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8 minutes ago, chuckrh said:

The Zoo TV arena show I saw was the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, WA. I think they did 2 nights & I went to the first one. The War show I saw was in the Paramount Theater in Seattle. That one was pretty stunning, too. The audience kept singing 40 for a real long time after the band left the stage & Bono broke up a fight down front during the show.

Those were awesome shows to catch. I’ve listened to both of those Tacoma shows. I sought out the second night because they did Slow Dancing which was a song that Bono wrote for Willie Nelson. I believe it was written during the recording of Rattle & Hum. They also tour debuted When Loves Come To Town on the second night. Both Tacoma shows are on YouTube in audio form, if you weren’t aware. 
 

I haven’t listened to that War show in Seattle, but that story sounds familiar. That one is on YouTube too. 

7 cities in the States & 7 cities in Europe. Not too bad. I imagine NYC will be a nightmare with all of the celebrities there. Kinda surprised that he’s doing Nashville. 

On 10/2/2022 at 6:34 AM, Analogman said:

They are probably one of the few bands I listened to that were current when I was young (early 1980s) and still listen to today. But yea - I have never seen them. My dream would have been to see them on The Unforgettable Fire or The Joshua Tree tour.

Damn! That would have been amazing to see them in the early 80s. Those were both incredible tours. I wish that there was more footage of The Unforgettable Fire tour. I’m sure you’ve dug into the Rattle & Hum documentary footage that’s floating around on YouTube.

On 10/2/2022 at 8:14 AM, chuckrh said:

I saw an early pre-stadium show of Zoo TV with Pixies opening. That show was unreal. First time I saw them was the War tour in a theater, so I've pretty well covered the venue spectrum. They played a bar here on their first tour when I was 20. Unfortunately, the drinking age is 21 here. Not fair as the band is the same age as me!

Jealous! Super Jealous! I was just a bit too young to catch that, even the summer stadium tour. 😢I’m curious which show it was, since most of that indoor tour was bootlegged extremely well. I think every show was recorded.

On 10/2/2022 at 9:05 AM, Analogman said:

I am pretty sure the first thing I got was the tape of Under a Blood Red Sky. I still have it.  Which has different stuff on it than the newer releases.

I was always upset that they never released a cd of the actual Red Rocks concert. They sort of came close when they released a digital only 4 song set from that show about a year ago. I have the bootleg though and the sound is pretty stellar. 

Depeche Mode will be having a press conference tomorrow in Berlin to announce a new album & tour. Both are expected in 2023: the U.S. will have a somewhat brief arena tour starting March 23rd. Some of these dates include stops at MSG, Chicago’s United Center, LA’s Kia Forum and Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. European audiences will have a stadium tour starting on May 16th with stops in Paris, Berlin, Milan & London. 
 

The latest album is titled Memento Mori which will be released in the spring. It appears to have been recorded, while the late Andrew Fletcher was alive. 
 

I had no idea that they were recording anything. I don’t recall that being mentioned when Andrew died in May. I thought that that would have signaled the end of them, but I’m happy to see Dave & Martin marching on. 
 

They have a tendency to skip the Boston area, so I’m curious to see if they come around here. I was shocked to see them book the TD Garden in 2018. The place was lightly attended and made me wonder why they didn’t play the smaller Agganis Arena at BU. 

 

^ this is a leak of the press release that should hit tomorrow. 

2 hours ago, Analogman said:

Aha - I have never seen the band live. So I have not heard about that.

Yep, they botched Staring At The Sun on the opening night of the PopMart Tour in 1997 and since then they have only played it acoustically. Stay (Faraway, So Close!) & Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of have both been played as acoustic, after their respective tour debuts in 1993 & 2001, respectively. 

2 hours ago, chuckrh said:

They're fantastic live. I always go in skeptically as Bono wears on me but I always leave blown away. The last 2 shows I've seen were the 360 & the Joshua Tree a few years ago. I don't know how they do it but they have damn near perfect sound in football staudiums. Musically those guys are locked in. I admire the Edge a lot. Fantastic musician with a world class rhythm section. They always have a great presentation, too. I imagine the thing they're going to do in Vegas will be mind blowing. & very expensive haha.

I read about the Las Vegas Sphere shows and have no clue what they might do in that space. There are also rumors that they will also do a stadium tour in 2023: Europe in June/July & the U.S. in August/September. Not a fan of all that comes with a stadium show, but can’t worry about that now.
 

