Tweedy actually stopped the song completely: "You know, I don't care how
fucking far you drove to see us. You don't give the band directions."
And really, for me, that sort of sums it up. Abstaining Tom caught these
details about these guys, and I wonder how much patience on-the-wagon
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some of Wilco's new pop songs are OK, but overall I wasn't impressed by
the new stuff. I can't see myself humming any of them in the shower,
which is my simplest criterion for a good, catchy pop tune.
Agreed. With the exceptions of "ELT" and
[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
Tom Stoodley noted in response to Kevin Fredette's observation:
Maybe Tweedy's getting road burnout, but for most of the evening, he
looked like he'd rather be almost anywhere but onstage. I know life on
tour can be a drag, but am I expecting too much when I think a performer
should
Bill Silvers said:
But how the audience's bad behavior affects the
performance needs to be taken into account.
I totally agree. An indifferent or drunkenly annoying crowd can't expect
the band to be having a good time. But other than the two drunk guys I
mentioned earlier, the crowd as a
Bill comments:
And really, for me, that sort of sums it up. Abstaining Tom caught these
details about these guys, and I wonder how much patience on-the-wagon Tweedy
needed to have with these obnoxious idiots. If the club can't take steps to
quiet, or remove drunken-stupid patrons who are
In a message dated 4/20/99 2:38:17 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It has struck me that Tweedy has gotten to be much more of an attitude
performer as the years have rolled on. In UT, he was quite the ray of
sunshine and the entertaining one compared to Farrar, and he continued to
have an
jr. "on the money"
It has struck me that Tweedy has gotten to be much more of an attitude
performer as the years have rolled on. In UT, he was quite the ray of
sunshine and the entertaining one compared to Farrar, and he continued to
have an entertainer's approach and worked his intrinsic charm
Neal:
I dunno tho, sure he might be more the artiste nowadays, but I still think
he
tends to be very charming onstage. At least I've never seem him be anything
but. I even saw him do an acoustic performance once in LA before AM came out
where he was sick from bad Mexican food. He had to excuse
At 4:18 PM -0400 on 4/20/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dunno tho, sure he might be more the artiste nowadays, but I still
think he
tends to be very charming onstage. At least I've never seem him be anything
but. I even saw him do an acoustic performance once in LA before AM
came out
where he
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