Autumnteeth

This is a site worth checking out

 

http://murphtalks.bl...ns-to-what.html

 

http://murphtalks.bl...-new-songs.html

Thanks 2x for the links. Great sites.

Strangely I agree. This is a very good organization and many folks pay way more than that for the livingroom shows.

 

Incidently the Inspiration Kitchen on the west side of Chicago near Garfeld Park Conservatory serves absolutely wonderful food.

 

LouieB

And is a great cause. They bring their aid to the community they serve, not the other way around. When you look at most charities admin costs and marketing exceed what goes back to the benificiary. In this case the opposite is true. I am all for the concept the band tried to adhere to, but wish they would do a couple more shows, or one larger one, for this organization because they truly bring the goods, and spirit, to the intended user. Heard some people complaining that $100 was too steep but given the cause it could have been $250 and sold out in the same amount of time. That said, what they have done is more than enough, and anyone lucky enough to get a ticket should be honored.

Many thanks to Wilco for being part of the solution instead of being part of the problem.

• All great songs but heard Art of Almost at NPR concert in MAryland and it sent chills up my spine. I really love the synergy that develops when the band is engaged as a whole and Art of Almost is synergy personified. When I first heard the stream of TWL I was not impressed. When I threw the CD in I thought meh. When I heard on vinyl,though, I really loved it. It starts off where you think it is a Pat and Mikael thing and maybe self indulgent. Then Glenn throws down. Jeff starts his shit. John, the man, sets to thumping. Then Nels. It is truly a masterpiece in my eyes. Every time I hear it I hear something I missed. Truly a great starter. It is a notice that the Whole Love is here, pay attention.
  

Otherwise, though, it isn;t a bad song. In context.

For whatever it's worth, here's what the asterisks mean:

 

 

**may still be available from other sources. Please call for information from the venue box office.

 

I guess it's probably a standard venue thing, since they made a big deal out of this being an internet-only sale.

Thanks. I was hoping it meant Lincoln Hall is offering to pay for any and all carpal tunnel surgery due to ticket wait time due to refresh. I must have hit the refresh button 5 times a minute, times 50 minutes, for 250 times. My wrist is still swollen. I was in buy at 10"00, blew it becuse I couldn't decode captcha, 10"01. Then 3 other times. Going to try to swap on the need a ticket board. Have a Row k, 10th row, at civic opera, and one extra for riv plus another solo at civic. Figure if I offer to give those up, plus pay for my tick and kind person's spare at Lincoln, I have a shot. Not good one, mind you, but a shot.

Out of curiosity though I wonder how many actually went on sale. Heard so many friend of a friend got me one stories on Thursday (while I was trying to do the same so not angry or upset) that I wonder if there more than 300 or so tickets available total. If it is that low I am honored that I even got in line at the start. Great cause, and am so happy they switched to etix after the scumbaggery I am seeing at the Civic show on stubhub, gotix, and other sites. Truly happy for those who get to go because it was fair, but would still love to go to Lincoln or even Metro show. Listened to NPR concert from some outdoor venue in Maryland while trying to get tix and Art of Almost opener sent chills down my spine.

I think eventually I will swing to One Sunday Morning but Reservations has it all. It is such a beautiful contrast to I am Trying To Break Your Heart that it completes YHF. It is the Wilco version of Caroline No in my eyes. I think One Sunday Morning is a better song, but if you look at YHF as a book, Reservations ties it up so well that I can't foresake it. Hate to veer a bit but I think the best closing song on a Tweedy project of all time would be No Sense in Lovin from Anodyne. It isn't the last song on the album, but it is the last song I will listen to on the album, and is like the best preview, maybe Easter Egg, that I have ever heard.

Totally schizo, I agree, but it is like asking me to name my favorite albums. I get so caught up in Rubber Soul v. Revolver that in the end I think Pet Sounds prevails. Piss poor logic I am sure but Wilco is why I still listen to music.

By the way, great diversion topic for a Saturday night. Thanks. Bogged down in work and this is the perfect F that, I have something important to think about topic.

Kind of surprised that this one took 20 minutes longer to sell out than the Metro given the respective capacities. Hopefully they didn't oversell the place. Should be a great show either way!

Me too. I figured with 500 plus minus on sale I would be clicking until 10:20 at most. Either people overestimated their available balances of the server was bouncing people. I was able to get in line 3 or four times, with the last time being around 10:40.

Happy for those who get to go. Should be a great show.

I got bounced by captcha at 10:18, couldnt read it at all, and at 10:51 it went to sold out. What are the two asterisks though? Think I have carpal tunnel now.

Update: Well, it looks like it's on sale through etix so at least it'll be a little better than it otherwise would have. I'm sure they (wisely) realized that the Schubas/Lincoln Hall servers wouldn't be able to handle the traffic. Still gonna be an extremely tough ticket, I'm guessing, since Lincoln Hall is about half the size (if that) of Metro...

