Josephine
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great start to this thread .....
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You can now hear the Candy Golde cover of that Paul Simon song. Sounds even cooler live.
http://hypem.com/#!/item/19zeg/Candy+Golde+-+The+Boy+in+the+Bubble+Paul+Simon+cover
probably in the minority here, but I think I'll stick with the Paul Simon version.
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And I was wondering what that white guitar was going to be used for. Obviously it was going to be used for something since it wasn't on stage last night. Thanks, Kalle, for the terminology on resonator guitar. I knew it wasn't a dobro, though it kind of looked like one. Sounded very cool off the PA, which I guess maybe is related to its resonating more than a regular guitar?
i think Jeff's new white guitar was a vintage version of this.... (excuse me - ivory)
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regarding wilco merchandise .... the complaints about wilco merch have been a re-occuring theme here on VC over the past few years. the criticism has mainly been about the t-shirts, and is has been very fair in pointing out the poor quality of these shirts. with t-shirt sales such an important part of a band's merchandise - it seems to me the team at 'wilco management' would spend a little time checking the quality of these items. i did bring up this issue with the guy who does the selling at wilco shows - he was a little busy as his booth was getting slammed, but basically said that he did not have say in the design or actual t-shirt quality. i do not know who is in charge of wilco merch, but somewhere about 5 years ago we started to see more products (some good, most bad). it was about the same time we started to see a rapid decline in the quality of wilco t-shirts.
oh yeah - and i am a proud owner of green and black bamboo wilco shirts that have had serious structural integrity issues. i also own one of the yellow solid sound (mustache) shirt that was totally trashed after a few washes. it is sad, but i have tour shirts from the early 90's that have held up better than the wilco shirts from recent years.
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So happy to see this ! Thanks Sue & Jeff.
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wonder if there will be another canada date added in between toronto and montreal?
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JEFF TWEEDY SOLO TOUR DATES
March 22 Toronto Queen Elizabeth Theatre
March 25 Montreal L'Olympia de Montréal
March 26 Portland, ME State Theatre
March 28 Madison, WI Capitol Theater
March 29 Rochester, MN Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall
March 30 Iowa City, IA The Englert Theatre
WILCO TOUR DATES
May 2 Montgomery, AL Montgomery Performing Arts Center
May 3 Mobile, AL Saenger Theatre
May 5 New Orleans, LA Jazzfest
May 6 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater
May 7 Denton, TX University of N. Texas Auditorium
May 8 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom
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Thank you Wilcoworld ...
The sound quality of these two shows: A+
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Wilco seems to love visiting Europe in September - over the past several years anyway.
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from ASCAP.com ...
On a recent wintry December night, ASCAP's Erik Philbrook sat with Sansone and
Stirratt for a special acoustic performance and Q&A after their soundcheck at NYC's
Bowery Ballroom, where The Autumn Defense was opening for Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.
definitely check this out...
http://www.ascap.com/playback/2010/12/action/AutumnDefense.aspx?rss=1
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from the Yo La Tengo website.....
I was especially happy to hear Jeff do Linda Thompson’s “Sometimes It Happens,”
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I thought Newsweek was out of print. Years ago they brought in Jon Meacham, a bible-toting conservative, who drove the magazine into the ground by making 'religion' a regular cover story.
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Last year Direct TV channel 101 replayed "Farm Aid" several times and looks like it will be this year too - broken up and edited for their "Growing Hope for America" series - which is part of the concert series on channel 101
from Direct TV:
Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp headline Farm Aid’s 25th Anniversary concert on October 2 at 6pm ET at Miller Park in Milwaukee with host Tavis Smiley and co-host Michael Symon. See all 6 hours of "Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope for America" LIVE, commercial-free and in HD, exclusively on The 101® Network.
"DIRECTV is honored to be airing Farm Aid's annual concert for the third consecutive year," said Patty Ishimoto, vice president of DIRECTV Entertainment and General Manager of The 101 Network. "In addition to providing our customers with a truly spectacular concert experience, we wanted to mark the event's 25th anniversary by further emphasizing Farm Aid's fundamental messaging by showcasing a number of series and specials from Planet Green and Documentary Channel that promote the importance of ecology, sustainability and family farming."
The six hour broadcast will be filmed entirely in HD and air in 5.1 surround sound. As in years past, DIRECTV will create original one-hour specials featuring performances from Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope for America, which will air on The 101 Network as part of the DIRECTV Concert Series.
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Wilco will start writing its next album just in time for Halloween, according to band member Pat Sansone.
"We're taking a couple of weeks off," the multi-instrumentalist, fresh off a plane from Berlin, said. "When I get back toward the end of [the] month, we're getting back together to start working, to start the first writing sessions for the record. We’ve done a little bit of brainstorming, but the real work is going to begin at the end of [the] month."
