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Saw Ryan Adams in Iowa City last night, and you know maybe I just have good Ryan Adams luck (though I'd only seen him once before) but this was another good show for me. He was definitely in a goofy mood, said that he had just quit cigarettes and was drinking a lot of coke and joking about "professional" band behavior the whole time, including joking that the band "should have walked off by now." Glad to see he's willing to poke fun at himself. The crowd was definitely behind him, and I think it definitely helped, but it seemed like he was excited to play and having a blast. Despite the Uo

You don't really have to wait for anything, I mean Radiohead will let you download it for free starting on the 10th.

Have a happy one

Yeah, but it's still more pricey than I'm willing to spend. I'm definitely going to pay something for the download. I think that's a cool idea.

Yes. I loved this band, but after seeing them live that has increased ten-fold. Highly underrated. Obviously teh Wilco is right up there with anything else. Yo La Tengo Sonic Youth John Coltrane Ornette Coleman Brian Eno David Bowie (especially when he's working with Brian Eno) Califone The Beatles The Hold Steady Tortoise there are more, but those are the most right now.

That's pretty cool about the download pricing, and the whole new Radiohead album thing...but it anyone else a little disappointed there isn't a cheaper "hard" copy version? I am.

Freedom vibes.

To one of VC's finest-have an excellent one

I've been looking at these, I like that it has a standby switch...unlike the Classic 30. How are the clean tones out of both of these amps? I have been looking to upgrade to something around this range for a while now, but haven't had a chance to play a lot of things (due to being in the middle of the Iowa). Awesome.

I do love this song. I think Jeff does it solo fairly often, but I would love to hear a new full-band interpretation of it. Definitely in my top 5 or so favorite tunes of theirs.

I agree with this. Yep. I also agree with this. Yep. Though I do think it's worth looking into the safety and ethics of taser usage in general, I would guess there are some serious cases of mis(and over)usage of tasers just as there are plenty of cases of situations where they are extremely helpful.

Yeah...uh...good luck on getting an "objective" source on anything related to this

Not to side-track this, but I honestly think "Indie" has come more to characterize a certain sound/look aesthetic rather than to describe a particular model of music making and production. Kind of like how "Punk" no longer has the same implications that it used to. Just my two cents. Oh, carry on. My sister will be excited about this. I probably would've enjoyed something like this when I was a big SNL watcher in middle school/high school. Most of the acts weren't great. Ryan Adams I thought was pretty decent right after 9/11. Maybe Wilco is too "dad" rock for SNL.

It might be worthwhile using some material from The Wilco Book and I Am Trying To Break Your Heart just to get some more sources. I dunno.

Have a fantastic one

A live DVD would be great, I would certainly buy that. Given that they frequently do live webcasts of shows, I think that's pretty much sufficient...but then again I'm not a huge live music collector, so there you go! Ps. (If anyone has a copy of the Davenport show this year or the Tweedy solo show in Iowa City last year I would much appreciate a YSI in any format--I can convert files...but I can't use bittorrents on this network--yup). I tend to like physical items, maybe it would be cool if they released a spiffied up show from each of their tours? I might shell out for those (speciall

Andrew Bird came through Grinnell last year, it was pretty great. I was still more excited about Low and Deerhoof (the previous Wilco openers I've seen) but this is great too. I'm totally excited for this next month!

The Beatles are fantastic. I just finished reading through my copy of that Anthology book again, that was great. I do need to pick up the DVD at some point. Teh awesome. The White Album is my favorite by far, so much great stuff. I remember spinning Beatles albums on my parents record player when I was around 4 years old, something like that. Wonderful.

Kim Jong Il seems like he's a little more eccentric and personable kind of a wacko, Ahmadinejad seems calculated and all that. I don't think either of them would really "debate" with anybody...but I'd rather spend the day with Jong Il, just saying.

Teh Foxtrot.

Surprisingly no dates in Iowa...

Good shaking from the center of Iowa headed yer way!

Good vibeage headed yer direction.

Yup! In fact, my parents have the box set set of it on vinyl, which I think I can procure from them with no problems

Steve Reich-Music For 18 Musicians. Quite possibly the most amazing piece of music I've ever heard--particularly the first time I listened to it, when I literally had to stop everything else I was doing and just sit and listen. This is definitely the finest piece of minimalism that I've listened to and the way that it organically grows and evolves is its strength and beauty. I listen to it and feel like I'm suspended in time and space...that is what great music does (I could name a few other albums that can do this--but most people are probably more familiar with them). Music for 18 Musi