I feel like this is the beginning of the end: Bono’s autobiography, the last 2 albums being autobiographical and a Netflix series due in 2024(ish). I don’t really picture them going on as long as The Rolling Stones, but that all depends on which type of contract Live Nation has with them. I don’t pay attention at all to the U2 SiriusXM channel, but the word from the fans is that Larry Mullen, Jr. has nothing to do with it. I think he has the same approach to the band. He started the band and he can end it. 

On 9/25/2022 at 2:40 PM, Beltmann said:

 

My 14-year-old enjoyed See How They Run so much that I'm going to show him Knives Out soon, hopefully in time to take him to see The Glass Onion when it arrives. It's nice to see a throwback entertainment meant to be light yet still well-crafted and eager to please. Twenty years ago, this kind of original movie was a regular item on the menu; these days, it feels like welcome nourishment after weeks spent in the desert. I've also been baffled by the studio's treatment of Confess, Fletch as an afterthought. The original Chevy Chase movie was formative for both my wife and me, so we planned to see the new movie this weekend, but it has already fled our area. This is hardly surprising, given how the marketing strategy amounted to, "let's not."

We currently live in a dire time of flux, with studios, distributors, theaters, and streamers all trying to figure out the best way to position movies in the evolving entertainment marketplace. Nobody knows anything right now, so we have a bewildering mix of experiments and strategies that most of the time feel like huge mistakes, with generic product being overproduced and actual movies too often being wounded or strangled in the process. It's not good for filmmakers or audiences, and I don't know how or when we will resolve this limbo, or whether we'll come out the other side in a better place.

I agree with a lot of what you brought up here. I was also stunned by the dumping of Confess, Fletch. It only lasted a week over here too. I wonder how it did on demand. 
 

A friend of mine made a point that I thought of before he mentioned it to me. The past 2 (2021/2022) summer movie seasons have felt like the old summer movie seasons last seen in the early 80s. The release strategy of letting one big blockbuster have the weekend to itself with little to no competition in new releases because almost all of the counter programming is headed to streamers. Lots of weekends this past summer I wasn’t headed to the theaters because the lone new release was a franchise that I had zero emotional investment in. However, there were a few weekends that broke that rule and they all followed a weekend in which one blockbuster opened. There was that weekend in May after Doctor Strange 2 where that horrid Firestarter remake came out. And the other weekend was the one right after Top Gun: Maverick came out. It’s the weekend that Cronenberg’s latest had a rather wide release.
 

But, for the most part, it felt like one big new movie per weekend. And go figure that it has completely flipped the other way, once people traditionally stop going to theaters in the summertime right around that second weekend in August. Since that weekend, it has felt like studios are dumping anything to keep theaters afloat. There are like 3 or 4 movies coming out every weekend and attendance has dropped dramatically compared to the summer. I don’t get it. Why not release several of these films against the big blockbusters? Something like Top Gun sells out and you’re already at the theater. I guess they want to keep theaters full of new movies during the slower parts of the year: August, September and October. And I imagine Covid has still caused a domino effect of delays, etc.

 

I made it a point to see See How They Run on opening weekend because I figured it’d be gone after a week. It turns out that that film has outlasted all of the other new releases this weekend at this particular theater that I go to. The Woman King and Pearl are no longer playing there. I can’t believe it! The Woman King was #1 2 weeks ago. I was planning on seeing both of those this weekend, so I wound up seeing Barbarian instead. 
 

And I’ll spare the trouble of elaborating on trying to keep to track of which streamers have deals in place with which studios. Or how long their theatrical window is. It all gets very confusing. And I tend to start noticing weird trends because I’m waiting to catch one at home. I noticed that films that came out in late August hit On Demand before films that came out the first two weeks of August. It’s not very consistent and can be tedious by spending some time visiting social media pages to find out pertinent info for digital releases. 

I loved God’s Country. It was a lyrical mood piece set in a small Montana town that focused on racism, sexism, abuse, authority, respect and privileges without hitting you over the head with them. Everything flowed organically. Thandiwe Newton plays a college Speech professor that is going through a recent loss and dealing with her grief, while 2 white men decide to use her private property to park their pickup truck to go up the mountain and hunt deer. This sets off a chain reaction of escalating events that results in one hell of an ending. 3 really well written scenes really stood out to me: one in a church between Newton and one of the men, another happens in the hallway of the college that feels very of the moment without feeling contrived and the other takes place at the Christmas party where Newton finally reveals her past to the local cop. Newton wears a lot of her expressions internally amongst beautiful shots of the expansive Montana landscape, but she is very close to breaking and this leads us to the satisfying climax. (Scheduled to hit Video On Demand this Tuesday.)

