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There are “rumored” dates in upstate NY and NH. The three “rumored” dates span three consecutive days starting on Jerry Garcia’s birthday. Think horse racing & a hard to spell lake resort. That’s one way to prevent leaks from leaving this site…[sarcasm font]

2 hours ago, Marijn said:

The Wilco article in the new edition of Uncut contains a pretty interesting sidenote:

 

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Saw this over on the FB group and I’m quite happy that they’ve broken down the Fundamentals. I wonder if this is in the liner notes or if Uncut actually broke it down. 
 

I was quite lucky to catch My Words in concert 20 years ago on a Jeff solo stop in Northampton, MA. A real stunner of a tune. I remember that you could hear a pin drop during that lovely performance. If we believe Setlist FM, it’s only been performed 3 times. For those that don’t know, it’s been preserved for “historical purposes” over at Nugs. It’s on the NYC Jeff solo show on November 17, 2005. 
 

I think I used to have a live recording of Millionaire on my old PC that shit the bed close to 20 years ago. I don’t really remember much about that one. Anyone here ever hear it performed live? Looks like all 5 times Jeff has done this one solo has been in Chicago 2002/2003. And Loose Fur did it twice in NYC in 2002.

3 hours ago, lost highway said:

Does anyone happen to know what's on the disc for the new AGIB centered issue of Uncut?

Looks like the first track is exclusive and the rest will be on the boxset. Edit: Actually, I’m not sure Barnyard Pimp will be on there. It’s not on the listing that I’m looking at, but was on The Wilco Book. 

The Tweedy Show Episode 225

Thursday January 2, 2025

 

Largo at the Coronet

Los Angeles, CA

 

Love Is The King

Ambulance

Remember The Mountain Bed

Sunlight Ends

Box Full Of Letters [waltz version]

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart 

{glitch caused live stream to end during the end of IATTBYH.}
Don’t Forget {live stream returned near the middle of this song.}

Everlasting Everything 

Country Song Upside-Down

Pot Kettle Black

Normal American Kids 

Passenger Side 

Pecan Pie (Golden Smog){with plenty of F bombs for Charlesie} 

Evicted 

Love Is For Love [new song. Title via WilcoWorld. Played once before on October 13, 2024 in Woodstock, NY.]

I’m Always In Love

————Fake Encore————

Lou Reed Was My Babysitter 

I Found A Reason (The Velvet Underground cover w/1st half sung by Sammy & 2nd half sung by Jeff. Spencer on backing vocals throughout.)

Cry Baby Cry (Spencer & Sammy on backing vocals. Not The Beatles song.)

 

***Unfortunately, I’m not seeing the first half of the show on her IG page which means that the glitch must’ve caused it to not be saved. Don’t Forget will be the first song that you see/hear. Thank you, Susie!! Excellent way to kick off the year. Jeff made plenty of visits to Banter Corner this evening, but my analog pencil was no match for his quick wit. “Woo Guy” was right before Remember The Mountain Bed. It’s a shame that’s lost, but it was quite funny. 
 

2 hours ago, lost highway said:

Oh my friends, I have so many thoughts on this. This is my favorite record.... maybe period.

 

First of all, I'm not crazy. My prediction was premature but they came through!

 

Listening to this first song was really cool. I was a little nonplussed, "Another Handshake Drugs, I already have two. Is this just an extended outro that they trimmed for the album version?". But no, this is completely different. You can tell they loved this song and kept trying it until they got it just right. This version sounds like a demo from a really nice studio. It's loose and free and has tons of energy.

 

It makes me go back and wonder about the process of this record (can't wait to read about it). I always figured they did all of their homework and then recorded absolutely everything at Sear Sound, but here we are with the "Sear Sound version" of Handshake Drugs. So maybe what we've known all these years is the SOMA version. Maybe the first bonus disc is the product of two different studios, two different sessions, and there's an alternate of most every song because they had different versions to develop, mix and finish.

