Mr. Heartbreak

04/26/15 - Wilco (Tallahassee) 04/28/15 - Wilco (Orlando) 05/01/15 - Wilco (St. Augustine) 06/26/15 - Wilco (Solid Sound) 06/27/15 - Wilco (Solid Sound) 06/28/15 - Tweedy (Solid Sound) Mother, may I have some Wilco, please?

Dave's Picks #13 is available on Amazon for $45. Not cheap (it cost $30, originally), but with shipping costs and Amazon's fee, that is not bad at all.

That actually sounds kind of dirty...

Mother Mary and Joseph, you guys are out of control! I thought I was bad, having a shoebox with ticket stubs piled into it in chronological order, with set lists (where known) written on the backs. Excel spread sheets, that is a whole other level. I don't think I have seen anyone more than 10 times, although I believe Wilco is hovering around that number now. I will be seeing them 5 more times soon, so that will change this spring and summer.

That might be the best thing I have read online so far this year. Hilarious!

Yep, I had to unfollow the 80s Facebook page. Too much spam from people bitching. Personally, I have zero interest in the Soldier Field event, but I'm not going to go online and cry about it every day. I mean, I feel sorry for folks who got shut out, but geez...get over it. Been listening to some of the better known highlights of the Europe '72 shows, stuff I have only played once or twice before. Right now I've just worked my way through parts of 5/10 and am making my way through just about all of 5/11. Man, they are just so much fun during this time frame. I'm actually looking forward to t

That's why I felt sorry for them. I really suspect that a lot of people who mail ordered have not been to a major rock concert since 1995 or earlier. Seriously. When was the last time any of us on an internet message board sat down and physically decorated an envelope that was going into the mailbox?

I dunno, I thought this sounded like a fair (though admittedly passionate) assessment: I don't see that as necessarily entitled, whiny cry-baby material. It actually sucks, and makes me feel bad for all those who got shut out. Seems like they should have just waited for Ticketbastard, rather than buying money orders and hoping for the best. I couldn't care less, either, having decided as soon as the shows were announced that there is no way I would spend money to travel to Chicago for a stadium show featuring the "core four." But hey, if people go, and they dig it, good for them.

Dang, if they play a set like this at Solid Sound, I will freaking levitate. Love the Fake Fur Coat>Diamond Light Opener. Also prefer Via Chicago acoustic to the current arrangement, so that would get me psyched. And the first J.T. solo show I ever heard, 3/26/98, featured Hotel Arizona. The "made us all want to feel like stars" sounds kind of poignant, somehow, when it's just acoustic. Seriously, this sounds like a great show! Thanks for the report, as always.

http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-14082-ladies-and-gentlemen-not-the-grateful-dead.html Wow. A detailed look into what happened with the mail order situation for Soldier Field.

Yes.

The ones who mean the most to me are Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, who founded Blue Note, but Keepnews would be right up there behind them. I did not know that Margulis was a communist writer who supplied the start-up capital to found Blue Note in 1939 (that's right off Wikipedia). God, no wonder I'm such a leftist: dude's responsible for 1/3 of my music collection...and you could probably argue that Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger are responsible for another third!

July 9-12, Winnipeg Folk Fest: anyone posted about that yet? Just a little FYI for our Canadian neighbors...

I understand the dismay at seeing that price for a ticket. I figured the bigger part of it was missing out on the chance to be in the front, as opposed to being 50 rows back...but apparently the ticket cost itself was the main complaint. Thing is, it's not like they are going across the country gouging fans on prices. I'm still seeing tickets for $35-$40 listed in my area; tickets for Red Rocks are $55 or $45. At $125, Solid Sound is an absolute steal! (2 Wilco shows, Tweedy show, plus all the other acts). By the way, to put these ticket prices in further perspective, here are some prices fo

I won tickets to my first Wilco show in 1999, so every show seems expensive compared to that.

Don Was put that on too? That's hilarious! People on here complained about it for days afterwards. I'm in Florida, so I'm not going anyway, but that is really funny... Still, at least it's not in a football stadium. I am, in all earnestness, happy for people who are planning to enjoy the Soldier Field events...but I wouldn't go anywhere near them. Even if I lived in Chicago, I wouldn't go. I would not assume it's a guaranteed clusterfuck just because of Don Was. He has done a few of these, and the one he just did for Emmylou got a very nice writeup: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20

I saw that, too. I have to admit, I didn't bother to post it because I figured only a couple of us on here would know who he was, much less care about it. Dude was a legend.

That's probably why I would enjoy it more: haven't had any of those since 1989.

You love Meddle?? Okay, you are all right in my book from now on, man.

Thanks for following along. It's not like you get a notification for being mentioned in a post, like on Facebook. I just meant I like a lot of dinosaur acts and you like a lot of punk and metal...I figured just about our only commonality musically was Wilco. Forgot you liked Drive By Truckers. And, believe it or not, I would actually be interested in seeing Purling Hiss again. As for Swans - man, I have to be in a certain mindset for that - kinda like some of the old Royal Trux stuff. But I have gotten through The Seer exactly once. Intense stuff.

This looks like it could be significantly better than the Soldier Field shows: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/grateful-dead-members-more-booked-for-jerry-garcia-tribute-show-20150305

I don't know squat about how bands' pricing for shows works these days, but I suspect it has something to do with the promoter, not just the venue's location. The highest-priced ticket I bought for Wilco shows this year was $53.00 ($47.00 + $6 service charge)...probably same show as rhino4evr. That was a presale general admission ticket in St. Augustine. My wife and I have 3rd row tickets for Tallahassee: they were $40/ticket, total of $100 for the pair, including service fees. I would not be too quick to blame the band or their management for pricing.

This is the crux of the biscuit, to me. Also, I know you see a heckuva lot of Wilco shows, as I always read your fine reports. So this probably feels almost like another day at the office for you. However, speaking from the cultural wasteland, er, tertiary market of Florida - which hasn't even had a TWEEDY or Tweedy show! - I had no familiarity with half those people (or more) so to me it's a great chance to get exposure to all these folks whom I view at up-and-comers or flavor-of-the-month (no offense intended) while seeing some established legends like Thompson, Taj & Lloyd. I fig

Glad you enjoyed it, and hope others did as well. I gave it an entire 45 seconds of my attention before clicking away from it...and wish I could have those 45 seconds back.