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  1. My all time favorite is Bridgeport Brewing's IPA :cheers

     

    Our Company X-mas party is held at Pyramid Brewing Ale House this year......WoOt!!!

     

    -Robert

     

     

    Mmm...the Bridgeport Black Strap Stout. And yay for Pyramid, I once spent a fine weekend at the Gorge drinking Pyramid Apricot Weizen. :cheers

  2. I didn't even know they were coming to town. Saw them at Metro about a year ago and thought they were kind of dull actually.

     

    LouieB

     

    I don't think they are coming to town...but that Metro show was one of my favorite shows that year. Did you see the opener, The Acorn? They were really good too.

  3. I was at the simulcast for this one but haven't seen the actual program yet...curious to see what they cut out and what made it into the show.

     

    Here was the full setlist:

     

    Main Set: Walking The Cow, Just Breathe (with strings), The End (with strings), The Fixer, Johnny Guitar, Amongst The Waves, Unthought Known, Army Reserve, Driven To Tears, Do the Evolution, Got Some

     

    Encore: Lukin (with strings), Red Mosquito w/ Ben Harper, Inside Job, Life Wasted Reprise>>>Betterman, Gonna See My Friend, Porch

     

    Encore II: Crazy Mary, Star Spangled Banner

  4. Hello,

     

    I'm looking for three tickets on the floor for the Overture Center show in February. I know this sounds incredibly greedy, but this would be my parents' very first Wilco show, and I'd really like to treat them to the best seats I can find.

     

    If anyone has any to spare, I'd be grateful! Thanks.

     

    tigermountainpeasant at gmail dot com

  5. Agreed, agreed. Saturday's show was one of the most surreal events I've witnessed. Someone said (and I concur) that it's probably the closest thing we'll get to a NYE show from Pearl Jam. Just really loose and fun.

     

    Bugs and Sweet Lew? I mean come on! :yay

  6. So as some of you probably know, Pearl Jam is playing a string of four dates this week to close out the Spectrum in Philadelphia. This Saturday's Halloween show will be the last performance ever in the building as it's being demolished soon after.

     

    And apparently at last night's show, Ed said that the band was going to play "everything they know" this week, wrapping up at 2 am on Halloween.

     

    Needless to say I just got a bit more excited to leave for Philly.... :w00t

  7. Did any other Chicagoans catch the show last night? Absolutely brilliant. I've never really been much of a Ben Gibbard fan, but I thought he was great last night. His voice seems well suited to the alt-country stuff; I never would have guessed.

     

    He and Jay seemed to have an easy give-and-take, too. I've never seen Jay smile so much; hell, I've never really seen him smile...last night I swear I saw teeth. :lol

     

    Jay's more rockin' numbers were definitely the crowd pleasers, and they had a multi-instrumentalist (Hammond/pedal steel/slide guitar) who stole the show; he was really talented.

     

    Also, Jay doesn't seem to have aged a day since the UT days. Had to wonder what it was like for him playing a few doors down from the old Lounge Ax...

     

    Nice review from Greg Kot here:

     

    http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2009/10/concert-review-jay-farrar-ben-gibbard-take-on-kerouac-at-lincoln-hall.html

  8. I saw them at ACL and was pretty disappointed...I like Queens, but it just sounded like Josh Homme and the Superfriends. If John or Dave had any influence on the songs, I couldn't hear it.

     

    Oh, and it was LOUD. That's probably the best thing I can say about the set. :lol

  9. Let's do!

     

     

     

     

    :w00t

     

     

    BWAHAHAHA, Wendy! That's awesome.

     

    "As you can see at 00:32, after being hollered at by the third row folks, the OP moves back...and to the left. Back...and to the left."

  10. What I'm wondering is, if there was so much space, why didn't they move to an equally-close space with fewer people hollering at them? There was either enough space to accomodate them somewhere, in which case they could have moved a bit, OR there wasn't enough space. Accounts seem to indicate there was enough space for them to relocate and still be near the front.

     

     

    Let's go to the tape.

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