Jeff Tweedy was bruised and shaken after taking a 15-metre fall down the side of a cliff. When he looked up, comedian Nick Offerman and author George Saunders were looking down at him with concern on their faces.
It wasn’t long before “a three-way bromance” was instigated, starting with long text threads between the trio, and culminating in the hike, which made its way into Offerman’s latest book,Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy on the inspiration behind new song Ten Dead, which is about school shootings in the US A couple of the new songs are among the most politically pointed Tweedy has penned. Ten Dead came from a news story he saw on TV about yet another US school shooting.“The reporter literally said ‘only 10 dead’,” says Tweedy, slowly shaking his head. “He almost had this tone of disappointment that it wasn’t a bigger news story. Or maybe he was saying ‘Well, it’s good that it was only ten.’ Either way, it was an appalling thing to say.
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