Wilco

Wilco has grown up

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The Hideout is a bar in the ostentatiously hip inner north western suburbs of Chicago, although its dead-end location in a sea of warehouses might not suggest that at first glance.

The bar doesn’t have a sign and they say it’s been operating legally since 1932. It’s also the bar that almost everyone who is, or has been, in the band Wilco has played in.

The night we dropped in Leroy Bach, the multi-instrumentalist but mostly keyboardist who played with Wilco from late 1999 until 2005, was playing with Dan Bitney, a dude from the experimental Chicago band Tortoise.

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  • zumabeach says:

    10:19pm | 18/06/09

    Wilco are over-rated media darlings - all the so cool people love them so. Son Volt, led by Jay Farrar, who was the real musical hero in Uncle Tupelo - not the weedy Tweedy - leave them for dead. Son Volt’s debut album Trace was in the top 10 albums,… Read more »

  • Rich says:

    09:33pm | 18/06/09

    Sold! Read more »

 

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