linclink

After careful statistical analysis of the songs played and not played, the following 12 songs (along with 18 "repeats" or "modified versions") are most likely to be played tonight:

 

That's Not The Issue

Far Far Away

Was I In Your Dreams

Sky Blue Sky

Sonny Feeling

Sunloathe

Capitol City

Rising Red Lung

 

Let Me Come Home

Any Major Dude Will Tell You

Student Loan Stereo

Unlikely Japan

 

Ha! And Right On! Nice calls!!

Here's what I'm pulling for tonight (in lurid detail below)... LIke "Nalafej" I'd love to hear both "Sunloathe" & "Solitaire" (both of which top my album cuts choices), the latter of which is also a request of "Madcap" who shares my hopes for "Promising" (top of my non-album choices), "When The Roses Bloom Again" & "Far Far Away", & finally jw harding hits up my top choice for a cover tonight, that highlight of the AmericanaramA Tour, "Tomorrow Never Knows"- also hoping for a dark horse, because Jeff loves it so much (though it seem like a Tweedy song for now, I hope Wilco does it someday) with "Love Like A Wire".

If last night was any indication, & it might not be...we'd guess that if they added 8 more newbies last night from the albums & one or two fresh non-album rarities/covers & a few different versions of songs maybe & then who know's what for the quartet of songs for the hootenany finale, & the choice for the closer to Winterlude (for that matter wonder what they'll open with? And how many & what they will choose as outright repeats tonight- 14 last night or about half the show)...

My wish list... my choices are almost all slower ballad type numbers, but these of some of my absolute top shelf favorite Wilco songs...I love the stuff where I can feel the Nick Drake/Paul Simon/John Lennon shading...

Unplayed Album Tracks (think we could see 6 to 12 of these, if we're lucky)

Solitaire

Sunloathe

Sky Blue Sky

Far Far Away

Open Mind

Black Moon

Red Lung Rising

Sonny Feeling

Please Be Patient With Me

When The Roses Bloom Again

Non-Album Tracks (Probably not too many of these, one or two, or more if we luck out):

Promising (done in Port Chester & jaw dropping breathtaking)

One True Vine

Tomorrow Never Knows

Love Like A Wire

Sloth

Glad It's Over

Venus Stop The Train

And Your Bird Can Sing

Any Major Dude

Only The Lord Knows

Hootenanny Set & different versions...

Note- Port Chester saw "Casino Queen", "That's Not The Issue" & "Ripple", so I think those are likely candidates for the Hootenanny set... alternate versions?- "Unlikely Japan", "Hummingbird" & who knows what else for any of this bizznezz (though, off the top of my heard, I'd love to hear "What Light" get the hootenanny treatment), just looking forward to unwraping the surprises when I see the set list & know what'll be on the download- which will hopefully be available before the holiday...

These stats are interesting and all, but where do y'all find the time to do this? Bored at work?

It wasn't a slow morning either, it was a busy night...did it all on breaks from paperwork, quite late at night my acupuncture office actually (my other breaks were playing guitar- and for you stats junkies last night was all acoustic run for me with a rare maple Martin J-65- I usually use more than one guitar...OK unplugged Telecaster for maybe 10 minutes too ), & it was pretty quick & easy to compile actually. Two other posters here did the main legwork/heavy lifting on, first, what hadn't been done yet from the standard officially released albums, which was done by mus2009, & then what ones had been repeated but with different versions & what night, & how they were done, which was compiled by mdjr.

All I did was add that Night 5 info to their previous legwork & then put down the outright repeats from Night 5 (first night that had occured), tossed together the hootenanny sets in one place (someone elsewhere had the idea of making a CD-R of those for a virtual Wilco acoustic-unplugged album), & then the most involved I guess, & it was pretty easy, was when I combed the old set lists to compile the non-album tracks they'd played (19 & counting). It really wasn't that much work & it didn't take that long.

