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That's a great story. These guys are the best.

No disrespect to SBS, but I have to go with TWL. From start to finish, TWL is one of the all time greats. It has songs, and they flow as an organic whole. A masterpiece.

The "boycot" of W(TA) continues. At this point I find this really surprising. So many shows have gone by. Whatever one may think of the merits of this particular collection of songs as an organic whole, there are individual songs that I enjoy hearing live and believe hold up well in the setlists. I just cannot believe they've abandoned the entire album. A while back someone posted they thought it must be a contractual dispute and I scoffed to myself. But at this point, I think that person may be on to something.

Whoa, sorry I didn't know about that. But maybe just as well, since I did have to drive back to Boston last night and show up for work today. But I would have thought about checking that out had I known.

Thanks bbop for posting the Lee Renaldo set, and explanatory comments. Loved the Crosby song, surprising to me I don't think I had ever heard it before. Your description of it is apt.

I can't let this pass without mentioning how great I thought the Lee Renaldo Band was. I'm only a little familiar with Sonic Youth (saw them only 1 or 2x over the years) and I had not heard a single song by this band, and I thought they were great. Loved every song. Will definitely check them out again, and get their most recent release.

Oh, and back to the crowd, I thought it was a great audience. The entire orchestra on its feet the entire show, everyone dancing throughout. People were very into it.

First, speaking of a CT crowd on a Wednesday night, Tweedy commented on what a "rowdy" crowd it was for a Wednesday night. Of course then adding that all the other crowds on this tour sucked:) But to the main point, what a difference a night makes, at least for me. The quality of the sound un this beautiful theater was superb (my first time there). I went from being 2 persons off the rail at MassMoca to 12 th row center in Hartford, and the difference was stark. Most noticeably in hearing Glenn's drumming (one of the main attractions for me at any Wilco show). I didn't realize how much

I was thinking the same for the first 45 minutes or so, but then I thought the band lightened up and energized. Certainly by the last segment of the main set, John, Nels and Mikael were flying all over the place. I'm not so sure I like having One Sunday Morning as a show opener. Love the song, totally. But it's such a quiet, serious song, and from close observation last night it looked like it requires every bit of concentration Tweedy can muster, that it seemed to set too "tight" a tone for the beginning of the show. But, it could have been road weariness (though they were off the night

I was right down front in front of John and it was definitely not ear covering loud there. But I was probably missing most of the volume coming from the side stage pa's.

We were joking Pre-show that we felt like we were in a high school gym for a Friday night battle of the bands. Then we decided that our high school gym was bigger. I didn't notice any visible evidence that the band had trouble hearing each other.

I'll chime in, since I can't sleep after a good show. Who is the person who got in for $1??? So nice to be back at MASS MoCA. Very mellow scene inside pre-show. I went in right away and got right up front, but folks were hanging out and eating and wandering the museum. The room didn't fill until almost show time, and even then there was plenty of room to be. Wilco gave the museum the gift of this show, and without an opener we got a 2 hour and almost 25 minute set by my count. Thanks to the drum tech for getting them to play Magazine ("it's in his contract that we have to play th

Thanks for all your work!

Listening to sound check. Say You Miss Me.

MassMoCA tomorrow, and then Hartford on Wednesday. Road trip. Leaving the Cape tonight. Hugely psyched for back to back shows, particularly in that small room at MassMoCA!

Thankfully!

What a great move!

I answered my own questions. Mass MoCA site says show at 8:00. Also says to come early as galleries will be open until 7:30. Any VC Pre-show gathering? I answered my own questions. Mass MoCA site says show at 8:00. Also says to come early as galleries will be open until 7:30. Any VC Pre-show gathering?

I answered my own questions. Mass MoCA site says show at 8:00. Also says to come early as galleries will be open until 7:30. Any VC Pre-show gathering?

Is there an announced time for this show? I looked at the Shows page on the Wilco site and there is no time listed. Also, anyone know what time doors?

That's the glass half full or half empty of a soundboard. That's also why I love a matrix. But I'm not complaining, I am so glad Wilco is doing this and I have and will purchase the downloads to show my support.

love the photos in that Brooklyn Vegan piece.

I love that. Get home, plug in your ticket number, and for the price of admission you also have an mp3 (no flacs for free) of the show you just saw. I think it's brilliant. I've got Phish soundboards of all the shows I've attended since they started this for free. And because I think they're so generous with this policy, I'm happy to buy downloads of great shows I wasn't at. OK, I'd probably do that anyway, but still...

I still have vivid memories (nightmares actually) of Garcia taking the stage in shorts during hot summer stadium shows. Given that choice, I'm happy to see Tweedy in his sport coat and hat stage attire. (But I wouldn't mind if he mixed it up a little with a different jacket). The band usually wears nice looking long sleeve shirts, even in the heat. It's one thing for the crowd to be in tee shirts, shorts and sandals, but these guys are on stage performing, and I'm glad to see that they have enough respect for their position to put on some nice looking clothes, even if they are going to swe

Red Rocks flacs purchased, downloaded, converted to WAV, burned to disc, Summerteeth blasting on the stereo. Superb!