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I detest looping at a live show. I don't know what it is, but even when the song is good it frosts my nutsack.

 

So, I'd have to go with Tweedy.

I like both approaches. I don't have a problem with looping. Howe Gelb does it all the time and he's one of my favorite live performers. I find it interesting to watch. Sort of in a mad scientist kind of way.

From NPR's All Songs Considered

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/12/10/131932553/tweedy-vs-bird-what-do-you-want-from-a-concert

"I've gone to a live concert every night this week. Tuesday, I saw Jeff Tweedy, and then on Wednesday, I saw Andrew Bird. The two couldn't have been more different.

Tweedy's show at Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Theatre was a crowd-pleaser. He sang a lot of songs we all knew, dug deep into the Wilco songbook, included a few Woody Guthrie tunes and even sang an Uncle Tupelo song.

Bird didn't bring a songbook of any kind to D.C.'s historic 6th and I Synagogue. He told the audience his show was "Gezelligheid," a Dutch term for "cozy." Bird played a few pieces that were familiar, but then he mostly tried out new song ideas, in real time, looping violin parts with rhythms, textures, melodies and more. Sometimes he picked up the guitar to play along to his looped violin lines, or play the glockenspiel with one hand. Sometimes the ideas worked; sometimes they didn't, and he'd abruptly abandon them. Someone described it as watching an alchemist.

So, forgetting whether you like Andrew Bird more than Jeff Tweedy or visa versa: Which show would you prefer: your favorite artist doing old favorites, or going out on a limb to try new ideas?"

 

My wife, who is currently obsessed with Autumn Defense, had a work obligation on Monday night. I didn't have the heart to tell her the show was going on. I asked her every day until Monday afternoon if they had canceled her thing, but alas...

 

That is very sweet.

Wilco outside of Manhattan is better...

Agree.

Even so, NYC-area wilco shows have been great. The two shows at the Wellmont in April were fantastic, and the show at Dutchess stadium summer of 2009 remains one of my favorite all time concerts to date. Tarrytown was a far shorter set than the Bowery, so that makes me think it was a venue request to have the show shortened.

I've seen plenty of good shows in the New York area, both Wilco and Jeff solo. One of my favorite shows was at The Chance in Poughkeepsie just after A Ghost is Born was released. It was a very small theater and the show was amazing.

The Tarrytown show was just too short, but I'm sure Jeff still loves us in NY.

We definitely go hosed at the music hall...look at the Lincoln Theater show.

Yeah, looking at the setlists from all of the other shows, I feel like Tarrytown didn't get alot of love.

On a side note Tarrytown NY gets 17 songs VA gets 23? Wonder what was different between the 2?

 

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I know. I thought the Tarrytown show was too short. I really wanted to hear him do You Are Not Alone. It seems he played it at all the shows but Tarrytown

I'm so glad to hear this because my tickets are up there and I was thinking it was going to feel sooooooo far away.

I wonder if Tweedy wrote that goofy follow-the-bouncing-ball song that Stewart and Colbert sang that he was playing guitar on.

I got 2 tickets to Tarrytown way back in the balcony but I guess it's better than nothing.

At first try is read sold out but I tried again anyway and got 2.

God, I'm exhausted now...but at least I can get back to work now that I have spent most of the morning stressing over this.

It's apparently noon and not 10:00 as I had planned my entire morning around...

Ugh. Me too.

Thanks for the info.

What time to tickets go on sale for Tarrytown today?

a Christmas gift...and one that made me pretty happy.

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