Not having it take that long means that I got to spend lots my breaks playing plenty of guitar, & I can get you my full set list from last night too . About an equal mix of originals & covers & no electric plugged in, since I've got a solo acoustic slot coming up in January, & I did some work on some stuff that I've started working on with a female vocalist who I'm rehearsing with tonight in fact.

In regards to the repeats I read a hilarious bit of dialogue from the "After The Show" thread on last night- again from mdjr (who kindly compiled what different versions of songs had been done & when & how etc.)

"Best Jeff banter of the night:

After Panthers..."So that was a repeat....but was it the same? You don't know....Glenn played with a casual detachment. Nels used a thinner pick, Pat was thinking about Xmas. Mike is a robot he's always thinking the same thing. (Mimes robot). He's the only one we can program to do things the same. You ever been to Chuckee Cheese? That's where we got him. He could only play the banjo back then"

Best Jeff banter of the night:

 

After Panthers..."So that was a repeat....but was it the same? You don't know....Glenn played with a casual detachment. Nels used a thinner pick, Pat was thinking about Xmas. Mike is a robot he's always thinking the same thing. (Mimes robot). He's the only one we can program to do things the same. You ever been to Chuckee Cheese? That's where we got him. He could only play the banjo back then"

Hilarious!!!

Joe DiMaggio Done It Again has been a request of mine at every NY show. I can't believe they didn't even do it at Cooperstown.

I was at Cooperstown myself, & I can't believe I didn't think of that!!!! While I root for the Mets & Red Sox before the Yankees, the Yanks are my 3rd fave & one of the folks I was there with was a huge Yankees fan & now I can't believe he didn't think of it!!! I believe that one was a Guthrie-Bragg song that Tweedy sang, but still... Next time for sure!! I'll get a few folks & we'll stuff the ballot box with you!!

For me there is no question about it, just as Robyn Hitchcock rules the roost for Halloween/Samhain (though he's released a formal theme album, the number of appropriate songs is incredible), for the absolute King Kong King Of Christmas is Sufjan Stevens with his two Box Sets "Songs From Christmas" and "Silver & Gold". What I appreciate the most are the incredible original songs, but his re-workings of classics, both well & lesser known holiday songs is almost as compelling...and...the essays/liner notes are great too.

Absolute Fave
~"Songs From Christmas"- Sufjan Stevens
~"Silver & Gold"- Sufjan Stevens

Top Shelf
~A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector"- Various Artists (Produced By Phil Spector)
~A Light Of The Stable"- Emmylou Harris
~"Charlie Brown Christmas"- Vince Guaraldi Trio
~"The Beatles Christmas Album"- The Beatles (all their Christmas Messages for the fan clubs collected into an album that the fan club sent out, but was never a commercial release, though often bootlegged)


Also Great
~"Christmas With Johnny Cash"- Johnny Cash
~"James Brown's Funky Christmas"- James Brown
~"Ultimate Chrismas"- The Beach Boys
~"If Every Day Were Like Christmas"- Elvis Presley
~"Christmas Collection"- The Carpenters
~"The Magic Of Christmas"- Nat King Cole
~"An Oscar Peterson Christmas"- Oscar Peterson
~"The McGarrigle Christmas Hour"- Kate & Anna McGarrigle
~Quality Street"- Nick Lowe
~"The 25th Day Of December"- The Staples Singers
~"Pretty Paper"- Willie Nelson
~"We Three Kings"- The Roches

uhfr just posted in "After The Show" for the 4th night of Winterlude talking about making a comp CD-R of all the acoustic encores... between the Port Chester shows & the Winterlude run that should be pretty much a virtual live unplugged Wilco show!!! One of your wishes I believe it was #5... that makes only part of #3 & #2 left out there & let's see how much of "Being There" gets done...it might not be a straight run through, but you might manage the virtual version, like with the acoustic show that just happen to unfold over 9 shows...

And for the potential 2 CD-R double album of Wilco Acoustic Stuff...5 non-encore potential candidates & 24 from the final Hootenanny Encore Set & 2 non-encore songs from Port Chester & 3 unique encore songs from Port Chester & 11 total encore songs...

