Kim Bodnia

Robyn Hitchcock, Jakob Dylan, John Wesley Harding.

 

Support same-sex marriage

Published: March 23, 2013 

 

I was raised in Belleville and still happily reside in Illinois. Over the last few decades, I've had the good fortune as a member of the band Wilco to play music in every state in the union and in countless other countries. In my travels, I've witnessed firsthand that gay and lesbian couples want to marry for the same reasons all of us do -- to share a lifetime of commitment. I feel very strongly that everyone should be able to marry the person he or she loves and enjoy the dignity and respect that comes with that commitment.

 

By excluding same-sex couples from marriage, our state saddles them, their children and itself with second-class status. That is wrong, and it hurts Illinois families and businesses.

 

Nine other states have already extended the freedom to marry to gay and lesbian couples. I work and have friends in all those states, and I can say assuredly that it's time for Illinois to join them. Waiting and sending the signal that we're not open to and supportive of that community is a big mistake. The time is now.

 

I hope you'll join me in calling on the Illinois General Assembly to give same-sex couples the freedom to marry by supporting SB 10.

 

Jeff Tweedy

 

Chicago

 

Read more here: http://www.bnd.com/2013/03/23/2547361/support-same-sex-marriage.html#storylink=cpy

I heard Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey are doing a song for this Replacements tribute.

 

R.E.M.'S GREEN REVOLUTION: 25TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION OF THE BAND'S MAJOR-LABEL BREAKTHROUGH OUT MAY 14TH ON RHINO

PRESS RELEASE:

25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Of The Band’s Major-Label Breakthrough Includes Original Album Remastered And Live Disc Spotlighting The Penultimate Show Of 1989 World Tour; Available May 14 From Rhin

Thank you for the into, it's always nice to know what R.E.M. are up to, one song I particularly recall from Green is Hairshirt, I think it-s beautiful, You are the Everything is also very good, Turn You Inside Out is a song very reminiscent of Discoverer. A good CD but I rank Accelerate even higher than Green.

Roses Bloom Again?

Thanks, that's the name of the song. Chelsea Walls comes up with the search, I had forgotten about this, now I just wonder if the Mermaid Avenue version is the same as the one included in the soundtrack?

I'd think not, since the Bragg/Wilco tunes are Woody Guthrie tunes. And "When the Roses Bloom Again" is an A.P. Carter tune.

So, it's a song performed by Jeff Tweedy but not written by him, now I get it, thsnks for clarifying this.

I wonder if the songs with Billy Bragg qualify? I'm thinking of a track which also appeared on a soundtrack, but appeared on Mermaid Avenue as a different version, forgot the name of the song/soundtrack, will check.

Not bad, although I preferred Tromso Kaptein, I think it's the better and rockier album, but not bad.

Biggest omission from the album is "There goes the ice", my only complaint as now I must find that Record Store Day EP which is said to contain the song, overall not other complaints. I just don't see the logic of leaving the song out of the record since it fits within the message and the spirit of Love from London, would have made a great single. End of Times is ok.

Memorable bass lines Mike Mills in "New Test Leper" and John Paul Jones in "how many more times".

Thank you for all the WIlco content posted here, always very informative and targeted.

John Paul Jones - Zeppelin, Crooked Vultures

Robert Plant - Zeppelin, Honeydrippers

Jimmy Page - Zeppelin, Coverdale, Black Crowes

Mike Mills - R.E.M., Pumpkins

Tim Judah, Milorad Pavic, Louis Hémon, Erik Orsenna, Borges, Orwell.

Currently enjoying the piano in "So Blue" and the voice of the singer, I think I prefer the songs with the female vocalist.

Streaming on NPR right now: http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen

Must admit I'd never heard of the band until Tweedy's involvement.

thread views refresh only after someone posts an answer on them, but this wasn't always the case as I remember.

I noticed that thread views aren't refreshing anymore?

Thanks for posting all these WIlco infos. I didn't know Glenn Kotche was working on a solo album, the Syracuse University performance is probably related to Illiymaq (pardon the spell if not correct)?  

Mr. Hitchcock is often overlooked, as a guitarist.

just saw that the support for the Boston show is The Peter Buck.

 

here are the other dates:

The only Bill Murray film that I own on DVD is Groundhog Day. I bought it because I think it's like a time capsule of the nineties, and part of me is still living in that decade. When watching it the other day, I realised that Andie McDowell looks a lot like Elaine Benes.

Track by track comment, side 2

Track by track comment, side 1

very Seinfeld-esque

http://vimeo.com/36938420

It’s probably been a while since you heard your favorite Grant Green or Wes Montgomery licks played on a Fender Jazzmaster. But, as writer and musician Derek See uncovers in an upcoming Fretboard Journal #28 article, over the decades Fender’s poorly named instrument has found followers in the worlds of punk, indie and improv music. In his piece, See explains why the likes of Tom Verlaine, Elvis Costello, J. Mascis, Thurston Moore and Wilco’s Nels Cline have all embraced the Jazzmaster. In conjunction with that essay, we asked Cline to do this quick video demonstration showcasing why he loves this model so much.

 

Fretboard Journal: http://www.fretboardjournal.com/video/nels-cline-plays-his-1959-jazzmaster

I realise I'm in the minority here, but I don't like much of Radiohead's electronic stuff. The Bends with its acoustic guitars is fantastic, it's probably the only Radiohead album that I want to listen to from time to time. Which brings me to Atoms, I understand it's mostly an electronic affair so that has prevented me from giving it a listen, I suppose it's unfair, I should at least give it a couple of listens and see if the music makes any impact on me, but already I was disappointed with the King of Limbs which I bought, it was only a series of computerised bits. Despite all of this I'm going to listen to the new Atoms and give it an opportunity.