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I've been a long time follower of viachicago, but have never felt the need to post anything until now....

 

My dad's cousin (my cousin once removed) is John Stirratt and he just replied to one of the emails i sent to him. He said that we should be expecting the next album pretty soon and maybe within the the year.

 

...just some food for thought.

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I've been a long time follower of viachicago, but have never felt the need to post anything until now....

 

My dad's cousin (my cousin once removed) is John Stirratt and he just replied to one of the emails i sent to him. He said that we should be expecting the next album pretty soon and maybe within the the year.

 

...just some food for thought.

 

that would be sweet.

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it's true, my boss just gave me a box full of junk w/ the demo for it inside. here is the album cover:

 

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...Just in case you are on the up an up...don't mind him...it's just the usual noise in here.

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it's true, my boss just gave me a box full of junk w/ the demo for it inside. here is the album cover:

 

JacksonMilliebath.jpg

...Just in case you are on the up an up...don't mind him...it's just the usual noise in here.

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at the basement show, Jeff mentioned that they had another album's worth of songs recorded, so it's possible that we could see it soon.

I believe his exact words were "half done," but same idea. Unless they scrap it like dBpm, it will be sooner rather than later.

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Hello,

 

I would like to throw in my .02 cents. I spoke to John Stirratt after The Autumn Defense show last Tuesday in Cambridge, MA. I gave a short review of it and I forgot to mention something he mentioned. I told him I loved Sky Blue Sky and asked him what plans were in store after the release of Sky Blue Sky. He told me to expect the next record sooner than you think. I gave him a double whammy of a baffled face :stunned and "R E A L L Y ?!!" He said "yeah." I believe John and the whole point of this post. John also mentioned that Wilco would be in the North East in June. I wouldn't come on here to lie. It does seem possible with the recording of Sky Blue Sky that there is a plethora of material waiting to be sequenced.

 

Thanks

 

Kristofor

 

PS Anyone else talk to John or Pat on their tour ?

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what is dBpm???

 

 

a set of improvisational songs the group recorded over the span of a week in 2002. it's possible that some of these ended up on the Wilco book CD, but maybe not. I'm just pissed that the whole thing was never released. I was very excited when I frst heard about it, and equally as bummed when they decided to scrap it.

 

dBpm.jpg

 

 

quote from a 2002 John Stirratt interview:

 

We really don't feel pressure at this point, because in February, we had a great initial session and kind of had a finished piece, a finished record together that we could listen to. DBpm is the name of it, decibels per minute. And it really freaked everyone out. I think we were all really happy with it. It's got Yankee Hotel-ish textures or sounds, but just in a completely different textural feel, a little more rocking and organic and dense. But it's also kind of all over the place. We recorded kind of a live, kind of folky record, too, a 30-minute thing of a lot of kind of free-verse stuff. We might do something on the Net with that later on.

 

and also a Jeff Tweedy interview:

http://www.geocities.com/nutnhunee/cold.html

 

In his room on the 29th floor of a midtown Manhattan hotel, Jeff Tweedy is playing Wilco's latest and strangest record. This is not the official new release, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot--the avant-melancholy jewel for which Tweedy's band were shown the door by Reprise Records last year and made them more famous for their bad luck and trouble than they'd ever been for their music. The album in the hard drive of Tweedy's laptop computer, which is plugged into the hotel stereo, is Wilco's newest work--so new that Tweedy, bassist John Stirratt, drummer Glenn Kotche, and multi-instrumentalist Leroy Bach finished it five days ago. It was made in a week, a mere crack in time compared to the two years it took, from first demo to last mix, for Wilco to make Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

 

"We started as close to backwards as we could," Tweedy says, as the music seeps wraith-like into the room. "We did the artwork and track listing. Then we rehearsed the songs in sequence. But we only got halfway through." Decibels Per Minute, or dBpm as he calls it, was to be eight songs long. Tweedy had only four new numbers ready, so each band member created an improvised piece for the gang to play.

 

The result is like Pink Floyd's Ummagumma in miniature: a side's worth of mad clatter; another of the magnetic Tweedy psaltery that fills Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, spaced country-blues draped in drone, scarred with noise and speared by poisonous electric guitar when you least expect it. If you still pine for the literal electric country of Tweedy's first group, Uncle Tupelo, or the wheatfield sway and moonshine-Stones crunch of A.M., Wilco's 1995 debut, dBpm and YHF are bughouse rock, Dada in overalls. But the brave new Wilco is a band of logical magic, of Tweedy's faith in the power of rock'n'roll to express deep feeling through sweet enigma.

 

"I wish I could send this one to Reprise, just to see what they think," Tweedy says of dBpm. There is no malice in his voice, only the cheerful confidence of a restless singer-songwriter, still only 34, who has come out of a bizarre year with his head, vision, and best record intact.

 

dammit, after reading that, I'm even more pissed that it never came out.

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