Hoodoo Man

Back in my youthful days of youth. Way back before Wilco was born, I listened to a lot of blues. The use of the term hoodoo man intrigued me. A hoodoo man can be a practitioner of hoodoo/voodoo, an evil human or even Satan himself. The definition that fit me best was someone who brings bad luck. So I started calling myself the Hoodoo Man in one of my bands because I felt like my surname was far too Teutonic. I could easily be mistaken for a member of The Scorpions with my name. Anyway, light years later I discovered Wilco and subsequently the song "Hoodoo Voodoo". So my actual real nic

I like Wilco. A lot.

I just missed meeting the Southaven tornado in person. I was driving home from work and was about 5 minutes ahead going through the intersection where it hit hardest and destroyed a warehouse. As I got to the Southaven exit, I could see the storm moving in from the west, then had it in my rearview mirror all the way home. We were very fortunate. No damage at all. Just 2 hours in the closet under the stairs with 2 adults, 3 kids and a dog.

5-8 Hoodoo MAN When I was 2 years old the doctor told my parents I'd be over 6-0. They've never forgiven me.

They must have collections of songs that get sent to the stores to be played. I was in BB&B in Memphis 3 years ago and heard Kamera. I was never so happy to be shopping with the wife & kids at "that smelly store" as I was that day. Incidentally, this past Friday night I was in a Walgreen's and heard The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop". I have declared that store, "Coolest Store in the World".

Blue Coua - Human Knowledge Is Moonshine

U2 - Achtung Baby

Cheap Trick Cheap Trick (Joey loved "He's A Whore"!)

Outstanding show! I thought it was better than the last time they came to the Memphis area. The last show was more of a spectacle with the video screen in the backgroung, but this show topped it for performance, song list and overall vibe. The band was either really into it, or they've gotten really good at acting like they're into it. I thought the crowd was great, cheering the new stuff and the old and I think the band appreciated us standing in the rain and giving them such a warm reception. I was also glad Jody Stephens got such a loud welcome. Jeff introduced him as a member of ro

I'll be there. 3rd row. I sure hope it doesn't rain. At my window it doesn't look too good right now. But given our weather lately, it could be sunny and 90 by 5. We'll see. I too am a little worried about falling between two killer shows. Only thing we can do is let Wilco know from the start of the show how much we appreciate them visiting us.

Glad you posted this. I didn't know this dude's name, but always thought "that guy from The State" looks like Glenn. Or vice versa. I saw The State years before I saw Glenn. Good call.

FWIW, I think that Jeff's knowledge of theory is similar to that of other great songwriters in that what he has learned has come mostly from listening to hours and hours of music. I think great musical minds absorb what they hear and then can use it when it's needed. This may not be a nuts and bolts knowledge, but as someone stated earlier, theory is the study of what sounds good. Therefore, if the artist has been exposed to music that reinforces or presents "proper" theory, he can dig a sound, progression or scale from his mind that in his ear fits into the song that is being written. I t

PTI. Let me just say that I'm damned excited about Wilco playing in Southaven, MS. This venue is about 5 minutes from my house. I'm just all, you know, really. I just can't... Okay, ya'll can talk about Madison and Dallas again.

I've always thought the song was about Jeff Tweedy's personal anguish over his lack of connection to the world around him. Actually, I've always thought that was the theme of most of YHF. But the beauty of great songwriting is that everyone can take something different from the songs and make it their own.

See, I'm not sure about that. I'm ashamed to admit that I don't own Loose Fur's first. That very well could have been the song he played. Sorry if I got your hopes up!

That was a fantastic show! I could have used some more songs, but I was too busy laughing to have any reason to complain. I'll do my best to add something so here goes: Glenn opened his set with "Where The Wild Things Are", then a song he said he adapted for drums. He played "Mobile" and I believe next was "Monkey Chant For Drum Kit" (I'm really not familiar with the song titles so some are just close). But for this song he unleashed boxes of radioactive crickets from what I could tell. One of which he had trouble wrestling back into it's box at the end of the song. I know he did a son

I'll be there for the show, but my pre-show engagement involves hanging out with my 3 kids. Have fun, but do be careful in G'town if you're not familiar with the area. The cops are not drunk-friendly.

I grew up a Van Halen fan and even though I eventually grew out of that stage, I think a lot of people overlook Eddie Van Halen's songwriting abilities. He wrote a bunch of great rock songs and was a riff master in his day. And despite is incredibly annoying personality, I give credit to DLR for having an ear for melody. They mixed over the top riffs with good melodies and lots of harmony backing vocals and came up with their own sound. Unfortunately most bands that followed in their footsteps picked up more on the obnoxious singer/front man and fast guitar player parts than the actual mus

Oddish family names: Great-grandmother - Rowena Grandmother - Melvin Aunts - Rilla, Hazel Uncle - Ballard Of course this was sometime around the turn of the century (last one, not this one) so those names probably were pretty hip at the time.

There was a time in my life when weird crap kept happening that I could never quite explain. I was still living at my parent's house and my bedroom was upstairs kind of away from the rest of the bedrooms. For a while, every time I walked past my clock radio, the radio would turn on. I figured it was just because I always leave my alarm on and I was either causing the floor to move and jolt the radio or I had some weird electric field around me that triggered the radio to come on. So it was mostly just an annoyance. I'd climb into bed and the radio would immediately turn on and I'd just ha

The "grunge" era came about during my early 20's so I didn't exactly have the self-pitying, woe-is-me attitude which unfortunately was attached to the music of that time, but I did enjoy the hell out of that music. Radio/MTV had gotten very stale at that time so it was exciting to have a bunch of new bands getting some air and actually playing rock. Not over produced metal bands singing lousy pop songs over heavily distorted guitars, but actual rock bands. So "Nevermind" is still relevant to me. I don't listen to it very often, but it is still a vehicle which takes my mind back to the days

I believe that would be the Oxford American. That's where I got my copy.

For the Music Fan: Rock and Soul Museum (located at the Gibson Guitar plant) - been there; very cool if you are interested in the history of rock and blues http://www.memphisrocknsoul.org/visitus.htm Stax Museum of Soul Music http://www.soulsvilleusa.com/plan-visit/ Where The King stayed - never been even though I grew up about 5 miles from here http://www.elvis.com/graceland/ Where Rock and Roll all started http://www.sunstudio.com/index.aspx?bhcp=1 For the More Cultured and Sophisticated Person: National Civil Rights Museum http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/default.asp

What do the two of you enjoy? Museums? Night clubs? Gambling? History? Daytime stuff or nighttime stuff?

Hundreds of years ago before the dawn of history there lived a strange race of people...the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing but their legacy remains hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge!