Mizzy

I'm requesting Dreamer for Meeniyan and Cars for Melbourne. 

 

 

I've requested "Dreamer in My Dreams" at each and every one of my 13 shows. Still never heard it. 

But i've gotten "Cars Can't Escape" twice. 

I forgot what time it was and didn't even start my Capitol Theater searching until 12:20. 

Still got two GAs. 

And I remembered from last time that for some reason the seats up top are the expensive ones and the GAs are the cheap tickets. Makes no sense to me, but it works out for my wallet (and my preferences). 

As long as we're throwing out "Dream Tour Ideas", here's my choice. 

4 consecutive "Evening With" shows (with no repeats over the 4 days), @the Capitol Theater for the Northeast heads. Atlanta for the Southeasterners. Dallas for the lower center of the country. Greater Los Angeles for the Southwest and Seattle for the northwest. Then 5 nights in Chicago to wrap it up.

One 200 dollar ticket gets you into all the shows in your city. 

Japan's reward for beating the Springboks? Getting to play Scotland on only three days rest.

I love the should we stand or should we sit thread. It's been a while since we've seen it. 

The best thing you can do is ask the person in front of you what they're planning on doing and hopefully you can convince them to stand. Since people have such a herd mentality these days once people see that people are standing up they'll stand up too. But unfortunately there are a ton of people at Wilco CONCERTS who for some reason think they bought tickets to Wilco ThePlay and that they should sit and watch it like a movie. 

In a perfect world the first level of any venue would be for standers and the upper level or levels could be for sitters and people could freely choose where they wanted to be based on their preferences. 

As for whether or not you'll get yelled at, sadly I think the chances of that increase all the time. For some reason there are more and more jerks at every Wilco concert. My first show, zero jerks. My most recent show (Solid Sound), literally a hundred jerks or more. 

Does two weeks off, a festival show in CT and then a few days off before flying to the west coast have any impact on the setlist? I feel like my belief that they'd be practicing the hell out of the new tunes is just Wishful Thinking. 

Kwhitehead: I'm hoping for a show (or even two) at the Oakdale or the College Street Music Hall in early December. 

I'm really on the fence about this one too. It's basically 80 dollars for 90 minutes of Wilco.

I want to hear the new tunes pretty badly but I'm also holding out for headlining shows in the fall. 

I think my plan as of now is to check stubhub and craigslist and the weather channel in the days leading up to the show and if its not going to be 90 degrees with 97% humidity and I can get a ticket for less than face, i'm going. 

I did last night's show at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester. My line of thinking was that it would be more fun to be in a general admission setting rather than a movie theater and being a place that the dead actually played I thought it would be fitting.

I feel like I definitely made the right choice. A 90 minute drive with some good tunes in the car made if feel like actually going to a show. The crowd was great, not too drunk and plenty happy and friendly. They were also very "into it", clapping and yelling and singing along despite being a thousand miles away from where the concert was actually happening. The sound system was fantastic, probably better than what the people at Soldier Field were hearing.

My only gripes were with the setlist, everything else was outstanding.

This was a weird Solid Sound experience for me this time. I had a good time  but......

The blankets and chairs are getting out of control. This was the first SS that I observed people getting confrontational about this, and it'll likely only get worse.

It's cool to want to share the experience with your family but there were a lot of kids 13 and under who looked absolutely miserable during both Wilco sets, I felt pretty bad for them.

Maybe if you and your friends wanted to talk about coffee and your favorite types of coffee and the coffeeshops you go to maybe you could talk about that literally any other time in your whole life and not during an acoustic Wilco performance that people literally traveled thousands of miles for (not me personally but I met a few people from far, far away and read the posts here about people coming from as far away as Brazil). If you got to enjoy just the Wilco, congratulations, I got to hear all about all sorts of inane nonsense from those around me Friday AND Saturday. Even if you want to talk to your crew about Wilco, that's cool, if you just want to jabber please, please, save it for another time. There's so much other time for jabbering.

The line for burritos won't be an hour long if people eat at any of the local restaurants. You can walk right in and walk right out of MassMoca the inside vendors aren't your only option. This didn't bother me personally, just an FYI for those that got stuck.

It was great, but as Jeff himself will tell you "we can make it better".

Probably an MCLA Rugby shirt, under a trashbag pancho, on Friday.

