The Inside of Outside

I think we were two rows behind. I saw two little girls in mint green-ish sweatshirts and found them ABSOLUTELY adorable! I hope they enjoyed the show as much as we all did!

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 Love was a wicked run.

Never been a fan of 'Walken", but loved it last night.

Took my 2 oldest kids (they are 11 year old twins) to their second Wilco show (first was Portland, ME last summer). They got a bunch of songs this time that they did not get last summer - Via Chicago, Ashes, many others. In addition, two shows, and two times seeing Box Full of Letters. They must be good luck.

At the end of the show, I learned why the usher now forever known as Barry Gibb was called out by Jeff during the show. When I went to ask for a setlist right after the show, he was ridiculously, almost humorously, belligerent, telling me that I had to turn around immediately and leave. He kept it up for good 30 seconds, never stopping his rant that I must leave now and that they were not giving out anything from the stage. When I got the setlist from the kind folks working the stage, I thanked Mr. Gibb for being so, so patient with me. I guess I would be mad at the world too if I was a dead ringer for a 70s disco star...

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.

Did it last 3 hours.... That might be why songs cut.....

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 tunes on Youtube. Love that.

Short Editorial:

When I see a setlist posted here with the usual suspects - Handshake Drugs, Shot in the Arm, Impossible Germany, Jesus, etc., etc. - I do not get particularly jazzed. I suppose it is natural to look at a setlist and look for the rarities first. I start to think that the band should drop some of the standards in favor of others. Then I see another show, and remember why they play these songs - because they are phenomenal songs that the crowd loves (and they appear to love playing them). So it was the 10th or 11th time I have seen Shot in the Arm. Doesn't make it any less of a song - in fact, last night's version was about the best I have seen. Handshake Drugs and Impossible Germany were also stellar last night. I will try to remember that when I see future setlists - that they play these songs every night because they rock.

Now...on to Hartford!

Bash N Pop-Tommy from the Mats first post Mats band

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.

I can't believe people are still complaining about the setlists with these new longer shows. Yes, they're playing the old warhorses, but you're also getting 8-10 rarities where you were getting one or two before.

 

They're playing 35-song sets -- of course they're going to play "Heavy Metal Drummer", "I'm the Man Who Loves You", "California Stars", etc. Is this a problem when they're also playing "When You Wake Up Feeling Old", "Laminated Cat", "Passenger Side", "Sky Blue Sky", "Wishful Thinking", etc. etc.?

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. How many times?

11 each (soon to be Wilco, 13)

9. Farthest you drove for a concert?

Portland, ME to Giants Stadium, NJ for The Who, 1989

10. Furthest locale from your home you have seen a concert?

Savannah, GA, Eric Clapton, 1984

11. How many concerts have you seen?

200 - 250?

12. Most you ever paid for a concert ticket?

$125 for The Rolling Stones on Steel Wheels tour

13. Least amount of people at a concert by a major label artist?

Cracker - 50 people. They played like there were 5,000. Though they might not be major label anymore.

The Jayhawks - maybe 200 people at Toad's Place on Tomorrow the Green Grass Tour

14. Band you want to see the most who you haven't seen?

Red Hot Chili Peppers

15. Ever been backstage, on a tourbus, which?

No

16. Longest show by one artist you ever saw?

Allman Brothers or Springsteen or The Who

17. Shortest show by a headliner?

Ryan Adams - 75 minutes

18. Shows for which you had low expectations but were blown away?

Peter Gabriel at MSG

Blind Melon, Live, Public Image Limited, Big Audio Dynamite in NYC (Academy or Roseland?)

Prince

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!

In light of recent terrible news, I wonder if we might hear a Big Star cover to two on this tour.

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.

OpEd piece from Paul Westerberg in tomorrow's New York Times

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.

There was a thread on here a while ago about the best runs of great albums by a band and, for me, 77/More Songs/Fear of Music/Remain in Light is pretty tough to top.

 

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.

Here was the complete setlist, as played, for Night 1 at the Vic (there was no encore):

 

Laminated Cat

The Community Song (take 1)

More Like The Moon

Either Way

Too Far Apart

Secret of the Sea

Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Pecan Pie

Summer Teeth

The Losing End (When You're On) [Neil Young]

The Good Part

The Community Song (take 2; in G?)

Company In My Back

A Magazine Called Sunset

A Fool Such As I (fragment) [made famous by Elvis Presley]

----intermission/pee break----

The Community Song (take 3; in B flat?)

Remember The Mountain Bed

Broken Arrow [buffalo Springfield]

Cars Can't Escape

Monkey Mess

One By One

Radio King

Screen Door

Gun

Passenger Side

Love & Mercy [brian Wilson]

California Stars

Just A Kid

The Thanks I Get

Theologians

Airline To Heaven

Dreamer In My Dreams (performed at edge of stage without PA system)

Acuff-Rose (performed at edge of stage without PA system)

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 watershed in the shift from vinyl to compact disc.

Saw Dire Straits in Hartford, CT on the Brothers in Arms tour. I remember being in the 20th row or so on the floor, and everyone standing on their chairs for the entire show. I got tired at one point and stood on the floor, and at head height it was a sea of asses....

Either way I'm not going to watch a Sandra Bullock movie unless I'm in the doghouse and I need to negotiate TV time to watch hockey later.

Best line of the day!

One thought I just had - Does the Academy only recognize Academy members? Is it possible she was not an Academy member and MJ was?

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.

if this kind of behavior is tolerated, next Olympics they'll be topless and snorting coke. I think that the Olympics and media are rightfully outraged and should check this loose behavior before it's out of control.

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

always great live

 

talk about great openers ... i saw them once with the Replacements opening ... maybe 1989-1990-ish

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.