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I'm torn about this Sunday night: Galactic and Steel Pulse at House of Blues (Boston), but it's also the Academy Awards, a night I usually spend watching with my wife (a real movie buff). She's encouraging me to go, "you can dvr the Oscars"), but I will be a game time decision. Other than that, pretty slim pickings in the immediate future: Furthur on April 5 Barr Brothers on May 15 Maybe, Los Lobos and zlevon on March 30, and maybe Cowboy Junkies on March 8. Oh yeah, Jazz Fest, first weekend in May. Can't forget about that!

That's some Wilco every day for you at Loon? A hotbed of Wilco fandom obviously.

They were absolutely my favorites in their time. Peaking with the Stop Making Sense tour. I've never forgiven Byrne for breaking them up. Wouldn't hold my breath on him wanting to get the Heads back together at this point.

Great. I got to get going. (Sorry for the off-topic banter)

How were the conditions?

May not count as "live tonight", but on Leno tonight, Hidalgo, Cesar and Robert Randolph. I'll be recording. http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/televised-tune-on-the-tube-this-week-168/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HiddenTrack+%28Hidden+Track%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

The Grateful Dead movie is definitely worth having on DVD. Forget the movie, the bonus disc of straight out footage from those shows is off the hook.

Wasn't there, but those Cal Expo shows are great. MSG September '90 run one of the last great runs, second set of 9-20-90 being the single best set I ever saw.

"Rock n roll's a contact sport" Great interview. Tweedy always seems to have some Bob Weir in him in any interview. Never really seems comfortable. Really like the interviewer, never heard of him. DBoon is right, he should have a national gig.

Thanks for that heads up. I always like 89-91 GD but never checked out this DVD. I will now.

One Sunday Morning played during the last several minutes of last Thursday's Private Practice. Not one of my shows, but was sitting with my wife when our heads turned at the unmistakeable biginning to OSM. A good 3-4 minutes of the song played, at least.

I've seen the deli tray incident, but does the entire HBO show circulate (video that is)?

Where does the Weir reference come from? I missed that.

A skewering of the Grammys, the awards and the show, here in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/arts/music/at-the-54th-grammy-awards-everything-old-is-praised-again.html?_r=1&src=tp Of particular note to me, is the (well deserved in my mind) ripping of the Foo Fighters (sorry to the Foo Fighters fans here): "Also troubling was the domination in the rock categories of Foo Fighters, who took home five awards. In acceptance speeches during both the pretelecast and the main show, the band’s frontman, Dave Grohl, invoked the garage in which it recorded its winning album, “Was

I saw this at the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan when it was originally released. (Also where I saw the Grateful Dead Movie when it came out. I guess I'm old). So when it came out again last year I bought the dvd. Certainly the video and audio on this 1972 recording are not up to current standards, but I enjoy having it and watching it occasionally. If you've never seen it, or if you want to again see the Stones at just about the height of their powers, definitely worth watching.

Thanks. I have a number of shows that I follow, but had not heard of this. Was not an X-Files fan, which is probably why I'm unaware. But any show that plays Wilco...

Totally correct. Which is why I haven't cared about the Grammys in more years than I can remember. Shouldn't have allowed myself to get sucked in this year, but I think TWL is just so goddamned great that I wanted Wilco to be recognized. And I have a belief that they wanted the win. I will now go back into my usual Grammy's "cone of silence."

Yes indeed. Thanks for that reminder. Wouldn't want to let the day pass without listening to that, it never gets tired.

That may be, but my most recent exposure to them was seeing them in Boston on their current tour (I went to see Social D, who opened), and in a live context these songs came across as nothing more than amped up arena rock, for better or worse. For me it was worse, I hated them, and I particularly hated Grohl's approach to singing as yelling and screaming. But there was nothing about the music that didn't seem to be middle of the road rock. So that wins them a Grammy? Blah. Doesn't compare to the piece of work that is The Whole Love, from start to finish. My wife accuses me of being bias

What is Fringe?

Mikael's been doing some fun tweeting from the Grammys. Good photo of Nels and Yuka. Here's what he tweeted about not winning: "Naturally bummed that we didn't win the grammy but am really grateful to the folks who've worked really hard to get us to this point." A class act.

That says it all. Too bad, that sucks. Absolutely nothing special about the FF to my ears. Yeesh.

Grand time indeed! Second row center (I gave them the heads up on the pre-sale). Loved every second of the show. They've been listening over the last 6-12 months but this was first time live and it lived up to all my proselytizing. The level of musicianship of every member of the band dropped their jaws for sure.

I'm wondering if their category will even be on the broadcast, somewhere along the line I heard that it wasn't. But not sure.