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Well that sucked. I got nothing, didn't get past the waiting room until 10:25 and when I got to the ticket purchase screen for Tempe, everything was sold out. It might've been better to stagger the on-sale times for the different shows?

http://viachicago.org/topic/39572-general-info-about-front-gate-ticketing/

That doesn't sound like a problem to me! I don't give a rat's ass what's in style or favor if I like it. Gene Clark is frickin' awesome, as is Hillman. I think Hillman's songwriting in The Burrito Brothers is under-rated, (He and Gram wrote only a few songs, but man were they good!) His co-writing in Manasas is further evidence of Hillman's compositional skills. Back to Gene Clark, if the only song he ever wrote was either Why Not Your Baby or Out On The Side, he'd still be worthy of admiration in American music history as one of the great songwriters. Just consider him a buried treasu

I've been seeing Petty & Heartbreakers live since the mid 80s and I will always hold the music from their prime in high regard. While the band seems to be playing better and better with more of a "live" sound in the studio, I think the songwriting has gotten noticeable weaker in the past ten years. Especially on Mojo (and the Mudcrutch record), most of the new songs were built around studio jams and finished very quickly, not crafted and fine tuned as Petty used to do. Petty is an incredibly great songwriter and I hate to see the inspiration to write great songs seem to fade away. But

Funny you should say that, because in another running order I came up with, it did. Yes, I know I am a dork! Sunken Treasure Misunderstood Far Far Away Kingpin Say You Miss Me Hotel Arizona Dreamer In My Dreams Red Eyed and Blue I Got You Monday Outtasite

The problem with many 70s and 80s bands reuniting is that the singers' voices are often shot at whatever age they are. However... Top of my list: The FACES!!! Its kinda happened, but not like they've been talking about for years in interviews with the multiple guest lead singers and a full on US tour. And I really want it to happen with Rod Stewart, while he's still got a voice. I'm not holding my breath and I'm pissed at Rod for not getting on board when Ronnie and Ian and Kenny are raring to go. The Georgia Satellites - Probably not a lot of Satellites fans on this board, but by

I understand the view that double albums should be respected in their entirety, but I also find it fun to whittle down even the ones I love to a tight single disc with a new running order. Here's my first stab at a single disc version of Being There. I considered putting Sunken Treasure as the album closer, it does make a nice final statement and sets a reflective mood for the send off, but it also sounds good in the middle of the record, I think. I like to open a record with a couple strong rockers, but its hard to not hear Monday and Outtasite at the end like at so many concerts. Its jus

I appreciate Pat for a lot of musical reasons, but I especially do when he's playing guitar. The Nels-Jeff-Pat three guitar version of Wilco is crazy-good and I love how they can all be heard individually, even when Jeff and Pat are doing a unison thing while Nels wails away. Handshake Drugs and Impossible Germany from the Ashes DVD are good examples of this, I think. Pat is awesome in Wilco!

I LOVE the studio version of Playin' In The Band from Ace. Its like a perfectly distilled elixir balancing the exploratory jamming with a studio tightness, not too long and not too short. Of course, I like the deeply spacey freakouts they did on this tune live, but I've always felt this Playin' (and a lot of Ace) is some of the finest studio performances the Dead ever did. So that still leaves my question: Does Europe 72 Vol. 2 have overdubbed vocals or are the vocals from the actual performances? They are sounding pretty damn good on Sing Me Back Home!

I guess I'm the lone disenter in this thread, but saw Dawes last night and I was not into it. I liked the song Western Skyline a lot, but one song ain't enough to make a good show for me. Its weird for me to feel this way, because I'm usually all about passionate emotional expression in music, but I feel Dawes over-emote, like they are trying too hard or like it seems forced to me. Of course I have no way of knowing what they are feeling, but to my ears, the music doesn't feel as monumental as their contorted facial expressions would suggest, especially the drummer, what is up with that dud

Yeah, the shows were great, and night #2 probably the better one by just a bit. Jeff was certainly in a more funny chatty mood. Seeing and hearing Nels play Duane Allman's Les Paul was very cool. Outside of the show, the scalping scene was outrageous. The scalpers had so many tickets, like a dozen each and there were easily half a dozen scalpers there each night. Fans with extras had a very difficult time getting rid of tickets, I don't think anybody got face value. Thanks to the "fan" who arranged days ahead of time to purchase my extras and then blew me off at the last minute without

So it looks like the whole "stuff the ballot box" approach backfired, as we got neither Kingpin nor It's Just That Simple, but somebody who requested Less Than You Think was obliged and its fairly likely he or she was the only one who made that request. As I imagined, when it comes to the song request thing, they pretty much do what ever the hell they please regardless of how many votes a song gets. Maybe stuffing the ballot box pissed them off. Maybe they aren't that contrary, I don't really know. Thoughts?

