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I'd like to hear What Light too. I love that song.

Yeah, that 91 live JGB double CD is really excellent. I think highlights are The Night They Drove Dixie Down, Lucky Old Sun, Don't Let Go, I Shall Be Released and Dear Prudence. The live album How Sweet It Is has some great performances, too. Last night I watched Downhill From Here (Alpine Valley 1989) and I was pretty impressed. They started off strong, but things really kicked in by Cumberland Blues and the rest of the show is pretty much on fire. The West LA Fadeaway has got to be one of the best ones ever. Totally smoking Jerry solo on Deal, too. All Over Now shows exactly why Bren

Yer welcome, glad sharing my thoughts made a difference! I later learned its definitely not the original ladies singing back up, but they were just fine. And the whole thing was well worth it to hear Melvin play keys. this band tours a lot so you should get a chance to see them sometime down the road.

Caught Melvin Seals and JGB last night and I had an enjoyable evening that took me right back to all those nights I spent listening to this band at the shabby Warfield Theater in SF. Melvin and the girls sounded exactly like they used to (although I'm not totally sure it was Jackie and Gloria up there. They looked, obviously, much older than they used to, but they looked different in other ways. And they don't list the singers on the website, which is weird, because they are such an integral part of the sound. Maybe they have a rotating cast of girl singers? The vocals were really good.

Yes I will! We're gonna be right up front, I do believe. See ya there!

Listening to Red Rocks now for the first time, its sounding like a sweeeeet SBD, meaning to me crisp and clear AND a good balance between guitars, keys, drums and vocals. Just exactly perfect! This is in contrast to the recording of My Morning Jacket's 2011 Red Rocks show they sent out as part of their fan club, which sounds like an AUD or a heavily AUD matrix. You hear the distance between the stage and the mics and it sounds like very far away, which I dislike most of the time. This Wilco recording sounds like you are dead center a few rows back. Very very nice!

The Red Rocks show was killer, to my ears. That second encore with Casino Queen and Dreamer In My Dreams had my flying high. I downloaded last night, but there was something wrong with my connection so it took over 3 hours and I didn't get a chance to listen to it yet. And I agree, if this is something you want to continue to happen, buy a show and show the band that there is support for it. For me, I'm stoked because I don't want to do bit torrents or listen to AUD recordings or do all that trading stuff like I used to with the Dead in the days of analog cassette tapes. I know Owl and B

There is already a long thread about MMJ going way back, although it was buried. http://viachicago.org/topic/35939-my-morning-jacket/page__hl__%20morning%20%20jacket__st__320 I'm going to both of the Red Rocks shows in a couple weeks and then I'm hitting all three nights at the Wiltern in LA in Sept. I'm just a little tiny bit STOKED for these shows!!!! (And I get one more Wilco show in Arizona just after that, so a sweet little concert schedule for me.)

Oh, I'm ALL OVER the Red Rocks night #2 since I was there and it was a really good show. I just don't do AUD recordings, can't stand 'em. For me its a good SBD or nothing. I'm assuming these are good SBD recordings or at least a good SBD/AUD matrix? My wife swears that Pat did not sing on You Are My Face at this show, but he did at Forecastle, but she still thought the vocals were better by John at Red Rocks, although not as good as the killer version of the song on the Ashes DVD, in which Pat was out front with a guitar to sing the song. She's quite tuned into this song and notices stuf

Good to hear, lammycat, thanks! I'll report back. Xtra Ticket is opening, so it'll be Dead tunes first and then Garcia Band, nice! I'm actually pretty excited about this. Too bad Stu Allen's not in it, by all reports he's really good.

i just got some sweet tix for the Phoenix show, hell YEAH! I guess I got lucky, I used the phone system for some reason this time and got right through. It was a sweat because I never found any AMEX presale code, but the phone system didn't ask for one, while the website did. Weird. I'm 3rd row lower level at the stage right corner, a perfect view for my son. I'm so glad he's gonna get to see Pete and Roger before they stop playing live altogether. He's a lucky dude for a 12 year old, I'd say!

Yeah, too bad they didn't do a reunion before Benjamin Orr died. One of the great things about the Cars was having alternating lead vocals from Ric and Benjamin aka the ugly and the pretty. I LOVE that first album so much. When I was a kid we went on a week-long road trip to Lake Havasu in AZ from Southern California. This was 1978. We had a cassette player in the old VW van we rode in and we had just three tapes that were the only things we listened to for the entire trip: Van Halen I, Cheap Trick Live At Budokan and The Cars first. Those records are indelibly etched in my soul.

