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The album was named after a series of letters in the phonetic alphabet that Tweedy had heard on the Irdial box set The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations. On the fourth track of the album 11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png Phonetic Alphabet - Nato (help·info), a woman repeats the words "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" numerous times; a clip from this track was placed in the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot song "Poor Places". Irdial sued Wilco for copyright infringement, and a settlement was reached out of court.

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Hopefully not veering too far off topic, but speaking of getting sued, I have a clip of Air Traffic Control chatter on my bands new record. I recorded it from a live stream of ATC chatter from an airport. It's basically "turn right heading blah blah, cleared to land blah blah blah".... I wonder if I can get sued by the FAA for something like this... :)

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And sadly they can't use it in concert anymore...

 

LouieB

 

Interesting.. Oddly enough, I don't think I've ever noticed that part missing from the live version.. I guess because I'm just caught up in the other noise. :)

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which is weird, since how does Irdial own copyright to a public transmission???

 

hell, you can download all the stuff for free

 

Listening and recording/re-broadcasting are two different things.

 

Much of the set is edited from actual broadcast. A twenty-minute transmission including two, four-minute data bursts and several minutes of static will be edited to reduce the static.

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But they captured, edited and remastered them for sound quality. And then packaged it. And sold it. As I understand it, they can claim ownership of the remastered work. If Wilco had dialed in on the actual transmission that broadcast the "YHF...YHF..." clip and recorded it themselves, and used that on the record, Irdial would have had no hand in that particular recording.

 

Besides, no one responsible for creating the broadcasts will EVER claim responsibility, so there's that.

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Oooh, I love Aquarius. Lovelovelove their "out there" stuff - I've purchased some fun recordings from that place.

 

If you're at all interested in the Conet Project, the liner notes really are worth it.

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Coming back from Florida right after YHF was released i stopped for lunch at a seafood joint going into Mobil AL. In the bathroom they had displayed all the nautical flags and their meaning.

 

Yankee- Dragging anchor

Hotel - Captain on Board

Foxtrot - In distress

 

I always thought it a perfect title, if in fact Tweedy used it as code for the making of the record and the state of Wilco at the time. :pirate

 

http://www.marinewaypoints.com/learn/flags/flags.shtml

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Coming back from Florida right after YHF was released i stopped for lunch at a seafood joint going into Mobil AL. In the bathroom they had displayed all the nautical flags and their meaning.

 

Yankee- Dragging anchor

Hotel - Captain on Board

Foxtrot - In distress

 

I always thought it a perfect title, if in fact Tweedy used it as code for the making of the record and the state of Wilco at the time. :pirate

 

http://www.marinewaypoints.com/learn/flags/flags.shtml

 

I love that! Mind if I use it? :)

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I remember in another YHF thread someone made a joke that Reprise was accidentally sent The Conet Project instead of YHF. Reprise, thinking that the former was actually the latter, was appalled and asked Wilco to make a more "radio-friendly" record, starting the chain of events that eventually lead to Wilco's departure from the label. Wouldn't that be funny? :lol

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I love that! Mind if I use it? :)

 

i don't have the rights to what it means. i'm just stating facts! :cheers

 

I had always wanted to ask Tweedy about it in the few times i have met him after gigs, but the mixture of brew, weed and excitement of meeting him it always slipped my mind. :stunned

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I always thought it a perfect title, if in fact Tweedy used it as code for the making of the record and the state of Wilco at the time.

Perfect, too, for thematic reasons: The entire record is about the difficulties of communication.

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Coming back from Florida right after YHF was released i stopped for lunch at a seafood joint going into Mobil AL. In the bathroom they had displayed all the nautical flags and their meaning.

 

Yankee- Dragging anchor

Hotel - Captain on Board

Foxtrot - In distress

 

I always thought it a perfect title, if in fact Tweedy used it as code for the making of the record and the state of Wilco at the time. :pirate

 

http://www.marineway...ags/flags.shtml

Wow, thanks for posting this. Never heard of this before.

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i don't have the rights to what it means. i'm just stating facts! :cheers

 

I had always wanted to ask Tweedy about it in the few times i have met him after gigs, but the mixture of brew, weed and excitement of meeting him it always slipped my mind. :stunned

 

Clearly :P but it's now my Sig and I'd deem it uncouth not to ask; you did the work, not me!

 

:cheers

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