Beautiful and Stoned
Last weekend, I made Pierre go with me on a Wilco tour of St. Louis! From what I remember in Learning How to Die by Greg Kot (an excellent biography of the band), Wilco got their start in St. Louis. They mentioned a couple places in St. Louis in songs from the album A.M. and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. In the song "Heavy Metal Drummer", Jeff Tweedy sings about going to see shows on the Landing in the summer. The Landing in St. Louis is right near the Arch and Pierre tells me is a popular place to see concerts. I think Wilco had some of their first gigs there. So we had lunch there and took pictures =)
The next stop on our Wilco tour of St. Louis was the Casino Queen. Wilco has a song called Casino Queen. So it was exciting to see it in person! And then I made Pierre listen to the album version and the Jeff Tweedy acoustic version of the song.
I'm not sure if you can see in this picture, but a bunch of birds had built nests in the letters of the sign. We didn't actually go into the Casino Queen, we just walked around it a bit.
Here we are across the river, looking at the Casino Queen boat. I know that no one else will care about my Wilco tour of St. Louis, but I was very excited! And Pierre humored me.
posted by Unknown @ Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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