Jams

I'm glad that you like them!

Another one of Nels, and Jeff.

Nels.

A photo from this show has surfaced.

Thanks. That actually happens to me frequently, and with Wilco lyrics/tunes in particular. I ride my bicycle about 150 miles/week, and I often see something that puts a Wilco tune in my head. Sometimes it's even one of those more "obscure" lines that, in the moment it happens, it seems to make perfect sense.

"His goal in life was to be an echo
Riding alone, town after town, toll after toll
A fixed bayonet through the great southwest to forget her...."

A pic that I took today out on my bike ride.

Just thought I'd share!

(random order)

The Beatles

Rolling Stones

The Who

Led Zep

Radiohead

Eric Clapton(all eras)

The Police

The Clash

Elton John

Pink Floyd

I didn't know how to search for this here (I tried), so it might be a repost, but I think it's good, at least from the answer side of the interview. Enjoy it if you haven't already!

...This band has synergy...and that's saying a lot because the individual members are extraordinary players.

I agree. It often seems that one or two great players in a band make it more about themselves and less about the tunes. To me, the best bands are about how they can all work with the other players, as opposed to just playing next to them. When they're all able to get "inside" the tunes at the same time, that's where the magic happens. Wilco seem to be very open to letting each other get inside the tunes, and when you have as many great players as this band has, both the quality and quantity of that magic increases.

Also, in my opinion, if the rhythm section ain't happening, nothing is happening. This is where the mojo begins to happen at the most primal level, and Wilco's rhythm section is happening in a very BIG way.

I think Glenn is one of the best drummers I've ever seen and/or heard. I think Nels is one of the best guitar players...well, I can keep going on about the band members, but I won't....

I think this band--current line-up--is one of the best bands I've ever heard, and they've just recorded (that is, across the board, written. produced, engineered, mixed, and performed) one of the best records I've ever heard.

Ever.

That said, at what point does any given band member's departure, from any given band, make that band just another band name?

I think it's not about a player who can play the parts, it's about the "mojo" that they bring to the proverbial table, and the mojo they bring out of the other players in the band.

Glenn, Nels, Pat....they bring all sorts of mojo to this table. If any of them left, it probably would not be the end of the band, but it would always be different.

I had heard of Wilco in the later 1990's, but I didn't listen to anything by the band until 2004, when a friend suggested that I listen to YHF, which I did--ultimately, over, and over, and over again.

They've been one of my favorite bands--ever--since then. I think The Whole Love is also one of the best records I've ever heard. Content, performance, production...the whole ball of wax....

I LOVE this band. (And, apparently, they love me, too! )

So whose to worry

If our hearts get torn

When that hurt gets thrown

Don't you know this life goes on

And won't you kiss me

On that midnight street

Sweep me off my feet

Singing ain't this life so sweet

David Gray--This Year's Love (which I can't recall having ever heard before today)

we love the sound

the sound is what found us

the sound is the blood between me and you

--Wild Flag

I wrote this song last year. I'm singing and playing the guitar. My friend made the video.

My heart was absolutely broken when I wrote it. Although the song could be about anyone, I had lost a friend, and I was, for all intents and purposes, shattered.

I hope you can enjoy it for what it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2iZNnnhTeE&feature=youtu.be

i wish we could somehow change that...

Probably could, too, if no one ever scalped tickets, or bought tickets from ticket brokers, and Ticketmaster had less control over how many tickets they could sell to any given event.

That said, there will almost always be someone willing to scalp tickets to a show, or go through a broker, and/or call Ticketmaster.

Avett Brothers tickets are $35 for the show that I want to see, and there is a $10 service charge/ticket.

Ridiculous.

I baked english muffins today.

I've done a cover tune of a Christmas song every year for the past couple of years. This year I did a punky version of "Blue Christmas". No offense to Evis Presley or his fans intended!

I hope you like it! Have a Happy Holiday!

https://www.yousendi...SZ1BCMTY5TE5Vag

Maybe John Lennon's Rock 'n' Roll? (Not really a band in the truest sense)

Rush's Feedback, (full disclosure: I've never heard it--I just know that they did one).

From "In the Bar" by Peter Laughner:

"The only time that I say 'no' is when they ask if I've had enough."

"Like".

Thanks to everyone for your replies here; it's turning me on to some tunes I might not have otherwise heard!

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people living life in peace

You, you may say

I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

I hope some day you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You, you may say

I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

I hope some day you'll join us

And the world will live as one

That's what I had heard prior to seeing them. It was one of the best shows I'd ever seen of any band who's music I was almost completely unfamiliar with. I'm looking forward to seeing them again in February, if I can get tickets.

And just how many of those online ticket sales will end up in the hand of brokers?

Far too many, I suspect.

I saw The Avett Brothers for the first time in April (at Sunfest), and it was, far and away, the best show I've seen in years.

Enjoy the show!

Have you ever been so touched by the words of a song that you thought, "Damn, I wish I had written that...."?

A couple of mine:

"If I could choose a place to die, it would be in your arms...."

Eric Clapton

"Breathe out, so I can breathe you in...."

Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl)

Probably order me up a Wilco shirt....

I don't has no Wilco shirts.