M. (hristine

I am going to blow a stinking gasket.

 

I have a feeling that I am going to be very bitter for a long time.

 

I self edited before I posted this.

 

Let's just say I'm rethinking a lot of things.

You seriously need to quit pissing all over these threads. You said you and your son had a great time at the Dallas show. Get on with it.

Bump!

Please PM me if you have an extra.

Thanks!

In grade school, we collected money to adopt pagan babies. We even got to name them. Is that what you mean?

Someone shot this video that night. Great quality. And oh look. There's me in the front row being all smitten and stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E-2zEV3lu8&feature=player_embedded

Have fun at this show everyone. I had my Wilco cherry popped at the Vic.

It makes no sense to camplain about "super-fans". That is not the issue. Tickets have become a mafia economy. It sucks, but that's the reality.

In my town, $47 tickets are being sold online from between $130 and $202 a piece. Times 4 tickets that's pretty nice profit for a minute of work.

Mid-set she did a cover of Pop Group's She Is Beyond Good and Evil. It was one of those rare moments that live music lovers live for. Small room, Annie giving it up and every one in the audience feeding her. The guy next to me in closed eyed ecstasy as if to look at her would sear his retinas. I looked back across the audience in the space it took Annie Clark to catch her breath before launching into Northern Lights. Everyone was saying, "Holy shit. What just happened there?".

Annie Clark was full blushing.

Fucking amazing.

Don't kid yourselves boys. That might be the best show I see this year. Holy shit.

Done. But only because it was skyflynn that asked.

Slightly sloped.

Got my tickets for KC! :woot

Seeing her in a couple weeks at the behest of my teenage daughter. Small room. Really looking forward to the show.

It's getting late, so the only other thing I wanted to mention was that I happened to catch a glimpse of a printed setlist and the one I saw had "One Sunday Morning" listed as the sole song of a second encore! So maybe look for that soon as the next song from the new record to make its live debut.

I really hope this makes it into the set by the time they hit my town. And to close the show with it, sweet creamy Jesus.

There are definite benefits to being a middle of the road stop in the tour of a new album.

See, now I wish I had listened more than once.

Tweedy hooks.

 

I think Dawned on Me still has pretty sissy lyrics,

My daughter Sarah called the lyrics "girly".

I wrote earlier that this album had something further. Music has always been a touchstone for me and I am old. The first time I heard Wilco, the music seemed to embody so much that came before but pushed deep into something new. That's what was so compelling. That was what hooked me.

This album has taken a leap in all of the elements we have mentioned here...the musicianship, the production, the subtleties. It's still more than the sum. Wilco's music is once again nascent.

Listening to One Sunday Morning a second time. Going to try to put the album away now until I can hear a good rip.

This album may contain some of Tweedy's richest tunes. Something further. This makes me happy.

I'm changing my stance on extraneous merchandising. I'd like to buy the album with an accompanying microchip to embed in my skull containing Smileys on a permanent loop. Then I'd be permanently walking round like some beaming blessed out loon. Would you be able to tell the difference though...

Ha!

Perhaps the subtlest of difference.

Sun King

Listening on headphones. Looking forward to hearing a fat rip of this.

Can't get over the scrumptious bass lines. I think there is plenty enough here to bring me back for multiple listens.

 

I thought we were all at the Friday show.

You have a mind like a steel trap.

Saturday night. I can see Fakeliz, then me. You were standing behind me that night, Aman.

Not to split hairs, but if Facebook ain't public I don't know what is.

Not to overstate the obvious, but some hairs are more easily split than others.

Oh good heavens. No mention of any conversational venue or names or any context was used and for good reason. The conversation seemed a simple way of illustrating the opinion of many folks through a specific instance. I happen to disagree with with it. The St Louis situation would seem to bear that out.

Also, I like using the word "draconian".

They are seen as overly complicated and do not accommodate the many extenuating circumstances one faces after purchasing tickets months in advance.

If this is what you see as referring to you, none of it was meant sarcastically. These are legitimate concerns.

I believe the band management tried hard to eliminate scalping for this fall run. It is still very possible tickets for this show, and others, will reappear once management reviews ticket orders and online tickets available for re-sale. I also believe we may see ticket-less ticketing from Wilco in the future. They may have tried this "4 tickets only, one order per address" option first as ticket-less events will cost more in man power and they were hoping to not pass this along to us, the fans.

 

"Draconian" seems harsh, If the band management had allowed multiple orders, tickets would have gone even faster as I know I would have tried to get better seats than my pre-sales and I'm sure others would have too.

 

I do sympathize for you and hope you or someone you know lives in St. Louis and can get tickets at Euclid Records Tuesday, July 19 at 10am. - http://www.facebook.com/wilcohq

 

Good Luck!

Thanks, ditty.

I thought draconian was harsh also. I was making the point that these extra measures are not really appreciated by many fans. They are seen as overly complicated and do not accommodate the many extenuating circumstances one faces after purchasing tickets months in advance. That was her take anyway.

My understanding is that rules for purchase varied with the venue.

Ultimately I don't have the time to chase around after tickets. My work does not involve sitting in front of a computer screen waiting for the right moment to log in to the sale. St Louis is a 4 hour trip. If tickets had been procured with ease I would have done it. I made the 8 hour round trip for Califone last. But I paid face for tickets, sat in the first row of a 150 capacity room, and enjoyed one of the best live shows I had ever seen.

Hoping that a closer venue will be announced, with more "draconian" ticket rules in place.

This intrigued me. Are you commenting on the difficulty in getting tickets?

Not at the difficulty of getting tickets; apparently plenty of tickets can be found on Craigslist St. Louis.

When getting tickets for a show becomes fraught with complications (general sale being sold out in 3 minutes while plenty of black market tickets are immediately available), I really can't be bothered with participating.

A friend called newer ticketing policies "draconian".

Until band management sees fit to tighten up the way tickets are sold, or until fans turn their backs on the rock and roll mafioso, my live music dollar can better serve hungrier musicians in smaller venues.

I might have seen Wilco for the last time 2 years ago.