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    Best. Autocorrect fail. Ever. In fairness, this was literally the last post before Via Chicago went down for five days, so I couldn't proof it. I'll leave it up for the lulz.
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    Setlist as played: Handshake Drugs Solitaire Muzzle of Bees Hesitating Beauty Remember the Mountain Bed War on War Misunderstood (24 Nothings) Art of Almost Jesus Etc Impossible Germany The Late Greats Cinnamon Girl (w/MMJ) (Jeff: "It's an open stage from here on out.") California Stars Casino Queen Hoodoo Voodoo Last three songs with Aryan Bingham's band and members of MMJ. I counted 14 people on stage.
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    Has Wilco ever played Solitaire before? Tweedy has done it solo, but I think that's one of the great unplayed songs. Maybe they'll finally do Sunloathe on this tour?
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    OK, I'm going to make a wild prediction for tonight's show at Jones Beach: Tom Verlaine joins Wilco onstage for "Marquee Moon."
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    North AmericanaramA. The North is silent.
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    Pictures, setlist, and fan-shot video of Genetic Method/Chest Fever and Long Black Veil here: http://www.jambase.com/Articles/118943/Wilco-Welcomes-Garth-Hudson-At-SPAC-AmericanaramA-Stop
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    I've been updating the spreadsheet regularly. With the tour now 2/3 over (18 down, 9 to go), the WIlco set lists are still showing astonishing variety. Art of Almost is played at every show. But 48 songs, or roughly three in every set, have been played only once on the entire tour. And another 25 songs have been played at only two or three shows. You can see the entire list here: http://sdrv.ms/189GN5U Feel free to sort and filter the list to your heart's content. You won't break anything.
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    The Stones tickets didn't exactly sell at those high prices: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-01/rolling-stones-tickets-gather-moss-as-600-seats-for-sale.html I have a business partner in the LA area who got two last-minute budget seats for the first show in LA and then went back the next night when a couple more excellent seats "suddenly" became available at $85 each.
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    OK, if anyone wants to study the spreadsheet (read-only, but you can download and remix to your heart's content), go here: http://sdrv.ms/189GN5U It's a live document, so I'll be updating it as each new show is documented. The structure is as follows: Set Lists (tab 1), Song list (tab 2), and Pivot Table listing songs by number of times played, in descending order (tab 3).
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    I'll do that after the tour is over.
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    Yeah, I did an analysis of those set lists when the tours were underway. There were slots every night for inserting a deep track, but for the most part everything followed a standard template. It was designed to sell The Whole Love, so understandable, but still... I can't find those posts now, unfortunately, because the site search doesn't go back that far and apparently Via Chicago has search indexing turned off so posts don't appear in Google or Bing. Bummer. The security on this tour is really tough, so the only recordings that have leaked out have been stealth. I think there are t
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    Well, I do Excel stuff for a living, so I can justify this sort of data analysis as "training" and "software evaluation."
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    On the last couple Wilco tours, I was mildly disappointed (but only mildly) that the set lists began to fall into a predictable routine, as though they had been lovingly hand-crafted from an artisanal cookie cutter. Boy oh boy is that not the case with this latest tour. I was initially concerned that these abbreviated (75-minute) festival sets would be the same ol' same ol', with Wilco's greatest hits show after show. Wrong. To quote Stephen Colbert: "Great set lists? Or the greatest set lists?" I looked at the first nine Wilco AmericanaramA set lists and did a little quick analysis:
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    In my opinion they're all pretty equivalent in terms of quality. This is a soundboard feed with what sounds like a bit of audience mixed in for color. I've bought eight of the Roadcase shows (and would probably collect them all if I could justify the cost). Most of the shows are ones I didn't attend, so I can judge them pretty dispassionately. Of the ones I own, the Geneva show (Roadcase 002) and Rochester (Roadcase 008) are my favorites. YMMV. I am also an experienced judge of field recordings. IMO, the Roadcase shows are first-rate work, and there are very few bootlegs that are even c
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    Here's something I learned today... Through a website screw-up, Wilco posted three live Roadcase shows from Japan. But someone uploaded them to the Ryan Adams Store instead of the Wilco store, so they don't show up in the regular Wilco Roadcase section at kungfustore.com. To make matters even more confusing, the shows are numbered 18, 19, and 20. But whoever just uploaded the two Solid Sound shows didn't realize those numbers were used, so Solid Sound nights 1 and 2 are 18 and 19, respectively. Confused? Here are the links: Roadcase 018 / April 10, 2013 / Osaka http://ashesandfire.kungfust
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    I spoke with Glenn briefly at the dinner after night 2 and he said he was really, really glad to be relieved of that bit of nightly theatrics. But he did concede that they would likely do it again at Solid Sound and if/when they play in Brazil.
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    OMG. I can imagine some wonderful collaborations with Richard Thompson on the next leg, but am having trouble figuring out how Ryan Bingham will fit in. Anyone?
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    Jeff loathes the sun.
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    Buried in a reply above, this is worth calling out: "Lineup headliners and most 2013 bands will be performing BOTH Weekend One and Two of this year's Festival, with the exception of some of our local artists." So, like Coachella. Advantage of going to weekend two is you get to read the reviews from the first weekend to see which acts were surprise hits and which were disappointments.
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    So I set aside my reservations and got two in the pit at Denver. GA, $107 each. Ouch but I'm sure we'll have a great time.
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    Showtime for the Fiddler's Green Amphitheater show in Denver is 5:30, with Ryan Bingham opening (not Richard Thompson). And the facility has a hard curfew of 10:00PM. So... If Ryan Bingham plays 5:30-6:00, that leaves a total of four hours for three stage changes and three headliners. Even if you assume 20 minutes per set change (which would be fastest I've ever seen), that's exactly an hour per set for each of the top three acts. Yikes. It sounded so good on paper.
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    Yuck. Live Nation money run. I'm happy these bands can all get a nice payday, but I suspect we'll skip this run. The Denver venue is a hellhole with a 10PM curfew.
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    This show is now available from the Roadcase collection at the Kung Fu store. It is well worth it. (It was my birthday, we were stage front, the setlist was sublime, and you can actually hear some banter between Jeff and me at the end of Born Alone. Yes, that's me saying "You loathe it.")
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    Yoga pop-ups: Yoga to Wilco http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/yoga-pop-ups/yoga-to-wilco/12796946/:
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