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A good friend of mine worked with BoH for a while. He says they’re a great bunch of guys.

Actually, I believe I owe YOU a drink and a sandwich.

On the Star Wars tour they played the album in its entirety before playing older songs. I’d say that’s giving new material pretty fair representation. On every album-promoting tour I’ve seen they play a sizable amount of said album. As a band with such a long history, I’m not sure what more they could do to try to keep everyone happy.Your definition of “nostalgia act” seems to be a band with a large back catalog. As to not playing developing markets, that’s up to them. They’ve been around long enough to know what works and what’s not worth the effort. I don’t think they’re interested in conque

Gorgeous album. I can’t stop listening. The first track, Hitch Hikin’ is particularly beautiful.

As will this one. The karaoke thing really bummed me out and I’m still not feeling it, but I’m starting to get excited for Solid Sound again.

Buy Warm again in order to get Warmer? But wait, there’s less - no digital download available?! What the hell?

This is a terrible idea. After two years, I want to hear Wilco, not 5-10 randos playing American Idol. That’s potentially an hour of the set utterly wasted for me. At the moment im about 50/50 on selling our tickets.

Yep, that’s him. He’s a great guy.

You must’ve been standing next to my friend Knotgreen. Wish I’d known there were other VCers there. Always nice to put faces to screen names.

Such a great show. I got my request, One Sunday Morning, and finally got to hear Gun live. Jeff was in a great mood. The only downside was the incredibly loud and obnoxious woman seated directly behind us. I had to ask her to keep it down. Just an awful person.

Later this year?!? What the hell? Just release it!

Those were my daughters. Jeff was really sweet with them, smiling and making a lot of eye contact during his short set. It was a really special experience for them (and me).

NYC shows are always far more expensive. I generally see Jeff/Wilco in CT, RI & MA and tickets are usually around $45, give or take. Edit: Just checked - our tickets for Jeff’s Boston show in April were $37.50 ($41 after fees).

I was standing right next to Knotgreen, and I don’t think Jeff was being a dick at all. To the contrary, he seemed to be in a great mood all night, and even the few “rowdy” fans shut up pretty quickly. I thought it was a great crowd. Yes, there was a lot of talking in the back during Ohmme’s set, but they were pretty awful. I’m always against talking during any performance, but yikes. Maybe their studio output is better? Edit: I don’t want to sound mean about Ohmme. They seemed like nice girls & their voices were fine, but their live performance needs work.

Maybe the guard had bone spurs?

Ha! It wouldnt be a Scottish show without at least one fight.

There are a few VCers going to this one. Hope we can meet up.

Got tickets for Burlington yesterday & hotel is booked. Can’t wait!

Marched in Hartford, CT with my wife & daughters. I’d estimate the crowd was at least as big as last year.

I have to say, I'm more than a little disappointed and annoyed at the lack of download cards in recent Jeff/Wilco vinyl. There doesn't seem to be a good reason for it. It's especially irritating for the reissues, as we've all bought these albums before, sometimes in multiple formats. I hate to assume the worst, especially of a band that's meant so much to me for over 20 years and is usually so good and generous, but it seems to me the only reason for excluding download cards, especially as they've become standard, is the assumption that vinyl buyers will then also purchase the downloads or C

Great news! Already daydreaming about it.

Your habitual use of racial slurs in the early 20th century was wrong, sir, and I condemn it.

Ha! Of course you would already know about it, Paul.

I was reading an old article about Wilco (circa '04) today. It focused mostly on Jeff and his struggles at the time, but it gave brief bios of each of the band members. It mentioned that Mikael Jorgensen had, in the early/mid 90's, been a member of a band called Lizard Music. This sent me looking through my piles of 45s to find what I knew was there. A copy of their single. Back in the early 90's I was a musician living in Los Angeles. For the last year I lived there I also worked at a small record label called World Domination, headed by Dave Allen (Gang of Four). We shared a large office s