sonnyfeeling

I bought GA tickets this morning - this festival comes highly recommended from some friends who have gone every year.  $140 for both days is a steal for this type of festival and the terrific line up Shovels and Rope have assembled  - this Platinum Pearl package thing is really ridiculous, however... Have never been to Charleston - gonna make a full week of it and hit up Savannah as well!

The Savannah Music Festival ends the weekend before High Water. Last year the festivals overlapped and we were able to see Jeff Tweedy and the Dimmer Twins in separate shows in Savannah before driving up to Charleston for High Water. The timing is not so fortuitous this year, alas, but Savannah is still worth the trip.

We've been to High Water the past two years. It's a wonderful event and we'll be back next year.

If past performance is a guide, Wilco will play a longish set (at least 90 minutes, maybe more, not an abbreviated festival set) on Saturday night after sunset.

And we are strongly considering that ridiculously expensive package.

This is a stellar piece of writing.

A middle-age man finds ‘Joy’ through Wilco

A few samples:

"The lyrics were also unabashedly domestic—the song “Hate It Here” boasts about learning how to do laundry..."

Calling that song's lyrics "unabashedly domestic" is a pretty spectacular misreading, IMO.

We have our tickets for Azkena now. Waiting to see if there are any other dates around it...

Thanks for the review WYWU, it was a fun show, even funner since we had third row center seats, that never happens!  The band was very animated, Jeff was all smiles and John was jumping around like crazy!  The crowd seemed really into it, way more than in 2012 the last time they played the opera, when the crowd sat nearly the entire time.  My only disappointment was they didn't play my request, ELT, that my wife and I requested everyday since we bought the tickets, oh well, maybe some day they'll play it again.  On to El Paso!

We will see you in El Paso! Look for us, row A center. First row behind the pit. Look for a bit of gray hair and big smiles because we're at a Wilco show.

We were in the front row in 2012, but in row H this year (8 rows back but gorgeous audio as always from Stan, and perfect sight lines). I noticed the audience more this time around compared to last time, when the only thing in front of me was that moat.

But the energy level seemed very high for Santa Fe, which has a larger than normal gray ponytail crowd and sometimes can be a bit too laid-back.

The Santa Fe Opera is a marvelous, acoustically near-perfect venue. The swells gather there in their finery in comfortable but not ostentatious seats to take in world-class opera all summer long. In the fall, after the tuxes are all packed away and the last soprano has sung, there's a brief pop season.

One of the charms of the Opera's Crosby Theater is its open-air nature, with a solid roof that protects the audience from the elements, but open sides that allow fresh air and the occasional view of one of Northern New Mexico's legendary monsoon thunderstorms.

Last night, the venue showed its unpleasant side, allowing strong, very cold winds to whip in and drop the temperature dramatically into the high 40s. Those fans who had ventured in with light summer dresses looked miserable. Those wearing down jackets and vests and stocking caps were clearly locals.

The band turned in a solid, energetic, two-hour set, with Jeff smiling and happy throughout. He did remark early in the set that he was worried when he came on stage and no one was in the audience. "You were all over by the space heaters getting warm, right?"

Jeff did tweak the audience mildly for a "not very good" sing-along of Passenger Side. "But that was from our first album, which a lot of you probably don't know. So we'll just keep working through different albums until we get to one you're familiar with." That was followed by the introduction to "I'm Always In Love." "That's from Summerteeth, our worst-selling album ever. It was a cut-out." (For those too young to get the reference, cut-outs were record labels cleaned out the warehouses, dumping albums at fire-sale price when they weren't selling to expectations. Cut-outs had a hole punched in the upper right corner to indicate they were being sold at a deep discount.)

The most interesting banter was about the forest set, which Jeff said the band had copied from a local theater, the Scottish Rite Temple, a magnificent old pink stucco building downtown that was built in the early 20th Century. "It was probably used for Midsummer Night's Dream," Jeff said. "Next time we'll be using the set from Death of a Salesman. That'll be heavy. Or maybe Hair?"

The crowd (about 90% sold out, I believe) was on its feet from the first song and never sat down. They left happily in an absolute downpour.

This is from the printed setlist, which they played unmodified.

You Are My Face
If I Ever Was A Child
Cry All Day
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart>
Art Of Almost
Pickled Ginger

​Side With The Seeds

Either Way
Someone To Lose

War On War

Via Chicago

Bull Black Nova (acoustic/electric hybrid arrangement)
Impossible Germany
Whole Love

California Stars

Passenger Side
I'm Always In Love
Heavy Metal Drummer>
I'm The Man Who Loves You
Hummingbird
----------------------------
Random Name Generator
Jesus, etc.
Locator

​Spiders/Kidsmoke
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Monday>
Outtasite (Outta Mind)

Anyone else get a bad link for the Friday night (Roadcase 64) FLAC download? It shows up as the ALAC format for the Sunday Tweedy show.

Have a note in to KungFu Store now...

[uPDATED TWO MINUTES LATER]

Well, that was fast. The KFS people got back to me and said they've got the download links fixed now.

[uPDATED TWO MINUTES LATER]

Nope, not fixed. They give you 10 download attempts in your account, and I now have only three left.

Grrrrrrrrr.

