The Inside of Outside
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Hey TB Rays - nothing like replacing two pretty good, youngish players with two aging stars, with one of them being well past his prime and the other being past his steroid use (we think). I know they saved $, but Manny?
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Solid Sound Tickets plus reservations at a Williamstown motel. June cannot come fast enough!
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I agree that Karen was way down in the mix - could not hear her unless she was the only one playing, which means I heard her only a few times over the two nights. HTH was ragged to me on night #1 - most of the songs were played a beat too slowly, including Sister Cry, Settled Down Like Rain, and Nevada, California. Martin's Song was spot on, though, and the rest of night #1 was very good after that.
I thought the second night was much, much better. I am a bigger fan of HTH, but TTGG was a better album to see in its entirety. And, they just played better on the second night. Gary was sharper on the solos, and their vocals were more in sync (they were way off a few times on the first night). The new songs - Black-Eyed Susans in particular - were catchy.
Loved that they closed with Lights both nights. Overall, very satisfying. Like seeing an old friend for the first time in 15 years.
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Love this setlist. Cannot wait for the next 2 nights in NYC!!!!! HTH and TTGG over the next 2 nights - woo-hoo!!!
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Great news on two shows by Wilco at Solid Sound! This is the tipping point for me. Let's see, me and 4 kids - $348.50. That is doable for a weekend of Wilco and more. Now to find a campsite that is not too far away (but is not on a 15 X 18 foot plot and allows no fires - can't see the Solid Ground Camping as a great experience). Can't wait for June!
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Let's focus on these faces then. They're most important anyway.
In total agreement with The High Heat.
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The sound quality of these two shows: A+
Sounds like Jeff is playing in my house tonight, not in DC a month ago. Incredibly clear.
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You and I at Hannaford Supermarket in Yarmouth, Maine, yesterday afternoon.
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Thanks! That's an excellent tab.
It's not the guitar that I'm having issues with so much as the singing, though. I mean, I've sung along with the song hundreds of times, but when I'm trying to do it justice on my own, I've come to realize just what a hard song it is to sing. And just how good a singer Alex Chilton was.
That is a tough song to sing along to, too. And he was a good singer.
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ction said they make Bread sound like Black Flag.
This is funny!
Love this trio:
What's The World Got In Store
New Madrid
The Late Greats
Looks like the show was worth the price of admission and more, if the setlist is any indication.
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Two tickets for each NYC show - a done deal!
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how did Change my way of thinking sound?. i heard an mp3 from a few days ago and you could barely make out what he was barking... totally different lyrics too
Barking is an excellent verb to describe his singing. I liked what the band did with Change My Way of Thinking, but other than the chorus I could not make out a single word. Bob could have been singing names from the phone book for the verses in the song and I would not have known it.
That said, I was glad he opened with it, instead of Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat (which I have seen him play before and may be his most garbled lyric).
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Lowell, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Tsongas Center
November 20, 2010
1. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
2. It Ain't Me, Babe
3. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
4. Love Sick
5. Rollin' And Tumblin'
6. Simple Twist Of Fate
7. Honest With Me
8. Visions Of Johanna
9. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
10. Tangled Up In Blue
11. Highway 61 Revisited
12. Not Dark Yet
13. Thunder On The Mountain
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man
(encore)
15. Jolene
16. Like A Rolling Stone
Had not seen him for several years, and this was the best since the mid 90s. Band was tight, sound was good, and the setlist was as good as one could ask for.
No arguing that Bob's voice is shot, but he gives as much as he can at 69 years old. In his shows 15 years ago his voice was clear and he enunciated well; not so tonight. That said, he still rocked out Honest With Me, Highway 61, and Not Dark Yet. You could tell he was trying, especially in his harmonica playing (which was surprisingly on key and excellent) and on the songs he sang without playing an instrument.
Compare his current version of It Ain't Me Babe with the version on "Before the Flood" and there is no comparison to be made. But to hear songs like "Rollin and Tumblin'" and "Lovesick", it makes you glad he is still playing. Bob can still bring it.
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He managed some great teams. When I was a kid, my brother named his hamster Sparky after him (mine was Freddy, after a certain Red Sox centerfielder). Needless to say, October, 1975 was a contentious time in our house.
Sparky and Earl Weaver and Billy Martin were old school characters. Sparky will be missed.
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I also went one year as anti-Martha Stewart. I wore a dirty blond wig and lots of flannel and carried a wicker basket full of crappy handmade party favors which I distributed to party guests - figurines made out of rusty nails, scrap wood, and spray paint holding post-it signs that read "piss off", "bite me", etc. etc.
I drank and swore a lot, too.
I love this idea!!!!
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...no thanks to the stay-puft marshmallow man as their coach.