 

Also of interest, "Leave Me Like You Found Me". Never my top shelf Wilco song, but so curious that it had been around that long ago. I always enjoy hearing the forms these songs take in different eras (see "Hummingbird" from the YHF box). Great to see some favorite deep cuts, but then what is "Like a Stone", or "Losing Interest". These might be the $215 questions for me, the curious fan.

Here’s a little blurb that’s different than what’s on the Wilco store. It mentions the chronology of the SOMA sessions and the Sear Sound sessions. I pulled this press release from the Bull Moose Records link for the 9 cd box set. : 

 

This 9CD box set features the original studio album plus alternates, outtakes and demos; the complete October 2004 concert at the Wang Center in Boston; the complete Fundamentals, all housed at the back of the 48-page full-color hardcover book [with previously unpublished photos and a new in-depth recording history of the album by Grammy winning writer Bob Mehr].For the A Ghost Is Born recording, Wilco was Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Leroy Bach, Glenn Kotche, and Mikael Jorgensen; Jim O’Rourke, who mixed the band’s previous release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, co-produced the album with Wilco. Leroy Bach left Wilco at the completion of the sessions and the band announced the addition of two new members: Pat Sansone and Nels Cline. Sansone and Cline toured with Wilco to promote AGIB and that lineup has remained unchanged since 2004. As Tweedy said to Mehr for his new liner note, “Making that record, and then finding this lineup, that was the start of something—of having a band that can play anything. That’s why, twenty years later, we’re still here and still going.”Wilco first began sessions for what would become A Ghost Is Born in early 2002 at Chicago’s Soma E.M.S., where they had mixed Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Much of the album was tracked live in the studio with O’Rourke and engineer Chris Shaw. They also reunited there with engineer and soon-to-be-bandmate Mikael Jorgensen.At Soma, the band began sketching out music using Tweedy’s notebooks of lyrics, poetry, and prose. Mehr notes: “In between more traditional song tracking, the group would engage in a series of conceptual improvisations in the studio. These musical experiments, broadly known as ‘Fundamentals’ …were part of what Kotche said was ‘an attempt to search for a new group identity. To see what we could make this band into.’”In the fall of 2003, the band relocated to New York to finish recording at Sear Sound. “It seemed like the band needed to get out of Chicago, get out of the working mode they’d been in, and only be thinking about making a record,” O’Rourke told Mehr. There, playing together in the corner of a large studio, the album began to take its final shape.Emerging from a period of addiction and rehab, Tweedy discussed how he feels about A Ghost Is Born in retrospect. As he told Mehr, “I was worried the album was going to feel like something dark and not me anymore. But the album was ahead of me as a person. It was the part of me that I was trying to preserve—enthusiastic and furious about the world, as well as open and loving. I reached that in the music, before I could get there emotionally on my own.”

1 minute ago, Brian F. said:

 

Did he say it in a Boston accent?

Nope. Sadly, he did not.

48 minutes ago, nalafej said:

The set looks great! Can't wait to hear it.

 

Anybody on here who was at the live show that's included? Is that the dream, to have a vinyl copy of a great show you were at? I'd love that. I was kinda hoping we'd get the halloween Chicago Auditorium theater show...

👋

 

I was at that show at the Wang. I wonder if Jeff’s banter with the crowd after She’s A Jar will be included. Not to cause any controversy, but I’ll explain the story. The crowd applauded really loudly when he played the harmonica parts. After the song, Jeff said something along the lines of “You kept applauding each time I played the harmonica.” Crowd laughs. “Do you think that I’m not musically gifted enough to play the harmonica?”. Crowd laughs. “Do you think I’m ret$&:;ed or something?!” Crowd laughs. 
 

Anyone else that was there remember this? That’s the only thing that I remember about this show, even though it was a solid performance. It’s just that the next 2 nights in Waltham & Northampton had the better setlists, imo. Oh, and I remember standing at these 2 shows because of the setup, so the energy was definitely different. 

