Ghost of Electricity

The record was recorded in two sessions, first in new york then in minneapolis. The new york session was done with lots of pro session guys. "Meet Me.." was from this session, and the pedal steel player (Buddy Cage)was the guy from New Riders of the Purple Sage, played the Jerry Garcia Band (not sure about these chronologies). Anyway the guy comes in, lays down a track, Dylan's not happy with it, they try it again, still no luck.. This goes on for a while, Dylan never giving the guy any direction or instructions. They try seven or eight takes, Dylan the whole time just saying "do it again."

beg to differ. the one I most hear maligned on Blood on the Tracks is "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts," (I might as well say it before someone else does) but the album needs both those songs. "Lily.." as a bit of lightness to make the pain on the rest of the record tolerable, and "Meet me.." for, among other things, the blistering pedal steel solo and the story behind it.

finally a goldilocks thread

I haven't given much attention to the Mavis Staples project, but I was pleasantly surprised by this, and think I'll check out more. I like the rootsy feel of it- twangy tele and all. It would be nice to have a bit of this vibe on the next Wilco record. Scratch that, it would be nice to have a truckload of that vibe on the next Wilco record. I do hear a bit of "the weight" in there, but I also hear a little of Neil YOung's "Falling From Above" from Greendale.

Come on, there were at least 3 flavors of whitey at the last Wilco show I went to.

The Spin article makes it sound like the writing will be done collaboratively. This will be a change from W(TA) as apparently Tweedy took in a bunch of completed songs. Bodes well for a bigger experimental presence from Nels and Glenn. Or not.

anyone know how jay does the descending riff behind the words in the second verse?

It was a great show undoubtedly, and an set list full of surprises. Personally, I'm not too hot on KT, but Too Far Apart and Not For the Season, well that's another story My only complaint is that I wish they hadn't all but ignored BT. One other comment Jeff said which I don't think has been mentioned here was in regards to Too Far Apart. it went something like "That was from our first record. But don't go out and buy it or anything, we're much better now."

I don't like the human capacity for language for precisely this reason.

ah, the good old days... thanks, crow

The firs time I saw IATTBYH it was at the Karlovy Vary film festival. The audience was small: me and 6 or 8 friends. So sadly, I'm aware of the difficulty of promoting Wilco in Czech Rep. At least the show will be intimate.

pivoboy- i was just wondering whether the show had sold out- a friend og mine wants to make the trip with me and i wasn't sure whether there were tickets? is it general admission? How much are they? My ticket is in the hands of a friend locally, so i don't know the answer to these questions myself...

damn, tinnitus, yer pics are nice.

i love happy endings when they're in real life:)

Pat Sansone= On peasants John Stirratt= North Tits Jar Mikael Jorgenson= On Jokes Malinger Glenn Kotchee= The Long Neck Jeff Tweedy= Jet Defy Few

The answer, really, is neither. Small colleges like these, though pretty darn expensive, are funded largely through endowments. The endowments come from rich alumni and usually with strings attached. Boards live in a constant state of fear that they will upset their donors, and funding will dry up. As wealth (and often philanthropy) come to people in their older years, and as the older generation (especially among Dutch West-Michiganians) tends to be more conservative, this means conservatism can have a hold on colleges that is not necessarily indicative of the students or teaching facult

This is humorous. Sex Nap, the small, faith-based liberal arts college (i think) you attended is not as conservative as the one I attended, which is in turn not as conservative as Calvin. When I first got wind of the Tweedy show there, quite frankly I was shocked, and I seem to remember several other decent shows having been put on there. I was involved in the radio station in college, and we were looking for a motto: "1000 watts of (adjective) college radio." I suggested "orgasmic," which was at first greeted with enthusiasm by the student-staff. Come next meeting, they had self-censore

word on the street is that these go veeeeeerrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy well with a vox ac15 or ac30. Mt amp is aab ac15. Someday I'll have one of these. Not today, though, as if I put more money into gear at the moment i think the mrs would kick me out

swells on the volume knob is one of those things that i just can't get the hang of if you can, more power to you

i like the wood block idea- i'll have to try that. as long as it pops out easily so i can do the volume swell thing if i need to.

Or a volume pedal.

yeah crow, i agree, and i have nothing against Mozart really (other perhaps than "it all sounds the same"), but it's kind of like recommending the Beatles to someone who wants to get more into rock and roll.

I'm looking to broaden my horizons a bit. Most of what I know/like is pretty obvious: Beethoven's piano sonatas and 9th symphony Anything by J.S.Bach Mahler's First Symphony though there are some (slightly) less well known things I can get into: Dvorak "Slavonic Dances" Smetana "The Moldau" Usually I prefer the stuff with the strong melodies over the amorphous tone poems. That said, some modern/contemporary/avante garde stuff appeals to me (John Cage, if that's classical, some Henryk Gorecki. Can't stand Penderecki) I know there are gaping holes waiting to be filled with good mu

Vibes. Soon you'll be beaming with pride over how well she handled it.

phew, that was a close one...thanks. (It was Mark)