thingfishp
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This is a little odd and maybe I'm misinterpretting Jeff's lyrics but I love the part in 'What's the World Got in Store' where he's iike: "You've been working hard and I know you're tired/You've been trying hard not to think I'm a liar" and then immediately goes into the "What's the World Got in Store for you now?" It just strikes me as so cold and good. He's like hey I've been lying to you, wonder what's going to happen to you now? In one breath he's saying he's a liar but in the next he shrugs off all culpability and gets coldly curious.
I also love how he pulls back from sweet at the last minute: in You and I, it sounds almost sweet until he gets to the "Oh I don't want to know everything about you part" but my favorite is in Open Mind where it's so sweet and lovely and then he sings "I would ask almost insist upon treating you kind and fair" "almost insist" on treating someone kind? So there's a part of him who might just be an ass to her.
That brutal honesty is one of the things I love most about these songs. True honesty of this nature is difficult and rare in relationships. My wife, who is decidedly not a Wilco fan (but, thankfully, indulges my mania), sees this as kind of a "Fuck you!", but it's acknowledgemant of how self-destructive and unself-aware we can be sometimes. It's like saying, "I'll never do that again - until the next time." Knowing it happens and sincerely acknowledging it is akin to an apology, don't you think? Makes me think of the the line in "Reservations": "How can I convince you that it's me I don't like?" To paraphrase: I've been a dick,, but it wasn't you that I was really lashing out at. Love means being able to say you're sorry.
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The Bushnell "A Night With.." is one of if not my favorite show so far. We scored Section C, row G on the center aisle ofr this one - woohoo!
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So do you attribute these JT meetings to good timing? Pure luck? Being in the right place at the right time? I'd like to absorb some of that and have a total accidental run-in, maybe at a taco place or on the beach, before the St. Augustine show. Wilco guys like tacos, right?
" I exist in his eyes." This captures it perfectly. More ego -- damn thing can't be squashed!
All of the above. We saw the busses downtown after getting out of church so we went to the theater and waited on the sidewalk for a while and up came Jeff. We just missed Nels. The other guys I met in the crowd at Solid Sound 1 and 2. They are all very nice guys, graciously agreed to pose for a picture and sign some stuff. I just try not to be a dick or hog their time. They're trying to have some fun, too.
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I had tickets to the last Wilco Red Rocks show and couldn't go, it was the week before our family vacation (in the mountains of Colorado) and it was too close so I had to sell tickets. I would have had to drive 850 miles each way, then turn around a few days later and drive even further, about 1100 miles. So... I'm stoked but my wife is going to kill me. The shows are a about 3 weeks before vacation this time. Don't know what I'm going to do, mention it to the wife, or buy tickets and tell her later. I have to see a show at Red Rocks!
A wise man once told me, "It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission."
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I think part of the desire to meet someone you idolize is the need for some kind of affirmation of self: he saw me, touched me and talked to me, I exist in his eyes. I've met and had pix taken with all of them except the animal on the drums. I'll have to stalk him at the next show, whenever that is.
The best by far was the first time we met Jeff in New Haven on my daughter's 13th birthday. I couldn't have scripted it better. We met him before the show and he graciously took some pix (no legs! he was in shorts, out for a jog, and didn't want to show the pastey white February pallor), took her request ("On and On" which they closed the main set with), then caught her on the sidewalk after the show and signed the pictures we had printed. Some lovely young women who were front row center met her in the lobby before the show (this kid ain't shy) and invited her down front for the last few tunes. He leaned forward and told her, "We're gonna do your song now." It was just perfect.
I have met a few folks I admire who turned out to be total dicks. Todd Rundgren whom I have loved forever was a total asshole the first time we met him.
and then another time he called us over and we smoked a spliff. Go figure.
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They will be issuing Edison wax cylinders, special collectors edition in purple for which the procedes will go to help sex addicts.
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Yeah, I'm dying to hear about MassMoCA; it's got to be the last weekend of July if it's going to happen since they're off to Europe the first week of August. I'm hoping to receive a grant to go study the Pueblos in the Mesa Verde region for the end of June, first half of July. If I get it (notification comes tomorrow), I am so there. Then there would be the issue of getting from Cortez to Red Rocks, but that's a problem I hope to have.
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So maybe MassMOCA the weekend of the 28th? Please? My wife will kill me as our vacation starts that day, but what's 2 days out of 3 weeks, eh?
