BoulderEagle

Thanks for the helpful post. Thank God it's MST; tickets go on sale at 9 MST for RockyGrass!

I posted this in another thread. Does anyone know what time the Boulder presale is? There's a time listed but no mention of CST, MST, etc.

Help!

Does anyone know the time zone for Wilco onsales? The Wilco site lists times for Boulder onsales but doesn't mention if it's MST, CST or EST.

Also--is presale through Frontgate? If it is (I think it is but I'm not sure), please let me know so I can ask them...

Thanks!

Drove up from Boulder and just got back. My thoughts:

Indeed, the venue was split down the middle dividing $500 VIP tables from us plebes. Truly bizarre. The VIP section, as you'd expect, was much less crowded. Total attendance was about 5K.

Calexico was great as always, but only played an hour with no encore. Surprised by some of what they didn't play (eg Alone Again Or, Letter to Bowie Knife), but the empty crowd (at that point) was into it.

My first time seeing Devotchka. Crowd was fuller and way more into them. They reminded me of a Camper Van Beethoven/Gogol Bordello hybrid with a little bit of Arcade Fire thrown in. Fun but by no means original. An hour set with no encore.

The first half of the Wilco set was maddening. We were not that far from the stage on the right, and everyone was talking loudly over the music. It was driving us crazy! We wanted to chew out the talkers in front of us, but didn't because everyone else was talking almost as loudly. Mountain Bed and Company in My Back essentially fell on deaf ears. You could tell that the crowd was full of drunk 20-somethings who were there to socialize and couldn't have cared less about who was on stage. Seriously, the crowd noise for Wilco was 5-10X what it was for Calexico and Devotchka. One big indicator that people weren't that familiar was when Tweedy tried to do the Jesus Etc singalong and most people clearly didn't know the words.

Sometime around IATTBYH, the crowd started to quiet down. Handshake Drugs also kicked things into gear a little more. For me, the string of I'll Fight (the first in CO), Box Full of Letters (first time in CO in many many years) and I'm Always in Love really got things moving and shut up the crowd. For the last hour or so, crowd noise was not a problem. The band was great, sound was stellar, setting was spectacular (and a tad chilly as you'd expect in September at 8K feet), and Jeff Tweedy is a God.

All told, they played for 2 hours and 10 minutes. Great performance as always. The only other show I saw this year was in Madison in Feb. That show was much better and longer, but in all fairness I had 3rd row seats and the crowd was 1000X more into the band. We saw John Stirrat (sp) on the Snowmass mall this morning; he looked a little dazed, and we told him how much we enjoyed the set.

Let's hope they play more CO shows in 2011, and choose venues that are more likely to encourage respectful crowds.

Great great show. Can't wait to hear the recordings.

Flew in from Boulder, CO with my son, so we could do the Wisconsin/Madison college tour. He is a music lover who has gone head over heels into Wilco in the past few months. We had 3rd row seats right in front of Nel. View/venue was outstanding, sound that close was so-so (we basically got the Nels monitor mix). No complaints, though. Long show, great song selection (I missed "Side with the Seeds" and he missed "Spiders"), but was really glad to catch the "Broken Arrow." Loved the Tweedy guitar curling and Nels using an egg beater on one of the encores. Hadn't seen a Casino Queen or Nothingsevergonnastandinmyway (again) in years.

Now I have to wait for Aspen. My son loved it and said he's already psyched to see them again. I told him one benefit of attending Wisconsin is he'll get to see Wilco regularly (the campus was nice too).