I'll be wearing a light blue Denton Rugby shirt on Saturday. Bright red hair, i'm hard to miss.

Look for me at Desperados around 4:30ish, at Parquet Courts in the Courtyard at 6, and to the left of the main stage stage at 9.

I consider myself fun.

Hey all,

If anyone finds out they can't go Saturday I'm in need of two Saturday passes. I tried to purchase them this past Saturday and must have just missed out.

Parquet Courts.

And Shabazz Palaces if he doesn't interfere with my plans at Jack's and Desperados.

Dutchess Stadium, 7/18/09

A friend and I flooded the ballot box for "Theologians" and it's always funny to hear Jeff say "this song got a lot of requests this time, a suspicious amount of requests".

I found myself in North Adams this weekend so I put some Wilco on and put the windows down.

It felt like the right thing to do.

Was this thread created to somehow imply that Wilco is NOT dad rock?

Anyone who really doesn't like what Wilco is doing should start a boycott of their own. They should stop buying tickets to shows and they should boycott this website for a while or forever.

 Because really, what are you here for? To convince the vast majority of Wilco fans that the band shouldn't be standing up for what they believe in? And even then, assuming that everyone suddenly said "you know what, you're right, Wilco should just shut up and play the hits" you'd still have to convince Jeff, Nels, Glen, Pat, Mike, and John. And i don't think this is the place for that.

So that we're clear, people who are mad at the cancellation (other than the people with tickets in hand) are supportive of the legislation, correct?

Otherwise why take the time to complain about it and site incorrect information ("But other states have this same law") as your justification?

It's a strange phenomanon but at most Wilco shows that involve GA people love to be in the center. The masses generally prefer to be 30 feet back but dead center.

Myself, I don't mind being to the side. The furthest back i've ever been for a GA show was the covers set at Solid Sound last time around and I was probably 10 people back on the Nels side and I got to my spot about 20 minutes before they took the stage.

Another item to note is that Joe's field isnt exactly the flattest field in the world and in the back to the left (assuming you're facing the stage, or the southeast corner if you'd rather use your compass) there's a hill that provides a great view of the stage albeit from several hundred feet away. No one should really worry about their vantage point, aside from their fellow concert goers who may or may not be the type of people you want to stand next to (I heard a lot more talking during songs at the last SS and feel like this practice is increasing).

I feel you Mr. Kafka, I assumed that GA would be more expensive than reserved seating for the Capitol Theater shows so I bought reserved seats. When I realized my mistake I was pissed. Why would GA be cheaper? I ended up in the 3rd row of the balcony instead of my customary front row left.

But I wasn't pissed at the venue or Wilco or Wilco's management. I was pissed at me.

This is the first year that there will be a band that I would've paid to see on thier own (Parquet Courts).

(How to Love Solid Sound if you don't like the Other Bands):

You don't have to like or care about any of the non-Wilco bands at all. You just drive into town around 4. Park the car and head to Jack's. Crank down some hot dogs and double cheeseburgers. Cross the street to Desperados and lubricate with a pitcher or two of margarita. Waddle over to MasMOCA at 6:30 or so. Run the gauntlet of people who are just standing everywhere for no reason looking at nothing in particular to get to the field. Find your spot (front of the stage and to the left is great for late arrivals). Wait for Wilco. Rock. Go back to the car and drive either home or back to the hotel.

Repeat once or twice as needed.

it's one of the few uncirculated shows they have for possible release in the future.”

 

What other shows are uncirculated, for possible release in the future or otherwise?

How about The Avett Brothers, I think they'd be a nice fit as the "other name brand band" on the bill.

And even though they're a decent size band i'd bet that there's enough overlapp of their fans and ours that the people coming only for the Avett Brothers wouldnt be more than a few hundred.

They'll be in Cooperstown June 13th, with nothing scheduled again until July.

And all this being said, I'm going no matter who is on the bill, and I for one wouldnt be at all unhappy if Wilco just decided to play for an hour and a half at 11am and then 2 hours at 7pm, with other bands playing in between.

All this beer talk is irrelevant to me because when i'm in North Adams my alcohol is coming via Margarita by way of Desperados.

In much the same manner that I'd trust a great chef to cook me any meal, I trust Wilco to play any song.

Play as many or as few covers as you want boys.