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  1. 4 hours ago, bböp said:

    From what I've been told, its design is an homage to the original 9:30 Club, which was located on F Street from 1980 to 1996.

     

    I haven't been to the Atlantis, but the old 9:30 didn't have a balcony and it was in this weird "L" shape where one part of the "L" was around the corner from the stage and you could only see the performance on TVs hanging on the walls.  The ceiling was also approximately 6 feet high!  There were poles in the place like he mentioned and at the top of one of them was a camera man who filmed the performance for the TVs in the back.  The place was always about 200 hundred degrees and smelled nasty!

     

    Changing gears, how the hell did you score tickets for this?!?!?   I live in DC and don't know a single person who got a ticket to any of the shows?

  2. 22 minutes ago, Heart full of holes said:

    We asked for a setlist immediately afterward and were told "There is no setlist." Was he winging it???? 

    Absolutely amazing set from Mr. Tweedy.  

     

    I'm 99% sure there was a set list.  I was up in the balcony and could see a sheet of paper on the table next to the mic.  It looked like a list of words, rather than a lyric written out, so it was either his grocery shopping list, or the set list!  ;-)

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  3. Great write up, thanks!!

     

    I'd like to see the original setlist vs what was played last night.  At one point early in the set, someone shouted out "Uncle Tupelo" and after some banter from Jeff, he went into New Madrid.  A little later, after the singalong in the Lou Reed song, he said something like, "Ok, so this is the type of audience you are. You like singing along.  It usually takes me a while to figure it out".  And in response to the good singing, he went into Passenger Side and Jesus, etc.   It made me wonder if those three songs were on the setlist or if he just called an audible after interacting with the crown.

     

    The ending of She's A Jar was pretty funny.   After the second bridge, ("Just climb aboard, The tracks of a trains arm, In my fragile family tree, And watch me floating inches above, The people under me"), I guess the crowd thought the song was over, or forgot about the final verse, because the place went nuts.  The crowd totally drowned out Jeff for most of the final verse of "She's a jar...... begs me not to hit her"

     

    It was a fun show.  More mellow than I would have liked, but that's my standing complaint about Wilco/Tweedy for the last 10 years or so!  ;-)

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  4. The Cut Your Hair with Malkmus was amazing!  I happened to catch it on Susie's Instagram and I was floored.  One by the surprise of it all, but also the performance.  I've never seen Malkmus that animated ever!  He seemed to be channeling a very hopped up David Bowie or something.  Jeff did a fantastic job nailing the solo and Steve's sound/style too.

  5. On 1/7/2022 at 9:27 AM, Chez said:

    After cycling back and forth every 10 minutes for the past three weeks - "to go or not to go,"  my wife convinced me last night that I'd be a moron (actually she said, "even a bigger moron than usual") if I go.  So I'm out.  At least for now. 

     

    I don't know either one of you, but your wife sounds hilarious!  I'm getting a big Susie Tweedy vibe!  :lol

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  6. On 12/13/2021 at 4:32 PM, chuckrh said:

     I think these bands have figured out that if someone is going to download shows that most likely they'll have already bought the commercial product. 

     

    Totally..........and go to all the shows, and buy merch, and see the solo performances and offshoot bands, etc, etc.

     

    Multiple version of every single Grateful Dead show is up on the ReListen app, and the GD releases something like five shows per year for sale, so it seems like free streaming and selling live shows can work financially.

     

    The problem I have, and I suspect many of you do, is I want to listen to 50 shows, or 100 or 500, (or all of them) and I want to be able to jump around and maybe checkout a certain song every 5 years or so, or see how it sounds in different incarnations of the band.  If I had to buy every show to do that, I couldn't buy food!!  

  7. Was that an amazing version of Heros, or was I just in a good mood?!?!?  (Just saw a snowy owl a half hour prior!)  I absolutely loved it, except for the weird tuning!  I don't have enough guitars for that!!  

