The Inside of Outside

there has been a rash of One-Hitters since Jimenez's no-hitter and Braden's perfect game: Matt Cain, Mat Latos, Johnny Cueto, am i missing one?

I realize this probably has nothing to do with fewer ballplayers on performance enhancing drugs now, but it does make me think....

HOORAY!!!!

 

MY HUSBAND AGREED TO GO!!!

Great news! Hope you have a great time!

Getting good reviews. Adjectives and phrases like "angry", "urban wall of sound", and "fathomless layers of feedback" used to describe it in the press. And he puts on a ripping live show. Will pick this up asap.

We flew down to San Francisco for the Drive-By Truckers show @ the Fillmore Saturday night. Then saw Braden's perfect game the next day. It was the proverbial icing on the cake. My husband, a baseball nut, could not believe our luck. After all, had the Giants not been on the road, we probably would have been sitting at AT&T Park that afternoon rather than at Oakland Coliseum.

 

On deck: Wilco @ Snowmass, CO followed by the the Reds vs.the Rockies Labour Day weekend!

Pairing up a baseball game and a concert - that is the way to do a vacation!

I like it. Can't say I am wild about it when I hear it in concert because I have heard it a bunch (like an earlier post noted with some standards like ITMWLY and Shot), but it is a good song for folks who are new to the band to hear because it is so catchy. Plus, I remember the shiny shiny pants and bleached blond hair and a double kick drum by the river in the summer. I smile when I hear those lines - takes me back to seeing Whitesnake, Ozzy, Motley Crue, Black Sabbath, Ted Nugent, Quiet Riot, Iron Maiden, etc. in the 80s. Lots of shiny shiny pants, more double kick drums than I can count. Maybe the lyrics resonate a bit more with folks about Jeff's age, because HMD is an ode to concerts circa 1985.

That's the most I've enjoyed, "Deeper Down".

Same here. More fun to watch than listen to on the record.

Sure the shows are great, but the events surrounding them are nearly just as memorable, no?

 

After my first Wilco show, we went to IHOP in Kenmore Square, where I ordered the soup of the day (stoned much?) - the waitress, a cutie, replied: "You don't order soup at IHOP."

Hilarious....

Just before the Hartford show last month, I impressed the hell out of my friends by ordering a Maker's Mark, neat, and drinking it all in one gulp.

Impressive!

After the show at The Town Hall in NYC in 1999, went to the ESPN restaurant for food and drink (after much drink before the show). One of our group, a Wilco newbie, couldn't stop yelling, "That was the best concert ever!" to the consternation of others around us. He then mistakenly ordered the Buffalo Chicken Salad (he had wanted the Buffalo Wings). Never seen someone so depressed by a salad. He made it home in the back of the car, but the Buffalo Chicken Salad ended up on the pavement somewhere between NYC and Greenwich.

About to finish the Young Reader's version of this - aimed at teens. The high school where I teach is including it as a choice for summer reading. I am interested to hear what the students think of it.

Eventually, everyone makes their Presence or In Through The Outdoor.

Provocative post, and I mean that in a good way.

Presence is my favorite Zeppelin album. Love it because I did not hear every song from it thousands of times on Classic Rock stations in the 80s.

And you hit it - Goat's Head Soup is no Exile. And I agree, WTA is no YHF. And I still listen to Goat's Head Soup and WTA because they are better than much of what is out there.

I think Wilco still has a good dose of studio mojo left in them.

I'll Fight has grown on me. I enjoyed seeing it live last month, though it is not a show stopper live by any means. A good solid pop song, and I agree with you, Terrapin Ben, that Jeff's delivery is perfect.

That was fun to watch!

This rocks. Saw them a month before this. They had an energy in '97 that I thought they would never reach again....and the last few shows over the past year that I've seen, well, they've reached it again.

As usual, it looks like I'll be truckin' it all the way by myself to this show. I will go to this show. I had this great plan that this would be perfect for my 39th birthday, and an excellent opportunity for my 6 yr old daughter to see her first Wilco show. I think she can handle it. Then a weekend near Lake MI and then home to Cleveland on Sunday. But of course non Wilco fan husband doesnt want to go.......

 

This will be my 3rd Wilco show by myself.

Just think of it as your first show with your daughter, and not your third show by yourself. Taking the kids can be a riot. Hope you have fun!