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BUT if I could only do one museum in Paris I'd go to the Musée d’Orsay. It has the most amazing collection of impressionist paintings and it's beautifully arranged. It's less daunting than the Louvre, although still a huge museum.
I agree with this - years ago I skipped the Louvre and went to the Orsay instead and have never regretted it.
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This thread is hilarious
ly sad.
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Maybe this is why?
Chills....
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I was not wowed by an earlier TV appearance when Mavis did "Only the Lord Knows". This, however, was different. Chills and goosebumps different. Loved it.
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Here's what the MSJ blog published earlier today:
At least one nearby Farm Aid attendee was heard to bellow, “Time for a Dylan impersonator!” when Jeff Tweedy came out, and admittedly there were superficial resemblances: unfussy acoustic guitar, harmonica, unkempt hair on face and head.
There were deeper, worthier resemblances, too. Playing solo, Tweedy, best known for his leadership of the brilliant, fluctuating indie band Wilco, was able to strip a song down to its essence, not letting the distractions of a stadium crowd dissolve his focus.
Also quite like Dylan, Tweedy evoked the great Woody Guthrie, albeit using Guthrie’s own words in “Remember the Mountain Bed,” a tune Tweedy once helped write around previously unpublished lyrics. He proved himself a mesmerizing, earthy presence. If that makes him a Dylan impersonator, bring on a few more like him.
Amen to that.
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So, not being able to read German, I put the article into Google translator, and got this:
German to English translation
Jörg wonder it is perhaps the best band in the world: Wilco delight in Berlin Admiral Palace.
If you try to repeat the pleasure of a unique experience, one always runs the risk to be disappointed. Hence had the concert by Wilco really all have to stay home, who were three years ago, witness their incredible presence in the boiler house. Impossible to preserve the perfection and intensity, right?
The sextet from Chicago takes on the challenge, even if the conditions are in the sold Admiralspalast their controlled less conducive to ecstasy: The cabin layout of the auditorium spark from experience not to so easily. But even when programmatic opener "Wilco (The Band)" make clear that this is not an evening to hang out in the theater chair. The rumbling bass drum maelstrom reminiscent of the angry minimalism of Velvet Underground, the three-guitar armada into the scene, Jeff Tweedy voiced fervently a life training for the fans: If you sometimes bad is, listen to our songs, and you will be comforted.
Sounds pretentious, but it is not. For each of the two dozen songs, sung the Wilco in two hours, is a great day for pop music. Since there are sun-drenched West Coast psychedelia like "You Are My Face", the entire length of the Midwest in waidwunden vocal harmonies capturing Americana such as "One Wing", urban angegroovte guitar Howler as "Bull Black & White" or the country Schnurre "Via Chicago" dive in. in their lovely drummer Glenn Kotche Geschunkel with infernal hammering, while Tweedy weiterschmalzt unmoved.
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And there are "Impossible Germany", a blazing ballad, guitarist Nels Cline at which soars solierend to such a gorgeous combination of sounds that it pulls people from their seats. Cline is an example of the integrative power of the band: used to be a the narcissism prone Experimentalfrickler, he has developed since his Wilco join six years ago, the team player that are incomprehensible Can not demonstrate in every song needs, but also a less experienced colleagues Tweedy can be as shiny side.
As a guitarist Jeff Tweedy may not belong to the world's best, but what a great singer, he has become. His voice has a dark, velvety sheen and natural authority of great rock voices. More than once, you have to go to Michael Stipe, or think the late John Lennon. How ever Wilco idiosyncratic what-if-awaken associations: Had the Beatles not separated in 1970, but Paul McCartney replaced and gained an outstanding guitarist and a keyboardist, she had the mid-seventies can sound a bit like Wilco 2010th So like the best band in the world.
That this sometimes nerve shows it almost makes more gratifying: After an hour, the Stalking Jeff Tweedy affable and sends a message of greeting to his persistent calling between fellow countrymen: "We love you American followers. But we came here to play for Germans. "Finally, he trades quips with a front of the stage, the film boldly ignore ban guest what he verhagelt a little humor.
After the addition of cracker "Heavy Metal Drummer" Cline is already strapped to the next guitar, but Tweedy is the signal for departure. Regardless, this exceptional concert tolerate even a minimal disharmonious end. Jörg miracle
Hilarious. Thought I was reading a review by Lotti, without the ABBA references.
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Country Disappeared
Poor Places
Reservations
Misunderstood
Encore:
Via Chicago
Hummingbird
Fantastic setlist.
Like the way they're changing the order of the sets around now - good to have some variety
Love this! And Via Chicago then Hummingbird is sublime.
The Jayhawks, Webster Hall, NYC 1/20/11
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Funny that they commented on this on the second night. Something about how they only need one guitar for a show, and how they hope they don't break a string. And it does keep the momentum going.