Muzzle of Dan
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Amazing! Thanks so much!
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Is there a chance anyone got a capture of the stream? It would be so much appreciated by those of us stuck working... mostly me.
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Well didn't they spend a bunch of last year recording? I seem to remember some buzz about that before the whole 20th Anniversary tour started...
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I thought the below was pretty good - Mayer with Phil and others, including Stu Allen - Guitar & Vocals and Scott Metzger - Guitar & Vocals.
Mayer had some good licks - the Row Jimmy was a stand out.
5/8/77 at Terrapin Crossroads (6.12.15)
Watched a bit of this the other night. I thought it was some damn fine playing.
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Maybe Lotti was the author of that article...
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Inspired me to listen to a couple sides of the vinyl. Sounds freakin great. Love this album.
Love spinning this one on vinyl
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Here's an article on Summerteeth that was posted by the Wilco Facebook page...
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Anyone around here care about the new MMJ album? I think it's pretty rad. Seeing them at Red Rocks in August and in LA with Fruit Bats, Dr. Dog in October.
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Lucius and The Decemberists tonight at Greek Theatre LA
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Blah, you all did better than me. No luck with pit, and even the rest of what I drew wasn't great. I've just now quit trying, but Friday will be better luck, right? Right?!
Best of Luck Vibes to you for Friday!
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What a surprising morning! I kind of forgot the tickets were going onsale but got logged on right after the clock turned 10am and got 2 pit tickets for the Greek show in LA. This is the first time I've ever been able to get pit tickets for a Greek show. We usually wind up in section B or C. That was a pretty easy ticket-getting experience for like the first time ever from Frontgate.
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Anyone know what to expect price wise for the best tickets at the Greek?
On the Greek PASS system the highest price was something like $85.
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I wasn't originally going to this show, but am so glad I ended up there. I was at work on Sunday and my fiancee sent me asking if there's any particular reason we were not going to the 2nd Tweedy show that night because she was thinking of finding us tickets and going again (needless to say, this girl is completely awesome). We ended up getting some great seats from the How To Fight Lonliness section of the board from user resistwaves - Thank You So Much!
Everyone seems really down about the Saturday show - I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. What can I say, I think the weird shows are great (Santa Barbara 2013 solo show anyone?) But overall I just thought the band played so well and it sounded wonderful in that room - Also Saturday night had Give Back The Key To My Heart and it's hard to top that.
This show was also really excellent though. The solo set was seriously just aweosme. So much energy. Loved getting to hear We've Been Had for the first time - and One By One! Before The Whole Love, Jeff said something to the effect of how he "had played the song the night before and he doesn't want to repeat too many songs, but come on - this is a great f'n tune." I couldn't agree more. Great to hear Born Alone too. Also - the performance of Hummingbird was among the finest solo live performances I've heard Jeff give. No lyric flubs and he really seems to have the whistle solo at the end all nailed down. It was really fun to see Jeff play HMD with Spencer - He mentioned Spencer attempting the song in the IATTBYH documentary and said that Spencer finally learned the song after all these years, so now they were going to play it.
Security was really tough on people trying to stand during the show on Sunday night. The first night Jeff commented on how there was a standing guy down front to the left side of the audience by where I was sitting. He commended the guy on his standing and commended the security for not making him sit down. This was not the case on Sunday night. I tried standing off to the side to not be intrusive a few times, as well as just standing and dancing in my seat when I just couldn't hold it in any longer and security repeatedly told me I need to remain in my seat. Some people behind me left during Heavy Metal Drummer and we were able to stand and dance at that point - from then on more people were standing/dancing and the rush toward the front happened sometime during Only The Lord Knows - then it was a party.
Great to see Donna/Kidsmoke down at the front at the end of the show! Always nice to run into you!
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Rant all you want but sometimes you are just late. I was one of the late-comers because I was required to stay at work until 8:15 last night and then had to make a mad rush over to the show and find parking. Sometimes it just happens - even to die-hard fans like myself.
Obviously I know that most people in LA are late because they are self-important and wrapped up in their own trip - which can be annoying, but it's also part of living in LA.
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There was lots of banter about how Shirley Temple had her first period at the Theatre at Ace Hotel, not really but "those are the kinds of things they tell you in Los Angeles" the Shirley Temple period talk went on for white some time and even turned into "that's how the drink got its name."
Tweedy remarked on there being a lot of late comers and invited everyone to try and be on time tomorrow night.
There was a small incident with some people trying to clap along with the solo set - particularly New Madrid (I think). Jeff urged everyone to stop clapping if they would like the show to continue smoothly. I will never understand why people just keep clapping even after Jeff asks politely to not do it. He was in much better spirits about the clapping this time around, as opposed to the way things went down during Bull Bkack Novs in Santa Barbara in 2913 when things got a little ugly. This time around he was much more lighthearted about chiding the clappers.
Jeff remarked about a woman who was sleeping in the front row. He said that's basically what he does is help people relax when he plays music. He told a story about playing a show at a hospice care place and there were 12 people at the show - by the end of it 8 were asleep and the director if the care center was so pleased with the performance because it's often hard for the patients to relax but Jeff's performance was just the thing to help them get some sleep.
