Ghost of Electricity

I haven't been following the solo tour thread, so apologies if it's being covered there. http://pitchfork.com/news/55244-wilcos-jeff-tweedy-announces-tour-new-solo-album-coming/ Ok, good news. Immediate questions: Is this a break from Wilco or the, ummm, next thing? There have been rumours of a Loose Fur record this year too. What's the status of that? I have to say i wasn't expecting this...

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/87450-wilco-sound.html

See that's just not right and you made me have to and start another thread and all...

The Archies "Sugar Sugar"

Well if you're going to go that route: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonice_Musices_Odhecaton

good ideas above. I'll add: Kinks - You Really Got Me (use of distortion) Link Wray - Rumble (broke so much ground it became the only instrumental ever to be banned from radio) and something by Velvet Underground as that opened the way to the whole "alternative" thing (or whatever you call it) maybe I'm Waiting for My Man or Heroin

New record? That's some good news:)

It's the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, not the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Yeah, I try to avoid the place though. It's run by depressed snobs. How do you know about it? Give me a shout when you make it this way, I'll show you around. MMW and Nels are playing at the Museum of Japanese Culture. Go figure.

Krakow, Poland

So i was walking my son to preschool this morning and there's a poster: Medeski Martin and Wood and Nels Cline. In my town, in two weeks. Holy $#!t. This doesn't happen here. What a great day.

Congras! it's a beauty!

and once again the FD2 has gone to the other guitarist...oh, what's a guitarist with GAS supposed to do?

Yeah, you're right. Maybe if we give him the Sudetenland he'll stop. That's all he really wants anyway.

video I took at the peaceful demonstration here in Krakow today: http://youtu.be/tpl61XVFm04

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if anyone can find that whole show, post the link. i've looked, and can't. But i know it's there because i saw it once.

i've considered a rat before. What's the difference between a rat and a turbo rat? Todd, what are you playing that beautiful tele through? (i vaguely remember this being discussed, but i'm feeling too lazy to go looking for it)

I managed to swap the Trower for the FD2 today, left the phase at home, tried some trem. I've decided the Swollen Pickle is not for me. Also, the slapback sounds fine on it's own, but muddies up the band arrangement a bit...that might get left home next tome too. And the ehearsal was much better than the last one. maybe it wasn't the pedals after all.

in my own defence, the board was thrown together at the last minute, using a 2nd od borrowed from the bassist (fulltone robin Trower, didn't like it). which i had to do because the other guitarist, who had previously been very much a stright into the amp purist, started using my FD2 (because I wasn't). and now he's sold on it, it'll be hard to get back. the main questions now are: "how much does the phase add in those 2 or 3 songs where i use it?" and "do i really need slapback on the country stuff?"

wherever it is, I'm pretty sure that folks groan and roll their eyes on the rare occasion that Ction stormed in to booze grouchily, and faces light up with glee on the equally rare occasion when Lotti makes a grand entrance.

My hopes are rapidly fading that this can be peacefully resolved. The Ukranian people are dvided it seems, but leaning towrds Maidan. Putin may be an asshole, but he has balls, and like you say won't let go easily. US and Europe, who have no balls, aren't willing stand up for the ideals they claim to hold dear. Sad. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/20/fascism-russia-and-ukraine/

After I had a board I was reasonably happy with, I stopped going to the gear page for a long time. The GAS stopped. Eventually, I got sick of lugging the whole board to rehearsal (i walk there), so put a fuzz, od, and tuner in the gig bag, and that was that. stopped worrying so much about my feet; more about my hands. my playing improved. had a couple of great gigs that way. then, a couple of weeks ago, i started going back to the gear page again. gas came back. pedal board came out again. first rehearsal with it back yesrday. And....it was a crap rehearsal.

there are (a) myriad (of) opinions, it seems. http://www.theonion.com/articles/4-copy-editors-killed-in-ongoing-ap-style-chicago,30806/

The truth of this statement tells you why: "History has taught us that certain values are indivisible, if they are threatened in one place, they are directly or indirectly threatened everywhere." Vaclav Havel