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sweet man... will def be checking this out.

thanks so much! that dvd would be great to have as it also contains the performance where i discovered wilco. sweet deal.

and yes that performance was so effortless but so tight at the same time. i just love it.

does anyone have that clip of wilco playing "the late greats" on letterman? it used to be on youtube but they took it down a long time ago and never put it back. it's my favorite performance of this song so i would be willing to give you my first born if you had it/found it.

nor when I said "That shirt is so cock."

haha nice. we wouldve understood you

pretty much pat, john, and jeff singing "what light".

they dont get interviewed like in the last one that the campaign posted.

(if you havent seen that one:)

they performed it live again already... i think it might be a staple

http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=24203

new personal theme song!

wilco will love you, baby.

how awesome did nels sound? and shout out to pat's beard.

i'm thinking they're gonna play something new. hopefully it'll be one wing because it seems they've developed that song more than the others so far.

i hope we get some tweedy/colbert interaction too. my tv might explode of awesomeness though.

i just read this today and really enjoyed it... cool to know someone on here wrote it. dont know why anyone is having a bad reaction to you posting it... it's relevant.

at the barnes and noble where i work, sometimes they play this "folk" station... and they play dylan, uncle tupelo, and some mermaid ave tracks. pretty sweet. i flipped when i heard new madrid on the clock.

hi guys. first post.. ive been lurking for a while though.

i guess this is an appropriate topic to write my first post on.

i was wayyyyy late to find wilco. though, to be fair, i was about 6 or 7 when AM came out. i first heard wilco when they did "theologians" on conan. i remember conan said "these guys, for my money, are making the best music out there right now".. and being the conan freak that i was/am i decided pay a little extra attention. i'm so glad i did. i loved mike on that song... i loved the lyrics... so i went online and started looking around. i found the first concert they did for NPR from the 9:30 club and i was HOOKED. that was it. i remember becoming obsessed with the performances of jesus, etc., poor places, reservations, hummingbird, misunderstood, and shot in the arm. i saved the concert and played it non stop until my computer crashed and lost it a year later haha. (P.S. if anyone still has this i would owe them LIFE if they got it back to me).

i wanted to hear their studio work though... in the beginning i downloaded much of a ghost is born and became infatuated with ALTWYS, hell is chrome, the late greats, etc. at this time my friend who was going through a really obnoxious indie snob phase told me that she hated AGIB because it was "so mainstream". so this made me get more curious about wilco, out of passive aggressive rebellion, i guess.

seeing my obsession, a friend of mine bought me A.M. and though i wasnt into so called "alt-country" sound back then.. i loved the album. i must be high sounded so familiar. i was convinced i'd heard it before; and dash 7 was just one of the most beautiful things i'd heard. passenger side, too far apart, all those songs were intense for me to listen to. i went back to my journal recently and found that when i FIRST listened to wilco i wrote in there "i don't know who these guys are but i feel they're going to be a huge part of my life". so cool.

i quickly moved on to YHF though... and that's the album that sealed the deal for me. i know it's not the coolest thing to get into wilco because of yhf, haha, but i just connected with it so much. ashes of american flags literally hurt. and i came to find that 90% of the songs that i was obsessed with from the NPR concert were yhf tracks. i got being there next and it became my second favorite album of theirs, then summerteeth... and by the time kicking television and sky blue sky came out i got them on their release date.

since then it's been full on obsession. i thought i couldnt get as obsessed with another band as i was with the beatles, and wilco proved me wrong. i got all the documentaries, the books, the loose fur albums, the solo stuff, you guys know the drill. got really into jeff's and glenn's other projects especially.

finally, after 4 years of waiting, i saw wilco exactly a month ago today and got to meet all the guys! and im still not over it. i got to tell glenn that i loved mobile and he kinda flipped out. it was awesome. jeff signed adult head for me while wearing a bob dylan/george harrison tshirt: it felt like a dream. i wasted my entire zune battery the other day listening to spiders (kidsmoke) on repeat for 2 or 3 days just to somewhat relive the concert. and "it's just that simple" may now be my favortite AM cut.

one cool thing about that concert (among way too many) was that my best friend came along just to tag along and walked out a HUGE wilco fan. she's going down the rabbit hole, too.

i'm really downplaying my excitement telling this story so as not to sound as fangirly... but i'm not sure it worked. haha