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    champaign, il 1/31/09

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Not sure what the quality is on this but the guy claims it's a "pro recording" whatever that means. Thought you guys might like to check it out.

     

    I have received the pro recording of the January 31st concert from Walt, the great guy who recorded and mixed the show for us.

     

    The original files are in lossless AIFF format, but I used iTunes to create a VBR MP3 version for those who don’t mind the quality loss.

     

    I created two separate torrent files which I am seeding now:

     

    AIFF: http://www.star-course.com/images/JeffTwee...m-13109.torrent

    MP3: http://www.star-course.com/images/JeffTwee...r_13109.torrent

     

    Enjoy!

    populusque.com

    Ashes DVD- Full Concert Download 4/18

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    boo hoo - quit your wining. you sound like a fool. it will be up soon enough. after everything thing this band gives us you really feel you should be bitching about when you get your free tracks. you do not deserve to use the name clint eastwood - maybe you should change it to the french term for 'showering'.... douche !

     

    I think someone needs to settle down. It's OK to want what was promised. A lot of people will buy the DVD for the extras as well. I know I did. I saw the film at a showing earlier in the winter and could have done without buying it right away but I wanted the extras. I think your words were a little harsh.

     

    Unless you meant them all in jest and I just didn't pick up on the sarcasm. In that case, I'm a douche.

     

    Carry on.

    Ashes DVD- Full Concert Download 4/18

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Damn! where to you guys live?

    I pre-ordered mine on 3/18, and got the email that it was shipped on 4/10.

    I live in Florida and still no DVD.

    I know US mail is slow, but come on!

    Looks like not only Wilco the group, but Wilco the DVD is slow to come to Florida (only twice to Tampa in 7 years). :(

     

    I bought the DVD at the show last night.

    Ashes DVD- Full Concert Download 4/18

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I bought the DVD tonight in Milwaukee.

     

    I tried to access the bonus stuff and it's a insert your DVD in your computer type of download. No codes or anything. When I got to the screen nothing was there so I think they are waiting till the 18th to let you access everything.

     

    Just an FYI.

    Wilco Vinyl

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    The only person consistently charging 40 per album that I have seen (Music Direct Catalouge) is Neil Young and I have politely said f off to that. For what it is worth I think Sub Pop has done vinyl the right way. It is usually 12 dollars, with always a free download coupon. They don't get into the whole 180 gram crap. It is simple and easy.

     

    That's funny, Neil was the person I was thinking of when I said $40. I think I paid that for Prairie Wind. I absolutely love that album and had to have it on vinyl. It did take a couple of visits to the record store to finally pull the trigger though. I think I also paid close to $40 for the new Raconteurs album. Also worth it in my mind. The packaging is really cool and the sound is fantastic.

     

    I usually only buy vinyl for albums I want to sit and digest in a full listen. I'm not a completest as in I need everything a certain band puts out. I can pick and choose. That being said I'll buy any of Wilco's past albums on vinyl as I love all of them in their entirety. YHFT and GIB are on my turntable at least once a month. You just can't beat the full sound.

    Wilco Vinyl

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Let's be honest.....the record companies aren't making all that much money on vinyl records. There aren't that many pressing plants and it costs more than CDs to produce LP. They are only humoring everyone doing this. As soon as the demand lessens, alot of the companies will stop producing them. Right now this is hot, but as we all know, hot only lasts so long. The Wilco reissues are selling for alot of money and the demand is there. There was just enough demand for UT for us to get the expanded CDs. Maybe Sony will figure out the Wilco/Son Volt fans can help them make some money on UT, but it seems unreasonable, since they have already blown their wad on the CD reissues. (How well do they sell? How committed to LPs are Son Volt listeners? Are there any SV records on vinyl currently?)

     

    LouieB

     

    You have great logic here but some of the new 180 pressings get up into the $40 range depending on the album. I actually think the companies do just fine on vinyl releases. I'm sure they make just as much as they do on a CD, just in smaller proportions.

    Phil Spector Found Guilty

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    You look at that photo and your first instinct is to look at that hair. But that mug underneath is no GQ ad. He looks like a turtle or something. There's nothing at all right about that picture.

     

    What you should really be asking yourself is what kind of crazy fuckjob does his hair like that for a murder trial?

     

    Good riddance.

    Lets talk about the upcoming tour-->

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I could handle a setlist like that.

     

    I don't think hearing any of the new material will hurt the new album for me at all. I love hearing new stuff live and getting that vibe for the first time.

     

    I would love to hear these tunes on Tuesday 4/14:

     

    Kingpin

    Casino Queen

    Side With the Seeds

    Misunderstood

    Spiders (Kidsmoke)

    War On War

    Hate It Here

    Can't Stand It

    Handshake Drugs

     

    I just picked tunes that I think they will more than likely play. I didn't shoot for the ultra rare stuff.

     

    Been rocking Casino Queen lately, always brings a smile to my face.

     

    My buddy and I will be in the third row seats 5 & 6 for the Tuesday show if anyone wants to come say hello. Always nice to meet fans and put a name with a face.

