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Agree. Most of my family are lukewarm on Wilco, but they all love CS. It's among my wife's favorite songs by anyone, and, again, she's not a big fan. Thing about music is it either connects w/ you or it doesn't, but, my gosh, that is a song that is tapped into the source!

Similarly, in Raleigh Nick was on about 7:05, maybe 7:10 (official start was 7:00). Wilco on at 8:16, off at 10:23. I think you can safely assume no Wilco before 9:00 w/ an 8:00 official show time for Nick. Enjoy!

Touché! Perhaps I was subconsciously making reference to a line from You Are The Everything (All you hear is time stand still in travel), but, as much as I am quite OK w/ their entire catalog (everyone's allowed some weak ones), Sitting Still is so much better!

Done. Sorry about that. Big R.E.M. fan, and time is standing still for me at 9/21 as I continue to mourn. Today is 9/21, too. So is tomorrow.

Since the dawn of time, once bands move beyond small clubs, general admission has always brotught out the worst in people. I have said those very words many times. It's sad, but true. I damn near came to fisticuffs at Guided By Voices' last show a couple of weeks ago because of people showing up extremely late and pushing, big time, with some bizarre sense of entitlement. Meanwhile, I quite enjoyed my reserved seat at Wilco tonight in Raleigh. Oh, and everyone stood (not that I think one can't enjoy the hell out of show by sitting - one has to kind of go with the flow on that).

I sat out the last two shows they were in town, one because I wasn't in town, and one because I am just not a fan of the venue (Koka Boothe - beautiful, but not a good set up, and the stage is too fuckin' low). I am surprised to hear myself say this, but this was my favorite Wilco show ever. I don't have the setlist. Could probably piece together, but too tired.

Ticket is sold

just saw the e-mail address rule. preston.cleland@gmail.com

Please PM me if interested. Asking $40 which is face w/out fees, so a bargain.

I grew up in Tidewater, so most of my camping was on the concrete outside of the Hampton Coliseum. I did not camp for that U2 show as I had to work early the day the tickets went on sale, but my mom must love me, because she managed the patience to keep trying on the phone (the other, very unreliable, way to get tickets back then), and she scored 2 nice seats to the 2nd night they added. One of the best shows I have ever seen, by the way. As for your other post re: the Ticketron machine spitting out tickets before they waited on the first person, that could have been advanced reservations

LOL!! I can neither confirm, nor deny. Anyway, my long winded point is, Wilco's presale through Frontgate is about as legit as it can get, but demand still outstrips supply, there's no single fair way to do this (though, I'd like to try to dream one up), and, most of all, venue presales are generally something to be avoided. So are AMEX presales. I almost fell for one last summer for Paul McCartney. Ended up waiting and doing his official presale, which again was surprisingly low key/under the covers (if I recall, they didn't really announce it; it just sort of happened so vigilance paid

I'll explain it. Back when I was growing up when a big show came through town, there was no internet. If you wanted to get ANY tickets to see Springsteen or the Stones or U2, you had to wait in a really long line. Generally you had to camp out overnight, regardless of the weather. Obviously, this was unfair for some people who's situation may not have permitted them to do that (school/work responsibilities; too young; not in good enough healthy to sleep outdoors in unbearable weather conditions; etc.). Outside of those obvious limitations, the system was fair. For those with the means (pr

Row E center (section 2) in Raleigh.

Good show. I went up to the porta potties shortly before the encore, and you could barely hear that high up on the lawn. Definitely a "museum" crowd as much or more so than a specific Tweedy fan crowd. The talking was awful. Some dude behind me kept saying "oh, this is a great fucking song", and then he'd gab right through it. Fuck all, man, just stay home with the albums if you're going to flap your choppers all night. I could have done with an extra 3 or 5 songs, and one does wonder if Jeff just got tired of competing. He more than earned his money either way. I'm not a huge fan of