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    Tweedy's heightiness

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Come 'on, he has never been as height as he was when he was doing drugs and going through all the depression. And it's affected the music. I think the music would take on an edgier, more relevant tone if he was forced to sing in a ditch.

     

    And since adding Nels, their height wasn't like it was back when Jay Bennett was with the group. Sure Nels can hit high notes, but he's that much taller, ain't he?

     

    In my opinion, Tweedy and this band has been on a slide ever since gravity began setting in. :realmad

    The Pacific

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    The 3rd episode let me down as well. I realize this was important in telling the story of the men, and having more personal stories about particular characters to advance the story and make you feel more personal about them. But Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan and presumably The Pacific, in my view, serves as historical fiction -- learning about the events of the time from a ground view. Band of Brothers used the men to advance the story, and after two episodes that did that well, this because more drama than docu-drama.

    Now I remember why I was an independent all those years.

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    I think anyone can tell the difference between being purposely spit on and accidentally catching some spittle from someone yelling nearby. And his overreaction reminds me of Kramer and Newman in The Boyfriend episode (the magic loogie).

    A perfectly understandable mistake. Someone screaming so uncontrollably (and probably incoherently) that they froth at the mouth and spray spittle is certainly not someone overreacting to a situation.

     

    How could Cleaver have underreacted to such an irrational situation?

    Now I remember why I was an independent all those years.

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    This is absolute hypocritical hogwash.

     

    Principles 1-2 by their very nature render principles 4, 7-9 untrue.

     

    If this is a group that stands on its love of country, Christianity and honesty, those principles are biblically incorrect. What is America then if not Democracy, a system of government. How can government be good but an adjust of me and mine rather than part of a community guided by laws and mores?

     

    6 attacks their own principle that they are above the law and the rule of the land.

     

    I can picture this on a board scrawled by pigs who are dressing up in the farmer's clothes.

    Now I remember why I was an independent all those years.

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    I can sort of maybe understand unrest in relation to say, civil rights or a war, but what I cannot understand, is how the right has got itself so worked up in response to a neutered health care bill and some total fabrications regarding Obama’s status as a citizen, his ties to terrorists and/or terrorism, his plot to destroy America, take away our freedoms, and turn the US into a socialist state. And therein, for me, lies the capital D, difference, the right is getting itself all worked up in response to things that, and here is the hook, are not fucking real – and that, I think, matters.

    Perhaps oversimplifying -- but that's the point -- the issues are oversimplified to black and white for those who will scream it until spittle purposely or inadvertantly strikes others. There were many videos leading up to the rally of these same tea party zealots repeating the most ridiculous things and people shouting in agreement and working their collective brain cell into a lather (unbiased reporting here).

     

    Here's why the Dems are getting all worked up in response -- this is how the Republicans elected an idiot TWICE. And given a chance -- despite the war, despite the deficit spending, complete inaction of six years of Republican leadership in all three houses -- they would vote for him again.

     

    These real fears can't be discounted. Enough core conservatives and a whacked but organized rabble will sway a democracy to militia-fed fanatics.

    Set Lists

    in After The Show

    Posted

    I enjoy a technical difficulty every now and then. In a Phish show Lammycat shared with me, Mike's bass goes out mid song and he jokingly plays the bass part by mouth. It was funny. If that was the one song you wanted to hear that night, you might be annoyed, but probably not.

     

    I suppose of the technical difficulties become more and more frequent, then the crew needs to step it up.

    I saw the who in '83 (?) at the then Rosemont Horizon. In the middle of 5:15, Townsend broke at least two strings. when he gets to the end bit and sings, "why should I care?" he unstraped the guitar and tossed it straight up about 20 feet and it craxhed butt first. Great ad lib.

    Set Lists

    in After The Show

    Posted

    At the Savannah show Nels Cline's guitar stopped working. At that point he started not playing the SAME GUITAR with reckless abandon!! You just can't put that it in the setlist.

     

    If you only could attend one show a year, that one shoulda been it :dancing

    Song Request

    in After The Show

    Posted

    I admire the enthusiasm people have with their requests, but I have to say I'm a little surprised Wilco doesn't have the technology to only allow one vote per IP address or something. I mean, if their intent really was to play the songs that, overall, the most people in a certain market wanted to hear. But if they're wanting to reward really persistent people, that's cool too. :lol Maybe if they only took one request per IP, the top ten requests would be really boring?

     

    I assumed there would be IP protection on there, but initially went to request a second song. When it went through, I became curious to tinker.

     

    Honestly, I think there are far fewer requests coming in than people anticipate, and that the top requests are likely the result of ballot stuffers. In the concerts I've placed requests, only two or three requests will push a song into the top 10 for that show.

     

    I think the requests are harmless in that, Jeff is going to look at what the band played the last time, what they've been playing, what they're wanting to add, what's requested and how it all fits together. It's kind of like figuring out the NFL schedule.

    Wilco - The National - Richmond, VA 3/29/10

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Fwiw, the entity known as Wilco used to do Secret of the Sea a fair amount back in the day -- I'm pretty sure that was the song they did on Letterman or one of the talk shows when Jay had on that legendary fur coat -- but it looks like not since 2000. So obviously not with the current lineup.

    Tweedy's haircut makes him look like Kramer. And that coat is wearing Jay.

    Wilco -- 3/30/10, North Bethesda, MD

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Weird! As soon as I got to this portion of your review this woman being interviewed by Letterman said the same exact words "at some point".

    Don't you love when that happens? It happens to me a lot.

    "Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness."

    Song Request

    in After The Show

    Posted

    I stuffed the online request line for Savannah with several songs -- most prominently At My Window Sad & Lonely and a write-in campaign for Laminated Cat -- and they were *all* played. I think 9 of the 10 songs on the Savannah requests were played -- the only exception being Misunderstood, and I think it was the case where they did Via Chicago and it seems they play one or the other, but never both.

     

    Thanks Jeff. :worship

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