Has anyone hear the new Wilco live? How is it?

cubdog

I've heard from several of my amigos over at Rave Recs that it is very good. I dunno - I'm skeptical. I've always been a Wilco fan, but the last album, A Ghost Is Born, was horrible IMHO. Just a bunch of noise. I'll have to listen to quite a few samples before I part with any cash for another Wilco album.

JD

It took a little getting used to.... but imo "A Ghost Is Born" is excellent.I reckon they are the best band on the planet atm, and look forward to any new release.I wasn't sure how they would fare without Jay Bennett leading up to AGIB, but they are doing fine.

My fave is still Summerteeth.

Chris

...imo "A Ghost Is Born" is excellent.I reckon they are the best band on the planet atm, and look forward to any new release.Chris yeah, I reckon you are correct. I expressed a similar thought a while back after seeing the final 3 hour performance on the 'Ghost' tour, and a couple people pooped on the thread (one shortly banned from AK :).

It's odd that a band with this much immediate real potential suffers from possible portrayal within a web of politics that is only possible in 2006. Who cares who left for what reasons, and what record company had a sponsored project crammed up their corporate ass at an angle. Son Volt is cool but just a good parallel story. Great muscians working together is always tricky situation. (Movie sucked, if you asked me.)

'Hand-shake', for example, is undeniably a genre-free sonic materpiece. That ability is rare. Wilco is indeed a band whose potential has not been seen since the 70s. Even other very strong examples of current touring US bands on a simialr quality/recognition level are at much higher risk for 'flash in the pan' history on this level. -sf

No matter what road is used to trot out old Wilco threads, Tweedy is to Farrar as McCartney is to Lennon.

/thread

No matter what road is used to trot out old Wilco threads, Tweedy is to Farrar as McCartney is to Lennon. /thread Yeah, all around stellar musicianship. You said it before, and now again. ;)

Bucko, you mine dry holes, I'm here to testify.

No matter what road is used to trot out old Wilco threads, Tweedy is to Farrar as McCartney is to Lennon. /thread What the F*&*%$. The Beatles broke up a long time ago, my friend. Time to stop living so vicariously. -sf

Okay- Wilco bites a large bag. Is that current enough for you?

Okay- Wilco bites a large bag. Is that current enough for you? :) Paul McCartney is fairly well regarded as a musician, unless you are living on Mars or something. OK, the intrigue in the Wilco breakup is fairly interesting, but does nothing for me relative the music that has resulted from two new directions. (Your attempt to continue defining Wilco though any remaining historical controversy around these two musicians seems to be a large and empty "bag" to me.) -sf

:) Paul McCartney is fairly well regarded as a musician, unless you are living on Mars or something. OK, the intrigue in the Wilco breakup is fairly interesting, but does nothing for me relative the music that has resulted from two new directions. (Your attempt to continue defining Wilco though any remaining historical controversy around these two musicians seems to be a large and empty "bag" to me.) -sf

Thank you for the non sequitur, and the incomplete sentences. I can't make hide nor hair of what you're trying to say (as usual), so have a Tweedy night.

McCartney was on PEI complaining about the seal hunt. He stood in the Charlottetown Airport and thought he was in Newfoundland.His wife didn't have a leg to stand on!

A

I have not really liked Wilco since Jay Bennett left. I think he and Jeff sort of need each other... they are better together than individually.

McCartney was on PEI complaining about the seal hunt. He stood in the Charlottetown Airport and thought he was in Newfoundland.His wife didn't have a leg to stand on!
Did he sing "I Saw Her Leaning There"?

I was fortunate enought to see Uncle Tupelo when they were a local band in St. Louis

I would have to say I like Son Volt as much as Wilco since UT is no more. :tears:

WILCO is the name of the farm co-op here in the Silverton area. Best Farm store around we buy all our wood pellets and most of our gardening stuff from them.

Didn't know they had a house band!

I saw them on Austin City Limits recently and I was unimpressed. Maybe I just don't 'get' their style of music but seeing them live was about as exciting as watching paint dry. No electricity and very little stage presence as compared to a lot of other artists I've seen in concert. Stay home and listen to their records and save your money.

IMHO of course.

I haven't heard it, but since everyone seems to be trashing Wilco, I will say something positive....the one album I do have of theirs was given to me by a friend, sure enough I don't know the name, but it is an enjoyable listen. I'm pretty sure its one of the older ones. You have to give it a chance, listen several times. Definitely an acquired taste.

I haven't heard it, but since everyone seems to be trashing Wilco, I will say something positive....the one album I do have of theirs was given to me by a friend, sure enough I don't know the name, but it is an enjoyable listen. I'm pretty sure its one of the older ones. You have to give it a chance, listen several times. Definitely an acquired taste.

I was fortunate enought to see Uncle Tupelo when they were a local band in St. Louis

I would have to say I like Son Volt as much as Wilco since UT is no more. :tears:

:sadwave:

I read the same about Wilco in Stereophile magazine also. Either you love them or you can live w/o them. After hearing them on TV and one of their albums I can say that I can live w/o them . . . but I say that about many groups. Wilco doesn't have any one thing that stands out to make them an extraordinary listening experience.

I'm going to put in my .02.....I love the band, I have enjoyed there developement and growth musically over the past 6-7 years. Great bands never sit still and coast with just one sound(Unless your Motley Crue, or one of the many really bad 80's hair bands...). What was working for them a decade ago has changed. They have moved on from that sound. Ghost is Born is, to me, a very sonic album. I especially love the guitar work....

I'm going to put in my .02.....I love the band, I have enjoyed there developement and growth musically over the past 6-7 years. Great bands never sit still and coast with just one sound(Unless your Motley Crue, or one of the many really bad 80's hair bands...). What was working for them a decade ago has changed. They have moved on from that sound. Ghost is Born is, to me, a very sonic album. I especially love the guitar work....

Hey,

Yeah, if you can reccognize musicianship when it hits you on the nose like 2 by 4, then you may not be influenced by the relevant marketing. Busting the mold aka Wilco has done in way the cannot ever be spun otherswise (i.e. that independent re-release of Yankey Hotel Foxtrot), is what it can be all about if you have what it takes. No Doubt success follows. -sf