Albert Tatlock

Worth a trans-Atlantic bump for charity to keep it on page 1 for the next few days.

... Continued

This is not from that film, but some footage features, and it's a nice long segment of Feelgood action (after the first 1:30 of Southend Pier!)

6:40-ish Watch Wilko go! And still often confused with the one and only over here ...

I have a few black holes in my personal music history, so our conversation about Lowe and Stiff records precipitated some internet excavation. Nick Lowe, Ian Dury, Dave Edmunds and Elvis Costello were all familiar names to me. Yet except for Costello, occupied only peripheral awareness.

I hope you found this during your research - an excellent BBC doc from a while back. All parts are on YouTube if you look at the 'More From' list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iSzS9lGBbo

The clip you posted takes me back - one of the alternate shows to the 'trad' Top of the Pops at the time, and the clothes in the crowd were a more accurate reflection of actual punk fashion.

In similar vein I would also recommend 'Oil City Confidential' as another great film about music around those times - and Dr. Feelgood in particular.

Is the European experiment over?

This is me writing with a smile on my face glad that you got that final song MChris.

It occurred to me that my admiration for JT parallels that of the career of John McEnroe - youthful brat: not too keen, adult racket genius: tremendous. Funnily enough, I have the same mannerism of wiping the sweat off my forehead with my shoulders/forearm when playing sport. Not deliberately copied, more by osmosis, but have kept it going as a little tribute to the time when tennis was interesting. Can't think of any Wilco related mannerisms ...

One Sunday Morning getting the heave-ho??

Interesting. It obviously can suffer with the wrong kind of audience, and knocks a couple of other tracks out by it's length.

When I saw it (twice in a row like you) I thought it was getting a much more involved response than I was expecting. Instead of reverence, there was a lot of mild grooving from the ladies around me (those I could see rather than me being some sort of magnet!), and the build after the fade was greeted with cheers like those for a guitar solo. It may go on to be a treat like Mountain Bed for when the atmosphere is deemed conducive.

"Richmond Fontaine" -The high Country

Good choice. Though it doesn't completely work for me I admire the effort and have huge respect for WV and have had the pleasure of talking to him at a record store show in London. I Can See A Room breaks my heart every time.

As for me:-

Rolling Stones - Some Girls

Haven't owned it for about 20 years (see through orange vinyl of all things when it came out) and great to hear it again now. For all Glenn's cerebral messing about, Charlie's sparkly bashing is just out my favourite drum sound - though of course with the little kit and understated movements it's always surprising how big a sound is generated.

I have been walking around with a bit of spittle hanging from my mouth all day today.

Hot!

I have my fingers crossed that you will get to see Sir Nicholas in the encore with Cruel To Be Kind, though apparently if you are anywhere near Bbop the floor could get a little messy at that point. I had planned ahead and had my incontinence pants in place in London. A little sweaty at times it has to be said, but that's the way I like it ...

I hope they play till the cows come home tomorrow in KC.

Is that a cover? Can you hook me up to an mp3 via PM?

The set closed with a surprise Cruel To Be Kind with Nick Lowe that wasn't on the setlist. I pretty much lost my shit at that point, so pardon me if any of that footage ends up making the cut.

Glad the London rehearsal is bearing fruit for you now.

No mislaid sh*t visible here:-

http://austinist.com...tos.php#photo-1

Petting visit

http://blog.petreloc...ationcom-office

I think I love you.

But I still feel like you should be pummeled with hate.

It's what I do.

Nice thumbs up to the Beatles at around the 20 minute mark. Huzzah!

And a version of Ashes that I do NOT find boring. Ha!

Came across this recorded for the Dutch TV channel at the Tilburg show, so good quality sound/vision.

Then stumbled around their website, did a search and came up with some the stuff as per the link a couple of posts above - which I had not twigged had been posted here. Wow!

SO PEOPLE - DON'T MISS IT!

The Wilco + Son Volt show is interesting to me as that's stuff from just before I got on board, but the vid at the very bottom is top notch - looks like additional footage from I Am Trying To Break Your Heart and is as good as. Good quality to be watched full screen.

I had this nagging feeling of familiarity with Sometimes It Happens and It just occurred to me today which song it somehow reminded me of:-

The Lions Share by 10,000 Maniacs.

Not in a copying sort of way, just something about the up and down structure of the melody. Maybe its just me ...

No. But I love characters like Mr Smith.

Jump to 5 mins in for some words at the end

http://wilcoworld.net/#!/new-10-vinyl-ep-speak-into-the-rose/

http://www.antilabelblog.com/?p=7896

The Chicago band Wilco release a limited edition 10” vinyl 4-song EP, Speak Into The Rose, this Friday in conjunction with Record Store Day’s Black Friday at independent music retailers worldwide.

 

Pressed on heavy weight translucent red vinyl, the new release features a demo version of “I Might,” the first single from Wilco’s recently released album The Whole Love, as well as an alternate version of The Whole Love’s epic opener “Art of Almost.” Also included are “Speak Into The Rose” and “Message From Mid-Bar,” two tracks previously available only on the deluxe CD version of The Whole Love.

 

Additionally, 30 lucky Record Store Day customers will find a special sticker on randomly distributed copies of Speak Into The Rose, and receive a poster signed by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy.

