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Welcome Sara. Nice first posts.

 

As for "Ripple," it's torturte to hear Jeff play it. It's such a nostaligic song for me. I'm not sure he knocks the Dead and their fans exactly; they are very dedicated as are Wilco fans. Jeff doesn't seem that closeminded to me.

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definitely reminds me more of a paul song. theologians is pretty johnish to me. as is IATTBYH.although we are talking about jeff tweedy. the instances that you note probably had as much to do with jay bennet as they did jeff.i'm not sure i can cite any examples of similarities, but i've always thought that wilco was the type of band that could pull off some incredible dead covers. much better than ryan adams. but after hearing tweedy cover ripple and absolutley bash the dead and their fans, i don't think we'll ever get to hear it.

 

 

being as though phil came out and sang ripple with wilco i highly doubt there isn't some love. Also keep in mind Jeff did do "real" verisons of the song.

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don't rember the exact date but phil lesh sang back up (maybe that is the proof of Jeff not being into them) hahaha (if your not a dead head your probably thinking im crazy)

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hey froggie you wouldnt happen to have the lesh verison? I lost it when I lost my harddrive. maybe latter tonight I can post some of the jeff/beatles covers i have.

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Thank ya Froggie.

 

Nothing better then hearing one of my favorite bands play one of my favorite songs with one of the people who made that long strange trip possible.

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all that talk about Ripple, here's a nice solo version with some excellent Tweedy banter:

 

http://www.sendspace.com/file/a8ozxf

 

this is the version i was talking about.

 

 

If my words did glow

somebody else has to sing this song

because i don't know each and every word

 

and if i did

i probably wouldn't sing them

because i am not a grateful dead fan

 

ripple on still water

mumble

mumble

 

you're scarrying me very much now

i always suspected

that a lot of this crowd smoked a lot of pot

 

and drank a lot of acid

back in the hippy days

oh it's so so sad that you're wilco fans

 

then he goes on to say he suspects that dead fans were more about the drugs than the music. he calls it a defacto honor to have dead fans in the crowd. it's not the most endearing rendition of the song, and leads me to believe that i'll never get some good dead covers out of this band, even though they could do a hell of a job with a bunch of their songs.

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Honestly I wouldn't take that clip to seriously. The fact that jeff went back and learned the lyrics and would invite phil on stage preety much says he is open minded.

 

 

You got to rember Jeff didn't grow up on the dead and for most people their is this stigma because of the fans. So i can see why he would be joking like that. Do I think we will hear wilco cover the dead again? probably not. BUT PLEASE PROVE ME WRONG!

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What songs do you hear that in, and why?

I hear it on Hate It Here, not the chorus but definitely the verses.

 

The riff in Hate it Here is almost identical to the riff in a Beatles song . . .

 

Jeff:

Hate it here (na na na na na na na na) When you're gone (na na na na na na na na)

 

John:

You say it's your birthday (na na na na na na na na) Well happy birthday to you (na na na na na na na na)

 

(OK, I don't know which Beatle wrote that one, but you could mix up the two songs easy.)

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There is no comparing jeff to john lennon! As much as i love wilco and jeff tweedy,he cannot even come close to lennon.Lennon was one in a million.He captured his era unlike anyone else,whereas jeff has not even came close to it.Wilco is just a good rock band and that is all.Lennon and the beatles represented their times perfectly.

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There is no comparing jeff to john lennon! As much as i love wilco and jeff tweedy,he cannot even come close to lennon.Lennon was one in a million.He captured his era unlike anyone else,whereas jeff has not even came close to it.Wilco is just a good rock band and that is all.Lennon and the beatles represented their times perfectly.

 

is this baab?

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