I had to suffer through all that grunge when I was working in a record store in the 90s and I didn't like any of it except Pearl Jam Ten and a song or two from Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins, so I'm definitely not the one to discuss the finer points of the different albums by any of those grunge bands. I did my best to tune it out because to me it mostly sounds like a wall of unpleasant noise. The reason I like Mad Season so much is because its a late 60s/ early 70s style record, very Pink Floyd/Hendrix-ian in flavor. What a revelation to learn McCready could actually play what I consid

Mad Season's one album is, to me, much better than anything Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, or Screaming Trees ever did.

Yeah its like if Page and Plant had called their tours in the 90s Led Zeppelin. It really ain't The Who without Moon and Entwistle. Starkey and Palladino do a passable job, but its really Daltrey Townsend play The Who songs. My wife and 12 year old never got to see The Who so we are going. Would you really pay $350 for a concert? The only thing I'd consider paying that much for would be Page, Plant, JPJ and Jason Bonham, regardless of what they decided to call it.

Dude, not to be harsh, but it must suck to be in a Dead cover band with a bunch of guys who aren't into the Dead. Your keyboard player appears to not get it. I'm sure its not easy to find band members, though. Next week I'm going to see Melvin Seals and JGB, whom I've never seen (post-Jerry, of course). Stu Allen is gone and they have a dude from AZ Dead cover band Xtra Ticket on lead guitar, who I've also never heard. I just hope its decent. I really am going to get a hit of that Oakland gospel soul from Melvin, Gloria and Jackie.

Whoever decided to put the entire tour on sale on the same day at the same time is an idiot or there is some greedy reason for it. This will make it very hard/pure luck to get good tickets. I'll be trying in the AMEX presale on Monday.

I put on the acoustic live album Reckoning from the 1980 tour, man does that sound good! What I noticed most is how good the vocals are compared to when they play electric. I've heard it time and time again, when bands go acoustic and the singers can actually hear themselves, you get to hear how they really can sing. Check out Jerry's high harmonies on Dark Hollow, so frickin' sweet! I love that version of To Lay Me Down, too. Its crazy to me that songs as good as To Lay Me Down and Comes A Time were so rarely played. Maybe they were hard to play/sing or Jerry had to be feeling just right

Nothing wrong with the Stones at all, I'm a huge fan, I'm just surprised that Jeff might sport a Stones shirt in public. I'd expect something more obscure and less mainstream from him, but perhaps I have an incorrect impression there. And sorry to offend any Kentucky folk, I was just joking, although its not the first time I've confused those schools/towns. I understand how seriously those college rivalries can be, I did live in Tennessee for a few years! So Jeff risked the ire of the UL fans by giving a shoutout to UK while in Louisville?

The shirt Jeff was wearing looked like the Rolling Stones tongue logo, but with a diamond in the mouth. I wonder if that was some kind of 50th anniversary thing? Surprised Jeff would sport that if thats what it was. I suppose there is a good chance it was not a Stones t-shirt but I could not tell for sure.

Lexington, Louisville, whatever, they're both cities in Kentucky that start with "L". Apparently Glenn went to university in one of them!

Glad to be of useful service, linclink! When the live stream ended, it definitely looked like the roadies were getting the stage ready for more music. Either they played an encore and its just didn't get broadcast, or they truly ran out of time. Would've been nice to get a Hoodoo Voodoo and give the festival crowd a taste of Josh's shirtless cowbell dancing! I didn't know Glenn went to Univ. of Kentucky Louisville. I thought it was a very solid performance and a well-paced show and setlist for a festival set. I loved hearing You Are My Face again. Once again, my opinion that Wilco i

Me, too. It seems to me to have a spiritual journey element that I like alot.

http://iclips.net/watch/forecastle-2012 Tonight you can see Lucero, tomorrow has My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird and Everest and then there is Wilco headlining on Sunday, among other bands that may be of interest to some of you.

You know you are Wilco obsessed when you needed to ask a fellow Wilco fan who lives in another state log in to your Ticketmaster account to buy you some Wilco tix (for Tucson) because at the time they go on sale, you were on a plane travelling (to Red Rocks) to see a Wilco show! I was daydreaming yesterday that for the Tucson show, how happy I'd be if they decided to cover Arizona by the Scorpions instead of playing Hotel Arizona. I think Nels would shred the solo and Jeff could sing the lyrics with the appropriate irony. It would be awesome! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A837JbrIsjA