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Giving it a listen right now. Cool to hear some of those old World Cafe sessions...

I got my copy yesterday. Nice to have you guys back in print, and best of luck going forward!

Sounds pretty crazy. Perhaps this thread should be retitled to "There's a fight, what fight?" From @roddyhart: A strange occurrence at a Wilco gig. Quiet song, then two guys in the balcony: the "C" word, a headbutt, four punches, ejected, police. Yeesh.

Haha! As per the recent Wilco Facebook picture post from backstage at Glasgow: Forget The Flowers ---> Forgit th' flowers. Not as exciting, somehow...

Yeah, unfortunately had to make a tough call on which tour leg to hit. My prediction skills are still OK, I guess, but they keep on adding more songs. Buggers!

I think this was my favorite line: "One great sign about new independent rock bands, over the past few years, has been a noticeable uptick in the number whose names are vulgar jokes, or deliberately inappropriate..." I mean, can you really take seriously anyone who judges music based on a band's name? Anyway, I thought it was worth posting the article because I'm sure there are plenty of people who think this way. I admire the attitude and ideas of bands like Fucked Up as much as the next person, but when it comes to music, I guess I admire musicianship and singing and the ability to craft

Funny, I thought when you did that you came up with a picture of 50ftqueenie... Have fun at the Glasgow show, which by my calculations should be getting going in just a little while now!

Obviously I don't agree with most of this writer's sentiments, and it's not really anything we haven't heard before, but I guess it's at least something worth discussing... From New York magazine:

Looks like Wilco tweeted yesterday that the support act on the West Coast run will be White Denim. I'm not overly familiar with their music, but I'm pretty sure Jeff namechecked their record (or one of their records) in a recent interview.

I saw Gary Louris solo there a while back and it was seated on the main floor--not assigned seats--but I can't imagine that this one will be seated at all except for the balcony stools...and maybe not even those. They'll want to be able to get as many people as possible in there.

The routing might not always make the most sense, but I don't think it really matters that much to the band/crew. They each have a bus and a driver and they all sleep overnight as they're headed to the next stop. So while the schedule is grueling in some ways, I don't really think getting sleep is the worst of it...

Not to reply to my own post, but I just got a shipping notification from Sandbag this morning. Which is, what, like 9 or 10 days before the event? This seems kind of ridiculous to me, especially considering I just received some tickets yesterday that I ordered for next year's European tour (and those from Italy, no less). Granted I paid a pretty healthy shipping charge, but I don't think Sandbag is especially cheap when it comes to shipping. Pretty much any other ticketing agency I've used for European shows you've either been able to print-at-home or you pay a decent shipping charge but you g

Haha, sorry! Didn't mean to tease your brain so early in the AM. Indeed, it'd be a lot of fun to see Wilco at Lincoln Hall... I'm curious to see how the price tag affects things. I'm sure it really won't in this case, but I always find it a little weird that some people balk at the price for Jeff's solo benefits at the Vic and that they usually have to knock the price down to get the place sold out. Maybe that's not as true anymore. And granted, the Vic is a lot bigger than Lincoln Hall and it's just Jeff but it's always an interesting dynamic to me. Then again, it's also weird to me how

Update: Well, it looks like it's on sale through etix so at least it'll be a little better than it otherwise would have. I'm sure they (wisely) realized that the Schubas/Lincoln Hall servers wouldn't be able to handle the traffic. Still gonna be an extremely tough ticket, I'm guessing, since Lincoln Hall is about half the size (if that) of Metro...

Funny, I turned on XRT right at 7:30 (or so I thought) just to hear one of these announcements and I somehow still missed it. But they just reannounced it. So yeah. I will say that the Schubas/Lincoln Hall server isn't necessarily the greatest when it comes to high traffic, in my past experience, so hopefully the price tag will deter at least some people...or God bless us.

I bought tickets for the London gigs via Sandbag and still haven't gotten any sort of shipping notification. Doesn't really matter, since I unfortunately won't be able to make it to those shows anyway but man, that'd be a pain if I was going. It really is just not worth using Sandbag anymore, IMHO.

I could be mistaken here, but I got the sense that the general idea of this was to play progressively smaller venues the way Dylan did a few years back. Civic Opera House, at least according to its Wikipedia page, has a capacity of 3,563. The Riv is listed on various sites as having a capacity of between 2,300-2,500. And on downward with the Vic and Metro. So it seems to me anyway that the next show will somewhere smaller than Metro. Maybe not smaller by much (which is one of the reasons Park West makes a lot of sense) but smaller nonetheless. Oh, and please anything but the Congress. That p

I think it's really amusing to look at the FB comments as well. Whenever "Wilco" posts anything, immediately there's like 100 comments by various people basically begging the band to come to their town/city/country (even when they just have). But hooray for all you West Coast folks!

You'd definitely be reading waaaay too much into my previous comment because I honestly know nothing. Purely a guesstimate on my part...

He might still do stuff there on occasion, but I heard he didn't have an ownership stake in the place anymore. But you probably know more than I do...

Thanks so much! Would be great to see you again, of course. But whether I can get there or not, I'm sure they'll make it out to your neck of the woods within the next six months or so...

Doubt they'll be playing there again anytime soon. A big reason they played there before, I believe, is that it used to be owned or part-owned by their front-of-house man Stan. But I'm pretty sure he's no longer involved with that place.

Yeah, who do you Europeans think you are? Americans? (Actually, I bet there are a fair number of Americans at the shows...at least in Brussels.)

Haha, I doubt they could even fit the entire band on either of those stages! Let's be at least somewhat realistic here. I would be surprised if Saturday/Sunday isn't at Park West. It makes sense because a) it's available; it's another Jam Productions venue that often hosts XRT-sponsored shows, which these all seem to be; and c) because it's small, but not way too small for the band to actually be able to have their normal stage setup (production). Of course, it'd be great if they'd play the Hideout or Lincoln Hall/Schubas but you can't realistically expect that.

You can't imagine Lincoln Hall, but can imagine Old Town? Old Town is way smaller, isn't it? Lincoln Hall would be great, of course. Metro seems more realistic--and perhaps appropriate--personally. I remember reading an interview with the owner of Metro a while ago--maybe around their 20th anniversary a few years back--where he was asked which band(s) he regrets not having booked there and he mentioned Wilco. Something about how they just sort of missed the boat on them as they were coming up as a band and then they were too big. I've always found it a little weird that Wilco as a band is