Uncle Tupelo Reuniting?
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Uncle Tupelo Reuniting?
On another message board I sometimes visit, someone posted this:
I searched the Post-Dispatch's website and couldn't find anything about this. Has anyone else this rumor?
Frankly, if it does happen, it's a mistake. I love Uncle Tupelo, but Tweedy can't go back and do what he used to do. Farrar released one wonderful album (Trace) since the breakup and has since stagnated. Tweedy continues to experiment and develop. I can't imagine it working out. Then again, after reading "Wilco: Learning to Die," it's pretty clear that Tweedy has some kind of complex about earning Farrar's approval (he was heartbroken when Farrar said in an interview that he'd never heard a single Wilco song). It is possible he'd reunite just to make Farrar happy.
Today in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, one of the main music writers, Kevin Johnson reported that. "Uncle Tupelo will re-unite in early 2005 for a 10 date tour in cluding St. Louis, Chicago, Frisco, NYC...
Frankly, if it does happen, it's a mistake. I love Uncle Tupelo, but Tweedy can't go back and do what he used to do. Farrar released one wonderful album (Trace) since the breakup and has since stagnated. Tweedy continues to experiment and develop. I can't imagine it working out. Then again, after reading "Wilco: Learning to Die," it's pretty clear that Tweedy has some kind of complex about earning Farrar's approval (he was heartbroken when Farrar said in an interview that he'd never heard a single Wilco song). It is possible he'd reunite just to make Farrar happy.
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I very seriously doubt this will happen.
It's one of those things people wish for so much that I think a lot of rumors get started. The same thing happens with Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown.
I really don't think it's a good idea to do a reunion tour. Frankly, I don't enjoy seeing Farrar perform. He always seems so miserable.
I also don't believe Farrar has never heard a Wilco song before--I think he's just being curmudgeonly. There's a song on Sebastopol that sounds strangely similar to the beginning of "I'm the Man Who Loves You."
It's one of those things people wish for so much that I think a lot of rumors get started. The same thing happens with Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown.
I really don't think it's a good idea to do a reunion tour. Frankly, I don't enjoy seeing Farrar perform. He always seems so miserable.
I also don't believe Farrar has never heard a Wilco song before--I think he's just being curmudgeonly. There's a song on Sebastopol that sounds strangely similar to the beginning of "I'm the Man Who Loves You."
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Originally posted by Penny Lane
I also don't believe Farrar has never heard a Wilco song before--I think he's just being curmudgeonly. There's a song on Sebastopol that sounds strangely similar to the beginning of "I'm the Man Who Loves You."
I also don't believe Farrar has never heard a Wilco song before--I think he's just being curmudgeonly. There's a song on Sebastopol that sounds strangely similar to the beginning of "I'm the Man Who Loves You."
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There's no way this is real. Farrar hates Wilco, and considering how well Wilco's career is going Tweedy would have nothing to gain from it.
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Originally posted by Penny Lane
I very seriously doubt this will happen.
It's one of those things people wish for so much that I think a lot of rumors get started. The same thing happens with Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown.
I very seriously doubt this will happen.
It's one of those things people wish for so much that I think a lot of rumors get started. The same thing happens with Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown.
Now UT, that's a different story. There is almost no way Farrar and Tweedy will get together again, as much as I'd walk across broken glass to see it happen in concert. I know Gary Louris of the Jayhawks has had an okay relationship with Farrar, so I've always kinda hoped he may pop up on a Golden Smog project with Tweedy, but as Smog seems more or less dissolved right now I don't think that's gonna happen either.
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I call shenanigans...but I e-mailed Kevin Johnson, just in case. His response:
"i've never heard anything about this...when i interviewed jay farrar about 6 weeks ago and asked if it was ever possible, he said it was highly unlikely."
"i've never heard anything about this...when i interviewed jay farrar about 6 weeks ago and asked if it was ever possible, he said it was highly unlikely."
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I completely disagree with it never happening again and tickets being expensive.
Cheap Van Halen tickets were $55 or something. That's expensive for nosebleed seats.
I'm not a huge Jay Farrar fan anyway, but I'd certainly enjoy seeing them give it a try.
Time can heal all wounds no matter how deep.
Also, Tweedy isn't exactly concerned with more popularity or more creativity with Wilco. It's always there for him when he wants it because Wilco will always have a following.