 

No turntable and actually disappointed with the extras on the delux CD (so it was a good job the main CD was so brill) means this is not going to trouble me. I must get Sometimes It Happens though - that is a lovely bit on the side - should have been on the deluxe CD!

Lambchop are my favourite band.....bar no-one.

Splitter!

With you on Nixon at least. Manifold deep joy. I have two of their others but not the ones you list ...

Someone has the George documentary up on Youtube. I am surprised it has not been taken down. I don't have H.B.O. - so I hope it stays on there for a while.

The BBC showed it in parts over the weekend. Enjoyed it but actually found it very disjointed.

Around a 3 minute interview video here at the link ...

http://edition.cnn.c...lbum/index.html

By Mark Morgenstein, CNN

November 15, 2011 -- Updated 1839 GMT (0239 HKT

 

(CNN) -- Jeff Tweedy and John Stirratt arrive in the balcony box overlooking the stage before CNN is done setting up the camera equipment. It's a little awkward at first, as the only two original Wilco band members gingerly slalom cables, light stands and other assorted, potentially-hazardous obstacles to the edge of the box.

As they look down over the low rail -- far too low to keep a standing, grown man from falling -- the worry is that one of them might have a fear of heights. Fortunately, neither does, though both of them -- and all three of the CNN crew -- flinch a little when a heavy, hooded light abruptly loosens and clangs down its stand just as the interview gets started.

This is the first tour for the unflappable Wilco since the band started its own label, dBpm (decibels per minute), earlier this year and released their acclaimed album "The Whole Love" in September. New music has meant an aggressive marketing campaign, including the band's first official music videos in years (for the warped-pop gem "Born Alone" and the Nick Lowe cover "I Love My Label"), an hour-long "Live on Letterman" performance and a very active Facebook account.

As documented in the 2003 film "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart", Wilco has had its battles with record labels.

Despite ties to Warner Bros. since 1994, the band has maintained as much independence as possible over the years, reaching out to fans, both by traditional methods and by embracing the Internet even when much of the music industry was still fighting it (Wilco's landmark "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" was streamed in full online in September 2001, about seven months before the CD was released).

Stirratt said Wilco's audience created its own offline web years ago.

"There's always been a great, really in touch community surrounding the band. And in a way, that was sort of a pre-social network with all things Wilco," he said.

Tweedy said when Wilco's contract with Nonesuch Records expired after 2009's "Wilco (The Album)," that sense of community led to the formation of dBpm.

"I don't feel like we can trust anybody else to know our audience and treat our audience the way we want them to be treated," Tweedy explained. "I don't think there's anybody out there who can do it better than us or really wants to spend the amount of time [needed]."

Part of treating the audience well is treating their audience's hometown well. Wilco spreads its whole love to the community by supporting local food banks and charities that promote sustainability.

Tweedy said that's an outgrowth of the band's philosophy.

"If we're going to go soak up all of this energy in your town, and ask you to come see us, and ask you to pay for parking and all these different things, we feel like we should behave as good citizens in that town and participate for that one day or those days that we're there," he said.

On the musical front, Tweedy is self-deprecating about his guitar-playing skills.

"I think John would be OK with me saying that we don't feel like we're the virtuosos in the band," Tweedy said, as Stirratt laughed and agreed.

"We've grown a lot by having real virtuosos in the band, and it's helped us grow and get better at our instruments quite a bit," Tweddy added. "And that's been really fun. And I think that it's great to be able to hang with them and not be played into the ground."

Concertgoers go especially crazy during the show's extended instrumentals, highlighted by guitarist Nels Cline's incendiary guitar solos. The lineup of Tweedy, Stirratt, Cline, drummer Glenn Kotche, keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen and guitarist-keyboardist-singer Patrick Sansone, has been intact for seven years now. That's the longest stretch Wilco has gone without any personnel changes.

"There's finally this thing that maybe John and I have aspired to for a lot of years: to have a cast of creative people that are sympathetic to each other and feel like making things together that we can all be proud of," Tweedy said.

While focusing on the new songs from "The Whole Love" live, Wilco also is showcasing the depth and breadth of its catalog. During a two-night gig in Atlanta, the group played 37 songs, including 35 originals culled from nine different albums. They also jammed on two Nick Lowe covers they performed with the man himself, who's been an influence as well as the opening act for the first couple of the U.S. legs of the "Whole Love" world tour.

Stirratt said fans are responding positively to the new tunes, which are usually seven to nine slots in the set lists.

"[Fans] don't know the words yet, but they're very excited," he said.

"The Whole Love" debuted at number 5 in Billboard last month. Critics and fans are praising its extended, noise-filled opener "Art of Almost," the 10 diverse songs that follow, and the epic 12-minute folk ballad "One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend), which ends the album much like Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde finale "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."

"We're really proud of it and we're really excited to get to play these songs," Tweedy said.

And Wilco will keep following its muse, wherever it leads, despite how unsettling the great unknown might be.

"You've got to do what makes you the most happy. That's how we got here. That's exactly what we've been doing for a long, long time and things have followed suit somehow from that," Tweedy said. "But there's always going to be insecurity when you put yourself up on a stage and say, 'Look at me!' There are people that are really good at that and good at making themselves believe that they're invincible. But I don't believe there's many of them that aren't crazy."