nalafej

The book is great for all Crowes fans. The stories make it. The writing is somewhat sophomoric with a lot of lame foreshadowing at the end of each chapter. Tons of Chris bashing and surprisingly (to me anyway) a fair amount of shade thrown at Rich too. He does a fair amount of talking about the early days, mostly getting to know and be friends with Chris though. I think you'd like it.

sooutoftune.org - it was great and I miss it.

good listen although it is really annoying that they edit it and remove blank space...

Probably beating the dead horse with this clarification, but...Just like some people say Art of Almost sounds like Radiohead, I'm saying OTJ sounds like an On Fillmore album. Not that all members of On Fillmore are on it.

That all makes sense including criticism of my nepotism comment I've always been a fan of Darin's playing. Almost pulled the trigger on William Tyler tickets for tomorrow and would have loved to seen DG perform with him again.

I guess it could be jumping the gun, but he didn't make it to Solid Sound for the first time in 2019 and hasn't been playing with Jeff's solo band (I like to call it Jeff Tweedy & Nepotism) in quite a while. He also hasn't tweeted about Wilco or Jeff in a long while and didn't put his association with Jeff in a few recent gig bios.

I'm not buying the album to get the liner notes to confirm - and you are likely joking anyway - but a Darin appearance seems unlikely given Jeff and Darin's apparent falling out. I meant to imply that the record has adventurous percussion as a base.

Quotes from aftershow threads: A couple of people have pointed out to me how Pat doesn’t seem to be smiling very much on stage of late, in general, and I hope that doesn’t hint at anything being amiss. No eye contact with the rest of the band even during the 3 guitar thing at the end of IG. He was mopping over his keyboards in what appeared to be a half-hearted way most of the time. Agree that Pat looked a bit disconnected/bored early on

It's a disappointing album. Boring would be my one word description. I get that I've been with the band since 1995, but why would anyone listen to this beyond a few listens instead of putting on Ghost, Yankee, BT or AM?? It's Jeff's worst vocal performance. There are very very few melodies and choruses which are always appreciated in my book (I love Warm and Warmer and they didn't have much in that regard either, but it is more missing here in a full band context.) It's basically On Fillmore + Jeff Tweedy featuring 2 appearances by guitar virtuoso Nels Cline and textures by Mikael Jorgensen.

Ha. That might have been a different looking music video...

I read that as Sammy's fav was Ghost. Found the Chipotle stuff very funny.

I came very close to be able to attend this show and would have loved to take in the bbop love. Thanks for your writing on this tour bbop. Enjoying them each day...

Jenny Lewis

Could be. Last time they played Chicago it was 4 shows at Chicago Theater. Tickets were cheaper then. They performed 106 songs over the 4 nights with 49 unique songs. That's not bad for mixing it up.

me either! is this new news? Seems almost like revisionist history!

Looks like some more openers for US shows have been announced. The Bottle Rockets in St. Louis is cool! Shall we start a campaign for Wilco to play AM front to back?! What better place to do so?? Also seeing Solid Sound alums Deep Sea Diver for MI, PA, VA, OH, IN, KY shows and Dickie (who had an album produced by Pat) for Cedar Rapids.

Amazing to me that any show at Rosemont Horizon could be released commercially in any format given its horrendous acoustics.

Springsteen

Oh yes, the Brotherly Love Tour. Don't forget opener Spacehog (also with brothers). This should have been a great bill, but it was a lackluster evening in Chicagoland anyway.

Wasn't it odd that it was/is actually called 'As the Crow Flies' - without the e on the end of crow?? I sort of wondered if somebody made a mistake. Marcus didn't play the last couple gigs though. The band with him had a lot of potential but was not gelling when I saw them...

I haven't seen the story on this other than it happened. Are there details somewhere?

Darin doesn't mention playing in Tweedy or with Jeff in the bio used for last night's gig. https://ess.org/esscalendar/option-daringray

Damn. I really enjoyed what he brought to Chris and Ryan's music.

We're in new territory setlist-wise for a show billed as 'Jeff Tweedy' - one Wilco song played at the end. Pretty interesting. I wonder if most concert goers were expecting the Wilco catalog to be ignored.

I think it got cancelled because of the weather evacuation, but Jeff was to record an episode of the Talkhouse podcast with Cate Le Bon in the middle of Saturday's festival this year. Hopefully they ended up recording it anyway somewhere...