Robby

"Requirements: This book can only be viewed using iBooks 2 on an iPad. iOS is required."

Bummer.

I'm a PC.

I'm iIgnorant.

Well, this is better than when the Beatles did She Loves You (Sie Liebt Dich) or I Want To Hold Your Hand (Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand) in German.

Those versions were always good for a chuckle or two.

Same thing when David Bowie sang Heroes (Helden) in German.

From the Wilco Site:

Today dBpm Records released The Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago -- a book for the iPad. It's a collection of photos, show posters, and more, that documents Wilco's December 2011 Chicago dates

Creative Loafing (the free magazine in the Tampa Bay area) never has much positive to say about anything. I have never seen a review in that magazine gush over something they like, while at the same time they take considerable joy in making mean remarks about something they didn't like.

I think this is the "meh" attitude that someone would always post that Jeff mentioned awhile back.

It's interesting that they would say that the Stratz Center isn't a good venue for them. I too, have seen them four times in the Tampa Bay area, and the 2005 show they performed in the same venue was (to me) the best show I ever saw.

Perhaps it signals the release of a live album of earlier performances (I heard that mentioned before) or perhaps a box set with the T-shirt thrown in as part of the package.

Someone has the Tampa show already up on EzTorrent (formerly Dime a Dozen) recorded from their I Phone.

I think it's a combination of things that determine what songs they will perform.

I requested I"m Always in Love for the Tampa show last night and they did it.

But I read recently that they try and do songs that they haven't done before in any one city.

In this case, they hadn't done I"m Always in Love Tampa Bay area since 1999.

So it's probably a combination of what you request, have they done the song in the area, and how many people have requested the song.

I also think there are songs (even on the request list that's available on the site) that they wouldn't touch.

But hey, I requested I'm Always In Love and last night I heard them do it live for the first time.

What other band will do that for you?

Wilco loves you and I'm a happy guy!

>Robby, they did do I'm Always In Love at Jannus Landing in 1999. That was my first Wilco show, and it rocked! I was hooked from then on. Back then, it was like a secret knowing about them.

Yeah, I thought I heard a recording of the Janus Landing show in which they did it, but my first Wilco show was in 2002 at Tampa Theatre.

I see today somone's already got a recording of last night's show posted on EZ Torrent (Dime A Dozen) that they recorded on their I Phone.

Man, Wilco fans are a dedicated bunch!

Love this show!. My wife and I were up in one of the gallery level boxes but the sound was excellent even from way up there!

They did a song I requested - I'm Always In Love. This makes the 4th time in the Tampa Bay area that I have seen them and that's the first time they did that song here (well, they might have done it at Janus Landing in St. Petersburg in 1999, but I didn't see them then). Had a fantastic time.. thanks, guys!

Also thought Purling Hiss was the best opening act I have seen (with the possible exception of Randy Newman opening for James Taylor sometime back in the late 70's).

Does anyone have a setlist from their set? I would like to look into their music a bit more.

Bought my tickets for the Tampa show today. Yeaa! Had decided not to go because I'm getting old and fat and when both your back and knees are bad, it get's kinda hard to stand. Changed my mind today and it might be for the better - nothing left on the floor, but got some box seats in the nosebleed section. Kinda cool since the boxes have only six seats in each box so I won't have to worry about standing if I can't. Don't know how good the acoustics will be that high up. Saw them in the same venue in 2005, but we had 2nd row seats at that show so we wound up right at the edge of the stage -sounded really good from there!

If they were to perform a tribute to Levon, I'd love to hear Wilco rip through "Ophelia" or "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."

Can you imagine what it would sound like if the brought The Total Pros along and did "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" ?

Shades of the Last Waltz (and I mean that in a very good way)!

OK, now this got me wondering - how would the Art of Almost sound on a player piano?

Especially Nels' guitar piece at the end?

Thanks for posting your playlists. I think they will help: Uncle Tupelo 101.

You are very welcome!

I sincerely hope you can find the reissued versions of the UT albums as they contain some fantatstic extras including: Left In The Dark, I Wanna Destroy You, Sin City and an incredible live recording of CCR's Susie Q.

I was a very slow train coming around to UT.

About 6 months ago I created two mixes of their music for my ipod and have since fallen in love with listening to them.

The mixes helped me to get my feet wet with UT and since then the water has been fine!

I realize there will probably be howls of dis-satisfaction with these two mixes as they do leave out what even I would consider some of their better songs.

