Three dollars and 63 cents

This ticket is sold.

This is still available. I really need to mail it no later than Thursday morning to ensure it arrives on time, so anyone who’s interested please let me know ASAP.

I'm dealing with some health stuff and unfortunately can't make the trip to New York for the shows. I've already sold my Radio City ticket but also have a GA for Brooklyn Steel for sale, face value ($85.75). It doesn't appear that I can transfer it to you through the AXS site, but I have the hard ticket and can mail it. Let me know if you're interested.

I got third row pit on Nels’ side for New York. It’s the last seat in the row, so I hope it’s not too far to the side to see. I’m thinking they might add a second show Sunday.

the first rule about SSF VIP Sections is that you don't talk about SSF VIP Sections.

The group Nels is playing with on March 11 will also be at Boot and Saddle in Philadelphia on March 9:  https://www.arsnovaworkshop.com/events/celebrating-pat-metheny-03-09-2017

It's rare I pass up a chance to see U2 (they're my other favorite band), but I knew I'd have to miss part of Solid Sound and a chance to hang out with friends I don't get to see too often to go. It was a tough decision, though! I remember probably about 10 years ago the Edge and his guitar tech Dallas were spotted at a Nels show. I'll be scanning the VIP sections at Mass MoCA on Saturday!

I'm doing GA for the Philadelphia show and got a seat for Pittsburgh, so I'll be able to get my fill of U2 in my home state.

I'm really hoping for Courtney Barnett and Deerhoof. It would also be cool to see Dinosaur Jr., but pack your earplugs if they make the lineup! I've probably never been to a louder show. 

This is not directed at anyone in particular, I swear, but it's something that really gets me riled up.

 

Wilco shows are destination events. I honestly don't understand the entitlement that so many fans seem to feel when they don't get shows in their backyards. Maybe it's because I don't live in a large market, but I do not expect Wilco to come to me. I expect to have to go to them. The fact that they're playing in my city for the first time in 12 years is cause for joy, but I never expected it or felt entitled to it.

Sorry, but no matter how you prefaced this post, it was clearly directed at me. Unfortunately, I don't have bottomless pockets, and during the school year it's extremely difficult for me to travel for shows if I have to teach the next morning. Philadelphia is a much easier two hour trip for me than DC is for reasons I don't feel obligated to get into here. I've always had to travel to see Wilco and gladly do so when it's feasible. I'd like to see them in a city that, by the time the tour happens, they won't have played for a few months shy of six years. If that makes me entitled, or not as hardcore of a fan as others, or whatever, so be it. 

If they skip Philadelphia (yet again), I'm not going to get to see them. DC isn't feasible for me because I have to teach early the next morning. I know they can't play everywhere on every tour, but their last non-festival show there was 2010. From the comments on their Facebook posts, I can tell I'm not the only one who's frustrated.

Divorce him.

Alabama Shakes and Drive-By Truckers

The heck with Europe. They haven't played a full-length, non-festival show in Philadelphia since 2010!

I would have preferred one or two interesting answers from Nels rather than 30 "no we don'ts" and "I'll buy you a taco" type answers.  No disrespect to Nels, who I admire and respect greatly, but he wasn't making much effort on this.  

 

It'd be nice if Reddit could make the answers highlighted, or bold so these AMA dumpsters would be easier to wade through.

I don't think it was lack of effort as much as it was probably being overwhelmed by the number of questions and wanting to do as much as he could in the little time he had. He's also not really a big technology guy. His social media accounts are mostly if not entirely run by his publicists. It's just not his thing. I asked him once why he wasn't on Facebook, and he said something like "If I joined Facebook, it's all I would ever do! I would just lay in bed all the time with my laptop!"

what the heck is a reddit AMA?  How do I get there?

That's probably what Nels said when they told him about it!

A reminder (because I almost forgot!) that our league draft is at 4:30 EST today.

I was supposed to be gone for all of August, so I didn't get a ticket for the Merriweather shows when they went on sale. When my plans changed, I figured I could get a lawn ticket at the last minute. Tomorrow night sold out before I could 

We used to do a VC league every season, but they stopped a few years ago. I'm glad to see the tradition starting up again. I'm the Laminated Cats.