The server can't handlethe number of people trying to fiqure out what and where Lincoln Hall is. I went on to see if I could get tix to Umphrey's McGhee and was hopeless. On a side note, I cant believe the Umph show sold out on Groupon. I can't wait for the 50% off of a toe sucking at Pop's for Champagne. IT is the next logical extension of the groupon invasion.

I don't remember where I saw this. NPR chat, some article, not sure. What I want to hear is the alt version of Art of Almost. It had a name, All of Almost, and I remember Jeff saying they forgot to finish it when they broke off into Art of Almost. Wish there was room on a 10" for this missing puzzle piece.

 

I could be mistaken here, but I got the sense that the general idea of this was to play progressively smaller venues the way Dylan did a few years back. Civic Opera House, at least according to its Wikipedia page, has a capacity of 3,563. The Riv is listed on various sites as having a capacity of between 2,300-2,500. And on downward with the Vic and Metro. So it seems to me anyway that the next show will somewhere smaller than Metro. Maybe not smaller by much (which is one of the reasons Park West makes a lot of sense) but smaller nonetheless.

 

Oh, and please anything but the Congress. That place is awful for concerts, IMHO (not that it would fit into the smaller than Metro category, anyway).

Saw the Pogues at the Congress. They would do better at the corner of South Water and Lake than that shitbin. I am sure it is a historic venue, but so is the Colleseum in Rome and it is also off limits.

I went to a show once, and Pat read my mind that I was pissed I had to get up early and mow the lawn, so at 6:15 he showed up and mowed the lawn with a push mower so as not to wake me, bagged it all, and was gone. The man is a god.

Thought it may have been a metronome, but only heard it on vinyl so I can't be sure.

I was able to get two tickets to the December 13 show at the Riviera. As everyone knows, it is show up with your purchase unit credit card, all members of your party, and a photo id. I usually avoid will call like the plague. The last will call I did was Phish, and the number of people without valid ID's (at least from this solar system). credit cards, or shoes for that matter, was astounding. I was 20th in line, and it took over 45 minutes to get to the window. The girl with tickets cried with joy when I had my license out. IF it took 45 minutes to seat, pessimistically, 76 people assuming 4 tickets per dirtbag ahead of me, how long will it take to work out 3,000? Has anyone ever gone to an e ticket show before other than a 300 seater at House of Blues? Phish was in August. I can't imagine freethis zing outside in December. Wilco fans are more organized, and hygenic, but see some red flags on the horizon.

Was this an anti-Farrar song? MAybe I don't mean anti Farrar, maybe I mean we aren't going to volley back and forth? Some stuff pointed to, other stuff pointed away.

Upom further review, was written by Duk Ellington and is a classic jazz song from 1926.

 

Hmmm...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-al-Emb9TY

Wow, listened because it made sense, close to home,and I figured there would be a connection, but after hearing this a couple of times there is definetely a rhyme and reason for this being the inspiration. Great detective work.

I'd love to see them make all of the originally-recorded files of one or two of the tracks (not sure which would be best candidates - kamera maybe?) available for folks to download & re-mix - give us all a chance to play Jim O'Rourke.

I lack talent, but this is a great idea. I would love to hear what people do with the album.

I've mentioned Henneman's liner notes in a few threads -- they came with the vinyl reissue of A.M. Finally got around to scanning it in last night and thought I'd share it with all of you fine people. Makes me love the record even more.

 

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A.M., Where to begin? The beginning, I guess. Problem is, I can't remember the beginning. Who hired me? Jeff? Tony? Was I ever officially "hired"? Hell if I know. I know I flew to Memphis, and started recording as soon as I got there. I DO remember wondering who was "in charge". There didn't seem to be a clear cut "leader".

 

It was an odd time, the Bottle Rockets were brand new, Uncle Tupelo hadn't been defunct for very long, Jay's leaving was still a pretty fresh wound, hadn't developed a scab yet. The lack of a clear cut "leader" was kinda confusing to me, seemed like Max had as much say as John, or, Ken, or, Jeff, Or, Brian Paulson, Or, even ME, for that matter. I played along with it. Didn't wanna make waves, didn't wanna do a bad job. Nothing was ever carved in stone, we'd just play together, and next thing you knew, we had one "in the can". We'd move on. Don't remember much discussion, don't remember much direction, don't remember much overdubbing.

 

I remember the guys playing hacky-sack, while I watched, with the perpetual gin and tonic in my hand, as much, or, even MORE, than I remember playing music. The music just kinda fell from the sky. I vaguely remember Jeff asking if I wanted to join the band, I vaguely remember respectfully declining. It all seemed so haphazard, so unfocused, I wasn't sure this band "Wilco" was gonna make it.

 

It seemed SO odd to me, Jeff taking such an unobtrusive, auto-democratic role ... I remember his goofy Gibson acoustic guitar, with "Wilco", in "stick on" letters on the fingerboard ... the fact that they had no lead guitarist... it felt more like a shambles, than any kinda budding rock entity. I was, in my heart, wishin' 'em the best, contributing as if it WAS my own band, taking it as seriously as the gin and tonics would allow, but, the whole time, I had my doubts. Serious doubts.