  8. Did you guys see the Tweedy Show last night (stupid question!).  Jeff seemed as confused and upset/helpless as all the folks with tickets.  He also made it clear that Wilco is contracted performer just like they would be if they played any other show in Boston or Phoenix or any other place.

     

    Maybe they can do what Phish* did?  They had to cancel their NYE live show, so the band played a full show to an empty arena and aired it live on YouTube for free.  They got to play a show, the fans got to see a show and it seemed to be as close to a happy medium as was possible.

     

    * I'm not a fan, but I was impressed with them for doing this.  Especially the free part.  I'm sure it earned them a lot of good will.  Then again, I WOULD pay for a Wilco live stream, but not Phish!!

  9. On 8/26/2021 at 2:39 PM, Chez said:

     

    A book you will have to pay for!!  :D

     

    I'll gladly buy another book!!  Or a record.  Or concert tickets.  I won't buy another "Jeff Tweedy" capo though.  I got caught up in the hype earlier in the summer and bought an identical capo that I already had.  Well, this one was 10 dollars more and had a rainbow pattern on it, but other than that it was identical!

  10. In spite of my negative comments above, I have to say I was blow away by the email I just received about getting the glass heart/egg from a fan and what he was going through at the time.  I hope all these stories end up in a book at some point.

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  11. On 8/5/2021 at 6:08 AM, brownie said:

     and pay Jeff $60/year instead.  I signed up for the freebie option too.  Life is becoming an endless series of subscriptions and I have enough of them already.

     

    First, I have to say I'm amazed at how prolific Jeff is, especially lately with the new songs, and the Tweedy show and now this.  It's amazing he has time for his main job in Wilco!!!

     

    But it sort of irks me that he's charging for this stuff.  Yes, I realize I'm being kind of a jerk for expecting everything for free, and there's no obligation for me to get the pay version of Starship Casual, but it rubs me the wrong way. 

     

    And I totally agree with the "Life is becoming an endless series of subscriptions".  As the Beatles sang...........It's all too much!

  12. I'll echo everyone's comments about the horrible sound down in the front.  We ended up in the the third row for S-K's set and managed to stay there for the rest of the night.  In retrospect, I kind of wish I went to my Row P seats to take advantage of better sound.

     

    It took me a while to figure out why the pit was so dead and why I kind of "bored" with the set.  Bored is not the right word, I wasn't bored, I just wasn't moved by the music.  It slowly dawned on me that it was the sound that was bringing people down.

     

    The most egregious example of the horrible mix (up close) was during Pat's solo in Box Full of Letters.  He was out there wailing away and doing all these rock star moves with the guitar and I heard nothing!  Not a single note for 3/4s of his solo!  

     

    Someone above mentioned the well oiled machine the crew was during the guitar swaps.  I had another take that it was distracting, stressful and almost comical to see those guys sprinting out with Jeff's guitar, doing the swap, then sprinting back and then doing the same thing for Nels.  It was stressful watching it happen song after song!  And it didn't even seem necessary as there were usually long stretches of ambient music/noise when both guys had their new guitars before the next song started.  All of that is my way of saying three bands is too much when you start and 7 and have an 11pm curfew!!  It's kind of ridiculous that the headliner has to cut songs and shorten sets.  

     

     

  13. I like they songs they're playing, but has their setlist ever been this static?

     

    Other than the first night of the tour, the sets have been identical, and even the first night was nearly identical to the rest.  I know I sound like a ungrateful jerk, especially after more than a year of no concerts but it's just surprising.  I would think they'd get bored out of their heads.  

     

    I'm still super psyched for Merriweather but kind of scratching my head.

  14. On 5/28/2021 at 9:20 AM, ZiggyBratwurst said:

    Spreadsheet is also updated with new/revised song titles.

     

    This is amazing!  Thank you!!!  Just the other day I was wondering if anyone was nutty/dedicated enough to do this.   Thanks again!

  15. Have they stopped posting these shows to youtube?  Or are they in a different place?  The last entry on Susie's youtube page was from October.