Excellent album from start to finish, both sonically and lyrically. It's weird that I hear bits of previous Wilco songs here and there but yet it's something totally different in a lot of ways.

I think it's funny that there's a cat on the cover, because one of mine was totally freaked out by most of it!

I'm getting excited for this weekend, and I'm still really hoping for Saturday GAs. Between two Facebook groups, Interference, and dozens of checks to the Ticketmaster app, hopefully I'll get lucky!

U2 was my favorite band pretty much my whole life until I heard Nels play jazz guitar. Like any long-term friendship, it fades in and out. There was a period in my life when I listened to them almost constantly. I went a few years without really listening to them at all and completely missed the last tour (I opted to see Patti Smith on the night I could have seen them in Baltimore...no regrets there). Now I'm more excited to see them again than I have been for any show in a long time.

remphish, I'll try to come over and say hi!

 Oh, and she also was painfully aware of people farting near us too. Charming!)  

We were about 10 rows back on Pat's side Friday night, and the guy in front of us farted on me for half the show, even after I started making comments about it. Thankfully, we were able to move closer to center for the second half of the show...where I had a really drunk guy put his arm around me for a singalong during Passenger Side. Thankfully, he was the amusing, harmless kind of drunk.

My boyfriend recorded Stained Radiance's set as best he could given there was so much happening at once. He has it up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWx6W-Lmbko

He also has a few Cibo Matto clips on that channel, along with a bunch of other clips from Nels shows we've been to over the last year or so. Those of you who know me know making a whole Nels-related YouTube channel is the way to my heart 

They played Gloria for the first time in a long time, and there was a rumor that Two Hearts Beat As One was played at the soundcheck, but it didn't make it into the setlist. I don't think they've played that one since the 80s?

 

 

I'll freak out if they play Two Hearts Beat As One again. I think the last time they played it was in December of 1989. 

We have 200-level seats for July 19. I'm really hoping they do a ticket drop in the next few weeks for the first night. I'd love to go both nights we'll be in New York, but GA is all I can afford at this point.

This will be my first time seeing U2 since the Buffalo show in 2005. I had tickets for the first leg of 360, but life got in the way and I had to sell them. I wasn't too keen on the new album at first, but something finally clicked. I've had it in my car stereo for probably almost two months now and I haven't gotten sick of it. 

This was my fourth Solid Sound and my boyfriend's first. We had a great weekend! I think it was my favorite both in terms of the Wilco performances and in terms of the other acts we saw. I love seeing Cibo Matto again, and Charles Lloyd's quartet with Bill Frisell was another highlight. Stained Radiance was so different than the other time I saw them. The whole tone of the performance seemed a lot darker, and I thought the dancers made it a lot more intense. My big disappointment was that there were a lot of conflicts with things we wanted to see. We lined up really early for Stained Radiance (so early, in fact, we were line leaders), so I missed William Tyler. We also missed Glenn's performance and Quindar because we wanted to see Charles Lloyd. I've never gotten to see everyone I've wanted to, but this year's choices were harder to make. 

I'm surprised to see people complaining about waiting for food. That was a big issue for me last time, but the only thing we had to wait more than five or ten minutes for was pizza. We must have eaten at off-peak hours the whole weekend. Even the line at the merch tent wasn't too bad Friday night. It seemed to me that things were laid out better and flowed better than last time. Parking was really the only thing we had a hard time with, except for Sunday when we came early.

My boyfriend is already excited for his next Solid Sound!

I'm really sad that staying for all of Nels' Sunday performance will likely mean having to miss Glenn's performance, since the space will probably be filled by the time we get over there.

I'm outside of Harrisburg. I actually teach at the Penn State campus here. I was off at grad school when they were playing the colleges here--and it figures that they played Tallahassee right after I left and Jeff played a 5 minute walk from where I used to live in Ithaca last fall and Nels is playing there in the fall. If I move, they'll probably play here next!

A lot of you are lucky! I'm pretty sure Wilco will never play in south central Pennsylvania.

Shortest: Merriweather Post Pavilion (90 minutes)

Longest: UIC Pavilion, Chicago (11ish hours from where I was living then, if I remember correctly)

I also once drove 16 hours to Columbia, MO, to see the Nels Cline Singers.