Col. Hapablap

It usually takes a few hours before more the first snatch, especially if there are a lot of leechers. This is quite normal. Once there are more seeders. it'll really take off.

Thanks a lot, King John.

Since all of my choices have been taken, I'll go with.....(drumroll)......

Hollaback Girl-Gwen Stefani

I throw up on that song.

from the Chicago Sun Times:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354...h041607.article

April 16, 2007

BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times Columnist

Authorities were investigating whether the gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history was a Chinese man who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa.

The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai, the source said. Investigators have not linked him to any terrorist groups, the source said.

Police believe three bomb threats on the campus last week may have been attempts by the man to test the campus

I think I'm gonna have to download these clips and make some sort of mini-DVD out of them, so that the fans (especially the ones who were there) can have this in their collection to remember this show by. The banter is absolutely priceless!

Thanks so much, Warner! If anyone is making cover art for this show I suggest using Morgan's "facial gymnastics" photo of Jeff, so that those who weren't there have the visual to go along with Jeff's story.

Oh yeah, i totally concur. That's got to be the shot! That is one of the best(and funniest) concerts pictures I've ever seen up here.

That same picture is also my desktop background.

I'm normally just a person who listens to SBD's, however when it is a Tweedy solo show, you pretty much know that the recording will be nice because the crowd is typically polite and quiet, so everything sounds pretty much crystal clear. I'm only about 60% completed so far on this DL, but I can't wait to listen to it.

This is true. I just listened to parts of it for the first time, and the sound is terrific! It's about as good an audience recording as I can remember ever hearing. Of course, i may be a little biased due to the quality of the show itself, but i think it sounds great.

Thanks again, MKH.

I often compare SBS to Wilco. I find that the comparison fits perfectly.

ive done this flac thing before but i seem to have forgotten how. I downloaded the torrent in a program called Azures and now i cant figure out how to convert them or listen, can someone help me out? i kno i should kno how to do this by now

I would download this. I like it a lot. It plays AND converts FLAC. files. If you have any questions and how to use it, pm me!

http://www.foobar2000.org/

actually, here's there website:

 

http://www.cimsmusic.com/

 

and it looks like there isn't one in chicago.

This is a bit of a bummer for me, but then i decided to click a link on that website which led me to this:

http://www.thinkindie.com/

Apparently these stores also sell a bunch of exclusive stuff, and there are locations in Chicago. I'm gonna call the Chicago stores listed on this website and see if they have this compilation when the album comes out.

Next release... Jeff's Ipod!!!

Oh, now THAT would rock!

Thank you a thousand times over you beautiful, beautiful man.

Seconded. That would make it a 1,001 thank yous from me now.

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=505868

This is a good one - enjoy.

Awesome! Thanks a lot! I cant wait to hear it again.

Were you the only taper at the show?

I love having them to myself

I think it would be terrific if i had at least one other person who is in my age group who i could talk about all things Wilco with. I cant find anybody like that out here in the suburbs. Oh well, i guess there is always VC.

My position on the topic of Wilco's popularity is this: In 10-20 years their music will be appreciated much more than it is now. I think they will be this generation's answer to the Velvet Underground, at least in record sales. The VU were a band who during their existence sold very few copies of any of their records, but who are now mentioned as an influence by almost every popular artist/band who followed them. Of course, as a fan, i'd want as many people to hear and realize how great a band Wilco is as possible, but If i were in a band, i'd rather leave a lasting and timeless musical legacy then sell a few million copies of one record.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/business.../13carr.html?hp

Flying Solo Past the Point of No Return

By DAVID CARR

Published: April 13, 2007

For a few days, it seemed as if Don Imus would somehow pull out of the death spiral. After all, once he came under fire, Mr. Imus said he was sorry for the racial insult, said he was sorry again and then began a week of penance, raising money on his own show for sick children and turning up at various other microphones to renew his apology.

But even as he went through the ritual of public mortification, his backers began to see what he did not: the drumbeat was not going to stop. The controversy metastasized and by Monday, the media began to lock and load. Mr. Imus, who had shrugged off the initial criticism last week, was fighting for survival.

I just want to remark how much fun I had meeting all of the cool fans at the front of the line. We froze our toochis (tu kisses) off for several hours but the payoff was when Sue and the kids came out to take our song requests.

 

Thanks to Lou, Matt, Allison, Amy, Brianne, Edie & Scott, Aaron, and expecially Corrine and Kelly for making my night even more enjoyable than it already was seeing Jeff play.

 

Morgan great pictures. I was sitting to your left. I know how hard you worked to get just the right shot of Jeff being a standup comedian. I think he was "4 times funnier" that night.

 

Peace and love

 

Larry

Hey Larry! You were another person i kinda forgot about in the whirl of meeting so many faces. I do remember you asking me about VC . I'm very glad to decided to join the board. Welcome to VC! As for me, i've been posting a lot more often since Friday night, which was one of the great experiences of my life. Hopefully i'll meet everybody again when Wilco comes back home to Chicago!

