The Inside of Outside

I think I see one left on StubHub, if it is yours, for $35. You might want to change your description on StubHub, as you list the tickets as good for people 21 and younger. They are actually for kids 10 and under. Just don't want your customers to be disappointed.

No news, but I have given it some thought. So the following is only speculation, based on events of the past 8 months or so.... Wilco announced last year that fans should plan to see them in 2012, as they would be taking much of 2013 off to record an album. At that time, they had a few dates Down Under scheduled for spring of 2013, plus Solid Sound. With the AmericanaramA tour announcement, I wondered if that will impact the recording schedule, and maybe the next album comes out in 2014.

Loving Foxygen. Can't wait for SS.

This sounds right. And Montreal is currently the Don Mattingly/1980s version of the Yankees.

Not the first Wilco song I had heard, as I had AM before Being There came out, but I remember hearing a bootlegged version of Being There shortly before it was released and being blown away by Misunderstood. I know what you mean, rtj; it flipped my world around, too. Shortly thereafter, I saw them for the first time, and they opened with Misunderstood. That blew me away - I had never seen/heard anything like it live before.

I can only speak for SS II, which ended around 5ish. I remember hitting the road home sometime around 5:30. I was surprised to see the later ending for Sunday, as well as the 1 hour slots for MMW on Sunday and Yo La Tengo on Saturday. With the special guests, I figured MMW would be at least 90 minutes. All that said, I like that there is not much overlap. I hope to see everything on Friday, except the screening (I'll get the kids back to the hotel room to sleep so they are somewhat fresh for Saturday). On Saturday, I am looking forward to The Dream Syndicate, and the ending run of Foxygen-Lo

Great to hear that Dylan is more decipherable than in the recent past. I don't think I will pay to see him again, after numerous indecipherable shows, but still good to hear, particularly with AmericanaramA this summer. Which has me thinking that Dylan could get blown out by MMJ and Wilco on this tour. Two bands with lots of firepower coming before him (three, on those RT Electric Trio dates), and then he comes out with 85 minutes of ragged blues. I know he always has a top notch band, but the vocals....

I saw them around the same time, maybe a year or two later, in NYC at Tramps. The bill was Perfect (Tommy Stinson's second post-Replacements band), Superdrag, Yo La Tengo, and Big Star. And Big Star was fairly transcendental. I had it in my head that I would never see Big Star live, and that night was like a dream come true. Six, seven, eight songs gave me goosebumps. A top 5 show for me, too. And as a segue back to the thread topic, I love Big Star's Columbia: Live at Missouri University, 4/25/93.

As I am sure you saw, Wilco as the top right band looks like a good bet. And I'm guessing The National is the first band on the 2nd row, with ES and the Magnetic Zeroes a shoo-in for the third row. If I lived near St. Louis, I think I'd be there.

"It is a moment that I'm glad I like Wilco" I feel this way all the time.......

Agreed. Looking forward to hearing it.

Cool trio!

Maine: Hiking Mount Katahdin, the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail Walking (ok, drinking) around the Old Port in Portland Vacationing at Acadia National Park/Bar Harbor Skiing Sugarloaf Eating seafood at the Lobster Shack in Cape Elizabeth Canoeing the Allagash Wilderness Waterway

Great idea - let's stuff the ballot box!

Crazy. I'll take three days of music for the early worm price of $99 any day. Oh, yeah, and I'll cross paths with the band members (but probably not talk to them because I want them to be able to enjoy the music, too), and look at cool art, and all the other fun that SS brings.

I am sitting at a state department of ed conference in Maine, next to a colleague who is planning her wedding to her longtime partner. As she and I talk about her wedding plans, I have noted this morning, as we have discussed it, that her marriage will have absolutely no impact on mine. I am glad I live in Maine, and that she can marry the love of her life. I understand that not everyone agrees with this. On a related note, recent polls show a nationwide shift from 58% opposed to same-sex marriage seven years ago to 58% supporting it this year. The big reason is the young adults, turning 1

That's a dandy.

My wife has minor addiction to this game, and Wilco came up as a choice for the first time recently. Threw her for a loop.

You got that right. Depressing, essential work of literature.

I am listening to it for the first time now. Mellow. Sounds good. I saw them open for Wilco several years ago (2007, in VT. I think). They were mellow. Sounded good.

This is from the ABB forum, regarding last night's show: "Who was the guitar player that came out with him playing the jaguar? Guy shreds." Love it when someone gets their first Nels Cline experience.

Ziggy Stardust has always been my favorite Bowie record, though his Station to Station - Low - Heroes run was pretty incredible. Rumor has it that he is about to announce a tour.

That is humorous. Sounds like a fun night!

Updike was the man. Haven't found a poem, short story, or novel of his that I did not like. I realize that not all of his writing is great, but I cop to being way biased on this. Another vote for TC Boyle and John Irving here, too. Many juniors at the high school where I teach have to read Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, and all of our seniors read Boyle's short story Greasy Lake. Love that story. Oh, and Annie Proulx. Loved The Shipping News, and Brokeback Mountain is my favorite short story by anyone, ever.

Old 97s and Drive By Truckers.....not tonight, like right now. State Theater, Portland, ME.