13 minutes ago, chisoxjtrain said:

Amazing find! I always tend to forget to look at Reddit for such leaks. 
 

Always awesome to have a show you went to get an official release!! I was at that Wang show in Boston in 2004! Spent the weekend seeing Wilco all over Massachusetts. Friday night at the Wang Center in Boston. Saturday night at Shapiro Gymnasium in Waltham on the Brandeis University campus. Sunday night in Northampton at Calvin Theater. 3 amazing shows! Can’t believe it’s already been 20 years. 

Fellow VCer Col. Hapablap sent me a message shortly after midnight EST that Australia had an unreleased version of Handshake Drugs on Spotify today.

I decided to look it up on iTunes and I was shocked to see a track listing for the AGIB deluxe edition. Still trying to absorb the tracklist. Entirely possible that there are more tracks in a potential boxset. Anyways, iTunes lists February 7th as the release date. 
 

You can enjoy the unreleased track via YouTube. 

I’d like to add that there hasn’t been an official announcement yet either for U2’s 20th anniversary for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb which is supposed to be due on November 22nd. Rumor is that it’ll be announced on the 1st of next month. [Edited to add recent info: announcement has been pushed up a few days to tomorrow the 26th.]
 

Some other releases that have just been announced by artists that I follow:

The Cure finally announced their long awaited album last week for November 1st.
St. Vincent’s Spanish translation of All Born Screaming was announced last week for November 15th.

The National just announced today that they will be releasing a live set recorded in Rome in early June on December 13th. 
 

I can see the concerns, but I wouldn’t worry. I can’t see them skipping AGIB 20th anniversary deluxe edition. One day we’ll wake up to the preorder email.

The Tweedy Show Episode 224

Saturday Sept 21, 2024

 

Navy Pier

Chicago Live! at Lake Stage at Polk Bros Park 

Jeff Tweedy solo  (free show)

 

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Gwendolyn 

A Lifetime To Find 

New Madrid

Evicted

Hummingbird 

Jesus, Etc. 
Impossible Germany 

KC Rain
You And I 

Don’t Forget 

Evergreen 

You Are Not Alone

I’m The Man Who Loves You 

 

 

There was a backstage livestream before the show on Jeff’s SubStack via the app that I don’t think anyone had any luck catching, so I don’t know what was played. It’s supposed to be uploaded soon, according to the Starship Casual engineers. 
 

Since I offloaded my IG app to save space, I missed the notification that Susie was streaming the show. I’ll get back to the banter in a little bit. Thank you again, Susie!

 

https://northerntransmissions.com/wilco-hot-sun-cool-shroud/

 

This article has a detailed breakdown of every song on the EP. 

 

I did some digging for the lyrics to Annihilation and found them out there in the wild and it looks like a song that he debuted on The Tweedy Show. 

 

I’ll leave a little list here of the 4 songs that were debuted on The Tweedy Show, most likely in an earlier incarnation.

 

Hot Sun was performed on Episode 167. 

Say You Love Me was also performed on Episode 167. [if you go to the 20 minute mark of the episode, you’ll be able to hear them back to back with this song up first.]

Ice Cream was performed in a very brief snippet on Episode 143. These are the lyrics that I wrote down during the episode “when I first saw you, you said I was as cool as ice cream. You melted me…” [the snippet happens right around the 22 minute mark.]

Annihilation was performed on Episode 158. I had the untitled song listed as “A Kiss Before We Cry.” [the song starts at the 27 minute mark.]

The Tweedy Show Episode 223

Monday April 15, 2024

Largo Los Angeles

Jeff Tweedy solo

 

—Susie and Sammy are there waiting for Jeff to come out to play. [There’s only about 2 minutes of the pre-show music, so don’t skip ahead too much.]

