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For some reason I can't recall, I agreed to stop at BonTon with my wife (she promised to be quick; I was naive to believe this time would be different).  She excitedly pointed to the crappy speakers in the ceilling and asked, "Hear it?"  Straining to hear throught the dull roar of shoppers, I could barely make out "You and I."  Nice to hear Wilco out and about but small compensation for being stuck watching my wife shop for the next 45 minutes.  When will I learn...

Was listening to the program "In Spite of all the Danger" on The Loft channel on Sirius last weekend and the host plaid 3-4 songs off the Pops disc and it was great.  He said he plaid as many tunes as he could legally.  Never heard that before.  Or was he kidding?

More Alcholol Content = Less Beer you need for a buzz = less money you spend on beer. = less calories you consume from drinking multiple beers.

 

Sorry, I'd rather have a nice 6 or 7% IPA for $6 bucks then two crappy 4% Buid lights for $8.

 

Also, there are plenty of session IPAs on the market now (as someone else posted), but I don't personally care for any of them. Believe it or not they give me more of a headache then the regular beers do.

my favorite low ABV beers are Berliners and Gose. Now those beers I could drink all day on a sunny day.

Founders makes a superlative session IPA: All Day IPA, 4.7%.  Someone mentioned Gandhi Bot Double IPA, a full, rich ale produced right here in New Haven CT; at 8.8% ABV a couple of these will do you right. 

On the low end of beer drinking, I've got fond memories of the Utica Club mentioned by another person here.  When I was in high school all those many years ago, a handful of us would chip in and get a UC beer ball for $14, if I remember correctly.  Don't recall what the volume was, but it was enough to get 4-5 16 year-olds where they wanted to be. 

All this beer talk makes me want to go liberate one of those Sierra Nevada Celebration Ales lurking in the back room....

Happy New Years Wilco fans - here's to good music, good beer, good people!

How about we all just dig the shit we love and forget about labels? 

Today in Hamden, CT hundreds of teachers' brains are oozing out of their ears.  It's professional development day - more punishment before we elect a governor who hates us.  Whoever that will be.  Going to visit Uncle Tito tonight

So, while poking around the Roadcase listings I notice that the first night of 2013 Solid Sound, the all covers show, is not listed.  Like an idiot I kept meaning to purchase this.  Did I miss the boat on this? (Yeah, I know - it's almost 2 1/2 years later....)

Caught the last two nights and, as others have noted, they were sublime.  My sister, who is a big Dead fan, came last night so their sing-along finish with Ripple was the cherry on that sonic sundae.  Can't get enough of that sweet stuff!

My only complaint, as Jeff noted, was the people who wouldn't SHUT THE FUCK UP (to quote Jeff).  At Wednesday night's show I shushed the seriously drunk woman next to me who was practically yelling at her date during Ashes of American Flags.  She glared at me and I just pointed at the stage.  The crowd at the back of the floor last night might as well have been somewhere else because they sure as hell weren't at that fantastic show taking place in front of them.  When I ducked back for a pee break, you could hardly hear the band over the full volume chatter.  I just don't understand it.  If you want to have a fun night of socializing with your friends, go to a bar.  If you want to be part of this kinetic, communal experience before you, then be there!

I've got tix for tonight and tomorrow and can't wait.  Bringing my younger sister tomorrow for her Wilco initiation - shes' gonna love this.  I haven't seen them do On and On since they closed the main set with it in New Haven in 2008, my 13 year-old daughter's personal request when we met Jeff while he was out jogging that afternoon.  Just beyond beautiful.  Would love to hear that again.

Not heard but seen in the September issue of Smithsonian magazine in an araticle titled "One Wave or Another."  The theme of the issue is "waves" and the article is about musical trends, framed around a quote from Neil Young's "Rapid Transit": Every wave is new unti it breaks."

My wife was excited to see this on page 124 of O Magazine.  The headline, however...

'"INDIE ROCK SUITABLE FOR PARENTS."

In September, the two-man band Tweed - Jeff Tweedy of Wilco and his 18-year-old son, Spencer - released Sukierae, which features masterful riffs, dissonant percussion and the senior Tweedy's gorfeously understated voice.  The trancelike "Slow Love" is all crashing cymbals and insistend bass, while "Diamond Light Pr.1" is a study in the art of the slow build."

Unfortunately, couldn't get  the photo to past, but it's one you've all seen before.

Terry Adams, NRBQ - Brass Tacks.

J Mascis would be a great choice, solo or with Dinosaur Jr. Saw him solo recently and it was amazing. And he's kinda local. He sat in with Mark Mulcahy at the lasts SS.

King Crimson opening night in Albany, again next Sunday in NYC, J Mascis the following Wednesday, Wilco 2 nights in Port Chester, followed by Johnny Marr in Brooklyn.  And on a regional note, Jake and the Family Jewels here in New Haven at a little theater about 200 hundred seats with Terry Adams of NRBQ playing keys next Saturday.    It's gonna be a great month! 

PS the new Q disc, Brass Tacks, is frigging great.

Logged in for 10/30 pre-sale at 9:55 and already sold out?  WTF?

Actually, if I can get one that would be great.  Two would be lovely, but one will get Nancy in too.

Persistence paid off - got a pair for night 2 at the Capitol.  Now if I can scare up another one I might be generous guy and take someone else who digs Wilco.  

$145 to $200 for GA at Stub Hub - f**k me!

I really need a couple tix for the second night at the Capitol.  The floor would be ideal, but the balcony will do.  Was hoping to take my daughter - alas, as we all know that sold out in half a heart beat.

Shut out again.  I had a half dozen students in my class trying to get in. (so what if it's unethical -  I really needed a couple tix for the second night at the Capitol.  I was going to take my daughter.  Hopefully, they'll release some later.  So how much are they going for on Stubhub right now?  Hate that shit

So, are the general admission floor tix for the Capitol $76?  I choked when I saw the hundred dollar tix, but I could do the ga tix (even though that is rather exorbitant) 

Good sugestion Mr heartbreak, thank you! I'll contact them as soon as I fix my travel dates

 

On an unrelated note, I didn't know that some ultraposh people may also like gd.  I bet it's just a pose

 

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/victoria-beckham-fan-grateful-dead-4122552

Victoria Beckam is just creepy.  Somebody feed that woman, please.

A Detroit Tigers hat, really? I know that for a while now he has been wearing a black hat with an old-English C (for Chicago, I presume), perhaps that's what it was.

 

EDIT: Oops, didn't see the 2nd page of this topic. Yes, it could well be a CT Tigers hat.

Like this

He should be wearing a Bluefish hat as they played their stadium on the Americanarama tour, a show that I unfortunately missed.  Please come back to New Haven!!

I believe that Belew isn't a big fan of the larger band multiple drummer formats, so with this beast of a lineup I can see why he'd pass.

Actually, Fripp did not invite Belew into this lineup.  Belew dealt with it graciously.  He double drummed with Bruford on a few tours; opening with the Simmons drum double drumming in "Waiting Man" (the Three of a Perfect Pair tour if I remember correctly) was amazing.

Ya know, a show in northern Vermont right after the Newport show would be great.  Higher Ground or the stage on the water front would be perfect.

Jakko, Fripp and Collins have released at least one KC Projekct disc, The Scarcity of Miracles, and have worked up other stuff.  The few comments I've read said they were rehearsing some early 70's stuff (Starless and Bible Black, a personal favorite).  Hard to say what they will do, but I would guess there will be a fair amount of instrumental music.  I just have a hard time with Jakko singing Belew's songs - a personal bias I know.