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Meat Hair isn't on the bill anyway (Faux Furrs & Big Syn are). I will be interested to see if they put a Wilco cover back in their set.

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I love it when Wilco (or other bands too actually) get referred to as 'the boys'. Thank you!

The optics on the tour just feel super douchy. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/black-crowes-2020-reunion-tour-dates-910124/

Wilco fans in the early 2000's used to love the brief stint of Wilco as a four piece and Jeff had a laptop on stage doing this kind of thing.

I saw Pearl Jam in 28 degree weather 14 years ago. It was pretty miserable and memorable!

Totally! And this has been going on for years now.

I grew up in Detroit suburbs (My first Wilco show was HORDE tour, 1995 in MI) and pay extra attention to MI reviews. I had recalled poor audience reports on many recent shows in Detroit Metro area (includes Ann Arbor). I found my memory to only be slightly off.

Yes indeed. Just received an email from the promoter and both Chicago openers are indeed "solo acoustic"

Well, consulting the VC historical record as original reported by one bbop, at the last Wilco Hill Auditorium show (2015), Wilco didn't deserve the crowd, per Jeff Tweedy. So maybe things are even now? Earlier Jeff had also said something about how the crowd was so nice and how he felt like "we don't deserve you. I wanted to ask if everyone was having a good time, but that seemed too desperate." As I mentioned, I didn't really have much of a sense of the crowd but if I had to guess, it just felt very respectful.

Whoh!! Great opening acts.

Totally agree that $125 for two days is a steal. Wilco in Chicago costs $110 and I'm guessing they play a long headling set during the fest. It's a great linup too.

"High Water 2020 will mark the debut of The Platinum Pearl Experience in which festivalgoers can witness an intimate Jeff Tweedy set at the historic Eternal Father Of The Seal Chapel and enjoy complimentary beverages and food, get access to the pit and other amenities." yikes

The band is confirmed for the Black Deer festival in Kent, UK this June. Expect we'll see dates popping up near there before and after. Hopefully West Coast US dates prior?

All 4 hands! That's just not fair!

Sounds really fun. Thanks for sharing your experience. I am now 2x more likely to attend in Chicago.

I was wondering about this. I'm a Sloan fan, but I'm not sure I would dig a Navy Blue album show as much as a typical show. How was it?

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