Less Than You Think

One Sunday Morning 

“Feel Free” [untitled new song that features Jeff mentioning John & Paul and Mick & Keith and Born In The U.S.A. The line ‘feel free’ is repeated multiple times in a call-and-response manner, where Jeff will sing ‘feel free’ and respond with some lyrics.]
Orphan

Ashes Of American Flags

Whole Love

New Madrid 

Far, Far Away 

She’s A Jar

Out For A Walk [f/k/a Circumcised]
Either Way

Dawned On Me

If I Ever Was A Child

Even I Can See

Heavy Metal Drummer

—Jeff explains that this is the part in the set where he would walk off stage for an encore.

Enough [new song]
You Are Not Alone

I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

 

Lots of visits to Banter Corner. Great set and you get to hear a few new songs. 

Thank you, Susie! 

 

 

 

The Tweedy Show Episode 222 Monday December 4, 2023

Sky Blue Sky

Jeff Tweedy (and Friends) at Heaven Beach

 

A Robin Or A Wren (partial)

Natural Disaster

— Jeff quips “This is my side hustle…I was going to take some Uber shifts, but I started a band”. 

Opaline

Summer Noon

— Jeff explains how earlier in the day he accidentally texted Salman Rushdie “to go into the ocean”, instead of Susie.

Gwendolyn

— Jeff talks about the new song that he wrote with the lyrics “die on the beach in the sun”, but they were not able to prepare it in time. 

Evergreen

Half-Asleep

Don't Forget

I Know What It's Like

Some Birds

The Red Brick>

Warm (When The Sun Has Died)

Family Ghost

—Jeff admits that he skipped over two songs in the setlist. 

Low Key

Guess Again

Let's Go Rain

Friendship (Pops Staples cover sung by Sammy Tweedy, Spencer Tweedy and Sima Cunningham.)

Houses (Elyse Weinberg cover sung by Cate Le Bon and Jeff Tweedy.)

Cosmic Dancer (T. Rex cover sung by Sammy Tweedy.)

— Jeff jokes before walking off stage “We practiced for 10 minutes. We probably didn’t need the 10 minutes”.

Band includes:

James Elkington on guitar

Macie Stewart on violin & backing vocals

Sima Cunningham on backing vocals

Liam Kazar on bass & backing vocals

Sammy Tweedy on backing vocals

Spencer Tweedy on drums & backing vocals.

*Cate Le Bon lead vocals on Houses

 

I never got the IG notification that Susie was streaming this on Monday afternoon. I didn’t realize it until late Tuesday evening, when I was checking to see if we would see the final night. Thank you for streaming this great set, Susie!

 

I am only adding the image below to show that the post doesn’t mention that Indiana show. And that’s the first mention on social media of the 2 NJ shows. 
 

Entirely possible I missed the email announcement(s) in my search. 
 

All good! Well done, Nugs! Keep the shows coming! 

5 hours ago, you ever seen a ghost? said:

does anyone have a complete list of all of these?  i see there are some Jeff Tweedy ones too but I can't figure out if I've gotten them all or not...

 

nugs website is not in any sort of order...

Boy, am I glad you asked! Ha! Who else would keep a list around here? 🤦🏻‍♂️
 

Here is an ongoing list that I culled from Nugs.net’s emails, Facebook & Instagram posts. I’m only missing 2 months (Jan/Feb 2020). For some reason, there’s no information to be found for those two months.
 

It’s entirely possible that there is an error in my March 2020 listing which has both 2010 Montclair “An Evening With” shows released on the same day. 
 

You’ll also see in my notes when it switched to a quarterly thing. 
 

 

 

 

Wilco Nugs.net Front Of House Series 

 

December 2, 2019

Wilco @ Shepherds Bush

London, England March 27, 1998

 

Wilco @ The Fillmore

San Francisco, CA December 3, 2001

 

Wilco @ Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing

Philadelphia, PA June 28, 2003

 

Wilco @ Madison Square Garden

New York, NY December 31, 2004

 

Jeff Tweedy @ Tribeca Performing Arts Center 

New York, NY November 17, 2005

 

January 2020

??