I just don't see Jeff Tweedy not at least giving it some thought, but most reunions fail miserably in the "creating new music" department. Maybe they'll just tour who knows.
It's unlikely but not out of the question IMHO.
Cheap Van Halen tickets were $55 or something. That's expensive for nosebleed seats.
I'm not a huge Jay Farrar fan anyway, but I'd certainly enjoy seeing them give it a try.
Time can heal all wounds no matter how deep.
Also, Tweedy isn't exactly concerned with more popularity or more creativity with Wilco. It's always there for him when he wants it because Wilco will always have a following.
I just don't see Jeff Tweedy not at least giving it some thought, but most reunions fail miserably in the "creating new music" department. Maybe they'll just tour who knows.
It's unlikely but not out of the question IMHO.
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Goodness, what a mistake this would be.
Which is not to say I wouldn't travel to catch this show.
Now, a Golden Smog reunion/reformation/whatever seems slightly more possible.
I'd travel to catch that show, too.
Sounds like rumors with the barest link to reality were flying in the alt-country world last week just like in the baseball world.
Which is not to say I wouldn't travel to catch this show.
Now, a Golden Smog reunion/reformation/whatever seems slightly more possible.
I'd travel to catch that show, too.
Sounds like rumors with the barest link to reality were flying in the alt-country world last week just like in the baseball world.
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Originally posted by aisle9
Glodne Smog played in Minneaspolis last week.
Glodne Smog played in Minneaspolis last week.
And it's all about me.
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Just hearing this news makes me depressed that I missed UT's last two show at Mississippi Nights back in '94. I can't believe that was over ten years ago.
I don't want to say it will never happen, but I am 99.9% sure it won't.
Speaking of the Jayhawks, is there a chance Mark Olsen will ever team back up w/ them?
I don't want to say it will never happen, but I am 99.9% sure it won't.
Speaking of the Jayhawks, is there a chance Mark Olsen will ever team back up w/ them?
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Originally posted by aisle9
Glodne Smog played in Minneaspolis last week.
Glodne Smog played in Minneaspolis last week.
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Originally posted by B.A.
Speaking of the Jayhawks, is there a chance Mark Olsen will ever team back up w/ them?
Speaking of the Jayhawks, is there a chance Mark Olsen will ever team back up w/ them?
I think the closest we are gonna get is the song he did with Gary Louris on Olsen's "My Own Jo Ellen" album from a couple of years ago. Sounded like vintage Hollywood Town Hall. It was a brilliant little tune, and frankly, I'd rather have not ever heard the song because it reminded me of how great those two used to be, and that they'd never get to do it again.
Rather than a UT reunion I'd like to see SuperSmog with Louris, Olsen, Tweedy, Farrar, Perner, Murphy, Stephens, etc. Like 12 dudes on stage doing Neil Young covers while some drunk cat in the back of the crowd screams "TWEEEEEEEDY!"
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Originally posted by Son-volt
Well, Whiskeytown's important parts are really Ryan and Caitlyn Carey, with Ryan's sense of self-importance locked up securely in a bulletproof metal box back stage. As far as I know Ryan and Caitlyn have a pretty good relationship, and if he can ever wrestle that sense of self-importance back into that box I could see them releasing a new album.
Now UT, that's a different story. There is almost no way Farrar and Tweedy will get together again, as much as I'd walk across broken glass to see it happen in concert. I know Gary Louris of the Jayhawks has had an okay relationship with Farrar, so I've always kinda hoped he may pop up on a Golden Smog project with Tweedy, but as Smog seems more or less dissolved right now I don't think that's gonna happen either.
Well, Whiskeytown's important parts are really Ryan and Caitlyn Carey, with Ryan's sense of self-importance locked up securely in a bulletproof metal box back stage. As far as I know Ryan and Caitlyn have a pretty good relationship, and if he can ever wrestle that sense of self-importance back into that box I could see them releasing a new album.
Now UT, that's a different story. There is almost no way Farrar and Tweedy will get together again, as much as I'd walk across broken glass to see it happen in concert. I know Gary Louris of the Jayhawks has had an okay relationship with Farrar, so I've always kinda hoped he may pop up on a Golden Smog project with Tweedy, but as Smog seems more or less dissolved right now I don't think that's gonna happen either.
Haven't read Learning to Die yet, but I picked it up and it's next on the list!