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Marijn

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    Schmilco!

    in Just A Fan

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    I wish, but that Amazon link says September 9th.

    Star Wars dropped on July 16th, but the CD wasn't released until the end of August (and the vinyl came two months later).

     

    That official tweet tells me something's in the air..

    Crossing Border The Hague

    in After The Show

    Posted

    As a fellow Dutchman, I can assure you that people writing about 'Dutchie-gate' at the Leuven gig are clearly missing the point. After a couple of songs, Tweedy told the audience that they were having more fun than the audience the night before. At that point, I shouted "but they were Dutch!", which transformed into a running gag, especially when some other Dutchies at the front shouted *they* surely were having fun. At one point during the show, Jeff jokingly assured everyone that he wasn't in a position to dislike the Dutch, the French or any other population, "because I'm American".

     

    Over the past 12 years, I have visited nearly 20 Wilco/Tweedy shows across Europe (but mainly in NL), and I agree that Jeff can be a bit grumpy at times. Even after the Leuven show, my friend and fellow VC'er Dunja told me that this was a completely different Jeff Tweedy than two days before in Cologne, where he made a guy leave the show for taking some pictures. Maybe this resulted in Tweedy being a bit cranky in Den Haag. (Also, I visited Crossing Borders a couple of years ago, where most of the "non-mainstream" gigs were packed with cultural snobbish pipe smoking 'Volkskrant' readers). But the atmosphere in Leuven was so joyful, and Tweedy was just joking around the whole time.

     

    Finally, I *honestly* couldn't be bothered with an artist criticizing the audience, as long as he performs well. According to Dutch reviews, he did. Case closed.

    Death of the CD

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Actually, I think this might be good news for independent record stores. There'll always be a market for physical media, wheter it's vinyl or plastic discs. People just don't want to buy a disc for every single song they hear on the radio; that's why the cd single disappeared a few years ago. If Walmart and Best Buy discontinue their cd sales, people might return to the smaller stores.

     

    I for one still enjoy buying cd's, but they usually end up unused in my closet, because most of the time I already downloaded a lossless copy.

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