the best Nels solo I've ever heard. I usually skip it on live shows.

We're a kind and sharing community of fans. I'm sure you could get your hands on the Troubador set very easily once it's out there. "Let's Hear It For Rock and Roll" was the tune. Its main riff and some of the chord progression later evolved into "Let's Not Get Carried Away," the SBS-era b-side to the "What Light" single. You could always just rip the CDs and voila, digital version. I always go for the CD releases with deluxe reissues to get the liner notes, plus CDs still sound really fantastic in my car and serve as a permanent backup if/when a hard drive crashes.

And there it is! http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/wilco-details-reissues-of-first-two-lps-am-being-there-w508163

If there are a couple of officially remastered/remixed live shows from the AM/BT era, I'd love that. As in Kicking Television sound quality, that is, if any of those old shows were ever recorded on multitrack. I have a ton of the old SBDs from 1995-1997 and most of them are pretty decent, but I'd be a total sucker for an official release.

I assumed that any extra material from the AM/BT era was released on the Alpha Mike Foxtrot box set. Perhaps I assumed incorrectly? Could there really be more to hear? I didn't think Jeff was particularly interested in these types of releases, not being one to dwell on the past or devote energy to "archival" projects. But if there's unreleased goodies from the era coming, I'm on it!

There's nothing on Rhino's website. And nothing from Wilco's camp. If there is an A.M. deluxe reissue forthcoming, we'll hear about it soon enough. A.M., BT and ST all got reissued on Nonesuch a while back when Wilco was still on Nonesuch. My prized possession in my LP collection is an original pressing of A.M. on Sire.

This is my serious face.

My guess is that Jeff liked to sing it live then because he could belt it out like a punk rocker vs. singing more of his sad, mellow country tunes in the middle to low-end of his vocal range.

That much was clear.

Ah, the old sit vs. stand debate.

The title of the thread says Via Chicago, as does the first sentence of the post...plus the whole "audience going nuts during the cacophony" part made it clear we're talking about the murder ballad. Such a brilliant album juxtaposing sunny pop songs, dark lyrics and layered production.

Some basic google searching will take you places. Entering Wilco 11/27/96 into a YouTube search immediately turns up the entire video:

Most versions from 1996-2000 are the same, with Jay Bennett making some noise on the keyboards and Bob Egan making even more noise on the pedal steel. It mostly resembled the album version. That song definitely took on a different form during the fall 2001 tour (Wilco the quartet, sans JB) and in the Leroy-Mikael era, 2002-2003. I've listened to a ton of shows from 2001-2003. It became darker and more atmospheric. Less melodic in some parts, with Jeff fingerpicking through some dissonant chords and eerie keyboards hovering over the top, particularly during the instrumental passages between v

According to Wilcobase, Jeff Tweedy performed it a handful of times at solo shows, but the band only performed it once in 2001, at First Avenue in Minneapolis on 6/30/2001. Now, I believe Glenn had replaced Ken by that point (Jay's last show was the Grant Park gig in Chicago on 7/4/2001, immortalized in the IATTBYH film) but this show isn't on So Out of Tune, my go to site for streaming Wilco. Looks like there may be a few etree users out there who have it, if someone REALLY wants to dig for this. But, I've listened to a lot of Wilco shows from the late 1990s and the noise section was tame c

I couldn't believe it either. Buuuuuuut at the same time I do believe it. AM had support from UT fans. BT was next level and won over a sizable new audience, plus was supported by a really long tour. ST was a sharp left turn away from alt country and faded away pretty quickly when the record label wouldn't get behind it. The label wanted Jeff to churn out a "One Headlight," as I recall reading in "Learning How to Die," and when they realized Wilco wasn't a "hit-making" machine, they cast them off as a cult act...oops. Same here. Mostly live recordings, and the studio recording I return to

Hahahaha, now that's funny. I was a member of VC looooooooong before I even know about this FB group. Really just stumbled onto it one day randomly, and have been an active participant there since things went a little dormant here. I certainly lobbied hard for Being There during the voting period leading up to the album show at Solid Sound this year. In my observation, there seem to be a lot more new-ish Wilco fans there vs. the hardcore fans we have here, who know the deepest and dorkiest details about the band, songs, albums, tours, what have you. And, as it is with many FB groups, plenty