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    Wilco - new Tour in SPAIN October 2012

    in Just A Fan

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    The riots in Madrid earlier this week, and today flash floods in Murcia -- only two weeks till Wilco land in Spain. The airline I bought my ticket on (AerLingus) is threatening to go on strike.

     

    Is the media frenzy in this election year adding fuel to my personal fears about the economy and global climate change, or am I being paranoid?

     

     

     

    Flash floods are very common in Iberia at the beginning of the fall, especially all around the eastern part of Spain. It's almost as predictable as monsoons in Asia.

    As for riots...who knows. The overall sensation here (in Spain) is one of absolute bankrupt, and not only in money terms.

    Wilco - new Tour in SPAIN October 2012

    in Just A Fan

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    Holydays + Wilco tour = :dancing

     

    ... but you are going to miss the best bullfighters ever!

     

    as for Madrid, last time was so great I can´t wait! PM if u want

    I would be very disappointed if any Wilco band member would attend a bullfighting (criminal) show. Wilco loves nature, I think, not death. I'm Spaniard, by the way. Bullfighting must be banned!

    Wilco - The Laptop Era

    in Just A Fan

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    Posted 07 September 2012 - 05:37 AM

    snapback.pngchoo-choo-charlie, on 05 September 2012 - 10:52 PM, said:

     

    Not sure what other shows he might have guested on. Tweedy introduces him a few times on that recording. I think Scott McCaughey made guest appearances on quite a few of the late-2001 shows. I've heard him introduced on those recordings as well...usually on "California Stars" and whatever the last song was, e.g. "Outtamind Outtasite" or "I Got You."

     

    Yeah, I think the Minus 5 opened for Wilco on some of those dates. When Wilco opened for R.E.M. in 2003, Scott plays on a few of those encores as well.

     

    Jim O'Rourke also sat in with the six-piece a few times on the 2004 tour. I think he played the entire New Year's Eve 2004 show with them, but I could be misremembering.

     

    --Mike

     

    Thanks for the tip, it is a pheomenal show. Who's the second voice in she's a jar? It is not John for sure...

    Wilco - The Laptop Era

    in Just A Fan

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    On the last two proper shows for the YHF tour on 9/19/2003 and 9/20/2003, both Nels and Pat guested on a few tunes. Handshake Drugs in particular, Nels played guitar, Pat played extra percussion near Glenn's rig. They both came into the band after Ghost was recorded. Their first shows are the 5/19 and 5/20/2004 gigs at Otto's in Dekalb. All four shows are available in the Wilco archive on Owl and Bear.

     

    I'm partial to the 12/5/2001 Los Angeles show from the four piece, and all of the Filmore run (parts of which were filmed for the I Am Trying To Break Your Heart documentary) are worth seeking out.

     

    --Mike

    I've just checked O&B and none of those shows is available. :heartbroken Thanks for the info, anyway, I'll keep searching... :twitchsmile

     

    I've just checked O&B and none of those shows is available. :heartbroken Thanks for the info, anyway, I'll keep searching... :twitchsmile

    Woops, sorry...

    Von Freeman - 1923-2012

    in Someone Else's Song

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    An obituary in the main Spanish newspaper:

    Von Freeman, the long shadow of jazz. Saxophonist Dean of the Chicago music scene

     

    http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/08/24/actualidad/1345845066_821281.html

     

    a google translation below:

     

    Fame and fortune are concepts away from the natural path of jazzman. There are those who can squeeze its resources, move the fringes of fashion regarding gender or be an eternal tightrope between the popular and the intellectual to stay near the public. Others simply want to play music.

    In the narrow and crowded highways of jazz, the hero is not that striking, but it stays true to himself and his art, one that only looks ahead in their constant struggle with the untamed world of improvisation. The eternal impulse to reach beyond always something intimate and personal. The real jazz musician knows that goals puts oneself, and that these should be moving. In this game, is losing reach, and win, always stay on the road.

    Von Freeman (Chicago, 1923), saxophonist Dean of the Chicago scene, represents better than anyone that figure, almost mythical, the jazzman free of impurities. His sax sounded for generations, alongside big names and simple workers of music. Anyone willing to go on stage in the Windy City may have run into him, "Chicago is a hard city to leave," he said on more than one occasion. And yes, it is.

    Freeman, like many others, refused to admit the undisputed hegemony of New York jazz and decided to remain sheltered from his native Chicago. His ambition went beyond making records and touring the world, but could have done on many occasions. "There are more great musicians around here. They live and die here and nobody knows outside the city, but no more than anywhere else. "

    Saxophonist began his career in the early forties with Horace Henderson (brother, in turn, the great Fletcher Henderson). In the second half of the decade played regularly with his brothers George and Bruz in the Pershing Lounge, accompanying soloists big step among which were three of the mainstays of his style: Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Charlie Parker. The mixture Hawkins muscular tone, elasticity of phrasing and fluency Young Parker narrative was the basis on which Freeman developed one of the most original styles of the time, terribly advanced and modern.

    Why then your name is not featured in encyclopedias? Again, because Freeman just wanted to play, record was not a priority for him.

    It was the great saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk who was commissioned to encourage you to record your first album, Doin 'it right now, in 1972. Freeman already had 50 years, which did not prevent the album, produced by Kirk himself, was a little gem hidden in jazz. It was difficult to consider him a precursor to that point, but their improvisations angular, his whimsical sense of timing and intonation that sometimes bordered on detuning the world discovered a very personal solo.

    Throughout his life, Freeman played with everyone from Sun Ra to Otis Rush, Jason Moran and Steve Coleman (who always mentioned as a major influence). He debutantes pianists work they were meant to be very large (Ahmad Jamal, Andrew Hill, Muhal Richard Abrams ...) and had a son, Chico Freeman, who emerged in the late seventies as one of the great saxophonists of the era. And all he did, as it were, without leaving Chicago and while playing live at least five nights a week.

    Von Freeman died on August 11, with 88 years in his beloved city. Today, it remains an original and influential voice, an example of purity, commitment and freedom. "I do not care about money or fame, because I do not win anything and I'm almost famous. I am free.

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