The Inside of Outside

You got it - they were in mint green-ish sweatshirts. I find them adorable, too, but I am incredibly biased. That means Mizzy was in the row in between us. The girls had a great time. They could not believe how long the show went (even though we talked about the 3 hour length beforehand). They love to hear Impossible Germany and Hummingbird, so they batted .500 on this show. They got the last poster after the show, too - that Pez poster is a keeper.

Thank you for 3 hours of music for a ridiculously low price, for the living room sets, the rarities and the standards, for 8 songs in Concord/Hartford that I had not seen live before. Hartford ranks in the top 3 Wilco shows I have seen, right behind the deli tray show in NYC in 1997 and right there with Shelburne, VT in 2007. Will I be ok if they do not repeat "An Evening With..." on future tours? Sure I will, because I loved their shows before this tour. And I will always have the memories.

Just got back from Hartford. High high energy show with high high people all around us down front. Excellent crowd - solid sing-a-long to Jesus, etc., a serviceable Happy Birthday to Nate the drum tech, and the energy peaked with the band at the end of the show. Much different from two nights earlier in 'Concerd' when the show seemed to top out before the living room set. The living room set was stellar in Hartford. Sky Blue Sky - That's Not the Issue floored me - had only seen each once before, so to get them back to back was a treat. Via Chicago - Box Full of Letters - I'm Always in Lov

1. A Ghost is Born 2. Being There 3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 4. Summerteeth 5. Sky Blue Sky 6. A.M. 7. The Album Top 3 are solid, bottom 4 move around frequently. I remember hearing a bootlegged copy of Being There before it came out, and being blown away. Still am.

I got a setlist after the show, saw that they had cut Hummingbird, Red Eyed and Blue/I Got You, and Thank You Friends, and had a fleeting moment of sadness. Then I thought, am I nuts? They just played for a minute or two shy of three hours, and I am bummed that they jettisoned four songs? Quick observations: Laminated Cat was excellent. Cars Can't Escape escaped most people (as did a few other songs), but the diehards made their appreciation known when they started it. Summerteeth>Misunderstood was a highlight for me. upnorth: Very cool that Jeff remembered your kids playing Wilco

Love Bash N Pop. I played their record Friday Night is Killing Me into the ground, and when I play it now, I notice it has aged well. I am sure others on this thread have noted these: Bellweather Lucero

Way cool is right. It was my favorite song on W(TA); now it my favorite by a mile.

Well said.

1. First Concert, when? Grand Olde Opry, 1974 (Marty Robbins closed the show in those days by playing a ton of songs, everyone else - Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn - would play one or two) 2. First Concert you really wanted to go to and did? The Kinks - spring, 1983 3. Favorite Band? Wilco 4. How Many Times have you seen them? 11 5. Worst concert you attended? Sorry, Deadheads - Grateful Dead, April, 1986 in Hartford 6. Favorites? Wilco, NYC, February 15, 1997 Replacements, Boston, February, 1991 U2, Hartford (or New Haven?), 1987 7. Band you have seen the most? Bob Dylan Wilco 8.

Outstanding setlist! Love to see Far Far Away and War on War. I am hoping that Poor Places stays in the setlist as the song they play transitioning into the acoustic set - haven't seen them play that song since the YHF tour. SarahC - congratulations on winning the raffle, and equally (or more) important, glad you got Wishful Thinking!

So glad it is Thank You Friends, and that it is highlighted as the sole encore (at least in the FLA shows).

Got an autographed copy from my sister who works at an independent bookstore in Birmingham, AL. Decent read so far. Love some of his early novels.

This op-ed piece reminds me why I dug Alex Chilton. And why I dig Paul Westerberg.

I am stunned and saddened. Saw Big Star with Perfect, Superdrag, and Yo La Tenga in the 90s. Big Star was pure pop bliss. He will be missed.

Big Dipper by Cracker. Totally different spring vibe. "And hey June, why'd you have to come, Why'd you have to come around, so soon? I wasn't ready for all this nature..."

Favorite Wilco record. Though at times it switches off between AGIB and Being There. Have enjoyed all of their releases, just some more than others.

Agree wholeheartedly with this. Which makes him a genius of some sort. Could be an out of his mind egotistical nut, too, I suppose. They felt new, different, at least until the Little Creatures/True Stories period. Early stuff still sounds different from a lot of what is out there. My kids think "Psychokiller" is an odd song (they play it on Rock Band). That's gotta count for something.

Wow. What a fantastic setlist. I'd like to think I am not the jealous type....but I am jealous.

Some say they ended their career on top, which is true from a commercial standpoint, but creatively I think their best was Making Movies, with Love Over Gold close behind. I agree with jakobnicholas that the best cuts off of Brothers in Arms are the deeper cuts that got less airplay. Definitely an album that got way overplayed on the radio and MTV. Brothers in Arms came out in the heyday of MTV - that headband is so memorable as a result. It was also one of the first albums to sell well on CD; I remember people raving about the superior sound quality on the CD. I remember that album as a wat

Best line of the day!

I had the same thought last night during the show. From reports I have read today, looks like Farrah was considered but then left out of the tribute. Interesting that Bea Arthur was left out, too, but this is generating less buzz. Might be because Bea's swimsuit poster sold fewer copies in the 1970s.

Agree with earlier post re: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The Sweet Hereafter

These days, no one. Over the past 25 years, The Who, The Stones, The Replacements, and The Jayhawks have been in the top spot at one time or another. They have dropped from the top spot from either lack of relevance (The Who), age (The Stones and The Who), or hanging it up (the Replacements and The Jayhawks). Without new material, the bands tend to fade from my CD player/Ipod. I'd put Paul Weller, Cracker, and The Avett Brothers in the second tier after Wilco.

Exactly why they shouldn't check this loose behavior. Who doesn't want to see Canadian female hockey players topless?

I saw the Replacements open for them as well on that tour. Excellent show. Saw the Dylan/Petty show a few years before that - not Dylan's best, but Petty rocked it out. Haven't seen Petty in 20 years, but he strikes me as someone who would still be good even pushing 60 years old.