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One more: In honor of the location The Minus 5 played Jonathan Richman's "Roller Coaster By The Sea" which, to Scott's dismay, was closed yesterday 

Thanks Wilco Me! Agreed. 

Delurking, just for coverage; This is a beautiful venue, right smack on the famous Santa Cruz Boardwalk, the second show I've seen (1st was Dave Rawlings Machine last summer).  There were several remarkable instances last night I thought members might be interested in.

First was an unexpected - and quite amusing - Son Volt drop. Explaining Sima Cunningham's absence from this show, Jeff admired her professionalism for honoring a commitment she had made before the tour. She had apparently flown home to do a show and would be back for the LA show. "She's singing with Son Volt". By no means have I seen EVERY Wilco/Tweedy show over the past years but I've seen my share, and I don't remember him even acknowledging Jay's band exists in the universe (I could be wrong but I'm too lazy to do the research). Funny. 

Second was a glimpse of the legendary Tweedy artistic temperament. Towards the middle-end of the solo set he VERY politely asked people not to take flash photographs. "I don't mind if you take pictures, and I hope I don't sound like an asshole asking this, but would you mind not using flash? It's very distracting. And kinda rude. Not just to me". Right after that we heard a "Hey Jeff!" and Jeff glanced to his left. Then a beat. "Did you seriously ust call my name just so you could take a picture? Yeah, you...did you really just do that?" Detectable flash of anger in his eyes. "I think...I think you need to go. Yeah, you need to go. Can someone take him out? Can someone take him out, or do I have to do it?" pointing the miscreant out to the uniformed rent-a-cops who do security at this venue more accustomed to hosting bar mitzvahs and well-heeled Santa Cruz weddings. 

Yep, he kicked an annoying iPhone photog the eff outta there. It was awesome. Hope that out-of-focus phone pic was worth it, man.

Addressing the audience , he talked about entertaining us, how hard it is to concentrate when there are so many distractions, how he wants to play for "us", not people who are only there to distract. "I'm not even sure it was the right guy. Let the Innocence Mission sort that out. He needs to go to...jail.". Rest of the show was that much more intense, probably the best of the three I saw this week. 

Jeff just cares. So few do. One of the reasons I admire him so damn much. 

Last note - among many highlights, it was a treat to see both Peter Buck join Scott and the band for California Stars. Amazing 12-string solo and lots of love from Jeff, who noted how Peter had believed in him and backed him his whole career. 

Setlist from wilcoworld.

Setlist

• 01 - Hazel
• 02 - Fake Fur Coat
• 03 - Diamond Light Pt. 1
• 04 - Flowering
• 05 - World Away
• 06 - Wait For Love
• 07 - Summer Noon
• 08 - New Moon
• 09 - Nobody Dies Anymore
• 10 - High As Hello
• 11 - Love Like a Wire (Diane Izzo cover)
• 12 - Low Key
• 13 - You Are Not Alone
• 14 - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
• 15 - Remember the Mountain Bed
• 16 - One Wing
• 17 - Radio King (Golden Smog)
• 18 - Hummingbird
• 19 - Gun (Uncle Tupelo)
• 20 - Whole Love
• 21 - A Shot in the Arm
• 22 - I'm the Man Who Loves You
• Encore:
• 23 - Please Don't Let Me Be So Understood
• 24 - Only The Lord Knows (Mavis Staples cover)
• Encore:
• 25 - God [John Lennon cover]
• 26 - Losing End (Neil Young Cover)
• 27 - Give Back The Key To My Heart [Doug Sahm cover]
• 28 - California Stars

 He mentioned how in the dressing room there was a poster for a show with Led Zeppelin, Bonzo Dog Band and someone else I can't remember right now and said how he would have paid a million dollars right now to have a chance to see any of those bands alone, much less on one bill. His point was basically that SF needn't have any sort of inferiority complex to LA.

 

So those were a few of the gems from last night, which made for another highly entertaining evening...

GREAT great recap. The third act on that poster Jeff mentioned was Rahsaan Roland Kirk - can you imagine being there...at least "in 1969" per Jeff's caveat?  

So they won't make the cover of the Rolling Stone, but the quarterly magazine Fretboard Journal (most familiar to guitar players on the board) will feature an article about Wilco and give them the cover of the Fall issue...they just posted a thumbnail on Facebook and announced the next issue's run list on FB and Twitter. It's a ten dollar book, but is probably the best guitar-related publication out there today.

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2316678&id=8094898166

Bad form to bump your own thread, but this issue arrived in today's mail and it is spectacular.

So they won't make the cover of the Rolling Stone, but the quarterly magazine Fretboard Journal (most familiar to guitar players on the board) will feature an article about Wilco and give them the cover of the Fall issue...they just posted a thumbnail on Facebook and announced the next issue's run list on FB and Twitter. It's a ten dollar book, but is probably the best guitar-related publication out there today.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2316678&id=8094898166

Awesome. 2 thoughts: a) re: alleged flatulence, is the bratwurst truck still parked under the Newburgh/Beacon Bridge? It was when I lived in Fishkill circa 1983...that would be my prime suspect as source. It's amusing to read the flack Conor continues to take as an opener, especially considering how many of us witnessed the Jonathan Wilson, err, Experience(?) opening for Wilco in Pomona & LA!

In the interest of completism, I got my vinyl + cd + T package this morning (1st post, hi everyone). I'm in Carlsbad, CA. Tickled when that big 12.5 x 12.5 box arrived, felt like I was 10 years old, getting my first Three Dog Night albums from Columbia House Record Club! The CD loaded into my Powerbook G4 and into iTunes with no hiccups, but it looks like the tracks are tagged incorrectly; Only "You Never Know" and "Country Disappeared" (tracks 6 & 7) were tagged with "WILCO" in the composer field and were therefore recognized as separate files. I manually edited them but iTunes is still not recognizing "Country..." so I have two separate icons for WTA. Still sounds good though (and the flimsy tee will go on a wall somewhere, doubt it would survive more than 5-6 washings).