 

February 2020

??

 

March 25, 2020

Wilco @ Wellmont Theatre

Montclair, NJ April 2, 2010

 

Wilco @ Wellmont Theatre

Montclair, NJ April 3, 2010

 

April 29, 2020

Wilco @ The Playhouse

Fredericton, New Brunswick July 13, 2006

 

May 27, 2020

Wilco @ Otto’s 

DeKalb, IL May 20, 2004

 

June 24, 2020

Wilco @ Orpheum Theater 

Madison, WI July 31, 2002

 

July 29, 2020

Wilco @ Camden Opera House

Camden, ME July 3, 2000

 

August 26, 2020

Wilco @ Vida Festival 

Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain July 1, 2016

 

September 30, 2020

Wilco @ Royal Oak Theater

Royal Oak, MI July 21, 2009

 

October 28, 2020

Wilco @ Santa Fe Opera Theater

Santa Fe, NM September 18, 2012

 

November 25, 2020

Jeff Tweedy @ Henry Fonda Theater

Los Angeles, CA February 13, 2006

 

****December 10, 2020 FB post claiming 11 exclusive shows were handpicked for Front Of House Series*****

 

December 30, 2020

Wilco @ Sydney Opera House

Sydney, AU April 3, 2013

 

January 27, 2021

Wilco @ King Cat Theatre

Seattle, WA May 20, 1999

 

February 24, 2021

Wilco @ Count Basie Theatre

Red Bank, NJ June 22, 2007

 

March 31, 2021

Wilco @ Live Music Hall

Cologne, Germany September 8, 2005

 

April 28, 2021

Wilco @ McDonald Theatre 

Eugene, OR September 4, 2003

 

May 26, 2021

Wilco @ Kaserne Basel

Basel, Switzerland November 7, 2011

 

June 30, 2021

Wilco @ Liberty Lunch 

Austin, TX November 5, 1996

 

July 28, 2021

Wilco @ Cain’s Ballroom

Tulsa, OK March 8, 2008

 

August 25, 2021

Jeff Tweedy @ Kingsbury Hall

Salt Lake City, UT December 6, 2013

 

——switches to quarterly releases: Nov, Feb, May & August.———

 

November 24, 2021

Jeff Tweedy @ Seatgeek Stadium

Bridgeview, IL June 4, 2021

 

February 23, 2022

Wilco @ Royal Theatre

Victoria, British Columbia Feb. 12, 2010

 

May 25, 2022

Wilco @ Thompson’s Point 

Portland, Maine August 25, 2021

 

August 31, 2022

Wilco @ Promenade Park

Toledo, OH September 6, 1998

 

November 30, 2022

Wilco @ Three Arts River Festival 

Pittsburgh, PA June 21, 2003

 

February 22, 2023

Wilco @ Stage AE

Pittsburgh, PA June 8, 2017

 

May 31, 2023

Wilco @ All Tomorrow’s Parties 

Los Angeles, CA March 16, 2002

 

August 30, 2023

Wilco @ Jannus Landing

St. Petersburg, FL August 31, 1999

 

November 29, 2023

Wilco @ Maxwell’s 

Hoboken, NJ October 25, 1995

 

 

 

There’s a stray show that didn’t come up for me in my social media search, but it’s in the app:

??

