bböp

Dear Uncle, Hope you're having a great holiday! Glad to know you haven't expired. Things more or less the same here. Oh, I won a prize for doing nothing and people seem to be eager to take pictures of it! Anyway, ta for your pre-emptive ta. Best regards, Bip (B)Bop Boop.

Halfway through another entertaining Wilco show in Chicago, there is a small hubbub between songs at stage left. At first it appears that someone has passed out or is in need of medical assistance, but then a couple are permitted to enter the photo pit between the front barricade and the lip of the stage. Jeff announces, a bit tentatively, that he thinks the male half of the couple, "a friend of ours...has something he would like to do." It is none other than the comedian/actor Chris Kattan — former Saturday Night Live cast member known for characters such as Mr. Peepers and one of the Roxbury

It's there now. #WorkInProgress #Sheesh

Let me just say off the top that, while I was extremely honored and humbled to receive the inaugural "Best Behaved" award for Wilco's 2023 tour, I must confess that my immediate thought in the aftermath concerned the parameters of the deal that the gurus at Wilco HQ surely must have made with a grade school products wholesaler. It seems to have started with the appearance of various pencils among the wares being hawked at the band's online store, followed by "Wilco Concert Participant" ribbons in a variety of colors (available at your local merch stand!). And now, apparently, a statuette the l

Just doing a bit of housekeeping, since I wasn't able to make it down to Miami for this one (though I am in Miami now as I'm doing this, lol). Anyway, Jeff played a solo acoustic set to headline the final day of the three-day GroundUp Music Festival, and I know that more than a few of the Florida-based, er, fanbase came out to watch. But since none have reported in here, I shall steal the setlist posted by the good folks at Wilcoworld and make the dutiful post. (Jeff also played a very short bonus set earlier in the day for folks who had apparently purchased a VIP or supplemental ticket of som

Someday Wilco will actually win a Grammy for their actual current music! Probably wishful thinking...

Hadn't seen this remembrance of Tom Verlaine posted on here yet. Typical Nels...so brilliant and insightful. Well worth a read. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nels Cline Remembers Tom Verlaine: “A Guitar Hero of Mine” Wilco’s visionary guitarist pays tribute to Television’s late frontman. February 2, 2023 by Shaun Brady The death of Tom Verlaine on Jan. 28, at age 73, has inspired eulogies from countless artists whose own work has stretched the boundaries of rock. As the frontman,

For anyone interested... Paul Suwan's Guest DJ set: -Misunderstood (1/9/03, Chicago) -Hummingbird (6/8/04, New York) -Kicking Television (9/13/03, Morrison, CO) -Be Not So Fearful [Bill Fay] (fragment of unknown Jeff acoustic performance; referring to 5/20/07 show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire when Fay played the song with Wilco) -Promising (fragment of studio version; referring to 5/7/2005 Vic show) -Peaches [Presidents of the USA] (house music from 2/16/08, Chicago) —intermission— -Black Moon (3/11/12, Zagreb, Croatia) -Love Will Keep Us Together [The Captain and

Who's that guy? Yeah, I hope they end up doing another edition of WWR sooner than later, though I know it takes a ton of work to put it all together. Anyway, for those jonesing for more Wilco radio, here's that link to the archives of Pat's excellent show, the Baroque Down Palace, from Memphis' WYXR. And here was Nels' "Thoughts Of A Fool" set, as I jotted it down: -Deep Water (Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant) -Thoughts Of A Fool (Ernest Tubb) -He'll Have To Go (Jim Reeves) -He Stopped Loving Her Today (George Jones) -I'm Not Ready Yet (Tammy Wynet

I have (almost all of) Nels’ setlist, which I’ll post here in a bit. I’m pretty sure Pat’s set was an abridged version of a previously recorded set of his radio show, the Baroque Down Palace, which you can find on the site for Memphis’s WYXR…will try to find a link.

I shall accept your ta, and issue a pre-emptive ta of my own for when/if you get a chance to tune in…

I think it was just their way of being goofy. And anyway, technically it should be Nelson Courtney Cline!l, shouldn’t it?

Thank you, sir. You've been to plenty of shows yourself, so I appreciate the kind words. And there's definite room for improvement, so hopefully it happens again sometime in some form...

Thanks. Wish I had sort of been more pro and planned out the transitions a little better. Part of the issue was I wasn't certain when I recorded the blurbs what audio was going to be available. And that wound up being a problem with a couple of them because there apparently isn't any existing audio that the band has of either the Be Not So Fearful with Bill Fay in London or the meltdown end of the final Kicking TV show at the Vic. This Croatia one, I just wish I had planned out the song better in terms of what ended up getting played vs. what I talked about. #NotAPro

I don't know about now, but recordings of all three of those January 2003 solo shows were widely available for a long time through the usual networks.

That was from Pittsburgh on 6/21/03, I'm told. Though I don't believe it was announced. (For those keeping track...aka nerds.)

That's the name of his semi-regular radio show on Memphis station WYXR, of which this segment is an excerpt I think. Good pun, though...I agree.

Oh, Mr. Olsen get snoozy in warmth of sauna? Then no problem. I shall not rouse the man…at least until he refresh self in geothermal pool! Welfare!

Was the ‘ta’ conditional?

Did I have a scuffle there? I only remember Parisian teenyboppers using me as pogo stick during Spiders…

Will I receive a really long CVS-style receipt (or whatever it’s called over there, probably “bill of sale” or some such, even though it was a service provided for just a Ta and not quid). And if so, will it be pronounced det-tritt-us, or deee-try-tus?

Should be some interesting listening (hopefully present company included) over at Wilcoworld.net for a week starting tomorrow morning... Here's the broadcast sked lifted from over there: Broadcasting: Tuesday, January 17th @ 7am CT – Tuesday, January 24 @ 7p CT All schedule times are approximate and in Central Standard Time. Tuesday, January 17th 7:00am CT WILCO’S GOT YOU COVERED with GUEST DJ MARTY LENNARTZ Chicago’s Legendary WXRT DJ, Marty Lennartz walks us through Wilco covering songs by seminal artists like Telev

Haha, I was waiting for the time out. Guess I'll just have to do it for free now. Thanks for your indulgence.

Just for the record, I went with Having A Hard Time for the title of the song in question because Wilcoworld actually posted the setlist for the first Largo show on Jan. 5 before I finished my recap/setlist post here. I originally called it "It's Nothing New" as well, but changed it in deference to what Wilcoworld had. I hear that someone may have seen a song listed as "Nothing New" on a physical setlist at the show, which is almost certainly where the confusion stems from. So until Jeff clarifies it or the song is released with one title or the other, we won't know for sure. Eithe

[Since anyone can watch this show for themselves, courtesy of the now-exhausted hand and arm muscles of one Susan Miller Tweedy, and the fact that I have an early trip to the airport to try and get home before another bad-weather phenomenon hits the West Coast (not to mention the fact that our resident Tweedy Show chronicler has already covered the basic outline of tonight's live stream), I don't feel too badly about postponing my final recap of Jeff's 2023 Largo run in favor of a little bit of shut eye. I shall put finger to keyboard in due course, either when I get home or at least have a li