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Say You Miss Me must've been a request, I've requested it before and it didn't get played, lucky you guys! I also like the looks of War On War, Handshake Drugs and Box Full Of Letters early in the set, gets things rocking a little earlier.

I'm reading the Paul Zollo book Conversations With Tom Petty. Not sure why its taken me so long to get around to it, but I think its fantastic! It actually makes a nice companion piece to the Peter Bogdanovich documentary, giving more details about some particular time periods and not too excessive at duplicating the same information. I wish they would release all the original Mudcrutch recordings. I found a bunch of them on YouTube and its sounds like there are some good songs in there. I didn't know about Jeff Healy covering one of them, Lost In Your Eyes, either. http://youtu.be/D48

In 1987, The Georgia Satellites were very important to me. I saw them in a small club (The Channel) in Boston on a hot summer night. I came out of that packed show soaked in spilled beer and sweat (my own and that of the folks around me, gross, I know, but the intensity of the rock 'n' roll experience made me not care). It remains one of the best rock shows I've ever been to. Before the Satellites came on, I was listening to the opening band (I don't remember who they were) and this tall dude came up beside me and was rocking out, smiling, way into it and leaned over to me to say "these g

Lost Highway - "What a great fuckin' song" - TP

I wish Wishful Thinking wasn't so rare these days. I really love the lyrics and the melody, just beautiful and soothing to me.

I read this in the No Depression magazine archive. "Says Hillman, “On this [tribute] album, when I heard Wilco’s ‘One Hundred Years From Now’, I said, ‘Boy, they really captured that early Burritos sound — that live sound we used to have onstage. Nobody was doing that then; it was so out of left field. It was loose, but it was full of energy and life. Wilco really caught that for me.” Its nice to hear that kind of praise from Hillman. I still think that recording is one of the best things Wilco has ever done in the studio.

Good to see Standing O return, one of my faves from The Whole Love. Dreamer in My Dreams again? Nice! Cool way to move the standard opening songs to the first encore, too.

Because with even as few as three key strokes - IMO- you can indicate to others that you are not invalidating the opinion of everyone who disagrees with you. And that in turn creates a respectful environment as opposed to one where people are less interested in discussion and more interested in being correct and "winning". In my view, its just being polite and it makes message boards far more pleasant places to hang out. I get that others may not care about that.

No, people who don't like it knock it because they don't like it. People who like it don't knock it. People who state their opinions as if they are facts sound extremely arrogant to me. It seems they think their opinions matter more than those of others. Oh, well, there are all kinds of people out there, some are just less pleasant to interact with.

Just your opinion, not a fact. In my opinion there are more standout tracks on Wilco The Album than on The Whole Love. One Wing, Country Disappeared, You Never Know, Wilco (the song), Sonny Feeling are the ones I'd pick. Tweedy has said in interviews that they quit playing a lot of songs from that record too soon and maybe they should've played 'em more often for a longer period of time. I guess that is why they are still playing so many songs from The Whole Love, ones that personally, I could do without. I'll be glad when they only play a few songs from The Whole Love (hoping) Art of Al

I think you are right. I'd have loved to have heard You Never Know, Wilco (the song), One Wing, or Country Disappeared, although I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority on that one.

Hilarious banter when Tweedy was saying how they should've opened with I Must Be High due to the aromatics when they first took the stage. He also joked about it being easier to find weed in Boulder than Advil!

I was waaaayyyy into the second night of Red Rocks, it was a great great show from the mindset I was in. I loved the setlist and how much they mixed it up from night 1. I also thought the band had more energy, they were "on" or in the groove or whatever way you want to describe that intangible thing that happens when they are really performing as an ensemble with that incredible group mind. I thought it was night and day compared to night 1 which, from my perspective, seemed to be rather lackluster, like they weren't really into it or it was't coming together for whatever reasons. Sat. wa

I saw The Black Crowes there in 2005. The venue is nothing special, a pretty standard theater with seats all the way down to the stage. The Crowes played there on a Sunday night and it didn't sell out, so we got upgraded to front row. The venue staff is mostly retired volunteer senior citizens which can be comical to see the interaction between rock fans (especially pot-smoking hippie rock fans like at the Crowes) and them. They are not real hardcore about rules probably because they aren't used to anybody ever not doing what they are supposed to. I've been to worse places.

