>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know life on tour can be
>> a drag, but am I expecting too much when I think a performer should at least
>> try to look like they're having a good time?
>
I saw Jeff and Jay perform a few songs last week at some club across the
street from Wrigley Field as part of WXRT's annual Cubs Opening Day party
that features the Waco Brothers. Granted, it was about 8:30 AM when they
went on, but they even made comments about how it might have been a mistake
for them to have agreed to perform. They were very gracious and personable
on the street after the show, but I was a bit put off by their comments
onstage. Jeff even called the radio DJ/morning guy an "aristocrat" because
he mentioned he had recently read an article in the New York Times which
quoted Tweedy as saying that his favorite radio show was some show on WXRT,
which Tweedy then admitted that he had never even listened to but had heard
it was good.
Seeing that and thinking about all of the Wilco and UT shows I have seen, I
began to wonder how much of this is posturing. He seemed to really be
enjoying himself onstage with UT and on the AM tour, but beginning with
Being There, he seems to have become the disenchanted rock star.
Chad
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Chad Cosper
Dept. of English
Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro
336-275-8576
http://www.uncg.edu/~cscosper
