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    Jeff is so jaded, from the horse's mouth ...

    in Just A Fan

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    Did you hear the new Wilco music they made?

     

    Maybe philosophical musings on the socio-political ramifications of creating art in the current climate, and how much you care about your fans shouldn't be considered within the same part of a conversation. I think if you read a little more, especially some of the group's comments on the community present at Solid Sound you will find that Jeff and the gang are plenty appreciative of their fans.

     

    I think the mercurial element of Jeff as an artist is a key component in what makes him and what he makes captivating. His lack of interest in simply making "rock and roll" is a part of how YHF became a sound. The fact that he continues to create from an authentic curiosity, rather than as a caretaker of fans, is what's kept the band throwing interesting curveballs. I'm glad he's not thinking about what a particular song might have meant to me personally because if he did, he'd probably get lost in generating a lot of garbage. While I appreciate the palpable respect this group of talented musicians has for their fanbase, I'm also glad their view of creativity isn't boxed in by some paternal responsibility for my feelings.

    Just exactly perfect  :thumbup

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Just received the Giants box; this time I had to pay about additional $40 in customs...I guess is a thing of POTUS fines against Europe as 0 cents were charged for the NW Pacific box. As a consequence, I will return to illegal d/l. I'm sorry, Dead HQ

    "Ode To Joy" Reactions

    in Just A Fan

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    Wilco: Portentoso y liberador Tweedy

     

    https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/10/15/actualidad/1571157570_859884.html (in Spanish)

     

    Google translate from Spanish

     

    Wilco: Portentous and liberating Tweedy

    The band's new album receives a rating of 9 out of 10

    LAURA FERNÁNDEZ

    Oct 16, 2019 - 09:16 CEST

    It seems Jeff Tweedy with Wilco determined to extract sadness to the last drop of beauty, a beauty of a powerful American almost always delicately rock, an alt country, or art rock, which here, on his 11th album, sounds balancedly naked, Concise and portentously liberating. It opens, Ode to Joy, with a percussive cut, Bright Leaves, which is not just an attempt at some kind of redemption but a way to delve into the universe of an album in which each song is built, in all directions, from a center marked by, yes, some kind of mantra (the supplicant Before Us explores the epic of the one who has lost everything), which are sometimes threatening shakes (Quiet Amplifier opens up to a digression very Being There, distant but essential second album of the band, and it is, for Tweedy, the most “perfect” experiment of the album) and sometimes explodes in comfortingly muscular solos (previous slapping) like the one that puts in the heart of, for example, the perfect piece of camera Hold Me Anyway Or try to burn yourself in a playful, Citizens.

    As in an apocalyptic western, the sound is vitiated and condensed until it explodes in the We Were Lucky jam dialogue, the cut that gives way to the luminous (and now new band classic) Love Is Everywhere (Beware), with a saturated and precious riff as highly enjoyable as the excellently drawn pop of Everyone Hides. It would be said that those in Chicago always walk on the mainland and that they explore, timidly, at each new installment, the limits of a sound - a very marked, less and less progressive style - to which each new finding is incorporated as if from a small treasure It was. Here, what is incorporated, what is explored, is percussion, in all its variants, and the result is, we said, an album, in a sense, manic, blunt, arid, in which Tweedy's velvety broken voice plays expand towards fragility, at times maintained and at times torn down by the numerous elements that nourish each song, containers, all of them, of ideas - pianos meeting, choirs rising - bright. Tweedy says he is especially proud of this album, and he has no reason.

    An album, they say, protest, but of an intimate protest, like everything that would be said, signs that of Chicago, and one, in this case, that grows with every listener but is located, from the first, close to the highest peak reached by the band to date.

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I really like the Autzen 8.22.93. Extended versions of Jack Straw and Bertha as Weir had guitar issues, great Broken Arrow, really nice H->S->Franklin's....

     

    Also, 9.22.93 is very good, with appearances by David Murray and James Cotton.

     

    5.27.93 Cal Expo has a great Shakedown opener and Cassidy->UJB->Cassidy that is excellent.

    Thanks Lamny! I will check them out..still  doin' my way on Pacific Northwest ’73-’74 and the monster '90 23 cd box

    Warmer

    in Just A Fan

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    All said, I love what he's done here with these 20+ songs, and at the same time I hope he uses the Wilco revitalization to do nothing like this. 

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Favorite Dead song of Duane Allman and Bill Graham. I'd say a top 5 Bob tune, top 20 Dead tune for me. Bold take, what's not to like?

     

    The sunshine dream section

     

    Crazy Fingers and Fire are two of my favorites haha. 

    Same here

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I'd have to listen to the whole show over again to pinpoint too many particulars - I just played through the whole thing, so not really into doing THAT - but a quick scroll through parts of songs reveals that she's particularly flat during the Terrapin debut, and her performance on TMNS is nothing to write home about.

     

    I'm a big fan of her harmonies when she's on, so when she's off, it grates on me. My point was more about those who don't like her in general, and always complain about 70s releases. There are a few of those on the Dead.net board, and they're very vocal about wanting more Brent era and beyond releases. I don't think this is a performance that will convert them to the dark side, er, Donna side.  :guitar

    I only listened a few songs but, intrigued by your comment, put particular attention to Donna vocals (I love Donna, by the way; well, maybe except in PITB). I noticed her armonizing in The Wheel was...bad, flat, annoying, you name it.

    the next Beatles thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    That rooftop sequence is so powerful. Of course - back in the day - you could only read about it. I probably did not see it until sometime in the early 1990s.

    This is strange. I remember seeing as a teen at least some b&w clips of Get Back and maybe also DLMD in the roof 'concert'- I think Billy Preston was at keyboards -in the then only channel of TV in Spain, in Franco dictator times.

     

    Don't let me down is among my Lennon favorites. And one of the few Beatle songs I remember the guitar chords, now that I am practicing after a 30-y hiatus

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