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    Mass MoCA

    in Just A Fan

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    Locals being senior museum staff? Not that there aren't plenty of exceptions, but I'd say the majority of North Adams natives listen to top 40, radio-ready country. There's also a lot of death-by-bass-speaker action at stop lights.

     

    Staff and the local artist community. Isn't that what the benefit is for? We'll see soon.

    Mass MoCA

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Well, the room is small. Could mean a quieter show or a very loud massive ringing in the ears show. But, they did rehearse for Solid Sound in there last year and those shows were normal Wilco concerts volume wise. I was hoping for a full YHF performance for the ten year celebration, but I don't think Tweedy is into that stuff. I hope it is just Wilco and no local opening act but I bet that is not going to happen. We'll probably have to listen to some avant-garde opening act to make the locals happy and then Wilco will open with that 12 minute Jane Smiley tune to put everyone into a really sleepy mood. If I was king for a day, I would have them blast the roof off the place and play nothing but loud noisy rockers. But, that's me.

    I'm taking my kid to a Wilco show this week

    in Just A Fan

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    Just the first of many more I'm sure. I still go with my son and he's 25. We will be seeing Wilco for the 20th time together by the end of the summer tour. I take the wife every once in awhile but you can always rely on your kid to go when no one else wants to see that band your friends have never heard of.

    Terminal 5 NYC July 25

    in Just A Fan

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    wow still tix left!

     

    Thanks, just got two. July 25 is my birthday no less. Wasn't near a computer all day Friday or Saturday. Didn't think there would be any left. Five Wilco shows in 12 days, not bad.

    Live from Barcelona (5-31-12)

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Just found this site which has the audio. Now to capture it. Any suggestions?

     

    http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45363

     

    I clicked on the mp3 link you provided for the Wilco portion of the show and my computer asked me what I would like to open the file with and I chose iTunes. After it downloaded, it automatically went into my iTunes. There it sits to be listened to over and over again. Try it. It should work or use the YouTube converter.

    Live! Tonight!

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I was there as well. Wish I knew there was another VC'r there! Absolutely stellar show! We saw Radiohead the night before outside of Boston and Dawes blew them out of the water, I think anyway. The husband disagrees with me.

    That venue is fantastic. It sounded like they are trying to get it going along the line of Austin City Limits as far as the series going national.

     

    2012 President?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Militarism and Neoliberalism: Two Sides of the Same Coin

     

    Obama was elected president largely based on the illusion his policies would not substantially overlap with the neo-con thrust of Bush's policies, but would constitute a fundamental repudiation of them. Instead, Obama's finally managed to "rationalise" Bush's policies - in both a managerial and a propaganda sense - far more effectively than Bush ever dreamed of. Yes, the term "global war on terror" is gone, but the concept lives on, more unquestionable than ever by virtue of not even being named. Torture is out, but assassination by drone is in. More dissenters than ever have been prosecuted, or are under investigation, with far less vigorous public dissent than Bush ever faced. War criminals walk free under the rubric of "looking forward, not back", while whistleblowers like Bradley Manning are prosecuted for aiding the terrorists. If Obama were still a state senator, he might even be morally outraged.

     

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31199

    Live! Tonight!

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Dawes, Infinity Hall in Norfolk, Ct. Show was filmed live for a CPTV concert series called Live At Infinity Hall. Great show. Great venue. Venue holds about 300 people. Highlight for me was When My Time Comes, Peace In The Valley and a great cover of Jealous Guy. They played for 1 1/2 hours with two encores.

    Hey, Chicago, how does it feel to be living in a police state this week?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Are people's freedoms being limited by the presence of or the threat of a military/police force? If so, it is a police state no matter if it is on the streets of Chicago or North Korea. Restrictions on the constitutional rights of assembly, protest and free movement as well as arbitrary searches and arrests are not expressions of liberty last I looked. I'm sure the intimidation factor is fun to experience as well. Rather than harass protestors and create a siege mentality in the city, why doesn't the media focus on what the protesting is all about? Expose the illegal wars being perpetrated by a global strike force that has killed thousands of civilians in their "humanitarian" attacks around the world. NATO was organized strictly as a defensive alliance to contain the threat of Soviet expansion in Europe. It never fired a shot in the 40 odd years we faced down the dreaded commies. They should have declared victory in 1991, held a parade and disbanded. Have you checked how many times NATO has resorted to the offense in the past 15 years or so? Almost 30,000 civilians have been killed by NATO in Afghanistan alone since 2001. http://en.wikipedia...._(2001–present) In Libya the death toll is somewhere between 13,000 and 17,000 . That was real humanitarian of them. http://en.wikipedia....ibyan_civil_war The real crimes are not what Americans in the streets of Chicago might commit, it's the crimes being committed by the West's global expeditionary force we call NATO. You might enjoy what the United States is turning into, but many folks may differ and many of them are in the streets of Chicago.

     

    GLOBAL NATO: A Geostrategic Instrument of Worldwide Military Conquest

     

    http://www.globalres...xt=va&aid=30899

     

    Chicago is a Police State

     

    http://www.dailykos....-a-Police-State

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