 

I also loved Emily The Criminal which featured another terrific performance of one Aubrey Plaza. Plaza plays a woman who is trying to pay off her student loan and has to answer for her past criminal mistake in job interviews. This leads her into the world of credit card fraud which is where the film really takes off in the form of a breathtaking thriller. Lots of high stakes situations that she finds herself in. I was a bit surprised at the rather abrupt ending, but I think it was just fine. Plaza & Gina Gershon share a terrific scene in a job interview that turns into a generation gap showdown. (Available on Video On Demand or RedBox.)

39 minutes ago, Analogman said:

I don't want to buy the book - but I will read it once it makes it way to my local library.

 

The Black Crowes did a thing where they re-did songs. The album is called Croweology.

 

I would be interested if they did a mostly acoustic re-invention of the songs.

I hear the mention of acoustic versions and I cringe because I think back to past tours where they gave up on new songs way too early and turned them into acoustic songs. Or they kept other older songs in an acoustic version for way too many tours and didn’t go back to playing something closer to the original. 

Almost 2 years ago I read about Bono writing an autobiography. It seemed like something that was always inevitable. The rumor is that it’ll be released in early November. Surrender is the title which is a song off of War. According to Bono, a working title was 40 Tall Tales From A Short Irish Rockstar. 
 

Yep, 40 chapters each named after a U2 song. Of course, this being related to U2 they had to go off and re-record 40 songs to go along with the book chapters. I’m not a big fan of any bands re-recording songs, but I’m a bit intrigued. Will these be acoustic versions? The rumor is that these are reinventions of songs. 

The news that I am really excited about is the most recent rumor that dropped today which is that Bono will be doing a book tour starting next month into early December. A date leaked which is at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco on November 12th. The quickly pulled LiveNation ad mentions that tickets will go onsale this Friday the 7th and will feature “an evening of words, music & mischief”.  Hmm. According to a reputable source, he will be joined by musicians (not his U2 bandmates) and there will be a theatrical element as well. I can already imagine the inflated ticket prices for this. Lol! Color me intrigued though…

I hate to start a new thread, but some cool news: both Wilco shows in New Orleans will be livestreamed for free for Nugs subscribers. That’s the 4th & 5th of October. 10pm EST. 

 

4 hours ago, Chez said:

Anyone have an update or inside information on when the vinyl and CD versions of Cruel Country will be released?  I've not seen anything on the interwebs.      

I haven’t seen any dates mentioned or rumored. The only thing that I’ve seen recently is this on their FB page today. It wasn’t mentioned in the email that came out yesterday, so you might have missed it, if the algorithm isn’t showing you every social media post. 

2 hours ago, Hayden Lawyer said:

Hey, does anyone have this 3 night run? I started to get into them again and I saw it was very interesting to me to have. I have Sky Blue Sky 1 (2020).

The Roadcases were released on July 28, but it was pulled almost immediately due to Far, Far Away having an audio glitch. I believe the song ended and the ending of the song repeated, according to a social media post.
 

They should return to the Wilco store soon, I believe. If you count the Roadcase numbers, you’ll notice that there are 3 missing (93/94/95).

44 minutes ago, kidsmoke said:

Thanks for these reviews! I loved "Knives Out".

Same here! I am looking forward to the sequel. The one thing that bothers me about watching it at home on Netflix is that there is no real barometer to measure it’s success. I know that they can tell who’s watching it. And a lot of their original films seem to have no real momentum. 
 

Beltmann, I have Pearl & Barbarian on my watch list. Maybe this weekend. 
 

edited for clarity: I felt the need to define success. I’m more interested in how many people are watching, as opposed to looking at box office receipts and counting the $$$. I feel that Netflix sends all of that stuff for a loop. I remember lots of people talking about Don’t Look Up during the Xmas break and then no one seems to be talking about it anymore. That’s what I was talking about when I meant they lack momentum. Then you look at something like Top Gun: Maverick and I can’t believe how many people have watched it and how it still has strong legs 4 months later. 

