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05-28-2009, 02:27 AM
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Not dead, just Semi-Retired!
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Jay Bennett, R.I.P.
I just heard he died.
http://tinyurl.com/paecw7
It's probably only a cowinkidink that Wilco has released one amazingly dull recording after another (even though they added one of the 3 or 5 best guitarists above ground.... Nels Cline) since he left/was fired from the band.
Jay Walter Bennett
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Jay Bennett
November 15, 1963 - May 24, 2009
R.I.P. 
P.S. No Gram Parsons....no Wilco! Shoutout to a certain someone!
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May 7th, 1949 - February 23, 2010
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07/14/1964 - 04/07/2009
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05-28-2009, 03:14 AM
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there is only one take
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wilco never really did much for me either aside from that video when they skydive with their gear. considering the visual element of their very first(?) video is the only thing i know about the band...
either way one less musician is never a good thing. all we can hope for is that he's at peace now and getting a good jam going on somewhere out there.
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05-28-2009, 08:56 AM
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I hate to turn a eulogy thread into a Wilco bitch section but post Uncle Tupelo I'm pretty much there with you guys on this.
So what's his best album?
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05-28-2009, 12:32 PM
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Location: North Carolina
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I've always been more of a Son Volt guy myself.
No disrespect to Mr. Bennett.
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05-28-2009, 04:04 PM
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I really love Wilco, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is pretty easily my favorite of their studio albums that I've heard (I have not heard all of them).
R.I.P.
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05-28-2009, 06:29 PM
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I do have that one. I'll give it a closer listen. I thought most people thought Mermaid Avenue is his best.
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05-28-2009, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by OldSmell
I hate to turn a eulogy thread into a Wilco bitch section but post Uncle Tupelo I'm pretty much there with you guys on this.
So what's his best album?
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You mean as part of a group or solo?
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05-28-2009, 06:55 PM
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I do have that one. I'll give it a closer listen. I thought most people thought Mermaid Avenue is his best.
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Mermaid Avenue is actually one of the ones I haven't heard; I have been told by many however that it is excellent, and am always meaning to get around to listening to it. This doesn't seem to be the case for most people, but my love for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot definitely took a few listens (over an extended period of time, the first couple times around didn't catch my interest so it wasn't often that I turned it on). Ashes of American Flags was the only song I really liked for a while.
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"He has become obsessed with blocks of sound, with sequoias of sound, and if he could not produce on the piano what he hears in his head, he would do it by other means. He would gather about him whales and jets and cascades, and make them sing and roar and crash." - Whitney Balliett, on Cecil Taylor
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05-28-2009, 06:58 PM
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I really love Wilco, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is pretty easily my favorite of their studio albums that I've heard (I have not heard all of them).
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Which is the last recording he was a part of and the last studio recording worth bothering with.
http://www.gloriousnoise.com/?pg=bennettyhf.php
However, the best Wilco recording since he left is #3 on the Best of 2005 list....live.... Wilco (with Nels Cline) is a completely different band than in studio.
http://www.radiomute.com/372348-post61.html
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05-28-2009, 07:13 PM
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The only studio recording I've heard of the three they've made since Bennett left the band is Sky Blue Sky, I can't even remember most of it but it was thoroughly unmemorable. Kicking Television is absolutely my favorite Wilco recording, and really one of my favorite albums of all time. Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time in the jazzfromhell-mobile back home has probably heard that album more than they care to, I play it in the car all the time. Thanks for that very interesting list, it's pretty interesting just to hear a description at all of what instruments were played on some of those songs, let alone which were played by Bennett.
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"He has become obsessed with blocks of sound, with sequoias of sound, and if he could not produce on the piano what he hears in his head, he would do it by other means. He would gather about him whales and jets and cascades, and make them sing and roar and crash." - Whitney Balliett, on Cecil Taylor
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