     

    Apologies if this has been asked and answered 10 pages ago!

  16. Thanks gents!  Bummer about Wilco and archive.org, but I'm sure glad they still let us tape the shows!

     

    Is the live show archive The Owl and Bear site or is there some other beast out there?  Can you stream the live shows or do they have to be downloaded first?   (I'm very late to the streaming party, and still buy physical copies of music, but I'm starting to see the wisdom in streaming vs physical copies)

  17. Awesome! Now I just need to figure out what Dropbox is and how to download the files!!

     

    Does Wilco still allow taping or were you stealth?

     

    Years ago, I recorded the Constitution Hall show from the soundboard area. No soundboard feed, but I got to set up my mics there.

     

    So I guess to answer my own question, yes, they Still allow taping. Or do they?!?! I always wondered why they are not on the Relisten app.

  18. Last night was game four of the NLCS and if the Nats were to win, they'd go on to the World Series (they won).  But I have to think that had some affect on the crowd.  When I got there, it was very mellow out front.  There were no lines to get in, and they was NO ONE looking for tickets.  Usually it's a madhouse out there, with huge lines in both directions.  My friend had 4 tickets she couldn't use (went to the Nats instead) and we couldn't even give them away!  We ended up turning them in to the Anthem staff who said they'd give them to people who lost their ticket or had some ticket related problem.

     

    Anyhow, I had seats up in the balcony straight back, but the place was nearly completely empty for the opener, Soccer Mommy, and I wanted to see them, so my buddy and I just walked all they way down to the second row center and watched their set.  We figured we'd stay there as long as we could and then go to our seats, but we ended up in the second row all night long!  There were also 2 empty seats next to us all night long, and 2 seats in the front row that were vacant for 3/4 the show until some people snatched them up.  I credit the gods of karma for payback for the ticket donation for our great seats and the Nats victory!

     

    I really enjoyed Soccer Mommy.  I've been immersing myself in their music for the last week or so, and have really been digging it.  They are mellow to be sure, but also a bit haunting and evocative.  Check 'em out if you need some new music in your life!

     

    I haven't seen Wilco in a few years so I loved everything.  It's interesting that opsopcopolis thought I'm the Man Who Loves you and I Got You were flat.  I was blown away by how hard they rocked!  I guess that's the one benefit to not seeing a bunch of shows in a row. 

     

    I'd love to hear the takes from other tour heads on this show compared to others.  I thought the band seemed very, very into it, especially near the end of the show and encores when the crowd filled in the area right in front of the stage.

     

    More on the banter:  A woman in the front row had Jeff's book with her and he commented on it.  She said she's reading it for the second time and Jeff said something like, "I'd like to think of it as a layered story that unfolds differently on the second read"  Something like that.  So when they came out for the encore, she went to the front of the stage with the book open and a pen in her hand.  Jeff started to reach for it but then said, "A ball point pen?!?!  What are you, an animal?!!"  and didn't sign her book!

     

    Also during Impossible Germany, Nels did a crazy solo that just seemed to go on and on and get more and more wild.  He was twisting and contorting his body as he wailed away on the guitar, and probably burned 1000 calories during that song alone.  At the end of the song Jeff said, "Nice job Nels.  You played it just like I explained it to you"

  19. Here's the setlist as printed:

     

    Well, that didn't go so well.

     

    I'm getting an error message that says: "The server returned an error during upload" Anyone have any idea what my problem is?!?! (About trying to upload the setlist, not about my life in general!)

     

    You and I was listed between Via Chicago and Bull Black Nova and the encore was listed as Empty Corner, Cali Stars and The Late Greats

  20. I saw Jenny Lewis there in Sept and to my shock and surprise, there were seats on the floor for a GA show.  I ditched my "super excellent seats" (reserved seats in the balconies at a super expensive price) to grab floor seats about 10 rows back.

     

    Great show by the way.  If Jenny is coming to your town, SEE HER!

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