I'll bet this will be a wonderful show/tour. Seen him solo a couple of times, with a country band in the mid-80s, and with Crazy Horse. The solo shows are impressive, but imho, pale in comparison to a Neil Young with Crazy Horse show.

 

"says i havent gone too faaaaaaaaaarr" and the following guitar solo in VC

 

Love, love, love this. Summerteeth version is great, hearing it live is phenomenal.

I've been cable free for six years and honestly my mind feels less bogged down. I go to my sisters' homes and they have the round-the-clock news on or one of those reality shows and I feel like I'm going to lose my mind. I don't miss it and after awile you may look back and realize how big of a waste it is. The only things I watch on my television are dvds, PBS and Craig Ferguson a couple times a week. I read alot more and I write, but still not as much as I should.

Cable free for 5 years. We have 2 shows we watch regularly, and I check out PBS from time to time. Don't miss it for a minute (ok, ok, now that the first round of the baseball playoffs are on TBS or TNT or some other ridiculous cable station, I do miss it then), and I am thrilled that my kids are not growing up with it. The last five years have been more balanced around the house as a result of less TV. Now if I could do something about the 3 laptops in our house....

I'd rather join Facebook than go to a reunion. That's for sure.

I agree. Joined Facebook several months ago. Have caught up a bit with folks from high school and college. Twenty-fifth high school reunion coming up, and I have no interest in going. Did get together with a bunch of folks from college at a football game last fall - that was a blast. But the high school reunion, no interest.

Like hazel, I am fond of Pieholden Suite, especially the moment when the horns kick in.

When Nels' solo ends in Impossible Germany and the guitar parts come together and lift you up.

The opening drums in Too Far Apart.

Take songs #9, 11, and 16 out of the set list above, and it could be a greatest hits record (at least from the last 5 studio albums). Not that there is anything wrong with that. Just different from the Evening With... shows. Makes sense, given an audience that is likely much less familiar with their catalogue.

I don't think it is very good. It's definitely a new vocal (plus other things) over an old track.

 

Rolling Stones - Plundered My Soul (Youtube link)

 

I am all for bonus tracks, but I am not a fan of tracks that have been messed with years and years past the time when they were made.

I agree - not a fan of messing with a version after nearly 40 years. I like the music - has that Exile sound, but the vocal is too up front for me (not buried in the mix like much of Exile), and Mick sounds different today than in the early 70s, and it shows on this song.

Doing some work related reading now:

May read Infinite Jest this summer - heard great things about it.

Did you ever check out Iffy? Also a brief venture for Kraig, but the shows were fun.

Have not before, but will now. Thanks for the tip!

Same experience as LouisvilleGreg. Watching off and on, just happened to be watching when they cut to 15 seconds or so of Hate It Here. I remember watching that live a few years back and thinking it was good. That brief clip last night was fantastic - much better than I remember. Needless to say, I was hooked on the show last night for a good 30 minutes after that...

The only reason anybody talks through a show is that they don't care enough about the music to not talk through a show. I figure it's mostly people who got dragged to a show or went because everybody else was going. It makes me sad - I go to a lot of classical music concerts and NOBODY fucking talks, but that is a different societal norm up in those. In Hartford (I was there) the solution could have been to turn it up a bit - it was probably the least loud rock show I have ever been to, and the ability to easily talk over the music contributed to the chattiness, IMO.

I agree - a little louder, and fewer folks want to yell over the music. Doesn't have to make your ears bleed, just enough to deter the talkers.

As for recordings, sometimes it is the placement of the microphones and who happens to be around. Two nearby talkers can have a major impact on a recording.

Maybe, just maybe, another recording will surface with less chatter. We can hope - that was an excellent show.

when i saw GS at the Metro in 1998, i was hoping for Radio King because back then, Gary and Jeff were my musical heroes. They played it, just the two of them, upfront on the stage, to me, it was magical and still, one of my all-time favorite concert moments.

Saw them in the 90s a couple of times in NYC - Jeff and Gary doing Radio King together was surreal. I remember the band having a great time on stage - lots of joking and banter.

Kraig brought a lot to the band - a heavier side to their sound. Liked his work in The Jayhawks, too, though it was brief.

Smog was always good for an excellent cover or two in the encores. I recall (though it is a bit hazy - it was the 90s) Kraig singing a ripping version of Spooky. Good stuff!