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Thanks for the stream link!

Love Poor Places, but much better when it segues into Reservations . . . 

Yes, Dewar's ads here as well. I listen to sports programing via Radio.com and have always encountered this annoyance.

- Ass Ponys ("Little Bastard" #26 Billboard Modern Rock)

- The Del Fuegos ("Don't Run Wild")

- Sir Douglas Quintet ("She's About A Mover")

- Edgar Winter ("Free Ride")

- Elvin Bishop ("Fooled Around and Fell In Love")

- Fastball ("The Way")

- Ronnie Lane ("How Come" and "The Poacher", UK hits)

- Gang of Four ("I Love A Man In a Uniform")

As it almost always the case, the "hits" don't crack my lists of favorite songs by these bands! And I realize some of these aren't technically "Hits", or are lower chart entries, but I like the thread and am always on the lookout for a band I missed or should give another try.

Such an important piece of the band's evolutionary DNA.

For a great SBD version of Cars Can't Escape, check out Owl &Bear for 2003-09-04 gig in Eugene, OR. Very skronky! It's a great show, wonderfully recorded. Nice freak-out by Jeff on a 12+ minute Laminated Cat.

I am a sucker for any SBD show with Poor Places-Reservations combo.

Ronnie Lane, Giant Sand/Howe Gelb, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, Early Kinks, Uncle Tupelo

Another vote for J. Geils Full House . . . and Blow Your Face Out rocks as well.

Others for me in addition to the great ones mentioned . . .

Ian Hunter, Welcome to The Club

Los Lobos, any of the great bootlegs out there, but I'll go with Live At The Fillmore as the commercial release

Bob Seger, Live Bullet

David Johansen, Live It Up

Jackson Browne, Running On Empty

Johnny and Edgar Winter, Together

Rainer Ptacek, Live At the Performance Center

Hoping one will be Newport! NPR stream is a great capture.

NPR is streaming a great capture of last night's show. Here's a link:

http://www.npr.org/event/music/156932363/wilco-live-in-concert-newport-folk-2012

Does anyone know if it is possible to download a streaming event like this? (I am not a techie, so apologies if this is not the smartest question!)

Was at the show and had a great time . . . surviving the rain at an outdoor event somehow always makes it more memorable. Caught up with some great friends, was 50 feet from the stage, and Fort Adams is a beautiful spot.

Thought the performance was top-notch with a great setlist, but I do think (and have increasingly thought for a while) that the finely crafted songbook puts a bit of a restrictor plate on the live experience. Not sure what the next evolution of my favorite band will be, but looser song structures with greater room for live improvisation would be welcomed here. The boys certainly have the chops!

I also like seeing all the beautiful guitars (really liked the colorful SG), but a new guitar for every song does seem a bit much (although I know different tunings are used throughout the night).

Three players . . .

1. The bass playing of Bruce Thomas (The Attractions);

2. David Hidalgo (Los Lobos, America's other greatest live band)

3. Angelo Moore (Fishbone), frontman extraordinaire (and the best theremin player you know)

And three great bands . . .

1. NRBQ

2. Ass Ponys

3. Bim Skala Bim (late, great Boston ska band)

OK, four bands . . .

4. Fastball

I strongly recommend checking out the (quiet version) that opens the 2002-04-27 Wilco show in Schenectady, NY. Great show all around, and pristine Soundboard with plenty of audience (might be a matrix) on Owl and Bear. And you get a very cool Laminated Cat as well as a tremendous 10-minute Sunken Treasure to close the show. I actually find myself gravitating frequently to these post-Jay, pre-Nels shows where Jeff played more lead. Very interesting period, different mood and sound. One of my top 5 Wilco boots!

Setlist: Spiders - IATTBYH - Kamera - Radio Cure - War On War - She's a Jar - Shot In The Arm - I'm Always In Love - Pot Kettle Black - I'm the Man Who Loves You - Ashes of American Flags - Reservations - Jesus, Etc. - Heavy Metal Drummer - Hesitating Beauty - California Stars - Laminated Cat - Red Eyed and Blue - I Got You - Outtasite (Outtamind) - Sunken Treasure

Harry Connick, Jr. (many films), Joe Strummer (Mystery Train), Meatloaf (Rocky Horror Picture Show), David Johansen (Scrooged, etc.,), Corey Glover (Living Colour - Platoon), Lyle Lovett, Paul Simon (Annie Hall), Sting, Roger Daltrey

No order here as well:

Wilco - 95% . . . all of the tremendous bootlegs on Owl and Bear push this percentage up! Tapers are the best! I will save Jay vs Jeff vs Nels for another time.

