Mr. Heartbreak

Liner notes. Actually, I like having the actual disc. If I really enjoy the contents (like, say, The Beatles Mono box set), I'll keep it. I have been around long enough that I have a healthy distrust of computers and related technology. Files go bad or disappear, hard drives crap out, etc. I've been burned by technology too many times over the years to ever trust it 100%. If I buy a CD and don't place a very high value on it - liner notes are inessential or nonexistent, music is so-so, etc. - I don't mind putting it on my hard drive and iPod and reselling it. But it's rare I'll go for an mp3 o

That posted setlist is amazing. They had Theologians on there originally, which would have made it 34 songs. They actually PLANNED a 34-song set! Unbelievable. Thank you, Wilco. Markbot is right, that was like a $500 show for $40. Here's hoping they don't read this and jack up the ticket prices to where we can't afford them. By the way, for the poster who asked about Magazine Called Sunset: the available version that Wilco offered as a free download is a very mellow, keyboard-heavy version, much different from the power pop way they play it live now. For a version that sounds like what you

That guy who runs the label and says there is no resale market for CDs needs to spend some time on Amazon. I have bought a fair amount of relatively obscure CDs and boxsets and actually made a profit reselling them. I have also bought many mainstream discs for, say, $8 ($5 + $3 shipping on Amazon), and resold them for about the same, thereby making my total cost about $4 or $5 per disc. Not too shabby.

Great first post, man. Welcome to VC! There were a few of us oldsters there (I'm 45 and my main man Don is in his early 60s), but the crowd was very diverse. Much like a Dylan show, everyone from teens on up. I think it would have been rude of any front man to make a comment like those above to a crowd like the one we had last night. Again, it was loudly appreciative after every single song, and people really LISTENED attentively to the whole show. Maybe the Black Crowes didn't have as appreciative an audience as Wilco. "Kind of subdued" would be a good way to describe it, especially compared

Among the best shows I've seen. I took my old buddy Don, and he has seen many legendary acts: the Velvet Underground in '69, Paul McCartney, Dylan...yet he was blown away. He said One Wing and YAMF were great songs, and after Via Chicago, he just said, "Wow!" Always fun seeing a Wilco virgin get their socks knocked off. The sit/stand thing wasn't really a big issue in our area (sixth row). People who wanted to sit - or who caved to "peer pressure" - sat, and many people stood. With that great stadium seating in REH, you can have people stand in front of you and not detract from your sitting

Epic show. More tomorrow when I recover. Missing several songs. Here is the complete setlist as played. There was no intermission at all. Wilco (the song) I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Bull Black Nova You Are My Face One Wing A Shot In The Arm Side With the Seeds Deeper Down Nothingsevergonnastandinmyway(again) Sonny Feeling Handshake Drugs Impossible Germany California Stars Poor Places> Spiders* Forget the Flowers* Laminated Cat* Bob Dylan's Beard* Someday Soon* War On War* Passenger Side* Airline To Heaven Via Chicago Heavy Metal Drummer Can't Stand It Magazine Called Sunset Jesus

Damn, Jeff still has that ratty old denim jacket? Thanks for the reports, everybody. Now I'm really looking forward to tonight's show in Clearwater. Hope they do the same kind of thing with an acoustic set!

I wasn't going to add to this thread, especially as it's practically hijacked already, but I thought I'd just mention that I recently read the Margaret Salinger memoir and the Joyce Maynard memoir, and J. D. Salinger was just about as nutty as Jackson. You can find quite a few gory details of his personal life if you read those books. He really should have gotten serious psychiatric care after surviving WWII, but he didn't. His daughter's memoir is particularly devastating, documenting a cult-like household and a truly emotionally unavailable set of parents. Sad.

I heard One Wing at Publix the other day. I was like, WTF?

Thanks for posting that, it was really interesting. He's a talented guy. I wish he would get another solo project out there soon. His last one, Roots & Wings, was really good, much better than the one that preceded it.

I have always liked the Nine to the Universe album, and never really cared how it was edited, who's playing on it, etc. That's one that they really need to rerelease on CD in remastered format. I only have it on tape, and vinyl copies are overly pricey, IMO.

Post of the year so far.

I am totally torrent-challenged, even after reading a "primer," so I'm glad this popped up in this format. I have gotten as far as downloading an FZ torrent from Zappateers, but never could get the files to play completely. The Rapidshare download was idiot proof.

For years, this show from the Amougies Festival in Belgium on 10/25/69 was like the Holy Grail for fans like me. I never was able to find an easily downloadable version of it until recently, and here it is. http://lix.in/-6b8ae2 http://lix.in/-6d1183 http://lix.in/-6e9824 The links all lead to Rapidshare downloads, and you have to use UnRarx to open them. They're all in mp3 format, and are already happily resting on my iMac and iPod. It's clearly an audience recording, but it's not bad as far as I'm concerned. Hearing FZ solo on Interstellar Overdrive was a treat. Additional artwork (alo

I sat through about six minutes of that Blues for Allah jam and then went back to listening to Coltrane. A little too lysergic for me.

Wow, it's really become almost impossible to post anything anywhere on this board without someone disagreeing with what you posted and then telling you why you're wrong. You know what? You're right. Be happy. Be safe. Be well. Peace.

I'm all for animal rights - I've been a vegetarian for over 20 years, even a vegan for part of that - but I cannot believe this whale has now been involved on some level in three human deaths and is still alive. WTF? I'm sorry, but if that were a dog, it would have been euthanized by now. If they don't want to put it down, they should release the m-f'er at sea and let it fend for itself.

I thought he meant that the song was Jeff's attempt to write a song similar to the Dead. Even in that he's wrong, as the song was apparently written by Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards about a hundred years ago.

According to the news piece I read, they don't usually attack humans at all. They are predators in the water, though. The theory was that it might have been trying to play. It would be easy to get killed by something that big trying to engage in some kind of play activity with you.

Ha! I remember that. I eventually wound up going out into the aisle, where people were dancing without anyone yelling at them to sit down. It was a weird vibe indeed. Hope Clw is better.

I would strongly recommend that anyone in favor of standing throughout an entire theatre show do what I did in Jacksonville in 2008: don't just stand up, make dramatic motions with both arms IMPLORING everyone around you to get up. (Get up! Get up!) I'm not saying it worked - it didn't - but it might. And if it doesn't, at least you gave it the old college try. There are several of us on this thread who have already stated we will get up at the beginning of the show specifically referenced by the original poster. If we all summon our fellow concertgoers to jump to their feet, they might

How about Zappaheads who are also Deadheads?

Based on what I've seen of setlists lately, I'd call that pretty much a dream setlist. If they did that in Clearwater, I'd be satisfied. Of course, if they replaced Walken with the Red-Eyed>I've Got You duo and Monday, that would make me very happy indeed.

This: Zappa/Mothers Dupree's Paradise (incl. Octandre, Blue Moon, Lohengrin, Can't Afford No Shoes riff) 5/8/74, Edinboro State College, Edinboro, PA It's almost 37 minutes long, but I could easily add another 15 minutes of FZ soloing and be fine with that.

Seconded. I always liked Day Job too, and thought of it as somewhat as a rarity. Same with Brother Esau, though when I heard Esau live it seemed a little more upbeat than most versions I've heard.