The upcoming set, the follow-up to 2009's "Wilco (The Album)," will be the Chicago act's eighth studio effort. In the meantime, Sansone has a full plate: On Oct. 7 , he'll celebrate the release of the book "100 Polaroids," a collection of his snapshots from his time with the band, at Paper Chase Press' Eighth Veil space on Sunset Boulevard. He's planning further parties in Chicago and New York, not to mention another album release: The Autumn Defense, his pre-Wilco soft-rock collaboration with Wilco bassist John Stirratt, will drop its fourth album, "Once Around," on Nov. 2.
"It definitely sounds like the Autumn Defense," he reassured. "I think it might be our strongest work. I know that’s kind of the cliché, but... I think it’s our most confident-sounding record. We did some arranging for strings, which we’re really excited about."
Local fans won't have to wait long to hear it -- next Thursday's book party will double as a "Once Around" listening party. Look for more with Sansone and his "love affair" with the Polaroid SX-70 on ThisIsBrandX.com next week.
[update: The original version of this post incorrectly identified Pat Sansone's camera. We have changed the text to reflect the corrected information.]
-- David Greenwald
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Hey, nice shots JRB - and cool idea to add a slide show - why didn't I think of that? Hope you don't mind me stealing using your idea...
cool watermark - that is one website i will not be visiting
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I have a feeling that this 'festival' is going to be a lot more intimate than the promoters would have liked (great news for the handful of people going). Less than two weeks out and just now I am getting emails from 'The Bowery Presents' promoting this show... can you say 'day late- dollar short'. Between this last minute push and the many tickets being sold here on VC - I have a feeling that there will be way less people than originally expected. I guess a lack of attendees is the payoff for doing this kind of show in the remote North Adams, MA.
Oh yeah... I could have pulled this off and might have come up if I could have bought a single day ticket. You wonder if anyone involved has ever thrown a festival before. Not selling single day tickets.... probably would have been easier for the organizers to actually shoot themselves in the foot.
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Thanks for posting a detailed line up. Friday is the only possible night I can attend. But, no Wilco or Tweedy = no me.
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Katherine Myers, museum spokeswoman, said Tuesday. "We plan to have the main stage, with the festival’s headliners, and a few other smaller stages out there. We need to make the field level, so it will be safer and better for the festival."
She said the museum needed to officially take hold of the parcel, which abuts the South Branch of the Hoosic River, in order to level the field and fence it in.
I have been to many festivals over the past 15 years - evening working a few of the prominent north east music festivals and I have to admit - this news makes me a little bit nervous. Everybody who has been to a music festival knows (besides porto-potties) the actual concert field is a most important element to the weekend. I have been at shows where the concert field flooded on day one making a it mudding mess for the rest of the weekend. I have been to an outdoor venue where they tried to lay sod 7 weeks two prior to a show only to have it dry up, get pulled out of place and turn the venue into a giant dust bowl. When the venue was first announced I had a hard time imagining how this was going to work. First they pick a city with virtually zero hotel rooms. Plenty of camping ... great, but I feel that most the Wilco crowd would rather spend a couple nights in a hotel with a bed and running water as opposed to a campground for multiple nights. And now we learn that only 8 weeks out they do not have a concert field. Instead it still has to be made or as MassMoca states "we need to make the field level". I hope they deal with the drainage issue properly, because that part of western MA gets afternoon thunderstorms daily in the late summer months.
I am also still hoping to see a detailed artist schedule soon. I was hoping to hit this event with my husband, but it looks like we will be bailing the Solid Sound in its entirety spending that weekend on the RI beaches. If they would announce the line up with times- I might make the journey up for Friday night as our summer rental doesn't start until Saturday at noon.
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I can not be the only person waiting for a detailed artist schedule for the Solid Sound Festival. Some of us can not come to all three nights of this event and need to do some advance planning. Please Wilco/TMM/Higher Ground (whoever is in charge) share this information. Thanks in advance.
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Avi Buffalo (Long Beach, CA)
Sir Richard Bishop (Seattle, WA)
Vetiver (San Francisco, CA)
Mountain Man (Bennington, VT)
Brenda (Portland, ME)
The Books (North Adams, MA)
Deep Blue Organ Trio (Chicago, IL)
I have to admit - I had not heard of any of these bands before this announcement.
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~ when the bass first hits in Handshake Drugs
~love hearing Jeff sing ... "Around our yard I'll nail a fence..."
~on this past tour - Glenn's intro on Laminated Cat along with Mike on synth
~Pat on the shakers and John's bass groove in the middle of Spiders
~opening few lines of At Least That Is What You Said
~Pat using the xylophone during acoustic set at the end of Spiders
~whistle in Monday
~One Wing intro
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Jeff is playing the Saturday afternoon (4:30p?) headline set according to the video on the Philly folk fest website. Taj Mahal is the Saturday night headliner.
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Jeff Tweedy -- 3/29/11, Rochester, MN
in After The Show
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Thank you Mr. Bbop. I look forward following Wilco and Jeff vicariously through your efforts.
Wilcoworld has kicked ass for years (keep up the great work Wilco webmaster - nobody in the online music business has done it better
for the past 10 years ....
). Via Chicago is also a staple for all things Wilco and simply a great resource for this genre of music.
And now we have Mr. Bbop's blog - which I am certain will be a huge hit amongst this crowd.