The Kinks - 90% of everything thru Low Budget . . . Arthur is a Desert Island disc for me.

NRBQ - 90% . . . best bar band of all time.

Neil Young - 85%

The Band - 85%

Los Lobos - 90% . . . give Wilco a run for their money as America's best live band today (along with MMJ)

Elvis Costello - 80% . . . would put his first five albums up against anyone else's (My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy!, Trust)

Robbie Fulks - 90% . . . Illinois' second greatest contemporary artist

Ass Ponys - 90% . . . Five years before their time . . . if you like Wilco/UT you will probably like Ass Ponys (great guitars, and Chuck Cleaver's voice grows on you)

Rolling Stones - 90% thru Tattoo You

Pressing the Top 10: Ian Hunter, early Elton John, The Clash/Joe Strummer, David Lindley, King Crimson, XTC, Fastball (very under-rated!), Todd Rundgren, Frank Zappa, Blasters, English Beat, Ween, Charles Mingus, Bim Skala Bim.

Great thread! Merry Christmas to all!

Thanks, Ghost!

Thanks for starting this thread and taking me back to my college days! From your excellent list I would pick Meat Puppets, and would recognize these other great bands that got a lot of play on college radio and/or in my dorm:

- NRBQ (1970s were their better decade, but 80s were solid as well, especially live until Big Al left the band);

- The Feelies (Crazy Rhythms and Only Life still get a lot of play in my car);

- Del Fuegos (terrific short-lived Boston "roots" band)

- The Blasters

- Los Lobos (one of best live bands if you dig their style)

- Fishbone (another GREAT live band)

Great show! My son's first concert . . . will take a while for him to top!

Didn't see anyone taping, but fingers crossed. Any word?

Here is the review from the Boston Globe:

MUSIC REVIEW

Adventuresome Wilco keeps soaring, pushing the envelope

By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff | June 29, 2007

Wilco performed last night on a stage stripped to nothing, with the bones of the Bank of America Pavilion exposed, and no visual bells or whistles to beef up the entertainment quotient. Wilco isn't the only rock group whose music can stand alone -- but it's the only band of its caliber that would risk it. The Chicago outfit has built a brilliant career from combining sturdy American songcraft with a fearless sense of adventure, and their Boston show was no exception.

Wilco is on the road in support of "Sky Blue Sky," a collection of warm folk-rock and alt-country gems reminiscent of the group's early, earthy sound. But everything Jeff Tweedy and company has explored in the last decade -- psychedelic soul, lush pop, ambient drones -- was woven into the mix, and with few exceptions the songs (old and new) felt freshly considered. "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" was transformed into an ethereal march -- all twinkling keyboards and walloping drums -- that narrowed into a ribbon of pure noise.

There is nothing this band can't play, and in the course of nearly two hours there was hardly anything they didn't: winsome pop ("Jesus, etc." and "Hummingbird" ), hard rock ("Spiders (Kidsmoke)") , dreamy meditations ("On and On and On" ) and Woody Guthrie ("California Stars" ). Wilco may be the world's only experimental country band, and in avant-garde guitarist Nels Cline , the newest member in a notoriously shifting lineup, it feels like Wilco has found a key piece of their musical puzzle.

Cline didn't so much play solos as embark on mind-bending excursions made of searing, serpentine runs or punishing pedal steel. When he swooped into the blues waltz "Side with the Seeds," loosing shards of razor-edged notes, or punctured the sedate surface of "Handshake Drugs" by rubbing at his strings like they were a stubborn spot, Cline wasn't just being interesting -- he was supplying the songs' dark, complicated subplot.

"What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore," Tweedy sang on " Shot in the Arm." Happily, he and his ever-changing, endlessly inventive band don't hesitate to do something about it.

Joan Anderman can be reached at anderman@globe.com. For more on music visit boston.com/ae/ music/blog.