[uPDATED FOR THE LAST TIME]

Finally fixed.

I just picked up Roadcase 62, the Winterlude show from February 23, 2017.

In the metadata for track 9, the song title is listed as ...

At Least That's What She Said

Am I a bad person for finding this hilarious?

I managed to get two tickets for the final night of the Fillmore run. I now realize how very lucky I was. Not sure how many they had allotted for the presale for each night but it must have been a small percentage and this is a very small venue (capacity only 1150).

Not only that, but after you pick up the Will Call Only tickets with ID and original credit card, you are escorted directly in. No opportunity to transfer the ticket to a buyer.

This really is the right way to block scalpers hard, although it also tends to penalize people who have genuine emergencies that make it impossible to go.

If they can enforce these restrictions, I would say anyone trying to sell or buy via Stubhub is going to be extremely disappointed.

I feel very lucky we were able to get 2 tickets for the last night in SF (9/11). The 9/10 show was sold out as far as I could tell within seconds. Was hoping to get two nights in a row so will now have to try to get something in the general sale on Friday morning from a laptop tethered to a cellphone while driving to Denver.

I am not sure how many tickets they had in the presale for each night but if it was 10% of the house that's only about 55 pairs of tickets. Fillmore capacity is only 1150!

I'M SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY! CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I am not sure how you are going to survive the next I-don't-know-how-many months of waiting.

I hadn't seen anyone point this out yet but Jambase says Wilco is playing Sasquatch this year. "Exact performance date not confirmed yet," Use the "Show more dates" option here: http://www.jambase.com/band/wilco

Not sure I believe it, to be honest. Looks like they wrote Sasquatch but the dates match up with Mountain Jam, which I suspect is what they really meant.

Two Guys Named Jay: The Jeff Tweedy Story

How I Crawled Out Of The Ashes of Uncle Tupelo: Jeff Tweedy's Life and Times

I Will Never Let Jeff Lynne Ruin My Band: My Life In Music

Impossible St. Louis, Unlikely Chicago

New interview celebrating the upcoming reissue of Trace on its 20th anniversary.

Jay has several not nice things to say about Jeff. This one is especially ouchy:

I think it was an opportunity for me to put more focus on my songwriting. I experienced some hostility in Uncle Tupelo with regards to that, as well. There was a time the other songwriter walked up to me and said one sentence. He said “People like my songs more than yours,” and he walked away. So, you know, when I say it was a liberating time for me, creatively, that’s what I’m referring to.

Yeah, what do you do with that?

You leave. [Laughs] Because it was a sort of a toxic, uh, intimidation.

http://www.popmatters.com/feature/seeing-traces-with-jay-farrar/

This seems like a good opportunity for someone to break out a "Will they please retire that song already?" thread.

Sorry, off topic:

Is anyone else seeing this as the most massive font on their screen?

It appears to have been pasted from something that insisted on formatting as 18px, so WHEEEEEEEE!

"So, you think our setlists are tired and predictable? Here's a new fucking setlist."

I put together a video on Sunday that happens to have Tweedy playing as accompaniment. But the real stars are the amazingly happy and respectful Solid Sound audience and Joe's Field itself.

It turned out pretty nice, I think. See if you can spot yourself.

https://vimeo.com/132565771

BTW, what is the status of "guests" here?  Can anyone get in and read the forum topics without being a member?  I don't care, just wondering.

Yes, anyone can follow a link and read the posts in this forum. A handful of forums are protected and require sign-in. (The tickets wanted/extra tickets, for example).

Cancel your Cincinnati date too/ We don't want your closed minded bigotry here.

 

GOD BLESS MIKE PENCE

A member for 10 minutes? Welcome! I don't recognize those Wilco lyrics you're quoting, though.

I am also 100% in support of this.

It would be totally cool if they could find a hall in a town just across the state line from Indiana and play there on May 7.

There was no singalong in Santa Fe either. My wife looked at me during Jesus Etc. and said "Why isn't anyone singing?" Ditto for California Stars.

Completely different vibe than for a Wilco show.

Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck came out for California Stars only. Scott played on one previous song (I think True Love Will Find You in the End, but my memory is alas hazy).

The Lensic Theatre (which is gorgeous) was packed on the bottom but had quite a few empty seats up top. Total capacity is only about 900 so pretty intimate.

Sadly, I would say the hall was way less than half-full for The Minus 5, which got an appreciative but not enthusiastic response. Our millennial friends who were also there gave them a big thumbs down. Seriously hated them.

There was one drunken girl, early 20s, sitting in the row directly behind us who was whooping and screaming throughout the first half of the show. (She and her friends were also talking, VERY loudly, throughout the entire opening segment from Tweedy.) Jeff finally started making fun of her: "Oh, someone brought a baby. Isn't that nice." "Oh, someone brought a puppy." And finally "OK, you've had your moment, I'm not going to encourage any more."

I think she finally passed out. We saw a couple empty seats a few rows in front of us and were able to escape the awfulness.

The sound at the Lensic is amazing. Jeff's voice was a little ragged on a few songs, and his humor was uncharacteristically mean-spirited at times. But all in all a wonderful show.

Saluqi, I looked for you but couldn't find you. I suspect we could compare locations based on the location of Whooping Girl.