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    Wilco 12/16/2011 Chicago, IL -Metro

    in After The Show

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    We watched the show in the hallway by the bar and there was a drunk girl that kept trying to start a fight with anyone who would try to get by her to get into the ballroom, like this was the first GA show she'd ever been to. It was the most obnoxious thing I've ever seen at a concert and definitely affected my enjoyment for the first 30 minutes while everyone was settling in.

    this sums up like three women around us. :lol we were right by the bar too. the best was the one who tried picking a fight with the woman bartender.

    UIC Night 2

    in After The Show

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    From where I was (about four rows back from Nels), the crowd was kinda strange. A few drunk couples doing the open-palmed testify during every song, one dude who kept telling everyone "peace bro," a small woman who kept using my shoulder to try and boost herself above me in order to see, and finally, after I moved aside to let her in front of me, some jackass who grabbed me by the neck and asked me if I was going to let everyone shorter than me in front of me. Seriously, fuck that kid, but the show was still great. We had some fun at the expense of the drunks too. It's all in how you handle it.

    Wilco (The Album Discussion w/ spoilers)

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Today I noticed that the Bull Black Nova intro reminds me a lot of the intro to the studio cut of Elliott Smith's Division Day.

    I've been telling anyone I know that will listen it's The Baseball Furies Chase score from the film The Warriors. It's uncanny.

     

    And I pretty much love this album, warts and all. It's not perfect by any means, but I do love it.

    For those who went to every show in the residency?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Yeah, this last week really made me appreciate what it must be like to be in a band. Gearing up for a few of the same songs every night, the physical toll a rock show puts on your body (plus the freezing hours waiting in line every day), and changing your life around to accommodate the shows.

    Yeah, as much as I loved this residency, it made me come to the conclusion that I just can't do that many shows in that small of a time frame anymore.

     

    That being said, I'd be back there for another residency in a heartbeat. I'd just be up in the balcony every night.

    Best of 2007

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    What about the new Richmond Fontaine record?

    I need more time to figure all the things I've heard this year that were released this year. I should really label this stuff in my Ipod...

     

    It's pretty fantastic. Along with The Roadside Graves and Everybodyfields' records, it's made it an incredibly solid year for alt.country.

    Rhett Miller - Schubas, 9/21/07

    in After The Show

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    i have a recording of another show where he does it and tells the story too... if i can find it i will try to post it.

     

    he told me another wilco story... they opened for em in 1999 or so, and rhett told me that a very drunk jeff tweedy and jay bennett comes up to him after the show and says "dude, my sister loves your records. they're too pussy for me though..." and stumbles off.

     

    Yeah, I'd love to hear his version again.

     

    The new material sounded very Fight Songs-ish, so I found that promising.

    Rhett Miller - Schubas, 9/21/07

    in After The Show

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    I'd never seen Rhett play solo, only as part of Old 97's, so it was definitely a different sort of creature. Schubas was packed, but the show seemed a little strange as it started at 7:30 promptly, and due to another act playing at 10, was over about 8:35. Although, in that hour plus, Rhett played a ton of Old 97's classics (Melt Show, Barrier Reef, Timebomb, Over the Cliff), along with a few songs off of each of his solo records, including "Fireflies" where he 'duetted' with himself (kinda funny really), and a couple of new Old 97's songs which sounded really promising (he said the band will begin recording their next album in the next few weeks). The surprise of the night came midway through the set. Rhett opens up the notebook he'd been using for the lyrics to the new songs and says he's going to play a cover. He then tells how back in 1998, he received an advance copy of Mermaid Avenue, because after the record was completed, there was a lot of tension between Wilco and Billy Bragg, and Wilco didn't want to tour with Bragg. Subsequently, Bragg wanted Old 97's to be his backing band. The band agreed to do it and learned the songs. A few days before they were supposed to go to England to rehearse for the tour, their visas were denied by the British Consulate and Wilco had to play the shows.

     

    Rhett then did a lovely cover of "California Stars."

     

    All in all, it was a great, if albeit short show.

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