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Magazine (Hilarious intro from Jeff about how it's one of the most popular requests online but then no one seems to know it at the shows. He said one of the crew goes on their website and requests it for every city. Heh heh. I will cop to requesting it here).
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I stuffed the online request line for Savannah with several songs -- most prominently At My Window Sad & Lonely and a write-in campaign for Laminated Cat -- and they were *all* played. I think 9 of the 10 songs on the Savannah requests were played -- the only exception being Misunderstood, and I think it was the case where they did Via Chicago and it seems they play one or the other, but never both.

 

Thanks Jeff. :worship

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I admire the enthusiasm people have with their requests, but I have to say I'm a little surprised Wilco doesn't have the technology to only allow one vote per IP address or something. I mean, if their intent really was to play the songs that, overall, the most people in a certain market wanted to hear. But if they're wanting to reward really persistent people, that's cool too. :lol Maybe if they only took one request per IP, the top ten requests would be really boring?

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I stuffed the online request line for Savannah with several songs -- most prominently At My Window Sad & Lonely and a write-in campaign for Laminated Cat -- and they were *all* played. I think 9 of the 10 songs on the Savannah requests were played -- the only exception being Misunderstood, and I think it was the case where they did Via Chicago and it seems they play one or the other, but never both.

 

Thanks Jeff. :worship

At my 1st Wilco show in 2005 the opened with Misunderstood and then later played Via Chicago, so that estimation is not entirely true.

 

I sort of thought the IP address thing WAS in place, but to counter act that I got friends to make requests by petitioning facebook. :)

 

If a person wants to devote time to making requests on the site, let em go for it. it's not much different than waiting in line for 7 hours for a GA show. :lol

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:lol :lol

except there's no Simon.

 

Clearly you haven't seen the setlist thread. :lol :lol

 

They seem to be doing a good job this tour with honoring requests and really having fun with doing so, which I appreciate.

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they had give-aways at last night's show that were gift certificates to dinner at a restaurant; they drew names from those that requested songs. A couple of them Jeff mentioned they requested songs that would not be played. And he quipped about the proper channels to request songs instead of just shouting them out at the shows.

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I admire the enthusiasm people have with their requests, but I have to say I'm a little surprised Wilco doesn't have the technology to only allow one vote per IP address or something. I mean, if their intent really was to play the songs that, overall, the most people in a certain market wanted to hear. But if they're wanting to reward really persistent people, that's cool too. :lol Maybe if they only took one request per IP, the top ten requests would be really boring?

 

I assumed there would be IP protection on there, but initially went to request a second song. When it went through, I became curious to tinker.

 

Honestly, I think there are far fewer requests coming in than people anticipate, and that the top requests are likely the result of ballot stuffers. In the concerts I've placed requests, only two or three requests will push a song into the top 10 for that show.

 

I think the requests are harmless in that, Jeff is going to look at what the band played the last time, what they've been playing, what they're wanting to add, what's requested and how it all fits together. It's kind of like figuring out the NFL schedule.

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they had give-aways at last night's show that were gift certificates to dinner at a restaurant; they drew names from those that requested songs. A couple of them Jeff mentioned they requested songs that would not be played. And he quipped about the proper channels to request songs instead of just shouting them out at the shows.

 

For some reason, I have felt compelled to use a different name or email address every time I request a song on there, as if that's not ballot-stuffing. (In my defense, I request several different songs, all of which are awesome, rather than ring up a large total for one song, which would be cheating :) .)

 

Once they started the raffle, I was wondering what would happen if he called one of the several aliases I had used to request a song. "Is there a Rusty Shackleford in the audience?"

 

Alas, neither I, nor Rusty, was a raffle winner last night.

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For some reason, I have felt compelled to use a different name or email address every time I request a song on there, as if that's not ballot-stuffing. (In my defense, I request several different songs, all of which are awesome, rather than ring up a large total for one song, which would be cheating :) .)

 

Once they started the raffle, I was wondering what would happen if he called one of the several aliases I had used to request a song. "Is there a Rusty Shackleford in the audience?"

 

Alas, neither I, nor Rusty, was a raffle winner last night.

 

 

did Dale Gribble win?

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