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Sucked might be an unfair description, but thanks you for the hard evidence supporting my opinion. 😂

Digging the baritone and B-Bender guitars. Hopefully this sound, great as it is, is only one facet of a wide ranging album. Agree about the artwork. Very nice, and refreshing to see. I thought the Ode to Joy artwork sucked, Schmilco art was ok, Star Wars art was tossed off.

Hopefully the double length means it will be a stylistically wide ranging record. I feel their last two (and first two) were narrowly focused on the style they were working within. That’s not a bad thing, but at this stage of their career, and especially with a double album, I’d like to see them flex every muscle they’ve developed.

This is what I would have liked to see. A first set with three or four songs from each of the pre-YHF albums (plus maybe some rarities) that creates a chronology of the band’s progression towards YHF. Then a break before performing the full album. This keeps the focus unambiguously on YHF while delivering something closer to a Wilco concert length show. I understand why people were disappointed with the 70 minute length. Wilco has a devoted concert following because they earned it through quality AND quantity for a relatively low price. All of those things matter a lot, so if y

The fill-ins for Michael were Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart from Ohmme, and Liam Kazar, all of whom serve in Jeff’s band.

Oh man, I’m so sorry about this accident. I’ve been in some bad highway accidents, but none that ever ended a life. I can only imagine how painful this will be for everyone involved to process.

After all the fighting over whether this event should be canceled due to omicron, imagine if it got snowed out because the bands couldn’t get there. I’ll admit that I’d laugh if that happened.

As an 80% joke/20% legit proposal, I suggested to my wife that the Wilco universe should have worked out a deal where Wilco agreed to cancel, forcing a refund, if ticket holders agreed to bail them out financially by handing over 50% of the refunded price to cover a portion of Wilco’s cancellation penalty via gofundme. People set up gofundme’s every day for way less worthy causes.

Interesting. I wonder if their count of attendees is based on reservations that have already been cancelled, or they undersold the event from the start in anticipation of a potential government imposed capacity limitation (this isn’t consistent with what they’ve said in the past). Or perhaps the resort is so large that the number of people, even at full capacity, per square foot of resort space is allowable.

I don’t follow. I didn’t get an email from them, but that might be because I cancelled earlier today. Edit: What I said wasn’t conjecture. It’s a fact that some ticket holders will 1. Not cancel and 2. Not attend. Therefore, Hard Rock’s booking log (or whatever the hotel industry term is) will not be accurate since they are expecting people in that category to show up. The cancellation deadline is a non-factor in the scenario I am describing. But I am interested in what Cloud 9 has to say that refutes any of those facts, if anyone would care to share it her

Mavis is still in, but I agree. I hope she isn’t going out of a sense of obligation. Maybe the Hard rock corporate jet is flying her and the Tweedy’s to and from the event so they don’t have to go through an airport.

The lineup has changed. Out: Waxahatchee, Mountain Man, Julian Lage In: Soccer Mommy, Ohmme Maybe other changes I’m missing.

It wouldn’t surprise me if this event is able to slide through any potential capacity restrictions just due to the number of guest cancellations. This depends, though, on the number of people who officially cancel (those with “cancel for any reason“ insurance, or other insurable claims) and the number who simply do not show up and remain on the hotel’s booking log (people who don’t have insurable claims and therefore have no reason to notify the event that they aren’t coming). If the event thinks more guests are coming than actually are, they might end up being forced to cancel even though t

99% of posts on any forum are just opinions, so who cares. Let’s conject.

i won’t pretend to be a publicist or a PR person, and I’m 100% certain I could not put the words together in an effective way, but surely you would agree that words can be use in influential ways without burning bridges. It’s what professionals in these fields do every day.

That sucks. I emailed them today to find out how to get my cancellation and insurance claim rolling. Pretty sure I have to cancel through Cloud 9 before contacting insurance, but someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

Well yes, of course they’d use the bully pulpit wisely. I’m not suggesting they shoot their mouths off. It feels like Wilco doesn’t really have a publicist, or even an advocate in this scenario. Maybe this is a bit of myth-making thanks to the documentary, but it seemed like Tony Margherita fought for Jeff/Wilco in a way nobody seems to be doing anymore, and if he or someone like him were still their manager, I don’t think we wouldn’t have seen Jeff in near distress trying to be his own PR person on the Tweedy Show last week.

Wilco may not have pull from a legal standpoint, but as long as it’s their name on all of the branding, they have a bully pulpit which could be very influential. They have chosen not to use it, however, and that is frustrating.

That’s my thought, too. I assume Instagram was just not refreshing itself on my end, but it made me wonder since there is obviously a lot of developing news in the Wilco world these days.

Instagram stories is still showing “Tweedy Show tonight at 9” Are they doing another one tonight?

Jeez, that’s crazy, was that because of Delta? Rumor now is the Dead is about to cancel their fest. Announcement at 4:00.

Now that two core members of Dead & Company will be absent from their Mexico resort festival next week, it’ll be interesting to see how things move forward for them, how fans react, how SBS deals with a similar development if one arises, etc.

An interesting comment on FB suggested that Cloud 9 may be letting this one go forward, and if it’s a disaster, they can then use it as leverage to get their insurance company to cover the cancellation of the festivals that follow immediately after SBS. Seems entirely plausible to me. I can only imagine Jeff and the band are feeling really conflicted about this. I especially worry for Mavis, Sue and others who have health concerns that could make Covid especially dangerous.

Makes you wonder how many fewer tickets they would have sold if this had been common knowledge when ticket went on sale. The official insurer of the event can be reached at 866-368-3724. I called them last week and their customer service rep was helpful.

Thank you and Kidsmoke for your sympathy. It’s part of the deal as an animal lover, and it’s worth going through the hard part after all they bring to our lives, but understanding that never makes it any easier. We may not see you at a future SBS, but we do travel sometimes for Wilco shows, And would be happy to run into you somewhere down the line.