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Yes, thanks. Great site.

Jay Bennett just played with such ease. His fingers were spring-loaded. I wish I could play like Jay.

Lord, did you compile this yourself? Thanks!

He sounds like a muppet. Not quite sure which muppet.

Good show. Weird show. Good show.

probably in the minority here, but I think I'll stick with the Paul Simon version.

We have a majority.

Wilco could record their belches and I'd be first in line to buy it. They could perform said belch album in its entirety and I'd buy a ticket. That said, this was an average show. Granted, average Wilco shows are better than most bands on their best nights, but...they were rusty and I needed beer. Dry campus, dry building = bleeccch.

They're swell guys for doing the request-a-song thing on the website, but I'd prefer they take control and play what they want to. The jokes JT made last night about "gaming the system" were apt. And Cars Can't Escape sucked, btw. His quip, "we're gonna play it, but we're not gonna like it" rang true indeed. California Stars? Casino? Jeez. Sounded extra tired to me.

Can't please everyone. I know, I know.

They do play a full show, no qualms there.

P.S. - Liam Finn and EJ layered big sounds with just two peeps and looper. Good stuff there.

Are any of you cretins going to be there Thursday?

Me am. Will be. Whatever.

just wonderin...

Si. Me & her.

There's also the issue of age at work here. Speaking from personal experience, and having observed the same in others i know, the music which means the most is the stuff that i was listening to or "discovered" between the ages of about 18 and 30. After that you are well on the road to codgery and get stubborn. Your tastes codify. And so certain things get condemned because they aren't listened to at the right time. this isn't to say that you can't discover and enjoy new music beyond the age of 30 (far from it) but that music tends to be by artists who are totally new: i.e., someone you have no initial expectations of and therefor you are able to listen to it with a completely open mind.

 

This is not the case when you get into Wilco's position. I know what Wilco means to me and i want it (them, he) to keep meaning it. But it can't, simply because the impression has already been made.

 

Which leaves Tweedy and company with two options: to fret about it and try to please, nay, to pander to their fans (which would be exceedingly lame) or to just say screw it and do whatever they want to do, which is what they do do and pretty much have always done. which is how it should be. Disappointing to the old timers.

Well said. They don't make the same record twice. People evolve. Bands and fans.

The new record made me appreciate SBS more than I originally had. It has a poetic quality (as do its predecessors) that I don't find much of in the new one.

Live, they're an absolute machine right now. Relax. Enjoy.

I think of the Autumn Defense when I think of Iowa City.

Eleni Mandell too! http://songza.com/~yu7d97

Oh hell yeah. I saw St. Paul and St. Louis with an open date in between and hoped for the best. Damn, we've been lucky.

i saw them in lowell, MA and they were really solid! check this review out if you missed it!

 

http://bostonmusicspotlight.com/article.php?id=2370

lemme think about this...

Backstage Seattle 1995-05-19

Show Box Seattle 1996-11-17

Horning's Portland 1998-08-30

Roseland Portland 1999-05-21

Riviera Theater Chicago 1999-11-24

First Ave Minneapolis 2000-11-18

Union Bar Iowa City 2000-11-19

Abbey Pub (JT+) Chicago 2001-05-04

IMU Iowa City 2002-11-10

Val-Air Des Moines 2003-09-17

IMU - JT (+GK) Iowa City 2006-02-19

Adler Theatre Davenport 2007-06-13

IMU Iowa City 2007-10-14

Harveys Tahoe Stateline, NV 2009-06-28

I've got Dennis DeYoung doing the music of Styx practically in my back yard tonight! You're jealous!!! Who needs Wilco???

I was at the Tahoe show at least. But Colorado sure would be nice right about NOW....Yeah?

All the tickets were GA. I'll be there. Can't wait!

Cool. Thank you.

Going that is...Were all the tickets GA, or are GA tix the only ones left??

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Feat...ilcos-live-420/

to be honest, i haven't read it yet. oh, i hope it's more than a commercial.

okay, now i've read it. not much new. oh well. rock on.

Anyone know why, in Chicago (I have never seen them do it anywhere else), they walk on to the theme song to "The Bob Newhart Show"? It's kind of funny, and a peppy tune, but I just don't get why...

They did it in Iowa City in October, so there goes that theory. In fact, I think they may have the entire leg.

GA is really the only way to go as far as I'm concerned. The energy of a standing crowd and how it feeds the band is incomparable to anything: makes for a truly religious experience. Millenium and the couple of Auditorium shows I've been to pale so heavily in comparison to Iowa City, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza. The physical strain is SO MORE THAN WORTH IT.

yeah, i saw mr. adams in the same venue a week or two prior and the seats destroyed what was gonna be a terrible show anyway. seriously. the seats made it bad, but RA made it worse.

long live GA and good peeps coming to IC.

what's with nels and hitting his head on the chandelier? i didn't see it. rumor says hospital. anybody?

wish i could be more verbose. it was really good. how's that?

pat sansone during 'late greats' (?) delivered what jeff later called a heretofore unseen rock move. he re-inserted his guitar chord into his raised guitar in ultra-dramatic sloowwww motion just before his part kicked in. tweedy remarked too that it was "rather suggestive" as well. funny.

hot. good crowd. well-behaved. typical iowa stuff.

wasn't expecting 'it's just that simple'. nostalgic for us oldtimers. 'too far apart' rocked in a way i hadn't heard before too.

wow. like the tiger says, they're grrrrreat.

So, did you like it or not?

i know, i know. don't mince words, tell it to me straight.

i thought this was the most meandering, bloated wankfest that i've been to in many a moon. that bob weir stuff has worn off on ryan. to his detriment. blecch. the 2-3 minute chats between songs was cute for a nanosecond, but the guy needs to deliver. and the audience was so fucking polite too! ha ha, ryan, ha ha, you quit smoking. you're a nutty guy. boring! i stayed thinking he'd redeem himself. nope. sucked. granted it was almost 3 hrs, but i'd have taken half of that for a better, focused, energetic set without the stupid banter and spacejams. YAWN.

i'm still a little bit miffed...

Coolio! This party is starting to come together.

kool moe dee. i'm scouting a pregame site for a spirit or libation. the front street brewery is a few blocks away and currently in first position. anybody else? my ka-nowledge of that town is limited.