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Update: I'm not quite as bummed about missing Phil & Levon last night. Read the descriptions here. Thunderstorms ended Levon's set after 3 songs and delayed Phil for over 2 hours and then there were sound problems. My wife just emailed me from work and said that downtown Columbus is a mess of debris and standing water this morning. Funny, because I live no more than 20 min north of there and we got nothing. Gotta love summertime in the midwest.

Yeah, maybe that leak I heard was just a demo...

I agree. That one just happened to pop into my head. If I were on a desert island, I would grab that one over many "regular" albums that might be contenders for my list, but I agree that its kind of BS for our purposes here. Carry on.

So I'm kind of bummed today over the fact that Phil is in town tonight with Levon Helm opening and it looks like I'm just not going to be able to make it. I might actually be more bummed about missing Levon--chances to see him are relatively few and far between and he's definitely on my "need to see him before he's gone" list. I'll have to put some thought into this today to see if I can figure out a way to get to this.

Are compilations off limits? For instance, CCR's "Chronicle" has a far better shot at making my list than any of their individual records. Or is that cheating?

I was in until I realized how much work this entailed. Instead, I think I will kick back, relax, and complain about everybody else's choices. I always find these exercises to be self-defeating. As soon as I agonize over the task of selecting my "favorite" anything, there seem to be immediately a million other things that I would rather listen to. "Favorite" is an elusive thing, especially once your collection gets pretty big.

Fly me to New Orleans and give me a jazz funeral.

Where I am? Well, its about 70ish here in my cubicle. Outside in the parking lot it looks something like this:

True. Although this is one of those rare Pfork reviews that sounds a lot like something I might have written, myself. I'm listening again right now with fresh ears after a couple weeks off. Still not feeling it.

Well, it was better than Disney's "The Wild", anyway.

'72 seems to be a good starting point for a lot of people (and then quickly move forward and backwards a few years to get into that whole era). Europe '72 is good, but Hundred Year Hall is even better. Those are 2-discs and not too overwhelming for a beginner. Rockin' the Rhine is also excellent and the 4-disc Steppin' Out set is one of my favorite things in my whole record collection. Not to mention the various Dick's Picks from the era. Hell, its all good. Its true that if you just download a random show from etree or something, it can be hit or miss, so if you want guaranteed-killer

Absolutely. In other hands, the earnestness of this song might border on trite, but this song just kills me. "But the clouds never hung so low before" "And the dawn don't rescue me no more" It must be totally in the delivery, but those lines just slay me. otherwise, off the top of my head "Box of Rain" and "Brokedown Palace" by the G f'n D "Lonely 1" and pre-drone "Less Thank You Think" by teh Wilcos many more I can't think of right now

Time machines and/or wormholes are involved.

Did you drink expired milk?

I found a bottle of cherry flavored NyQuil recently that had expired almost a decade ago. I gave it a shot anyway and discovered that time had aged it into something resembling a fine merlot. * the merlot part isn't true. it still tasted like NyQuil and still knocked me asleep in 3.7 seconds.

Absolutely. The movie itself is really just a vehicle for the soundtrack...and what a soundtrack! Good stuff.

I must say I'm pretty excited about the downloads. Prices sound pretty reasonable, too. I guess the kicker will be to find out which bands have given their blessing for things to be sold. I haven't been on the site in a long time, but I can remember listening to some really nice stuff on that site in the past.

Yeah, that's one of those movies I wish I liked more than I do. Great music, some good quotes, but the movie itself isn't one that I really feel like watching all that often.

Yep. And we all know that they're scum anyway, so lets start some conspiracy-theory fun here and just assume they worked out a deal to funnel profits from these VIP seats directly to that other devil the RIAA as a way of getting back at those people who justify their pirating habits by buying lots of concert tickets. Its so crazy it just might work! Or not. I dunno. In any case, I won't be buying this. Mostly because I'm broke.

My favorite "Robbie moment" in the movie is the interview part in the beginning where he does the "ask me that again" thing. Its so annoying it just cracks me up every time--he almost kills the movie before it even gets started. As for performances, yeah, I hear there was plenty of overdubbing afterwards, but even so, I will say that it contains my favorite versions of a few songs, so that's no bad thing.

Secretly, Dreamer In My Dreams is my favorite song in the Wilco catalog by about 15 miles. Well, Misunderstood and Sunken Treasure, I guess, but DIMD is my favorite song that they never play. I'd never heard a full-band live version of it and every time I've seen them play in the last decade+ I've secretly wished for them to bust this one out...and then I heard the recording of them closing the residency with this and....well, that was kind of a letdown, honestly. Lotsa love for the album version, though. Coughing solo. That is maybe the only moment in official Wilco recorded history w

Especially when listing their albums chronologically.

Looks like the ABB scheduled several dates with Ratdog again this summer, so I guess the link with the GD crowd has become more explicit recently.

My first experience with them in a live setting was seeing them headline the HORDE tour in '94 or so. Blew my socks off. There aren't many current "jambands" that sound much like them, but I can see their influence. When the ABB regrouped in the 90s I think they naturally got lumped into that scene, and in some ways it fits them, in some ways it does not.

This was a great post altogether, but the part above really hits home for me. FWIW, I was never really that much of a Phish fan (which is why I've been watching this thread from the sidelines) but was most definitely part of the "jam" scene in the early 90s--early Panic and all the original HORDE groups, I guess, and a bunch of bands that never made it "big" in any sort of way. Phish didn't connect for me the way they did with a lot of people, but I have a lot of affection for that scene overall. Somewhere in the mid-90s I pulled a musical 180 and got obsessively into alternative and later