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maybe that's why one of them is standing in a gas station in the Summerteeth booklet.

yeah, i understand what you mean. it looks odd when you shelve a DVD of the whole band, a group performance, and instead release something that soloely focuses on you. i just don't get why he'd make a "documentary" of his solo tour... what's there to document, besides the concert? was it a particularly exciting driving to the next town? i don't get it.

sounds like tweedy wants to be the center of attention

John? Really? I am convinced that it IS Nels Cline.

that picture of the guy in his underwear looks just like Nels.

no, those were members of the great Chicago band Head of Femur.

Love love love What Light, though !!!! On the boots I have he definitely throws in One instead of What at different points. Just responding to an earlier post about that.

Good call me (I've memorized which guitars the guys play on which songs lol).

 

And no it is "what" light.

I guess I was right.

a lot of these new songs sound like a throwback to the Being There era. Horns, lap steel, major pentatonic... what's next, BANJO?!

ladies and gentleman... Hornco.

A Shot in the Arm

Impossible Germany

IATTBYH

What Light?

The Late Greats

Handshake Drugs

Via Chicago

Let's Fight

War on War

Jesus, Etc.

Zit Story

HMD

does anybody else hear it as "one light"?

The Raconteurs were boring. I really thought they sucked.

I just emailed him and said I'd like to buy a pedal from him.

is it me or is Mike absent from the signatures?

I ordered mine directly from Paul Crowther ( croth@clear.net.nz ). I bought mine for $150, a great deal less than the $180 most other places charge. It may be a bit of a secret that you can order from him, so don't tell anybody!

The Rhino reissues are fabulous. I'm not sure what fan wouldn't want them... the sound is better on both discs, great artwork, extended liner notes by Elvis... they are the way to go. The Bonus Discs are great... most people expect too much out of them. They are not there to top the original album or feature some miraculously "lost" track... they give a better picture of the time period/recording of the album and the process.

I don't think its a proper "session" recording. It sounds like a soundcheck to me, but the guy on dime said it wasn't.

The link below is a torrent from dimeadozen, and at the end of it is some unknown recordings, the first of which appears to be an early version of "Wishful Thinking". Anybody know anything about this?

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details...189#comm1236189

I just put on dvd my brother-in-law gave me: German Hotel Kamera, and am watching 7/9/99, Rockpalast, Loreley, Germany, and am absolutely certain the current line-up rolls over Jay and company. I think by YHF Jay had given all he could and though integral to Wilco evolution, there's no comparison between line-ups now.

 

My three cents.

 

are you serious? the version of "Christ For President" from that show is the best I've ever heard... absolutely scorching. Listen to Leroy Bach's Hammond organ on "California Stars", "I Got You", etc. I agree that some aspects are done better by the current line up... but they're nowhere near as good as rocking the hell out of those songs.

I checked Wikipedia, and they spell it "Wilco."

 

Now, anyway.

I happen to know the band, and they prefer to spell it WiLco.

It's actually WiLco. That is the way it is spelled on Wikipedia.

Then that must really be how its spelled. If its not on Wikipedia, THEN ITS NOT TRUE!!!11

yes, the songs that have been played a few times live and have yet to be seen or heard on a studio release surely show that jeff is nothing without jay. And AGIB and the Loose Fur records never happened.

I didn't say that at all, but whatever. The new songs don't sound that great to me, but if you think they're "the best music Jeff has made", good for you. You said Jay leaving freed up Jeff to create the some of the best music of his career. I'm saying that if those new songs are any indication, that's not true. Loose Fur's last record was fabulous... then again, Jim O'Rourke is in the band. I wish the new Wilco songs were as good as those.

I think a lot of what he's saying is bullshit. Last time he played Chicago (Riviera in fall of 2004), he came on late and let the audience wait for like an hour and a half while he was getting a tatoo or some shit, then played until the 11:00 curfew. Then he says "oh, the venue has a curfew, so we had to get off". He probably played for like an hour or so.

my impression was that he helped wilco's evolution on Being There just by being good at the guitar and keys, then he screwed up Summerteeth, and then he was going for a repeat on YHF but some weird dude named Jim fixed it.

 

Jay is a talented guy, but he has a phony presence in his music that i find irritating. his absence freed up Jeff to create the best music of his career, or at least that's how i hear it.

 

and has Jeff even tried producing?

I think the "new" Wilco songs proves your theory wrong.

i also agree that some of his stuff isn't as good as others. Bigger Than Blue is his best so far... the first half is great (including great songs like Charming and Plastic, Cajun Angel, Curiosity, Let's Count Our Losses, It's Hard). Its when he gets too carried away, like the second half of Blue, that its not very good. Beloved Enemy also has great songs, but again a few songs suffer from noisy experimentation.