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    Found on Reddit. Fair Point or Stay Home?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    F**k me for sitting, right? - A Show Review

     

    So I've been battling this inner ear thing this week that makes it difficult for me to stand for more than a few minutes at a time. But hey, that Wilco show I bought tickets to is seated, so no problem I can totally go to that!

    Showed up early, got to my seats around seven. They were fantastic, dead in the center, pretty much the best I've ever had at Bass Hall.

    Bob Schneider was amazing. Funny, poignant, delightful. I really enjoyed his set and would've been fine if he played longer.

    The band came out and sounded great, of course. Side with the Seeds and Art of Almost were early highlights. Then Jeff decides he's not happy with the fact that everyone is sitting. "Sure has been a long time since we played a show where everyone sat down." WELL THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE BOOKED A FUCKING SEATED VENUE, EH?

    From that point the three rows in front of us were standing. People were even yelling at those who remained seated to "STAND UP!" Hey maybe I can't, did you think of that? Fuck no you didn't, you selfish pricks.

    And it wasn't just me seated. Fuck me, but also fuck the handicapped seats that were near us. Maybe they should just stand up, right? What about the retired couple behind us that were on their "one date night a year"? Surely they can overcome the fact that he came in with walker and just stand up for two hours? What about all of the people who said to themselves, "oh hey Wilco is coming and they're finally playing a seated venue! I can actually see them for once"?

    So it turns out that all of the people who are physically incapable of standing for two hours just paid $70/ticket to look at someone's back. Fuck that, and fuck Jeff for being a smarmy asshole about it. This was my 12th Wilco show, and it'll be my last. If anyone wants the gig posters that are coming down off my walls, pm me. Otherwise they'll be in the trash.

    Wilco — 21 August 2016, Chicago, IL (Jay Pritzker Pavilion)

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Other than that, he tried pretty hard to get complete audience participation in the clapping bit at the end of Spiders and largely seemed to succeed before the whole thing quickly fell apart when the clapping sped up, as it usually does. "That was an honest effort," Jeff said with a slightly resigned smile. "I think that was just fine." 

     

    That clapping thing was embarrassing.  Someone should do a study on why a large group of white people can't clap to a beat without speeding it up into an eventual disaster.  Jeff was even doing a visual demonstration ffs.  

    RYMAN THREAD

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Here's the idiot with her ipad.  When Jeff called her out she said she said her phone died and he said "oh, and you just happened to have your ipad".  Apparently she had no friends to inform her how ridiculous it is told hold an ipad in front the stage.

     

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    Need 2 Ryman Tickets

    in Need Tickets?

    Posted

    Usually we would have been all over pre-sale but my wife lost her job right before they went on sale so I decided we shouldn't partake in such a luxury at the time.

    She has since found a new job and I'm trying to surprise her with tickets to the 10/22 show.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

    WFUV is broadcasting Saturday show now live

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Wilco    6/22/2013
    Solid Sound Fest
    http://www.wfuv.org/listen

    I Got You (At The End Of The Century)
    Dawned On Me
    Box Full of Letters
    At My Window Sad And Lonely
    Forget the Flowers (with julian lage)
    She's a Jar
    You Are My Face
    One Sunday Morning
    Art of Almost
    I Might
    Summer Teeth
    Candyfloss
    I'm Always In Love
    Sunken Treasure
    Far Far Away
    Via Chicago
    Impossible Germany
    Born Alone
    Not for the Season

    Passenger Side

    Whole Love

    Can't Stand It

    Heavy Metal Drummer

    I'm the Man Who Loves You

     

    Encore:

    A Shot In the Arm

    California Stars

    Just a Kid

    Dreamer in My Dreams

    Solid Sound 2013

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    So, we have tickets to Solid Sound but I can't find a hotel anywhere.  Every single one I tried is booked.

    Am I SOL?

    Any help will be greatly appreciated.  I'd hate to have to eat these tickets.

    If you tell someone to sit down at a Wilco concert, you pretty much suck at life

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    If you entitle a message board thread "If you tell someone to sit down at a Wilco concert, you pretty much suck at life," you pretty much suck at life.

     

     

    i don't think "entitle" means what you think it means.

    anyway, last night was much better. no problems standing up.

    this was not supposed to be a "sit vs stand" thread. it was meant to be a "you're a f'ing idiot for asking the usher to make someone sit down at a rock concert" thread

    If you tell someone to sit down at a Wilco concert, you pretty much suck at life

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I was 3rd row balcony last night at the Ryman. About three songs in, they start playing "art of almost". Obviously, I stand up because this a great song I was hoping to hear live and it's a freaking rock concert. Next thing I know, some blue hair seat nazi is asking me to please sit down. I ask her "why?". She says "because the people behind you can't see". I said "why can't they stand up?". She said "because they don't want to" and literally pulled me down into my seat.

    Seriously, if you don't want to stand up during a rock concert, stay the fuk home with your kids and leave the fun up to us who haven't given up on life.

    Oh, and I'm front row balcony tonight so get ready to stand up the whole time or just stare at my ass.

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