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After checking this out, this popped up. THe video is dicey, but the sound isn't too bad.
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Excellent. As soon as they announce I'm on it.
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I'm sold. Check this out. To my ears it sounds like the love child of King Crimson and John Scofield.
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It's OK, I'm done. I didn't start the insults.
Didn't know that about the headstone, was wondering about it (and didn't google!), thanks for the info. If I was a christian (and an international guitarist of the year) I'd like something like that. Is that award still around?
The award was presented by Melody Maker magazine which hasn't existed since 99 or so. I believe Rory's brother ( and former manager) has possession of the award.
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I disagree somewhat here. I take it from the reference point of my 16-year old son. He loves them taking the piss out of the generation gap.
Hell...it's rock/pop music. Nobody making records has ever been a Tolstoy or a Rimbaud...no matter how hard Dylan and Springsteen try.
But Rimbaud wrote some pretty crazy stuff, too, such as this excerpt from "My Little Lovelies." I see value in it, but there are many who would say it just ain't art.
"One night you made me a poet,
Ugly blond whore.
Get between my legs,
I'll whip you.
I puked up your greasy hair,
Ugly black whore;
You tried to unstring
My guitar.
Blah! Some of my dried-up spit,
Ugly red whore,
Still stinks in the cracks
Of your breast.
O my little lovelies,
I hate your guts!
Go stick big blisters
On your ugly tits!
Break the cracked bottles and jars
Of my feelings;
Come on! Be my ballerinas
Just for a while!
Your shoulder blades are twisted back,
My masterpieces!
Stick stars in your snatches and shake
Them to bits!
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That's quite alright. Your googling isn't exactly right though, he was born in Donegal (which is near Northern Ireland) not Cork (though he was associated with Cork and was buried there). I thought you'd like to know that.
Pretty cool headstone on his grave too (in Cork
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Yeah, I was aware of that, but thanks for looking out for my ignorance. My friend Ian Curtin, a Cork native and unabashed proselytizer of things Gallagher, has a beer at Rory's grave pretty regularly (as an Irishman and a guitarist he pretty much deifies Gallagher). The head stone is modeled on an award he received for the International Guartist of the Year award (1972). Yes, there's a statue of Gallagher in his birth place of Ballyshannon (yeah, Ian's been there too), but he's considered a child of Cork as he was raised there and is burried there. Feel free to launch more insults after you Google a bit more.
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Yes, Cork is not in Northern Ireland - forgive my egregious error, broc. Lighten up, Francis - did someone piss in your corn flakes this morning?
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Kind of surprised that King Crimson didn't show up here somewhere. If solo artists are being considered, then Jeff Beck must be added to the list; if not, then the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and Nicky Hopkins will do. IF we're going UK, then I've got to add Rory Gallagher.
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He isn't a member of the band, but any of the additional hired hands that they have from the later years would be fun.
This would be a fun reunion to see, but frankly I don't think David Byrne's heart would be in it. He has had any number of opportunities to get the band back together and hasn't.
LouieB
He was allegedly (according to Belew) asked to join the band at one time. He was an integral part of the superfunk incarnation of the band for sure. I don't see this happening, but I could see Belew doing some shows with the other three.
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But will it include Adrian Belew?
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Not to flog this topic any further, but I think the brown hat is an intentional mismatch. He seems to have a cultivated slob look most of the time, and you can't clean up too good, ya know. Glen looks uncomfortable but stylish indeed.
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The more-appropriate question would have been, "Is Wilco commercially underrated?"
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Has anyone heard anything about possible future shows? The MassMOMA benefit show? Gotta start strategizing for the summer.
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Under the couch. There were some dog hair-encrusted Sour Patch Kids stuck to them.
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There's a kid from Ireland who works with me in the summer who laughingly tells me, "There's more to life than Wilco. All Wilco makes Georgie a dull boy" if I'm overplaying it, but it's only in gest. Hey, your an intelligent adult, you don't need to justify your tastes to anybody. I've often said that one of the liberating things about becoming middle-aged is that I don't feel the need to explain my loves to anyone. Fuck 'em.
Do You Consider Wilco A Jam Band?
in Just A Fan
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So we're in agreement that Wilco is not a jam band. I love improvisation, but, in general jam bands don't do it for me. I've tried to like Phish, but it just doesn't move me. My brother has plaid sax with them on several occassions and we saw them at the Beacon in NYC, but other than loving the horns I couldn't get it. And they are none the worse off for lack of my support.