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I'm also now a 5-time watcher, at least, and am good for a bunch more. Totally smoking blistering twanging geeetar. Love it.

Sunday evening at home, decide I'm going to cure/avoid the Sunday night blues and dig into the music collection while waiting for The Newsroom. Glad to have come across this topic again. I've got pretty much the entire XTC catalogue in either vinyl or disc. We listened to a lot of XTC, they were a favorite, but it's been years since I've put them on at home. Pulled out the collection, couldn't decide so I put on Upsy Daisy Assortment. I'm not usually a fan of greatest hits collections and didn't even remember having this. What a freakin great collection of music. Fell in love with this ban

Los Lobos Jack and Jorma Richard Thompson

Is there a complete version of that Sessions show circulating? And once again, any time I watch video of that era of Wilco, the first thought that pops into my head: what a difference Glenn makes.

I sure hope Wilco's making plans to play here. This place will be awesome. I'll come down from Boston anytime. http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/ht-interview-bringing-the-old-together-with-the-new-jon-dindas-talks-technology-at-the-capitol-theatre/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HiddenTrack+%28Hidden+Track%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

I'm totally with you on that. I've had this debate endlessly with friends who, like many here, point to YHF as the holy grail peak of Wilco. I love every single song on YHF, but in the live context. When I go back and listen to YHF, I find it overproduced and doesn't stand up over time; the production, not the songs. And i was pleased to watch an interview with Tweedy that was posted somewhere here a few months ago (it takes place outside a restroom if that jingles anyone's memory) where he pretty much said the same thing directly. That the songs on YHF have thrived in the live setting.

Would generally agree with that, with the exception of Collapse Into Now, which to my ears is their best work in years (or a decade?) and right up there with anything else

I'm with you. Other than the 3 Wilco albums and the couple of MMJ albums, I don't think I've got, or am even familiar with, anything else on that entire list. I've been living in an alternate universe obviously.

I've tried and tried, but I just don't get Radiohead music. I'm done trying.

No doubt, the director knows his/her Wilco.

Thanks Scotty. Hidden Track is the best!

I'm not as familiar with the MMJ catalogue, but I love At Dawn, and have had a hard time warming up to Circuital.

I was fortunate to be in the room on any number of such occasions. Your explanation, or lack of an explanation for the phenomenon, is spot on.

I purchased one show in flac, converted to mp3 using Media Monkey and had no trouble getting it onto my iPod. Can't get the artwork as album cover though.

One Wing and BBN both were performed this week in Europe. August 11 and August 14.

If you ask anyone in Fenway other than me, you'd probably get a response along the lines of "awesome." For me, it was more of the same that I wrote about, the reasons I stopped going to see Springsteen. In a nutshell, the sound absolutely sucks in Fenway unless you are right down front, which we weren't. So not being able to hear the full band instrumentation and not being able to see the players (the video screen focused on Bruce 99.9% of the time) takes away a lot of the concert experience for me. Second, I think the songbook has been diluted over the years. After opening with Promised

"Right now, it's entirely appropriate to put Wilco up there with the Great American Bands of times past - the Grateful Dead, Crazy Horse and the greatest of them all, The Band." Don't know if I agree that The Band would be the greatest of them all, but agree that they belong in the group, and that Wilco belongs right there with them, the Dead and (I would say) Neal/Crazy Horse. And if we were talking about individual songwriters, Tweedy belongs in the group of the greatest of them all. File that under "But we all knew this already..."

Springsteen, Fenway Park. Not a show I want to see, but my wife wanted to go so there I'll go. I stopped seeing Springsteen several years ago after having become totally bored at his last night of a long run at the Fleet Center. After many many shows, his music stopped speaking to me. (And I don't particularly care for the crowd, but that's another story). Maybe I'll be surprised tonight (but I'm doubtful).

Really? Somehow I missed that. I have a decent sounding aud recording from the mezz, will have to search for the board/webcast. Hopefully it's being seeded somewhere. This is all I see on bt.etree, which is the source I have: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=534142

I'm hoping for something from the "Evening With" tour in 2010. "Something" being specifically the Boston Orpheum show. One of the top 5 shows of my entire life. .

I was out and didn't see it. But I was able to be front and center for both Boston shows this week, and what a turnaround from those train wreck shows at the Orpheum last November. Gregg was in fine form, and the band smoked.

Yes, but what fun!

Over a while ago, and yes, it was an abbreviated festival set, no encores.

Damn, I need to be getting work done, and I come across this live stream: http://www.wayoutwest.se/live/

Well, I just saw them in Hartford with the Lee Renaldo Band opening. They are not "young", but they were certainly not a snoozefest. And last time through CA they had White Denim opening. That's about as much of a "good, young, energetic up and coming band" as you can get.