Well, here we go…I’m a sucker for staying up late on a Monday or Thursday night to see what hits Video On Demand on Tuesdays & Fridays. I knew that Greg Mottola’s Confess, Fletch was hitting this past Friday, so I rented it and enjoyed it immensely.
 

It’s been 33 years since the last Fletch film and I’m not sure how the franchise can live on with such a limited release. I believe 2 theaters near me are playing it and that’s it. Plus, it’s on VOD. Does anyone else know that this was released? There was a time 20 years ago when Kevin Smith came close to directing Fletch Won with Jason Lee as Fletch. And then that project got resurrected with Zach Braff starring and Scrubs’ Bill Lawrence directing. Maybe even Ryan Reynolds was attached at one point in the past decade. 
 

So…how was Jon Hamm? He fucking rocked the role. I skimmed an article headline that read something along the lines of “Jon Hamm Says That He Doesn’t Want To Copy Chevy Chase”. Well, his rhythm and line deliveries were exactly like Chevy’s. And that was a great thing, in my opinion. If someone walked into the room and heard the crisp & witty dialog, they might ask if that’s a Fletch film. 
 

The mystery was intriguing enough to keep me hooked throughout the brief 90 minute runtime. This is a low key affair with no ridiculous & racially insensitive  costume ideas. Fletch wearing his patented Lakers hat around Boston fills in those gaps. If you have Showtime, I can let you know that it’ll hit there on October 28th. 

 

I like to link my reviews by one thing that connects them, so it was a “DUH” moment when I was watching See How They Run and realized that it was another Whodunit this weekend. 
 

See How They Run has the look & feel of an unproduced Woody Allen script directed by Wes Anderson. It has a dynamic visual flair and witty dialog. It’s also an homage to Agatha Christie. 
 

Much like Confess, Fletch, the film shines as an ensemble piece, but is elevated by the lead actors. Sam Rockwell & Saoirse Ronan are a match made in comedy heaven. The film is a treat to watch unfold and has a legit mystery that was extremely well done. The 1950s London theater district also helps give the film a unique personality. 
 

One has to wonder if the surprise success of Knives Out helped make these two films get the greenlight in Hollywood.

I was not at this show, but I found the setlist on WilcoWorld. It’s also in the same order on the “you can’t trust it” Setlist FM. 
 

https://wilcoworld.net/tour_date_type/15-sept-2022-santa-fe-nm-santa-fe-opera/

 

Handshake Drugs

I Am My Mother

Cruel Country

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Hints

War On War

If I Ever Was A Child

Via Chicago>
Many Worlds (coda only)

Company In My Back

Story To Tell

Hummingbird

Tired Of Taking It Out On You 

Bird Without A Tail/Base Of My Skull

Jesus, etc.

Impossible Germany

Love Is Everywhere (Beware)

California Stars

A Lifetime To Find
I’m Always In Love 

Spiders (Kidsmoke)

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Amarillo Highway [Terry Allen] (with Terry Allen on keyboard and vocals)

Death Of The Last Stripper [Terry Allen] (with Terry Allen on keyboard and vocals)

Falling Apart (Right Now) 

I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

 

 

Holy Font, Batman! 

Not sure if this is 100% accurate, but WXRT will be broadcasting the Sunday night show (April 24th) from Chicago on September 30th. I say not sure because the prior night was a Nugs webcast, but this might be the first time that this show is broadcast in conjunction with YHF’s deluxe reissue release day. Or is it really going to be the show from the 23rd? 🤷🏻‍♂️

On 8/27/2022 at 12:45 PM, lucca said:

are the tweedy shows no longer stored on the instagram page?

 

Sorry for the late reply, but I wanted to do a thorough check. I only see the July 8, 2022 & December 31, 2020 episodes on the Stuffinourhouse Instagram page. The page appears to be missing an icon to click on that’s on the Instagram App. It’s that little TV icon that hosts “all”of the past episodes. Maybe this is to force people to download the app? Edit: I should clarify that this is how it looks on my iPhone. Perhaps the webpage is different on a desktop. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

The app is the first picture.

1 hour ago, calvino said:

Wish Wilco would start adding more shows.

 

 

Yep, I second that! I miss the days when  Nugs would drop a new show every month, instead of the quarterly release plan that they’ve gone with. We won’t see another show again until the last day of November. Seems far, far away. 