I'd love to see Wilco there, a Sept trip to Santa Fe would be very nice. Not sure I can swing it myself, but I'm envious of those who can. I'll have to settle for Tucson.

Since I'm from Southern California, I'm stoked rather than psyched, but yeah, I'm right there with ya! I'm looking at bars like The Cruise Room in the Oxford Hotel and Green Russell for either pre- or post show libations, since we are staying downtown. Panzano restaurant in Hotel Monaco looks to have a decent happy hour too. Just gotta figure out what time to leave downtown to make the show (we've got reserved seats and don't need to get there too early)

DVD release of Rockshow is exciting news to me! Yeah, it was slick and polished, like most things McCartney does musically, but that was a pretty good band and the setlist from that tour is a good one.

Drumming at the Edge of Magic (co written with Jay Stevens of Storming Heaven, interestingly) is pretty much Mickey's auto-biography. Of course it has lots of stuff about rhythm, culture, drums and consciousness, as those are Mickey's prime areas of interest, but it tells his life story, too. It was pretty good, I thought, but its been a few years since I read it.

I'm not that much of a '78 Dead fan, but this one sounded fan-freaking-tastic last night. 4-24-1978 http://archive.org/details/gd1978-04-24.sbd.miller.32899.flac16 Its pretty ripping, engaged and high-energy show all the way through from the Promised Land opener to the Around and Around (except for the very rough but charming Werewolves of London encore) but notable highlights are excellent versions of Music Never Stopped, Scarlet>Fire and Black Peter. Donna is sounding really restrained and on-key all night long, a major relief for those who can't tolerate her off-key caterwauling. Th

I always get fooled when someone revives an old thread because I forget to look at the date of the original post. I thought Macca was currently on tour somewhere! duh!

I agree with your comments about Derek, worldrecordplayer. I particularly love his statement that "its not repeating things that have already been done, its just playing honest music". I love to hear Derek say what I feel about music, which is that playing something real and honest and expressive and evocative and passionate is the most important thing, even if its been done a million times before. Originality in art is so over-valued, IMO. You can't go see the great masters live anymore, so its really a gift to the world for there to still be torchbearers for all the great styles of music

Glad to hear Paul is still doing great shows and even cooler to see he's mixing it up or at least it appears that way from the two setlists posted above. Junior's Farm? Rad! My Love, nice! I saw Macca on the 1989 tour for Flowers In The Dirt and then again on the 1992 tour for Off The Ground. Those were the only times I've seen him and I was, of course, thrilled beyond belief to hear the Beatles tunes done so well with such good bands and arrangements and all that. I've skipped going to see him since then mostly due to high ticket prices. At this point, I'd be most exicted to hear a b

Eyes of The World 2-15-73 Madison, WI. So bright and fast and just jubilant playing from Garcia and Keith. This is still a candidate for my favorite one ever. Here Comes Sunshine from this show is also a standout version to my ears, Garcia is precise and smooth as he flies through speedy flurries of notes, a rare feat for him. Two really fantastic Garcia solos in this one, yeah!

Yep, Rich has really come into his own as a songwriter, I believe. I mean, we know he can write killer riffs and rock music, but his melodies and lyrics are really very very good to my ears. I love his latest solo record. And his vocals have come a long way, too. There is a lot of subtlety in his music and I'd be hard-pressed to say the same thing about Chris' Brotherhood. I just wish Rich toured as much as CRB does...

calvino, I'll be interested to read what you have to say about the two records when you have some impressions and time to share them, if you are so inclined. Might take a few listens for the brilliance of Rich's to sink in! It might be considered kinda subtle, but I found it to be a grower.