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But I loved reading it! When I was in middle school and high school I was on the knowledge bowl team, and we would always stop off at lunch to get a Weekly World News and then pastries at the Tastee Bakery Outlet store...ah the days of missing school and hanging out with an awesome English teacher and reading the WWN. No more!

Nope, not a day late, you're just in time to help announce our employee of the month! Thanks for all your work, Solace!

Got my Iowa City ticket today, pretty excited. I haven't seen him since he came through Minneapolis right after Demolition was released, and that was a good show

Seriously though, what's with all these drunken asshat female celebrities driving around on all sorts of crap. I'll chauffeur them and put up with all their bullshit for half of what they're paying their lawyers a year. Man, I'll be rich then.

Awesome, I'm excited for this.

I'm a part of a CSA and a Co-op. The CSA here in Grinnell is from a heritage farm (the farm has been in their family for 150+ years), which is pretty cool to begin with. The share was $300 for "2" people (I put that in quotes because there's more veggies than that). In addition to getting tons of variety in veggies we also get eggs, including duck eggs for an extra $1.50, and there's access to buying 1/2 and 1/4 animals for meat, which we didn't do because we don't have a giant freezer. The share runs from the beginning of June through October, and no week has been disappointing, and usua

I guess we do agree. PS. I do know and use theory, and like you said it can give clarity sometimes or help provide structure/direction. Inevitably the musical ideas and the real drive to make music comes from someplace that is just there and develops through years of listening to and practicing music--and that's where every musician trained or not feeds from whether they know theory or not. Also, Beethoven does have some sweet tunes.

I disagree. There are plenty of examples of phenomenal musicians/music with little or no theory consciously integrated in the musical process--but think what you want there's a whole world of music out there. I just think that concentrating too much on process or theory in music makes you miss a lot of really great art

Theory does expand your arsenal, but it doesn't always make better sounding music...inevitably it is the end that counts, because music made public is about the end listener.If a song calls for a chromatic modulation, swell, but if not why stick it in? I don't care if it's rock/jazz/classical/etc. techniques can make for more diverse or unexpected songs, but not always, and lots of theory is just integrated into the way we hear and play music.Plus, I don't think theory can explain a Nels Cline feedback wash.

From Nels himself (via his website): "I am virtually self-taught on the guitar. All i've done is try to make sound that has an affect on me, to listen, react, and be authentic in the moment. I've never had any real direction, any career design, and i've never been very disciplined." I would doubt that any of the other members other than Glenn are "classically" trained on their instruments. Having studied plenty of music theory (seeing as I'm a music major) there's certainly advantages and disadvantages to knowing the technicalities of music. Honestly, great music doesn't come from those w

Big congrats to you

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I definitely dig the album.

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Hey now Thanks everyone!

Happy birthday to you late night RTT comrade, fellow VC procrastinator and now rock dad! Hope everything is going well and that you're having a blast of a birthday

Well the title pretty much sums that one up...but after dating for over 4 years now I proposed to my girlfriend last weekend, and she accepted. She was quite excited, and we just went home this weekend to tell our respective families in person. Nobody was surprised, but we're happy and no one is objecting....yet No plans yet for actually getting married, but we'll figure that out eventually.

I thought they were great at the Pitchfork Music Festival, and I hadn't really heard the record much at all.

Uh...can't tell you exactly... But I know he's playing: at least two different Jazzmasters both vintage, though I don't know anything beyond that; he's got a Jaguar; the Jerry Jones 12-string; and then his lap steel which I think is detailed in another thread here. That's all I've seen.

I think partially it's artists/labels feeling like they have a lack of control over their product these days. If everything leaks early, is available for high-quality download illegally, and sold by second parties who didn't buy it, but instead got it as a promo then I think that could definitely be frustrating as an artist. Also, it's pretty clear that even with "good" music there is a loss in sales to downloads, etc. It's been discussed before around here in regards to the small label Suburban Home Records, but I thought that provided pretty convincing evidence of actual monetary losses

Well, they didn't seem too happy with that Vic Theater DVD, we'll see what happens, though I'm not holding out hope. There are a couple of "live" documents of them, Burn to Shine Chicago has "Muzzle of Bees," I Am Trying To Break Your Heart has a bunch of live performances, Sunken Treasure has a bunch of Tweedy solo stuff live, and the Shake it Off DVD from Sky Blue Sky has a good chunk of those songs. I'd be excited to see a live DVD come out, especially if it had a nice wide songlist.

The Wilco Book provides pretty good insight into how A Ghost is Born was conceived. Basically most of the early sessions were places for the band just to experiment and try different live-studio configurations--there are a couple of these mixes on the CD that comes with the book in case you don't have it. Then there are more well lined out "songs" and some alternate mixes as well, which I'm assuming is about as close to "demos" as AGIB stuff gets.

I don't know of anything against this, you could always check with a moderator, but I don't think it's a big deal Good luck selling.

This is awesome, though I wouldn't buy it for the price. Farts can be endlessly amusing.