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Switching it up a little. Andrew Bird

Yo la Tengo (One! More! Time!)

Yo la Tengo! Again!!

Yo la Tengo

Mike Cooley (DBT) solo

Love seeing that pic. Totally a Stan stan myself. (Did I mention we share a birthday? Tis true!) Interesting that of the zillion FB/IG posts, nobody mentioned this MONUMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT but you. #VCForever

Bob Dylan

Haven't seen much in the way of recaps for the book tour this time so I figured I'd chime in a bit about last night's event, since it was a rather limited run and many folks didn't get the chance to see one of the stops. Much paraphrasing here... I didn't take actual notes... but this is how I understood his comments. It's tough to recap something from memory which is basically ALL BANTER versus a regular Wilco show, but here goes. Jeff stopped by this very same High School auditorium five years ago for the memoir tour, and I remember that one being a little better attended than

Author Jeff Tweedy

First was 2005 at the very end of the AGIB tour. So I’ve only seen the current lineup. Fave? No idea really… loved them all. I started tracking shows on a spreadsheet about 6 years ago when I retired and has a personal goal of 50/year. I’ve done that except for Covid and think I’ll hit 60 this year btw. Someone asked me which shows I’d been to, and so I had to do some forensic work to fill in the blanks pre-2018, also just on a spreadsheet. I honestly thought I was only at 50 or 60 so I kinda surprised myself when it was way up in the 90’s.

So that bit of banter was my annual call out / shout down from Jeff, as I tend to overstep my enthusiasm a wee bit every now and then. In this case, after Jeff said “you’re not here to hear me yap”, I replied (from the second row in the pit, so well within earshot), “yap away!”. That prompted the last two lines above. Point was taken, and it did settle the crowd for a bit - but not the whole evening as you noted. Beyond that, the highlight was indeed Spiders with MBD doing a little shredding of her own amongst the Wilco shred forest.

Wilco. Noteworthy as this is my 100th Wilco show.

I’m not one to declare every Wilco show as “best ever”, but this one was indeed special. I’ve never seen Jeff so animated in getting the crowd into singing and clapping and generally embracing the gorgeousness of it all. The outro’s to handshake drugs and a couple others seemed to stretch out almost jam-like. By the end of the show you could see Jeff looking out up to the lit-up lawn area and seeming almost overwhelmed with it all. For Spiders, he encouraged the clapping early on, and I thought we’d just get the audience clap-along when he implored us all to “keep it going”. But clearly he wan

Michael Jewel Haley has 4 for sale on the ASITA site on FB. He's a great guy.

So. Much. Fun. His "Tough Cookies" livestreams were second only to that Tweedy guy's show for pandemic musical relief.

Low Cut Connie

Peter Gabriel (yes, again... it's not like we don't do repeats around here).

It does seem ironical that WTA is now exactly mid-pack. Are we that old? Apparently yes. As for these one-word album titles... well, imagine this thread for Peter Gabriel....

Be prepared to feel reallllly old.

Peter Gabriel

I loved it but I’m a big fan of his. He had a great band pulled together this run, and the new stuff was excellent. They did a wild extended Orchids and Bells Break Arms which I loved. Tim was in rare form - acting very professorial since it’s a big college town with IU (“ok who messed with my syllabus?” and “didn’t anybody do their homework? This hurts me deeply”). You could tell it was the last night of this little run. Very loose. Got to chat with everyone after the show too.

Califone. Excited to see Tim & Co, but sad that I couldn't convince @M Christine or @mountain bedto join me....

The Milk Carton Kids

The National (Homecoming night 2), with Pavement, Weyes Blood, Snail Mail, etc..