However I made cuts on these mixes in order to give JT what some might consider an undeserved but equal footing.

I don't think he was as developed of a songwriter-singer as JF was at the time.

But I kinda wanted this also to be a "call & rsponse" mix especially the second half of the second set.

I also (for my own weird reasons) wanted these two mixes to be each approximately the length of two LP's and feel like albums with a beginning, a middle and an end - sort of a chronicle of the group.

So for better or for worse, here is my two cents on the topic:

Mix 1

01 - No Depression

02 - Graveyard Shift

03 - That Year

04 - Looking For A Way Out

05 - Nothing

06 - So Called Friend

07 - Gun

08 - Life Worth Livin'

09 - True To Life

10 - Left In The Dark

11 - Flatness

12 - Screen Door

13 - John Hardy

Mix 2

01 - Grindstone

02 - Black Eye

03 - Still Be Around

04 - Wait Up

05 - Atomic Power

06 - I Wanna Destroy You

07 - No Sense In Lovin'

08 - Whiskey Bottle

09 - Cold Shoulder

10 - Chickamauga

11 - The Long Cut

12 - Fall Down Easy

13 - Steal The Crumbs

14 - We've Been Had

PS, if you ever do try Spotify, I do believe I have posted at least the first mix out on it - I haven't been on Spotify for awhile because I posted it for my family in order to encourage them to take an interest, don't think anyone ever listened to it.

Hey Chicken

OK, I know its a Loose Fur song, but that's not stopped them from playing Laminated Cat/Not for the Season

Some of the unreleased songs from the YHF era would be great, like Won't Let You Down.

I, too, was in attendance. It was funny. I hope for them to play the Tampa Theatre again. Excellent venue and an excellent show. It is worth having a copy. PM me if interested or just go to the archive.

I have a copy but thanks for the offer!

the guitar player casually sauntered over to him and gave a gentle nudge to the phone w/ her foot. it was pretty awesome seeing the guy's face.

At a 2005 show Wilco did in Tampa, Jeff grabbed a girl's cellphone and began conversing with the person she was talking to - her mother. I remember that he had to explain to the mother who he was ("uh, this is Jeff, I'm the singer in the band.") He also told this girl's mom that , "No she didn't look too drunk." All of this took place in the middle of the band playing Kingpin. I think he also told the girl after the song had ended and he had given the phone back that "Wow, your mom was really mad at me." This was hysterical and personally I think Jeff ought to start grabbing more phones and reading to the audience what they were texting.

They should draw Jeff with Bluto's beard!

Unless I missed it, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the movie, Passenger Side - a feature film with Adam Scott. It looks like it didn't get very good reviews from the IMdB rating, but I have to say that I saw it and liked it - had a '90's indie film feel about it. The Wilco song is done over the closing credits. Here's the link to the movie on IMdB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1227170/

This is probably too obvious of a thing to say, but Impossible Germany always reminded me of Marquee Moon.

I enjoy a lot of versions of this song, but one of my favorites was done on July 25, 1999 - Old Town School Of Folk Music Festival.

Just Jeff on guitar and Jay on the piano, but Jay's piano fills on this version are beautiful.

You can find the song on the Owl & Bear site - download and give it a listen, you'll probably find that you'll want to download the rest of the concert after hearing this different approach to the song.

 

Side note: I'm new here, and am looking for some tapings of recent shows. I'm looking for mp3, and I found only FLAC files on the owl site. Can anyone point me to a source, or does someone have a link for 12/7? Thanks!

Why not just downlad the Flac files from O&B and convert them to MP3?

I know a lot of purists would scream about doing that, but I don't convert them to share, just so I can listen to them on my MP3 player.

There are a lot of Flac conversion programs out there. I use dBpowerAMP Music Converter (costs about $40), but if you go to CNET and search under Rippers & Converting Software, I know you can find some freeware or shareware programs to use.

Owl & Bear is just too much of a treasure trove to pass up just because of a file format diffrence.

That was great! Thanks for sharing!

I doubt that is a real category.

Does it really matter?

The Grammys would just make up a new category.

I'm waiting for the Alternative Country Experimental Noise Pop Independent Americana Category.

Wilco should sweep that category.

Unless of course they get placed in the Hard Rock/Metal Category.

Then they'll probably lose to Jethro Tull

I might have voted if "Okay, alright, okay alright!" had been one of the choices..