September 6, 1998 - Promenade Park in Toledo, OH is the latest show. 
 

interesting to note that Casino Queen appears twice. I can’t see the show notes, so I’m not sure what happened there. According to Setlist FM, Casino Queen was only played once. 
 

edited to add info: Wilco’s FB post pointed out that they played Casino Queen twice at this festival show. Another dent in Setlist FM’s accuracy. 🙈

Happy Birthday, bbop!!

 

in honor of your solid reportage, I decided to take a few liberties for some laughs…or truths. 

On 8/26/2022 at 6:11 AM, chuckrh said:

Crowded House have postponed their North American tour. Evidently Elroy Finn has hurt his back. Bummer!

 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/crowded-house-postpone-us-tour-following-elroy-finn-injury-3298242

 

On 8/26/2022 at 7:35 AM, brownie said:

That's two shows gone for me. I fully expect the show in Red Bank, NJ to be canceled due to low ticket sales. Shows in Ohio and Detroit have already been canceled. Last I looked a few weeks ago, those were selling poorly as well.

 

I'm sorry Elroy is injured, but color me just a little suspicious about the timing of this. 

I’d hate to say this, but I was happy to see that their tour was postponed for selfish reasons. I’ve been dealing with sciatica and have been keeping things in close proximity, so I would’ve missed the Boston show in a few weeks. That being said, I do have a suspicious mind and fear that the tour will end up being cancelled. I can’t blame them purely based on the financial losses that it would incur.  
 

quick story time to tie it all together: 
The Boston concert scene has changed a lot recently. We have 2 new small venues that just opened. The MGM Fenway which holds 5,000 and the Roadrunner which holds 3,500.
 

So Roxy Music booked the TD Garden, when they announced their tour this past spring. A couple of days ago, I happened to open an article to read about the new MGM Fenway and noticed that they listed Roxy Music which made me do a double take. Lo & behold, the show switched venues and it went from being way too big of a venue with TONS of seats available to being a sold out show. No idea how they’re going to figure out the seating, but it looks like we might be seeing more of this in the future. 
 

Going back to Crowded House, I certainly can see a venue change as a possibility to keep the show afloat. Would they go from the Wang Theater to the little bit smaller Roadrunner? {edited to add info: Roadrunner & Wang have the same capacity. Roadrunner is GA though.} To keep things in perspective: The National sold out the Roadrunner venue and a double bill of Arcade Fire & Beck has sold out MGM Fenway one out of two shows. 
 

I’ve been paying attention because I can see this playing out when Wilco comes back to Boston. They have tons of options to choose from. Pros & Cons. Ok, enjoy live music and I’ll stop my thoughts here. 

Do you like pictures of people tailgating? If so, I have the post for you! All kidding aside, here are over 200 pictures of this day, per the venue’s FB page. I’d say 95% of the pics are people tailgating. Maybe you might see yourself. I promise you that there are nice pics of Mt. Joy and Wilco. Just hang in there till the end. 🥸😉
 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0345Ec1ZFvAAte2gQZBjcMBY3N8bzBdx6bpKP8LwaX2VcGS4tbvkW6uYmSf8sqauZ4l&id=102791396298

There is conflicting information.

WilcoWorld lists Wilco hitting the stage @9pm. 
Bank of NH lists Wilco hitting the stage @8:30pm. 
 

I’d say that it’d be closer to 8:30. I can’t picture Mt. Joy coming on right at 7 & off at 7:30 and waiting 90 minutes for Wilco. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’ve never been there, so I’m not sure when the curfew is. Edited for traffic info: I’ve heard that the main road off of the highway (Routes 11 & 11B) is a huge clusterfuck of traffic, so best of luck.  

The Tweedy Show Thursday July 21 Episode 215 at Millennium Park in Chicago (Jeff Tweedy & Band)

 

Evergreen 

Love Is The King

A Robin Or A Wren

Opaline

Gwendolyn 

I Know What It’s Like

Save It For Me

The Red Brick

Warm (When The Sun Has Died)

Don’t Forget 

Half-Asleep

Low Key

Natural Disaster 

World Away 

Bombs Above

Some Birds

You Are Not Alone 

Let’s Go Rain

Guess Again

Family Ghost 

It Must Be Love (Labi Siffre cover)

Helpless (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover sung by Sammy.)

California Stars (with The People’s Music School SLAM Ensemble)