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Got my 180g black vinyl replacement. Sounds markedly better than the orange version: a very quiet, flat and smooth playing disc. Thank you Kung Fu. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I listened to the entire interview. Thoroughly enjoyed all 60+ minutes. These guys are in a really good space right now. Looking forward to hearing the complete album. Loved hearing how this album came together in just a few days. The songs are just flowing out of these guys. After I finished I put on English Oceans. It's a great time to be a DBT fan. First part of the interview turned out to be them talking about the Replacements. Hood's a big fan. A nice treat, except they made me feel old when both of them said they'd never seen the 'Mats with Bob Stinson. Ouch. Sent from my iPad u

Steven Hyden has Hood on his latest Celebration Rock podcast. I haven't listened yet.

Full album now playing on NPR First Listen. Sounds great!

To answer the question above, I posted the email response I received from Kung Fu. I had sent them an email with my customer order number and that was the initial response. Today I received a follow up that there is nothing more I need to do, they will be shipping me a replacement 180 g. black vinyl and I will receive a notice when it ships.

Interesting, this is the response I received, didn't say anything about destroying my orange: Sorry for the delay in response. There is a known issue with the Orange pressing and we've been a little overwhelmed by emails and phone calls. We apologize for any issues with the Schmilco Limited Edition Orange vinyl pressing. The defect is not unique to your copy, but a fault with part of the vinyl pressing. We are happy to replace your orange copy with either a newly pressed orange copy or the heavier and better sounding 180 gram black vinyl. It's a better listening experience because black viny

Hard if not impossible to duplicate the studio recorded version on a live stage. Nonetheless, I've seen it played live by the Dead several times and always loved hearing it. Same here with Wilco and Weir, although I've only "seen" it on You Tube videos.

Love these guys. Standing up and speaking out from the Deep South (even though Hood now lives in Portland). Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Amen to that.

Not me, sounds great.

Tomorrow Never Knows https://youtu.be/u6SNmISiT_U Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hey bbop, Weir usually comes in stage in shorts and Birkenstocks, even for his own gigs. He must be relaxed all the time

Not strictly a Schmilco review, but here's Steve Hyman's "deep dive" into the Wilco catalog prompted by the release of Schmilco. http://uproxx.com/music/wilco-schmilco-career-retrospective/ Take it for what it's worth. Hyman's a long time serious Wilco fan. His paragraph on Being There could have come straight from my fingers on the keyboard. I don't agree with the comments about SBS, but that's a well worn path we've all been down before. My view on SW and Schmilco is that they too are "statement" records, just different statements than YHF. Anyhow, its a good read.

Love that. I'm seeing her in November, hope she treats any talkers the same.

Must have been great. I definitely had long distance envy for that show, love both of them.

If anyone is familiar with the Dan Rather show, The Big Interview, on AXStv, the Neil Young interview is on right now. My DVR has it going. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I sought the advice of my wise and knowing audiophile buddy . Here's what he came back with. I may need to take this up with Kung Fu: "Looks like the colored vinyl was done at Independent Record Pressing in NJ, the black vinyl at QRP in Kansas. QRP is an awesome shop. Might have to go black on this one. Lots of complaints on the orange wax, a number of people say their pinks are perfect, we’ll see. http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/wilco-schmilco-new-lp-2016.567432/page-11

It's September 13...tick tock on the announcement. C'mon Tony!

My orange vinyl is noticeably noisy and hissy. I'm pretty sure it's not my stylus/cartridge, but I haven't had a chance yet to spin anything else to compare.

Given it only 2 good listens so far, once under some good headphones. My response to the music is still developing, but I can't deny that so far I was hoping for more of the "fucked-up country' sound. Whatever that is I don't know, but there's nothing "country" about this to me. Absent that, I'm missing some good old Wilco rock songs. Hard for me to fathom these tunes were recorded at the same sessions as Star Wars. Seems like night and day to me. Are a lot of songs I connected with immediately, including the 3 that were pre-released and We Aren't the World (Safety Girl). In a blind listen

You must not have been standing with us when that electrified guy with the eyeballs rolling out of his head sidled up to us with a pipe filled with some psychedelic white powder

I was there Wednesday, the night before (Jeff really ragged about the crowd). You may recall that the next night after Wilco's 3 night run, Phil Lesh was coming in for a series of shows. I always took Wilco's decision to close their run with Ripple as a sort of tribute and "hand-off" to Phil and the Deadheads who were about to take over the place. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that's my fantasy and I'll always think it was a really nice touch by Tweedy and Wilco.

Quite true. We caught many great Hartford shows, including the May '77 show that was officially released as "To Terrapin." Also one of the weirdest shows (at least for us), Colt Park.

http://www.glidemagazine.com/170229/phish-opens-slave-delivers-type-ii-crosseyed-dicks-saturday-sunday-show-recaps/

I watched the first set live Sunday, and then watched the second set last night. What a great show! Awesome set list (for me), great show to close out the run. Trey was into that First Tube, for sure, see if you find a video of that.