Central Scrutinizer

There was a concert video -- dunno if it was released, my foggy memory is that it was an HBO-only deal, but there was a great one of Dylan with Petty and Co. All I have left is a grainy VHS but it was awesome.

This is most assuredly blasphemy here, but I wouldn't rank Blood on the Tracks in my top 10. The rest shift in precedence. BOTT has it's moments, but I think it gets a bit more credit than deserved. It's certainly one of his most accessible albums. Someone gave me a copy of Jones' DVD for a present. I don't think I made it through the first half.

I strongly recommend taking the trip to Woodstock to see one of Helm's Midnight Rambles.

Robbie Robertson taking over. Go figure.

Honestly, I'd say the order is AM BT ST YHF AGIB SBS

Tweedy isn't exactly a blessed singer. In some respects I think it's like the story they claimed about Harry Carey singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," his voice gives people the confidence that they can sing at least that good. Moreso, Tweedy built his stage presence, found his "voice" as a frontman. If you're a solo artist, you have to either find your niche in other ways. he has skills but he hasn't been able to harness them to become a comparable level of notoriety.

Well it was off the cuff, how about people hammering for Dylan to remake Nashville Skyline. Any attempt to remake the chemistry, the level of experience and nuance someone brings to a time and attempts to recreate that fail on the face of the attempt. This is not too unlike the bar feuds trying to compare great sports teams from different eras as to how they would match up if they played one another. By the very nature of how the game was played, what at that time was innovative, the structure and organization, economics, societal issues all boil into how something is composed. Lightning in

Agreed. I don't understand how people try to take who this band is now, who they are as people, as artists, where they are at this time in their life and want to superimpose some personal concept of what they *really* are and where they should *really* be. It's like saying Bob Dylan is worthless because he voice doesn't sound like Tony Bennett. If Bennett was all that, why has he not been able to do much on his own post-Wilco? Could at be that Bennett was nothing without the people around him, or that they filtered a lot of the heifer dust about him out, got him at least focused so that he

Actually, I was waiting for the stern warning that there were previous threads about this and you should read those instead of offering any personal insight.

The Wilco Live is framed within the left bridge support. The As from Ashes and American follows the outside lines of the bridge support, tying the type in with the image.

Wow, that very neatly echoes my opinion. Though I might cherry pick my way through select cuts of the post AFTP album (their greatest by far IMHO). Driver 8 is great off Dead Letter Office -- it could be a Wilco song. I always thought Out of Time was a near perfect pop album, a tour through genres, but my wife played the grooves off it.

XRT free 4th of July show, 2001. Bennett's swan song.

I'm probably 180 degrees the opposite way WRT AM-SBS. They're two different albums altogether. You can be in the mood for one but not the other and vice versa. My BT:SBS ratio is about pi:1

This album clicked immediately with me. But I agree it's not their greatest album, it just clicked with me. I think that an album can immediately hit you on a private emotional level; it can hit you under certain circumstances and each further listen reinforces the feelings of those circumstances. I think in most cases, though, greater, or deeper works take time to hit you. For you to truly get it. Unless you are overwhelmed by the initial impact and further listening unpeels the depth and layers.

You can lay the slide down and move the guitar back and forth over it.

The Wilco discography on Wikipedia lists the name of the DVD as "Ashes of American Flags."

That is a very intriguing statement...

I have no opinion about this song.

Is it too late for me to note that I have nothing to add to this discussion?

LRS? Is that the Second City fund raiser?

Louis: You guys are snobs. Dick: No, we're not. Louis: Yeah, seriously, you're totally elitist. You feel like the unappreciated scholars, so you shit onto people who know lesser than you. Rob, Barry, Dick: No! Louis: Which is everybody... Rob, Barry, Dick: Yeah... Louis: That's so sad.

This has been a fascinating discussion -- there's a feature in this weekend's WSJ that espouses "just say no" to the big 3 -- I'm sorry I didn't happen upon it sooner. I find it intriguing that not only the United States, but the world, finds itself at a juncture in energy, infrastructure, environment, finance, health and manufacturing/production. The cartoon about the dinosaur is apt because as a civilization we are as close to sealing our doom as can be, and may have already witnessed our own terminal disease -- unless we can rescue ourselves in the 11th hour and 59th minute. Capitalism ha

Of all your birthdays, may this be one of them.