Will Tootsie's be too crowded to even consider right before the show? I gotta go in there at some point, though. And Welch79, I get your point about the fun of discovering places for yourself, but when you are short on time, a list of solid recommendations can be very helpful. If you read this, would consider giving us such a list of the best dives and bars close to the venue for before and after show?

Not sold yet

Since there is no way they're gonna do One Hundred Years From Now, I'll join you on voting for Kingpin on Nashville night #1. Sorry, Bea!

Its my least favorite song on Wilco The Album because of its disonance and angularity. It just doesn't sound or feel good to me. Figures its about the only song from that record that they are still playing on this tour . I guess the band's tastes go along with most of the fans here. I'd rather hear You Never Know or Country Disappeared.

Great idea, if it depends on what song gets the most votes, maybe we should organize here and work together to get our desired rare songs played. I know, I know, getting people to agree on a song would be the hardest part, just kinda joking, but it would be cool. Who wants to start a campaign for One Hundred Years From Now in Nashville this weekend? For night #2, I requested Its Just That Simple.

Does anybody know the details of how the band uses the online song request feature on the official website? I think its so cool that they do this and I wish more bands did it. We requested Kingpin for the show we saw in Aspen last year and they played it and I'm assumming it was because of our request but maybe it was a coincidence. When they bust out something kinda rare, like She's A Jar in NYC last week, its that probably because someone requested it? My questions are do they play more than one request per show? Do they just pick the request they like or do they pick the one that gets

Tom Petty did 20 (twenty!!!) nights at the Fillmore in SF in 1997 and it was, of course, awesome to see him in that size of a place. Larger venues? No thanks! More shows in smaller venues. More residencies/multi-night runs would be excellent. Bravo to Wilco for still playing special, historic and smaller venues like the Ryman and Cain's. Getting tickets can be hard work, but that's life for a rock fan. Wilco do a great job of trying to get the tix to the fans. Pearl Jam (and I've heard, Dave Matthews, too) does it probably better than any one with their fanclub tickets, but Wilco stil

I'm with ya, Melinda, completely. But many people aren't strongly anti-scalping and I don't think they'll ever be convinced to not buy from scalpers if they can afford it and they find it convenient. Some people want to see the show so bad, they'll pay whatever they have to. Others, like you and me, want to see the show so badly, we'll put a lot of energy into finding all those last minute face value ticket that are almost always there if you know how to find them and are willing to put in the leg work. Just two different kinds of people who'll probably never change.

Still available.

I have two singles (i.e. they are not together) for Sat. if you are interested. shug909@yahoo.com section MF-6, row W, seat 11 section MF-4, row Q, seat 8

Were the Europe 72 bonus tracks in the Golden Road box set just straight SBDs remixed or were there lots of studio overdubs like on the original Europe 72. I consider Europe 72 one the Dead's best studio albums!

I agree about Brent on the Hammond, it sounded fantastic and he was really a strong player on it. His electric piano sounds in the late 80s got a little bit too synthetic, IMO. Imagine if he had played a Fender Rhodes and/or an acoustic piano instead. I also don't care for We Can Run or Just A Little Light or I Will Take You Home, but his blues stuff was good. I liked it when he took a verse in Little Red Rooster and his f-bomb in Good Times Blues (Never Trust A Woman) always makes me smile. Tons of Steel, to me, is far and away his best song. Too bad it dropped out of the rotation so fas

I have two single tickets for the Sat. Nashville show for sale for cost, of course. section MF-6, row W, seat 11 section MF-4, row Q, seat 8 These are hard tickets. Email me if interested. shug909@yahoo.com