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I was at that show. Wildflowers tour (and album) to my ears was a major revitalization after the not so great Into The Great Wide Open tour. Here are a few other rarities to consider: Make That Connection - Let Me Up B side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DsbFIJTFm4 Down The Line - Full Moon Fever outtake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmszwodDZ6Q Keeping Me Alive - Long After Dark outtake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtmLysh4ih0 Ways To Be Wicked - TP & HB version of the tune they gave to Lone Justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qALwpkQMoHg

And if you wanna get really nerdy, you could include unreleased studio stuff from the Playback box set. The raw sessions for Let Me Up have some great garage rock before Tom and Mike drenched it in lame keyboards. Also some interesting songs that didn't really get finished for an aborted attempt at a Heartbreakers album before Full Moon Fever. A couple good outtakes from Long After Dark, too. And more coming out on the new box set. Does that make three box sets now?

My fave album is Hard Promises and then Damn The Torpedoes but Long After Dark was a sneakily great record to my ears. I think it really holds up, except for the synth sound on You Got Lucky. The raunchy heavy guitar tones when Tom and Mike are both on electrics is phenomenal. Give it a listen on headphones at a good volume and listen for the guitar interplay on what may seem like somewhat generic early 80s FM rock, you might be surprised or maybe you are already hip to it. The songwriting is also better than it might appear with just a casual listen. Straight Into Darkness, yeah, what a

Oh I'll play this game all day long and twice on Sunday, as they say! The Wild One, Forever Mystery Man No Second Thoughts When The Time Comes You Tell Me Louissiana Rain Casa Dega The Insider You Can Still Change Your Mind Nightwatchman We Stand A Chance Between Two Worlds The Best Of Everything Dogs On The Run Let Me Up I've Had Enough Depending On You All The Wrong Reasons You and I Will Meet Again House In The Woods A Higher Place Climb That Hill Hung Up and Overdue Echo Billy The Kid Dreamville Like A Diamond No Reason To Cry Something Good Coming and from Hypnotic Eye, I got nothing

I didn't go to the movies last night, instead we just stayed home and watched the DVD of 7/7/89. Played it probably louder than the theaters around here do, just on a smaller screen! The whole first set was strong and the Blow Away coda when Brent goes off vocally and musically the band brings the song to a peak with an Allmans-like ending was a great moment. The second set was up and down, with a shaky Box of Rain and a fair Scarlet. Fire On The Mountain was where it got going to my ears and it was OK after than until a very strong Wharf Rat and a solid Heaven's Door. Pretty good stuff

Thanks. That doesn't sound as bad as some people have made it seem.

I definitely do not want to read this book, its got too much negativity for my tastes and I don't want to support that. I am also out of the rumor loop so I've never heard any specific shady thing that the Lesh's have done. Would you mind giving me just one example of something they have done or have been rumored to have done that is shady so I can know what people are talking about without having to sort through the trash?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8H08Xs_w8A It also shows a 14 year old Marty playing with Lester Flatts

part of the problem scheduling the tour, I think, is that Marty Stuart already has a bunch of dates booked on his own, so this tour has to work around that. I think Marty plays Clarence White's B-bender (or is it an E-bender?) guitar pretty regularly. Check how hot they are on their own, with Kenny Vaughan on second guitar... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVMdwpcl3m4

Is anyone else going out of the minds with excitement about this 50th anniversary tour for The Byrds' Sweethearts of the Rodeo album with Chris Hillman and Roger McGuinn backed by Marty Stuart and his crack band? So far I cannot make any of the dates but they keep promising to add more. This is one I cannot miss. Tangential Wilco connection: they are playing One Hundred Years From Now, still on my dream wishlist to hear Wilco play the shit out of. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/mcguinn-and-hillman/2018/the-theatre-at-ace-hotel-los-angeles-ca-4beb375e.html

Here's a playlist I made after my friend challenged me to use only what was on my phone to create one on this theme. Lots of great lyrics in these songs that resonate with me for the times we find ourselves in. Beware of Darkness – George Harrison Masters of War – Bob Dylan Give Me Some Truth – John Lennon What Are Their Names? – David Crosby War Pigs – Black Sabbath Revolution – The Beatles Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who Lunatic Fringe – Red Rider A Farewell To Kings – Rush Its Alright Ma I’m Only Bleeding – Bob Dylan Tramp The Dirt Down – Elvis Costello Money – Pink Floyd Us and Them – P