~Aaron

That flv. thing and the firefox add-on that i previously mentioned are mainly for downloading stuff off of youtube or myspace or things like that, which i thought that some ppl. were asking about doing.

that reminds me, i have to download the videos from the Tweedy show at the Vic last Friday which are now uploaded on youtube.

Try this one. I'm pretty sure its the same one that i use. Just scroll down the page to the bottom for the free flv. player.

http://applian.com/flvplayer/

edit: or maybe its this one....either one should work though.

http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081.html

I have a Mac, so I don't have IE, but I wouldn't trade this computer for that...the link to the video works. I will try the video download thing for FF. Thanks!

Cool. Let me know how that works. It seemed to work for me just fine. If you have any problems with it, let me know.

I can get it to play in Firefox and Safari, but since I do not have QuickTime Pro, I cannot save it. Any suggestions? Please.

Yeah, i would suggest downloading the Video Downloader add-on for firefox. You can save it to your computer as an flv. file using that program. There is also a free program that BitComet uses called Flv. converter, which can convert those flv. files into other formats, such as mp4.(for the ipod), wmv. avi, etc. I just found out all this today....pretty timely, i might add.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390

http://www.bitcomet.com/tools/flvconverter/index.htm

This just in from MSNBC: They will no longer carry the Don Imus show:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17999196/

Other dudes in the same business have been fired for similiar things.

 

Here is another view - Michelle Malkin

 

more Imus gold

Thats the first time ive ever agreed with Malkin on anything.

I still think that Imus should go, but so should every one of those ghetto-trash rappers. It's a shame, the mainstream music industry took what used to be an exciting genre (Rap/Hip-Hop) and totally ruined it via stereotype.

"Hummingbird"

How did this sound solo? I wished he had played it on his last solo tour...

Can't wait for the recording to turn up... Sounds like an awesome show!!

It sounded similar to the version from the AGIB demos that is found on the Wilco Book cd (without the other instruments, of course). Jeff said it himself before playing it, that its the only arrangement of this song that he can remember how to play on an acoustic guitar.

whoops...YouAreMYface beat me to it!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/10/cash.home.ap/index.html

HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Johnny Cash's longtime lakeside home, a showcase where he wrote much of his famous music and entertained U.S. presidents, music royalty and visiting fans, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.

Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived in the 13,880-square-foot (1,289-square-meter) home from the late 1960s until their deaths in 2003.

"So many prominent things and prominent people in American history took place in that house -- everyone from Billy Graham to Bob Dylan went into that house," said singer Marty Stuart, who lives next door and was married to Cash's daughter, Cindy, in the 1980s.

Stuart said the man who designed the house, Nashville builder Braxton Dixon, was "the closest thing this part of the country had to Frank Lloyd Wright."

When Cash moved there, the road was a quiet country lane that skirts Old Hickory Lake. Kris Kristofferson, then an aspiring songwriter, once landed a helicopter on Cash's lawn to pitch him a song. Roy Orbison was his next-door neighbor for a while.

The landmark video for Cash's song "Hurt" was shot inside the house.

"It was a sanctuary and a fortress for him," Stuart said. "There was a lot of writing that took place there."

Richard Sterban of the Oak Ridge Boys lives on the same road as Cash. "Maybe it's the good Lord's way to make sure that it was only Johnny's house," Sterban said.

The property was purchased by Barry Gibb, a former member of the Bee Gees, in January 2006. Gibb and his wife, Linda, had said they planned to restore the home on Old Hickory Lake and hoped to write songs there. They had not yet moved in to the home, which they bought for a reported $2.3 million (euro1.71 million).

Dixon built the three-story house in 1967 for his own family, but Cash fell in love with it. Dixon was reluctant to sell, but Cash kept after him.

"It was a very, very unusual contemporary structure," said Cash's brother, Tommy Cash. "It was built with stone and wood and all kinds of unusual materials, from marble to old barn wood. I don't think there was a major blueprint. I think the builder was building it the way he wanted it to look."

The younger Cash said many holidays and family get-togethers were spent at the house. And while Johnny and June also owned a house in Jamaica and a second house in Tennessee, they considered this one to be their home.

"Johnny and June lived there the entire time they were married," Tommy Cash said. "It was the only house they lived in together until they both passed on."

The fire, in this suburb about 20 miles (30 kilometers) northeast of downtown Nashville, started around 1:40 p.m. Fire trucks arrived within five minutes, but the house was already engulfed in flames, Hendersonville Fire Chief Jamie Steele said.

Just a few hours later, there was almost nothing left except stone chimneys.

The cause is unknown, but Steele said the flames spread quickly because construction workers had recently applied a flammable wood preservative to the exterior of the house. The preservative was also being applied inside the house.

No workers were injured, but one firefighter was slightly hurt while fighting the fire, Steele said.

Cash's long career, which began in the 1950s, spanned rock 'n' roll, folk and country. His hits included "Ring of Fire," "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line."

This is not the farting thread that i had expected.