 

What was Jay doin'? That weighed heavy on the session, at least in MY mind. A question that was unspoken, but, definitely floated around like a ghost I didn't want to admit seeing. Seemed to me, everybody was taking it all too "lightly". C'mon guys! We got some ass kickin' to do, don't we? Guess not, nobody seemed too upset. I remember, on "Passenger Side", I was so unsure of the chord changes at the time we recorded it, I put a phase shifter on the guitar, to try and mask my fumbling for the right chords. Played it one time like that, and it was done.

 

That's how the whole deal went down, before I could learn a song properly, it was considered finished. This is not the stuff great bands are made of, is it? These guys are doomed, aren't they? I didn't want Jeff to go down this way, I always loved his songwriting, I thought he was blowing it off. Maybe he was cracking under pressure? C'mon Jeff, you got some ass kickin' to do, don't you? Guess not, he never seemed too upset.

 

The puzzle is solved right there. The songwriting. We were golden. What I couldn't see at the time, was, we weren't working for Jeff, or, for the band, or, for the record company, or, for the fame, or, for the glory ... we were working for the songs. Working for these songs gave us all diplomatic immunity. These songs were forgiving us of our sins. Makin' heroes outta thin air. Givin' back more than what was goin' in. They were playin' us, more than we were playin' them.

 

We were makin' music, the way birds fly south for the winter. What a remarkable way to do this sorta thing! With an ability like that, how can you ever lose? You can't. Wilco didn't. Looking back on it, I'm completely blown away. I was in the middle of it, and have no vivid memories. I feel like I was tricked, or, hypnotized, or somethin'. This A.M. album cracked open the door to the "rest of the story", a story I NEVER predicted, 'cause I just ain't that cool. I ain't that "natural".

 

I'm honored to have been a part of it, even though I don't feel like I did much. In fact, I don't feel like ANYBODY did much. Yeah, right...

Contrast this with the post about writing credits and theevolution is even more phenomanal.

Collected as much of the Smile ,and Pet Sounds sessions, as I could. Kept trying to reconstruct what both would sound like if Brian stayed sane. I honestly believe The Whole Love is what Wilco's Smile would have sounded like. I really love this album, I get a smile everythime I hear it. Getting tired of the trash talk, this album is great. Just my opinion, and love to hear counter opinions, but in context this is a beautiful album.

The world is a place of rampant douchebaggery. The internet is the distillery. Plenty of Doucher's Mark, neat, at VC.

I read this thing about kittens raping socialists on the internet some wise man bespoke. Or fags raping kittens to advance socilaism, dont remember, Either way, this tea party brother got it right. Cats are fags, and Sarah Palin is a genius.

Hey, it is the number one Tastemaker album, whatever the hell that means:

http://www.billboard...stemaker-albums

Wilco - The Tastemaker!

I have a feeling that means people who get a venti soy latte and a biscotte love it.

I'm just going to throw in my expert sales analysis and say the 18% dip in first week sales is primarily due to the 100% decrease of Feist.

Never thought of that but you maybe right. This album should have had a duet with Taylor Swift.

On further reflection, I can't see this happening.

I believe the litigation tha Jay instigated is being pursued by his estate; therefore, I don't imagine either side is very interested in revisiting this.

Not to mention so much was leaked, Jim ORourke is my favorite producer ever, that a lot of the core followers have anything they would put out. Was just thinking about Jay this morning, and it is sad that the person I believe brought summerteeth to where it belonged fell so hard and fast. Have a feeling it was the painmeds, but the guy was a visionary. Very conflicted on his legacy,and some day will sit down and try to define and absorb it.

in my tiny little brain, which is the equivalent of a 3rd grader, i can only attribute my distaste for the past few wilco records to nels cline. there is no denying he is a great player, fucking fantastic, but me thinks his heavy handedness in last the few records has been too much for me too bear. maybes its tweedy? maybe its nels? maybe its the fear the world is ending according to the mayan calendar? all i know is the main common denominator re: my lost of love for wilco has been the inclusion of nels cline. coincidence? maybe, but highly doubtful...

Ok, I have a rule, never question anyone's opinion, because that is why music trancends all other mediums. Cant for the life of me grasp this, and again, respect your opinion, but Nels brings it. At a live show, Iget goosebumps when Impossible Germany starts. Used to hate hotel arizona, but when nels inserts his unreal shredding of the song at the end it is pure beauty. Heard a version of I am The man who loves you opened, and shephearded by nels, that will go down in history as the most treasured live wilco moment ever. I am sincere when I say I respect your opinion, and happy to hear it, because the sales for this album are below WTA and I cant figure out why. Enlighten me as to why nels is a problem. I have seen him as a solution for so long maybe I am blind.

Call the venue and ask.

I did. The venue is most defintely not pro Wilco fan. I swear it was the old woman from th Agatha Christie mysteries who answered and said I can't help you, no one can help you. Hope that wasn't an omen like she knew I wouldn't make it. Definitely a Hitchcockian experience. I an stil hear her, I can't help you, no one can. Eerie.