I'm sure there was more in forgetting. Jeff seemed to be in a particularly friendly/playful mood overall.
Jeff talked about Diane Izzo some before Love Like A Wire - what an awesome song by the way.
I'll add more if it comes back to me.
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Really happy to finally see/hear the TWEEDY band play live. This is a really stellar group of musicians Jeff has put together. Spencer is a super drummer. The bit at the end of Diamond Light where Darin and Spencer just jam that bass/drum line for a good bit really put both of their playing on spectacular display. Those dudes certainly can groove together. Really loved the combo of Fake Fur Coat/Diamond Light. Fake Fur Coat is probably my favorite tune off the TWEEDY album. Diamond Light is very impressive in a live setting. Really glad they played Slow Love and Nobody Dies - those are also two personal favorites from the record. Slow Love is particularly effective and rocking in a the live show. Sima and Liam nailed the harmony vocal parts on both Slow Love and Nobody Dies. I really like that Sima is basically standing in and doing harmony on most of the set. The harmonies on the album are so prevelant and I think a lot of them really make the songs. It's nice to have that in the live arrangements - as the earlier bootlegs I have heard didn't include a lot of that.
As for banter - all I can say is Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple's first period (to be exact) was the topic of much banter Saturday night. Wow, funny.
I don't have the full setlist but the solo section included IATTBYH, Mountainbed, You and I, Whole Love, New Madrid, I'm The Man Who Loves You (dedicated to both Susie and Sam who are both "Bad Asses") - I really like the vibe of the way Jeff is playing Misunderstood these days - more subdued/floating and less aggressive overall than I've heard it played solo before. I actually liked it a lot. It made the song kind of hit me in a different way - especially the nothing, nothing, etc. It just kind of clicked in a whole different way and was really unexpected.
I really loved hearing this band play The Losing End. I have always loved that tune and they really do a great versionu
The sound at the venue was pretty amazing and it's a really cool room. Jeff noted that there was one guy standing and gave him some props. He also noted that it was really cool that the venue wasn't making him sit down. By the encore I would say most folks were standing and dancing and people even made their way down the aisles to dance and party. It was pretty surprising how all of a suden it became a big party but a welcome surprise as everyone was much more polite during hte first 2/3 of the show.
Wish I could say I was going again tonight but alas, I could not make both nights work this time. Can't wait to see the full band make their return to the west coast in August.
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The Greek show in LA is also listed on The Greek's website.
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August 5 The Greek LA
Yes!!!
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Heard some rumblings about Wilco at High Sierra Music Fest. Would seem to make sense given other festivals they seem to be hitting, schedule looks open. Pretty jamband heavy, but a pretty cool festival. Hopefully they'll swing down to southern California during the trip out west.
This is the kind of news I'm patiently awaiting...
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Dr. Dog at The Wiltern.
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Wishing I could swing a little mid-summer trip to Red Rocks Wilco on 7/14 and The Avett Brothers/John Prine just two days before on 7/12...
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I would too, actually - but technically MMT isn't an album, but a double EP. Rubber Soul is probably one of their best pop albums, as opposed to the psychedelia of Sgt. P, Revolver (which itself has some lovely PPP moments) and MMT, or the more straightforward rock of the White Album and Abbey Road. They're all brilliant.
This is totally what I was referring to with my original post - I wouldn't say Rubber Soul is my favorite, or the best Beatles album. I don't really know if there is a best Beatles album to be truthful. The variation throughtout the years makes them hard to compare against one another.
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Just listening to Rubber Soul and re-realizing that it's really the most incredible pop album ever to happen. Saw this thread was popping up again and thought it appropriate to share. Just an incredible achievement in thoughtful, truthful, innovative pop music.
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One of the best things I've seen written about the shows so far:
TREY DOESN’T “GET” THE DEAD What Phish does is so silly. I’d like to see Trey step up and make some REAL music, like composing a rock opera about turtles who run a train station.
Funny article. Well written sarcasm and satire going on here.
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Ummm... Wow... yeah... soooo...
Lot's of Beatles/Lennon vibes going on for me. Also reminds me a LOT of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (also get some Summerteeth vibes thrown in there too)- mabye the "best" record since YHF? Don't get me wrong - I love all the newer albums and I especially love AGIB (about as equally as I love YHF), but YHF is just different in a way where it kind of can't even be compared to those records and this record feels like that. It's just different in the best/weirdest/most awesome ways possible. From the moment I saw the post from the Wilco Facebook to download I sat there with a dumbfounded face thinking - "really?" I felt just as shocked when I got to the end and was like "holy shit - every song just gets better and better as the record goes." There is so much amazing stuff going on here. Can't wait to listen to this record about a thousand more times Thank you Wilco.
and what a smart way to release it! You know everyone is going to download the leak of the album to check it out anyway - so just leak it yourself for free to download and cause a stir on the interwebs. When was the last time Wilco was "trending" on Facebook? When is the last time you heard an entire record for the first time altogether without the reference point of a single or two that give you some context? This record is all around a wonderful experience and I can't wait to purchase it on vinyl.