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i would say trace is the most solid album of the alt-country movement, wilco non-withstanding. i would say it beats out strangers almanac and the jayhawks records in terms of being a solid album. no other alt country band (besides tupelo with anodyne) put out such a great album. im gonna listen to it now.

i havent tried it, but the passive lr baggs is the one i want to get. it looks like the one jeff uses. run that through a decent preamp and you should be fine.

i happen to love wide swing. i also like straightaways despite everyone saying its not nearly as good as trace. i still stick by the original 3.

i wonder what their number 1 pick will be. i can almost guarantee i will disagree with whatever they choose.

No. There isn't a chance. How could he possibly be making fun of something that didn't exist when he made the video?

you never know..

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I really think it is a case of you (and others) hearing "Wilco" in a Ryan Adams "song" and thinking that there is now an East Coast West Coast feud, between DRA and Jeff Tweedy. There is not, there never will be. Though if you want this feud, then go have it.

that would be sick. jeff tweedy would definitely beat up ryan adams. remember when he wailed that dumbass in the face at some show?

and after reading this thread, and the other thread dedicated to this video, i would like to sincerely apologize to each and every one of you for bringing this back up. this is the first day of the rest of my vc life.

That song precedes You Never Know by well over a year, fyi.

hmm, maybe its coincidence. theres a chance he could be making fun of it though.

I don't understand how this would piss off a Wilco fan. The line is "Writing songs, slightly country, slightly modern. Like Wilco in Designer Clothes."

 

To it is not a diss on Wilco, but other cheesey "alt-country" bands. Crosby Loggins I am looking at you.

hes clearly making fun of "you never know."

ANYWAY

Your next assignment is to read those 20 pages and come back with a synopsis. See you in class tomorrow.

i learned that ryan adams is unoriginal and jim o rourke transcends time and space. i also learned that some dude on the board met ryan, and wore a green wilco shirt.

"Wilcos records have been culturally important and have influenced many modern records and bands."

 

Name one.

if it werent for yhf, the national wouldnt have made boxer, which is a great album. tons of new indie bands are citing yhf as an influence. theres a band called cherry ghost that was very influenced by wilco.

this is correct...youre not pushing the power tubes into distortion...ideally this little box idea would be after the power stage and before the output...

which would essentially be an attenuator. i hope future amp people read this thread and save themselves 20 bucks. use that master volume knob!

haha, maybe you guys are right. i am looking too far into it. still though, sorta annoying. sorry about the double thread thing, i would have had no idea where to search.

i used to be big ryan adams fan, and i havent really been listening to him since cardinology. i mean, hes clearly ripping on wilco a little bit. i feel like hes calling us dumb for liking "slightly country" music, which is what got him famous in the first place. i dunno how much i wanna listen to him anymore after this. i am a wilco fan first and foremost, and im a tad insulted.

hell, id go to their childhood homes. thats cool as hell, you can see how a songwriter grew up, which is huge. think of how they were inspired and stuff.

i have gone to 4 wilco shows, and everyone i met there was cool as hell. noone was rude at all.

i cant say the same about ryan adams shows.

i read that those master volume controls arent really a power attenuator. since an amps effects loop goes between the preamp and power amp stages, you would really only be cranking the preamp. if you have a master volume amp, it does the same thing as cranking the preamp and using the master control.

i think i might get this dr. z thing, cause its relatively cheap and stuff. the reason i got rid of my hot rod 50 4X10 (other than the weight) was because it was too loud. the peavey classic 30 i use now is still pretty damn loud, i can crank it to 5 or so and its at a comfortable level in a full band setting. i was wondering if anyone had a really sick attenuator theyd recommend.

so i was thinking about buying a power attenuator for my peavey classic 30. i came across this really cool model: the dr. z amp brake light. it mounts right in your cabinet, and works on most amps under 45 watts. i was wondering if anyone here at sst has had any experience with this model or any other attenuators. what would you guys recommend?

http://www.drzamps.com/brakelite.html

I broke down and checked out this Crosby Loggins character and it is pure shit, and it sound nothing like Wilco.

me too, man. me too. ive stayed away from the loggins family, and that post was the last nail in the coffin.

I suggested, once, that there should be a sub-forum devoted solely for people to shill their own stuff in, but the idea never took off.

what about "post links to your band!" on sst? im too lazy to link to it. its a really cool thread.

i once made a post about this band the hymns im really into, i dont think thats really such a bad thing. for people who self promote their own bands, theres a thread in sst. all in all id say music is music and its not a big deal for someone to "street team" it on a message board. someone out there has to dig crosby loggins.

this is awesome, awesome stuff. its like mccartney, without the annoying ego

i love zwan, and i love bash and pop. i picked up the love spit love today, pretty cool. thanks dude.

im going to scream nonsense at wilco shows to hopefully prompt more threads like this.

in terms of son volt, i think its in the lyrics. trace was a solid record in that it had one unifying theme: time. it was a solid record with a theme. i feel a lot of his stuff after that sorta lost coherence, and it was basically just a few great songs per album. when hes great, hes amazing. i dunno. just my opinion.

the lyrics on the new record arent close to trace.

blah blah blah...the dude's only criticism is that the album doesn't 'rock'. what the hell does that mean. farrar's recent output, excluding okemah, hasn't been that immediate. trace was nothing we'd ever heard and it totally rocked. but, the rest of his output DESERVES repeated listens. it's for real music lovers, who see music as literature and totally legitimate. the culture now, exemplified in part by pitchfork, is listen to as much as possible and either trash or declare it utter genius...then on to the next masterpiece. son volt and wilco are not of that ilk and will most certainly be either praised or thrown aside. however, in 15 years when my kids start really getting into music, it's tweedy and farrar i'm gonna hook them up with. them in addition to neil young, bruce springsteen, tom waits, and bob dylan. it's tweedy and farrar who have become the top song writers of gen x. no doubt about it. pitchfork will be long gone (hell, whoever even heard of or cares about the reviewers name), but wilco and son volt cds will always be part of any good collection. we have stephen foster, then woody guthrie, then bob dylan, then neil young, then bruce springsteen, then farrar and tweedy. i don't make that statement in jest. it's the reality of american songcraft history.

 

ps-i might even add john mellencamp into that group.

mellencamp? really?