Stoked! This is a great show, one of the best of the year, IMO. Fall tour '83 was strong. I love those two shows in Santa Fe, as well. 9/10/83 and 9/11/83

yeah, I'm more interested in what the next Dave's Pick is going to be, too. Announcement should come soon. sorry to continue the topic, mountain bed, but I happened to hear Mayer interviewed on Gans' radio show on Sirius M this AM and I am so impressed with his take on things and his attitude, specifically that way that he addressed the questions of the slow tempos. His answer was nuanced, fair, acknowledged different points of view and was not inflammatory but rather concilliatory. To paraphrase he said even though he agrees that the tempos are sometimes too slow, he thinks its up to the

I don't know wtf you are talking about but it sounds cool/weird! I mean I get the SG part, but what do prunes, custard and migraines have to do with his guitar tone or playing? Serious question, actually.

We just saw Gillian and Dave as acoustic duo and they once again had us mesmerized and blown away at not just their locked in harmonies, his stunning fingerpicking, and the authentic living representation of archaic folk music but even more by the deep well of collective consciousness from which they seem to draw, making simple folk music feel like a profound cosmic experience.

That sounds like a Lester Bangs quote. But what I'm talking about is Jeff referring disparagingly to a particular style of rock that they play just a few songs of each night. I'd be thrilled with an entire Wilco concert of simple rock 'n' roll, which I would never call dumb.

Funny, its one of my favorites, a second cousin to one of my top 5 songs, Monday, with the pounding piano riff Jerry Lee Lewis style. I like rock 'n' roll in the classic sense and Wilco does it as good as anyone. I've always wished they'd do a bunch more songs in that Chuck Berry/Sun Studios/Chess Records vein, just simple rock 'n' roll, they are so freaking good at it. I get the sense that they do it sheepishly, like they are slightly embarrassed by playing it. Hasn't Jeff called it dumb rock?

I haven't done a single studio album compilation, but I did do a three CD compilation using a mix of studio and officially released live stuff for a friend I wanted to get into Wilco. Wilco Plays Folk Rock Normal American Kids Wishful Thinking At My Window Sad and Lonely One Sunday Morning She's A Jar One By One Far Far Away Too Far Apart Its Just That Simple Say You Miss Me Country Disappeared True Love Will Find You In The End Wilco Plays Art Rock Misunderstood I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Art of Almost Ashes of American Flags Sunken Treasure At Least That's What You Said One Wing via

I saw Tom Petty a bunch, going back to 1985, all through the years when they were just a straight up 5 piece rock 'n' roll band with a bunch of songs of subtle genius that spoke to experiences almost everyone in America has. I kept seeing them when they added a new guy multi-instrumentalist to fill in the sound for all those Full Moon Fever songs. By the time of the tour for Into The Great Wide Open in 1991 I think, I had seen the top hat schtick for Don't Come Around Here No More every single time I saw them. They got so far away from their stripped down rock 'n' roll roots with the goofy

C'mon people, get this thing started! Quote what you think are the insane comments!/who is wrong/great songs people hate so we can debate this shit!

That's easy for me, Kicking Television. I don't like punk at all.

Ashes of American Flags Monday both from the live DVD, for me either or both are just the absolute peak of what makes Wilco great! Its hard to not throw Handshake Drugs and Impossible Germany in there for the blazing guitar ensemble performances. When Pat rocks out on guitar together with Nels and Jeff, that's the good stuff for me.

Solo acoustic dates in those four cities. https://www.jambase.com/article/neil-young-announces-summer-2018-solo-acoustic-dates plus these three festivals with Promise of the Real https://www.pollstar.com/artist/neil-young-19170?tab=upcomingDates&page=0

I'll take Neil with Crazy Horse, of course, but at this point based on shows I've seen, I'd prefer to see Neil live with the young guys in Promise Of The Real, they were so great last year. I really hope they add a summer tour to the three festival dates they already have scheduled this summer. You never know with Neil, he can change his mind quickly.

Another great Van collaboration album, in my view, is the killer rollicking rockabilly/boogie record he did with Jerry Lee Lewis' sister, Linda Gail Lewis, on piano called You Win Again. She kicks ass and what a great fun collection of songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-f9LnfrBY