Wilco @ IU Auditorium 

Bloomington, IN September 25, 2015

 

Extremely possible that the 2 2010 NJ shows take up a month apiece (Jan/Feb 2020) & the above show slots into the March 2020 date. That might be what happened. 🤔

The Tweedy Show Wednesday November 29 Episode 221
-- Spencer holds Basil and Susie introduces Jeff, Danny Miller & Sammy. 
-- Jeff has a new pair of clear frame glasses which Spencer picked out. Jeff says that he doesn't think that he's going to wear them all the time. 
How To Fight Loneliness 
-- Susie says that it's been 4 months since the last episode. 
-- Jeff mentions how he has met some of the clients over the past year at shows and his book tour. 
-- Danny's favorite movie of the year is the French film Anatomy Of A Fall. Jeff makes a snoring sound and Danny changes his answer to Barbie. 
-- Jeff shows how to play the guitar for Evicted. 
-- Jeff's favorite pedal is The Big Cheese and Crimson Custard. 
Mi Shebeirach (Debbie Friedman cover sung by Sammy w Spencer on backing vocals.)
-- Sammy dedicates the song to the people of Israel & Palestine. 
S.O.S. (Abba cover sung by Sammy with Spencer on drums & backing vocals.)
-- Jeff says that Peter is doing well, after having a few tumbles at home. 
-- Susie shows her Adam & Eve dolls (Biblical) which gets some criticism because Eve is nude and Adam has a leaf covering his nether regions.
Cry Baby Cry (Spencer on drums & backing vocals. Sammy on backing vocals.)[song is on Jeff's Substack from Sept 8th, 2023]
-- Jeff explains that Cry Baby Cry is a new song for the family to sing and not the song with the same name as The Beatles. 
-- Sammy asks what one of the lines of lyrics is in the song and Jeff goes through a couple of lines. Jeff says it's very Belleville. 
A Bowl And A Pudding (Spencer on drums.)
-- Liam Finn is in the chat and the family wish him a belated happy birthday. 
Country Song Upside-down (Spencer on drums.)
-- Susie believes that Neil Finn is also in the chat which prompts Spencer to say that the Crowded House show in Chicago this year was awesome. 
Only Shallow (My Bloody Valentine cover sung by Sammy. Spencer on drums.)
-- Jeff & Spencer run through John Lennon's Oh Yoko!
Oh Yoko! (John Lennon cover sung by Spencer while on drums. Jeff & Sammy on backing vocals.)
-- Sammy shows his John Lennon tattoo. 
-- Susie comments on how all the 8 year olds are now 11 years old. 
Pecan Pie (Spencer on drums & backing vocals.) 
-- Pecan Pie is dedicated to Charles Miller. 
-- Jeff plays the riff to Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water. 
-- the Tweedy men try to get Susie to play Mason Williams' Classical Gas which she learned in 3rd grade.
-- Jeff asks if anyone is headed to Mexico for Sky Blue Sky. 
Please Be Wrong (with Spencer on drums & backing vocals.)
Reincarnation (Roger Miller cover)
-- Jeff jokes that he still has 12 more songs to do, but Susie is ending the show. He hopes to have another Tweedy Show before 4 months go by. Susie hints that maybe they'll do one from Mexico. 

 

I had the absolute pleasure of seeing this masterpiece in IMAX today. I was only

6 when it came out, so huge thanks to A24 for bringing it back! I hadn’t watched it in a long time, so that was nice. 
 

Run to it! At my local megaplex, it’s sharing the IMAX auditorium with Barbie this weekend and The Creator is coming on Friday the 29th in IMAX, so it looks like a 1 week IMAX engagement around where I am. However, it is getting a wider release on the 29th on regular screens, as I’m sure you’ve read.
 

Nice to check something off the bucket list…

26 minutes ago, Analogman said:

There was no cell phones the last time around. It did sound catchy.

I just read that they did perform I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For in between takes of the new song. I guess that music video was filmed on the same exact street: Fremont. Looks different, but I guess that’s what 36 years does to a place like Vegas…

 

I also found out that those were paid extras to be in the crowd. Not sure if they were told to take out their smart phones to make it look authentic.

5 minutes ago, Analogman said:

That's interesting.

Yeah, very interesting. The song is in the same wheelhouse as The Miracle Of Joey Ramone, but I like this tune a bit better. Looking forward to hearing the single without all of the audience noise. 

