Mr. Heartbreak

How about live-in-the-studio, with or without a small crowd? A couple good contenders: Caravan - Ether Way: The Peel Sessions, '75 - '77 - This is actually my favorite Caravan album. Bob Marley & The Wailers - 1973-10-31, The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA - Between this and the Wailers' Peel sessions, you can put together a Wailers Greatest Hits second to none.

Well, I'm the one who mentioned using IG as a piss break, so I'm glad I wandered into this thread to defend myself. Seriously, I am often appalled at how some fans rank something other than YHF or BT or ST as their top Wilco album...but that is just me. I like some things better than others, just like anyone else, and my preference is for Wilco's 1994-2002 material...a pretty big stretch, eight years long. But then, I have been listening to them since about 1998. I realize that 2002 was 11 years ago, and that that is the early part of the band's career. It's just what I prefer. I'm not de

"I do not wish to consume the baked ziti...but I'll have the spaghetti special."

I love how he says he's going to be brief, and then talks for almost 15 minutes! Hilarious. Based on the strength of the 1969-70 material on DP Number 6, I decided to do the subscription for this year. Looking forward to hearing it all.

Meanwhile, in other political news, anybody catch Hillary's act this morning? Man, I wouldn't f*&% with her.

Believe it or not, I'm pretty much with you on this...but not on other issues.

Did you ever hear the earliest versions in 2002? You might prefer the later, noisier versions anyway, but they are interesting. And you can always understand the lyrics. What I really dislike is the reworked Via Chicago with all the stop/start drum parts and noise that obscures the lyrics in places. I always want to hear all the lyrics when I see live music, especially a classic tune like VC.

Seconded. I'll still see them as many times as I can, but I don't ever expect another Don't Fear the Reaper encore or a surprise Ziggy Stardust. Hell, I'd be psyched just to see another obscure song (More Like the Moon, Venus Stopped the Train, etc.), but then, that's why we are the fanatics on the message board and not just casual concertgoers...

I'm also a writer, and I always disliked the lyrics. But then, I am more of a Via Chicago/She's a Jar type of guy. After seeing it live a bunch of times, I can appreciate how it gets the crowd going, but it would never make my top 50 Wilco songs list. Also, I can appreciate the 3 guitar thing, but not with Nels. I feel like we hear more than enough of him all night as it is...He could really just sit out a few songs at a show, and it would still be good. That song was great in its original, stripped down incarnation. Acoustic guitar, no "wall of noise" at the end. The last couple times

The thing about the President's proposals - and this is, after all, the politics thread - is that they address the issue of future manufacture of some of these types of weapons and/or the accompanying magazines. Why should anyone care if the laws change on future manufacturing? You already have all the guns you want, right? Or is it really super important that you have the "right" to buy your grandson an AR-15 in ten or twenty or thirty years? That's what I don't get about all the hysteria on the "pro-gun" side...

Thank God! Carry on, gents, carry on...

It is my default piss break song during Wilco shows. Everyone else seems to love it, so the bathroom lines are short...and I don't really miss anything, because when I get back to my seat the song is still going on. If they never played it again that wouldn't bother me a bit...unless, of course, I had to take a whiz. Not sure when I'd go...

That works for me. I saw 3 of the 4 Florida shows, and they were great. To this day, I'm bummed that I missed the West Palm show because they played "We've Been Had," and to this day I haven't seen them play it. The Evening with Wilco tour was pretty stellar too... Edit: Apologies to all my fellow Deadheads for participating thoroughly in the derailment of this thread.

My answer to this was pretty much the same. I agreed with Highway 61 Revisited (more or less), and mentioned Dark Side of the Moon and One Size Fits All. Once we started to include jazz, I added A Love Supreme and Kind of Blue.

Natalie Merchant - 1st set w/ orchestra, 2nd set w/ just piano and guitar. Very entertaining show.

I was in the front row for that show and it rocked. I don't remember if you can hear the hubbub during Shot in the Arm, but the (mostly seated) crowd rushed into the pit and stayed standing and dancing until the end. The next night in Gainesville was even better.

Setting asides the BNAs, there are some good jazz acts in the lineup this year: names like Wayne Shorter, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Joshua Redman, Dr. John. Looks pretty good.

Shouldn't it be hard to kill? To Wilco Me's point about killing a sentient creature, why make it easier for a nine-year-old boy to destroy an innocent life? At least in the old days, it was hard. The gun was big, it had some serious recoil. Maybe it would knock you on your ass. You knew you just did something very serious, very powerful, when you took that life. Sounds like it's more like a video game now. Piece of cake. Of course, a ban on these weapons would not eliminate a single one of those already in existence. It would only ban future production at some as-yet-undetermined point. I real

Not to beat a dead horse, but I did a little reading on the AR-15 just to educate myself and found an article with some info about it. At the end of the article, there was the standard comments section, and quite a few people were mocking the notion of using such a weapon for hunting. These were all gun owners talking amongst themselves, and a fair number denounced the notion of shooting at an animal with something like that...calling it "silly," and basically making it sound like it is the exact opposite of sportsmanship: "To shoot at a coyote 8 times with tracer rounds out of an ar15 is just

I'm a pretty peaceful guy, but if I were responsible for a bunch of six-year-olds, I would take that mother down and beat him to death with his own gun when he stopped to reload, and I'd be willing to risk my life to make the attempt. Just sayin'... I don't really see a problem with the President's proposal. It would only ban the future manufacture of more of these weapons, from my understanding, which means there are still millions of them out there. It won't prevent the next Sandy Hook, but maybe it would help keep us from having 28 more Sandy Hooks as opposed to the inevitable 10 or 11...

I'm not trying to be a smartass either, but maybe some of you gun-owners can educate us peaceniks on this. If an AR15, assault rifle, or whatever you call it, can shoot one bullet per trigger pull, and the magazine holds 30 bullets, does that not mean you can pull the trigger (and shoot 30 bullets) in 30 seconds? Whereas a revolver can only shoot, say, six bullets in six seconds, and then you have to reload? I have never owned or fired a gun, except for a little .22 or whatever when I was a kid. If that is the case, it seems a lot more dangerous, because you can, theoretically, kill 30 people

Other bands that haven't aged well: Missing Persons - Great stuff from Zappa alumni, but unfortunately, it doesn't hold up very well. Berlin - Before the execrable "Take My Breath Away," these guys made some pretty good original new wave. But come to think of it, all that 80s-synth-sound material sounds cheesy and dated now, doesn't it?

For real!

Ironically, that "Prelude" came up on my iTunes shuffle about an hour after you posted. About half way through it, I did what I always do (without even necessarily knowing what I'm hearing): hit the skip button. Love Jerry and the boys, but that is not one of their finer moments...

What was the big deal about the assault weapons ban in the first place? It existed for 10 years, I think our nation survived, and it wasn't even viewed in the long run as being particularly effective at anything. Why not reinstate it? As for people stockpiling weapons to "protect" themselves from a tyrannical government, that is just pure unadulterated delusion. We have been basically living in a police state since probably before Eisenhower warned us about the military/industrial complex, and with the advent of atomic and nuclear weapons, well, if anyone thinks the U.S. government can't take