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My little outfit Rookie Card got asked to play for the first time in a few years right when we were kicking around the idea of doing AM for my girlfriend's birthday, so here goes nothing. We've recruited some of the coolest folks in town to help out and make it a real family affair. If there's any SoCal boardies, c'mon out! If you've never heard of us, that's because we didn't get out too much, besides winning a San Diego Music Award and opening for everyone from Soul Asylum to Tommy Stinson to Calexico.... We even begged our way into playing before I Am Trying To Break Your Heart at our local arthouse type theatah. We're at http://www.RookieCardTheMovie.com

Cheers,

Adam

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Are you using the yodelers on Dash 7? I love that version...

 

We usually go out of our way to piss off purists but we're playing this one straight. An all-yodel version would be TIGHT, no? Not much of a guitar player, thank god someone posted the Dash 7 tuning on Youtube or I'd be screwed. Sounded awesome with our pedal steel player right away. Fantastic song. Just tried unsuccessfully to get us on the SD Autumn Defense show. Never hurts to ask!

 

For silliness, you can check out http://www.CoverMeBadd.com . We've done everything from the Specials to Weezer to Oasis to Big Star....

(hey Posieperson!)

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Hey hey, I saw you guys when you 'opened' for I Am Trying To Break Your Heart at that theatre back in '02 or '03. That was a great night, and I still have the Rookie Card plastic baseball card cover memento you handed out.

Still have the baseball lampshade?

Sadly I'm nowhere near SD anymore...

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Hey hey, I saw you guys when you 'opened' for I Am Trying To Break Your Heart at that theatre back in '02 or '03. That was a great night, and I still have the Rookie Card plastic baseball card cover memento you handed out.

Still have the baseball lampshade?

Sadly I'm nowhere near SD anymore...

 

What a fun night. Funny, just dug up a photo last week. Closest we'll get to opening for Wilco! We thought learning Joe DiMaggio's Done It Again would be the most appropriate one for us to learn. Sadly, the baseball lampshades disappeared at a show. It's been such a blast rehearsing these songs with friends playing banjo, pedal, fiddle, lapsteel. Hopefully some video will end up gettin' shot. Does anyone know another good place to whore this out to other Wilco fans who might appreciate it? Please feel free to forward it. Thanks!

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Well, it was a blast. Not perfect but not bad considering how little rehearsal we had. Definitely a ton of fun and one happy birthday girl. Fun enough and enough time spent on it to want to do it one more time, which we'll do on Friday February 11th at SD's fave neighborhood bar, the Whistle Stop. I'll post a flyer when we gots one. Roadtrip, my Wilco'ers. Roadtrip.

 

Here's Michael Rennie from local country-rock coverband Rio Peligroso (and funny enough, a semi-wellknown local band called AM Vibe) doing Shouldn't Be Ashamed with us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scVMZaaJCWk

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