jackins

Ok, strategies and suggestions for the Riv?  I've heard so far, to get there early if you wanna get up front or head to the balcony if you're short.  Are there any other locations besides being on the rail up front or balcony for good sight lines and sound quality? 

Thanks!

Plane tickets check! Airbnb check!  Recommendations on travel from O'hare to Northside (Buena Vista)?  Plan on using mass transit as much as possible.  Looks like bus to Irving Blue Line.  Anyone else with a different take?

LouieB,

Thanks for the feedback and I've been enjoying your Chicago post.  I've been looking into possibly getting a room at the Hotel Lincoln. But, will give Airbnb a whirl.

Andy

Any recommendations for hotels near the Riv?  

Thanks!

Ruling Class can be heard during the new movie, People Like Us. Pretty good flick too...

There aren't many, imo. Boston Garden, 10.1.94, is a pretty great show though, particularly the playing in the second set:

Help on the Way ->
Slipknot! ->
Franklin's Tower
Walkin' Blues
Althea
Me & My Uncle ->
Big River
Tom Thumb's Blues
So Many Roads
Promised Land

Scarlet Begonias ->
Fire on the Mountain
Way to go Home
Saint of Circumstance ->
Terrapin ->
Drums ->
Space ->
The Last Time ->
Stella Blue ->
One More Saturday Night

E: Liberty
19 Songs

there's some pretty bad stuff out there. not as bad as it could have been if phil and bob lost it like garcia did. jerry's playing really didn't start to go to hell consistently until late 91 as far as i can see. add in his voice decline and it was pretty rough go there. that being said, jerry band in the 90s always rocked. go figure.

I agree with the part about Lesh and Weir, post-91. It seemed as they started to play the new songs (Eternity, Long Way to Concession Stand, Liberty, Lazy River Road, So Many Roads, etc.) they along with everyone, but Jerry was present in the music. Again, within the 92-95 years you can find incredible moments and even full shows, example RFK 92, Dean Dome 93, and Charlotte 95 (Bruce Night). I struggle personally to come up with a standout in 1994. But, I'm sure someone else will chime in having had some magical experience.

I've read in various places over the years that the so-called punk rock people hated such bands. I suppose Bob is sort of like Mick Jagger - in that he stays current.

Yea, who can forget his support of Hanson...sorry I couldn't help myself. All kidding aside happy birthday to Mr. Strummer!

I'd say they are going more and more for the Deadheads with deep pockets. Plus - they are only printing 9,000 copies. It's not something I would be interested in buying. It's probably moreso a Rhino thing, than a GD thing.

It's gotta be hard to sell something that everyone already has in most cases. All of those shows are available via BT or streamable on the Archive in SBD or even matrix quality. I think the book, tickets and memorabilia is an attempt to interest would be buyers. I know I would love to have it but, I can also no longer justify spending that kind of money. I think the recording industry is going to face a bitter pill to swallow soon as more and more people turn to file sharing and streaming.

Right, I hear you. I think Obama has done some great things, but there is much that still needs to be done. I would have to say that I'm still in support of him but I hope he has a better strategy and plan for the next 4 years. To me it appears that he was a little overwhelmed with putting out fires. I just hope he's able to continue for another four years and redeem himself. We are at a very difficult place in the arc of our country, where the economy seems to need to be propped up by the government subsidies, but at the same time running up such an alarming debt, something has got to give and it's a tough call no matter who is in the White House.

I think it also has to do with the economic downturn that came on during the Bush years and the post 9/11 spending. It's not just a response to Obama but a response to government spending which to many has been out of whack since the New Deal.

Taken from Plug in Music:

Wilco's Mikael Jorgensen And Greg O'Keeffe Ready The Release Of "ARMZ

Since beginning work in 2002 on Wilco's "A Ghost Is Born," Mikael Jorgensen has been an integral member of the band - both in the studio and on the road. The ever prolific Jorgensen, when not working with Wilco, has kept himself busy recording and touring as a collaborative artist. In 2007 Jorgensen, working with longtime collaborator and drummer Greg O'Keeffe as "Pronto", recorded their Contraphonic Records debut, "All Is Golden." It's a 70′s-inspired tome that serves as a record of action - of waking up and moving on - cross-country trips to California - black days and blue nights giving way to better times and warmer promises. It’s AM-Radio songsmith filtered through the speakers of a modern-day prism.

In the spring of 2010, Mikael, Greg and Adam Chilenski on bass, entered The Bunker Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to record Jorgensen & O’Keeffe’s newest LP, Bunny Hate Wolf. After listening to the expertly played and recorded basic tracks, Jorgensen felt the overall style was too predictable, ordinary, and decided to abandon most of the conventional instrumentation and replace it with more adventurous synthesizers and music technology of any variety. This labor intensive shift in perspective has produced one of the most interesting electronic music records in recent memory. The analog synthesizers and music software provide a stimulating, ever shifting context for these songs to unfold and develop. The result is an electronic music record that was built from the song up, without relying upon clubby or dance-music cliches.

On October 30th, Chapel Hill's Odessa Records is releasing the lead single from those sessions "ARMZ" b/w "Love Drug" remixed by WAUMISS and features the incredible artwork of Cassandra C. Jones. Look for the release of Bunny Hate Wolf in early 2013!

Live Performances:

• 09.07.12 - Asbury Park, NJ @ The Saint
  
• 09.08.12 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
  

NYCtaper has this show up now.

He actually has the Cooperstown, NY show up not Mass-MOCA.

I wish they would play New England. Aside from Newport, we're getting nada from MMJ

although in Essex Junction there was some ridiculously loud bass during Art of Almost that you could feel all through your body...

No doubt, my ear drums were buzzing!

What's the World Got in Store was a nice surprise for me, don't recall seeing that on recent setlists?

I think they played that at Terminal 5 and again in Cooperstown?

PM me if you have two available for tonight. Also, what is your asking/bid price.

Thanks,

a

THANK YOU!!!

Box wasn't played...

I also enjoyed the fact that they played all the way up until the curfew literally hitting the last note of Late Greats at 10:30 on the dot. Someone needs to post the correct setlist, this one is close, but my memory is much fuzzier than heart's.

muchas gracias

NPR is clumping Wilco into it's Newport Folk Festival Webcast here's the link:

http://www.npr.org/e...k-festival-2012

Wilco is scheduled for a 7:30 start time.

I also share those same nightmares...more along the lines of Weir's "daisy dukes" I appreciate understand the "respect the music...i.e. performer appearance" I just hope that he's healthy and happy! Your comment reminds me of when I took my wife to see Dylan and Paul Simon a few years back, she made the comment that Dylan not only outperformed Simon he was better dressed!

A few weeks ago I tried to login to the forums and found that I had forgotten my password. So I did the request for a new password and never got an email from the forum. I ended up starting a new account, but would very much like to access and use my old one. My old credentials were:

reaper

login: ajackins

pass:

email: andy_jackins@hotmail.com

Thanks,

andy