    Lets talk about the upcoming tour-->

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    So what should we be expecting from the boys? Will they be busting out new material right away or will they wait till it gets closer to the album release date?

     

    Do you think they will have the Total Pro's with them?

     

    Will Jeff be rocking a new wardrobe as mentioned in another thread?

     

    Due to all Jeff's solo shows lately, do you think he'll be bringing out some rarer material with the band?

     

    I'm just getting excited for Tuesday. Need a little discussion to settle my mind.

    Stream Neil Young's Fork in the Road

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    This is a wiki history so it may not be completely accurate.

    Time Fades Away: History

     

    Though "Love In Mind" dates from a 1971 solo tour (the same 1/30/71 concert where "The Needle and the Damage Done" was recorded), all other songs on the album were extracted from recordings made during a 62-date tour in early 1973 that featured an acoustic set with Young followed by an electric set featuring the guitarist and his then-backing band, the Stray Gators. Looming large in Young's mind was the death of longtime collaborator and former Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten of a heroin overdose; Whitten was set to join the Gators as a second guitarist but was sent home after it became evident to all of the players involved that he was in no condition to embark on a rigorous tour. This motif of death and gloom recurred throughout the period, culminating in Tonight's the Night.

     

    The tour came on the heels of the megaplatinum success of the singer's previous effort, the quaint, country-tinged Harvest. Audiences did not react positively to the new songs premiered every night; neither were they fond of the Gators' new sound[citation needed], more reminiscent of the hard-rocking Crazy Horse of old. Guzzling prodigious amounts of tequila, Young grew mentally unstable as the tour progressed, frustrating drummer Kenneth Buttrey to the point where he left the group 2/3rds of the way through. He was replaced by ex-Turtles and CSNY (and future Jefferson Airplane) percussionist Johnny Barbata, who plays on all of the recordings contained on the album. Similarly infuriated by the singer's lack of professionalism was pianist Jack Nitzsche, who according to producer Elliot Mazer in the book Shakey would often spew obscenities into his switched-off vocal microphone. Similarly, pedal steel/dobro player Ben Keith was so inebriated at one soundcheck that he had no idea of what instrument he was playing. For the tour, Young switched from his trademark Gibson Les Paul to a Flying V, an instrument he never truly grew accustomed to.

     

    Alcohol abuse, combined with his near-falsetto singing style on the tour, would lead Young to develop a throat infection in the final days of the tour. Called in to supplement the harmonies and add some extra guitar were David Crosby and Graham Nash. Clashes continued, with Nitzsche complaining that he couldn't hear himself playing because Crosby's 12-string electric guitar overpowered the sound mix (this was likely true, as keyboard miking technology was in its infancy at this point). The tour ended in Salt Lake City after ninety days.

     

    Along with the soundtrack to Journey Through the Past, Time Fades Away remains the only officially released Neil Young album unavailable on CD. Many Young aficionados like to believe that this is due to bad memories of the tour that spawned the record, though the problem may be due to more of a technical nature than anything else. Time Fades Away was recorded directly from the soundboard to final 2-track masters using the Quad-8 CompuMix, the first and utterly unreliable digital mixing soundboard--against the wishes of producer David Briggs, who referred to it as the "Compufuck" but was forced to yield to the desires of Young. This resulted in a murky-sounding release; because the final mixes were those rough cuts, the album cannot be remixed.

     

    There were no 2 track masters ever made of this record. The master discs were cut directly from the 16 track masters through the Compumix system. A mix was recorded to a second 16 track machine-we had 2 that would run perfectly together-to feed the variable pitch system of the lathe-but was discarded when we were through. I was the mastering engineer who cut the masters. Phil Brown

     

    At the time of its release, Time Fades Away was poorly received in comparison to its predecessor, missing the Top 20 and gaining few critical accolades.[citation needed] However, due to its scarce nature in recent years, consensus among the Young faithful now places the record in the league of his greatest artistic triumphs.[citation needed] In 1995, there were plans to release the album on CD using the HDCD encoding which went as far as having several test pressings made. However, the CD release was shelved for unknown reasons.[1] In early 2007, Young's management reiterated that there were no plans to release the album on CD. Pristine vinyl copies are still readily available in used stores and on eBay, often with the fold-out liner notes still intact. There are still some CDs in existence from the 1995 test pressings which have made their way outside of the record company. Copies of these CDs are often circulated as bootlegs. Additionally, some fans have made CDs from the more readily available vinyl copies.

     

    The title track was briefly released as a single and featured "Last Trip To Tulsa" on the B-side, a live version also taken from the "Time Fades Away" tour and unavailable anywhere else.

     

    Neil Young commented on Time Fades Away in the original, unreleased liner notes for Decade. "Time Fades Away. No songs from this album are included here. It was recorded on my biggest tour ever, 65 shows in 90 days. Money hassles among everyone concerned ruined this tour and record for me but i released it anyway so you folks could see what could happen if you lose it for a while. I was becoming more interested in an audio verite approach than satisfying the public demands for a repetition of Harvest."[2]

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Fades_Away

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