4 hours ago, Analogman said:

They were the last intact (famous) band (since Dusty - ZZ Top - passed). I have to wonder if that will be permanent. The same thing happened with Cheap Trick and now Aerosmith (stand in drummers that is).

As I was about to reply to you, I was perusing FB and saw a YouTube video of U2 (with Larry!!) performing a new song, Atomic City, on Fremont St in Vegas last night. Looks like it was a music video shoot.
 

Wow! This is getting odd. Larry is there for the music video shoot. Hmm. One of the dirty rumors from this past year was that Larry had already left the band, but the fans didn’t realize it yet. This must be mostly PR to keep things looking like everything is ok for a potential 2024 tour that would feature Larry. 
 

https://youtu.be/yG6nhiBs6Lk?si=sJIsFAwrycUiMFun

 

https://americana-uk.com/wilco-cousin-2?fbclid=IwAR237plCSkKxxmOcDypkGy4qFOuAT7e-7YXX1topnZmSSiZthm6qJy3KbQY
 

 

Well, I’ll bring some good news…a rumor recently surfaced about a new U2 single that is set to drop on September 29th (the opening day of their Las Vegas residency at The Sphere). 
 

I’ve read that the band (minus Larry Mullen, Jr.) arrived in Vegas the day after Labor Day to begin rehearsals and are traveling to Los Angeles after rehearsals to finish up mixing this single. 
 

Good news: Larry recorded drum beats to use for future recordings, before he had his surgery, so he should be on this. 
 

The (sorta) Bad News: U2’s Instagram story a few weeks ago had music that sounded like an updated intro to Ultraviolet (Light My Way). Are they re-recording it? Could be. The residency is named U2-UV. 
 

It’d obviously be great to have an entirely new song. I think most people are over them trying to “reimagine” their own catalog to keep putting out, while they scramble to figure out the next step. 
 

There’s also the big possibility that they miss the rumored date and it comes out before the end of the year. 
 

Re: Larry missing Vegas - Yeah, I was extremely upset when I heard the rumors which turned out to be true. That was one of the things that they seemed to take pride in: always being the same 4 guys since high school. I know that it is/was a point of pride for the fanbase. 
 

I’ve seen tons of backlash online all over social media, as I’m sure most expected to see, including myself. However, I think almost every Vegas show is a near sellout.
 

I don’t have tickets. I’d really love to go to visit the recently announced Zoo TV exhibit at one of the casinos and catch the screenings of 5 U2 related films with rare concert & studio footage, etc. 

15 hours ago, theashtraysays said:

The National (Homecoming festival - Day 1); w/ Patti Smith, The Walkmen, et al 

I found out 2 nights ago through the YouTube comments of the Space Invader video that Laugh Track (their next record) was due out sometime this month. Maybe even as soon as next week. Could it be true?…I saw that they were road testing a bunch of new songs this past summer. And I had read that they recorded enough tunes for another record. 
 

As I was checking Google for tonight’s setlist, it looks like they announced the new record at tonight’s gig. And it’s coming digitally late Sunday night/early Monday morning. Awesome! 

Really nice looking setlist you got! All of High Violet! 👍

4 minutes ago, Brian F. said:

Maybe "Soldier Child" and "Child Soldier" will end up like "Outtasite (Outta Mind)" and "Outta Mind (Outta Sight)."

It’s entirely possible, but I think it’s more of a case of Susie asking Jeff what the name of the song was and him saying something like “I haven’t decided on Child Soldier or Soldier Child yet.” 
 

The lyrics go “I fought like a child
Soldier fights to forget
What it’s like to be home.” , according to WilcoWorld. 
 

I can see from the lyrics how it could have gone either way, but I also haven’t listened to the two Tweedy Show versions in a bit either. Possible he flipped “child” and “soldier” in the lyrics.