Non-encore songs:

Misunderstood

New Madrid

Give back the key to my heart

Ripple

And finally two more acoustic songs from the Port Chester shows:

Promising

Bob Dylan's 49th Beard

 

I did some setlist data crunching.

 

So far 120 songs have been played...and only 10 songs have repeated (although in different formats each time)

 

Art of Almost - album version (Night 2) and hootenanny (Night 1)

Box Full of Letters - waltz (Night 2) and album version (Night 3)

Camera/Kamera - Camera (Night 1) and Kamera (Night 4)

Dawned on Me - album version (Night 1) and hootenanny (Night 3)

I Got You - album version (Night 2) and hootenanny (Night 4)

I'm the Man Who Loves You - no horns (Night 1), with The Total Pros (Night 3), hootenanny (Night 2)

Misunderstood - album version (Night 3) and hootenanny (Night 4)

Passenger Side - album version (Night 3) and hootenanny (Night 4)

Spiders - acoustic-ish (Night 4) and album version (Night 3)

Too Far Apart - album version (Night 4) and hootenanny (Night 3)

 

Nice work!!! Thanks!!! I'd be grateful if you kept you eye on things & gave us the final tally too!! I'll do my best as well...

A few more Winterlude lists, after Night #5...

1) Outright Repeated Songs- 14 (all on Night #5)

Sunken Treasure

Panthers

A Magazine Called Sunset

ELT

Camera

Born Alone

Poor Places

Either Way

Hummingbird

Theologians

Hotel Arizona

California Stars

I'm Always In Love

Outta Site (Outta Mind)

2) feel free to double check, but here's a list of all the 19 songs they've played that aren't on their standard album releases...

If my count is right, Wilco has played 110 different songs with only seven repeats. Not bad at all with two more nights to go!

Which songs were repeats? And were they all repeated as different arrangements?

Also...I think when they played all the songs they did it playing the albums in their entirety, front to back as complete albums... but I'm not positive about that, so if anyone else wants to chime in on that...

And finally, weighing in for the record...I absolutely adore when they do covers & was totally beyond thrilled at the all-covers show at Solid Sound. I honestly REALLY REALLY wish that would become a Solid Sound tradition where they work up a whole first night of covers!!!! It also adds a whole lot of songs to already large arsenal, that they can pull out. They utilized those covers plenty, & to great effect, on the AmericanaramA tour that can after the Solid Sound covers night.

I can make it happen. How many bananas you pay?

 

I once make Judas Priest sing Secret Love by Doris Day. Better than you might think.

Gornok: Now officially rivaling Lotti (though no one will ever top Lotti) for most fun posts on here.

No such luck on Night 5, one night left to go...

And I've requested "Sunloathe" a few times myself. I think we've got a real good shot at finally hearing it one of these next two nights. And, if not, I'm sure at some point in the future. I mean they are clearly aware of the situation. Folks even start threads about it ...and I'm sure, like me, request it plenty as well.

It was matter of time before someone jumped in and figured out the above. Thank goodness for VCers like linclink!

Most all of the credit should go to the poster here known as mus2009, who did it first, before me, in another thread here "Winterlude at the Riv 12/5, 12/6, 12/8, 12/9, 12/11 and 12/12"

I do confess to double checking myself & discovering only the extra couple of oft played "Mermaid Ave." sessions as having been missed... I  have to admit I thought that that person must have missed som moree, so I did a quick rock stat nerd cross reference (thanks setlists.fm!) & found that they got it right!! Not a lot of material to go now...hope they actually do end up doing them all (despite what Jeff said the other night)...they're so close with so much room left to do it...

Seriously, people would want an all acoustic show? Why? Good God, that is about the only thing that could make me walk away disappointed. I suppose you're the people who just wanna sit there through the whole show, too?

 

Naturally I could only swing one show of the residency so I suppose since they've played almost all their songs already this is exactly what's gonna happen tomorrow night. Argh. I'll never understand this fanbase.

Man they are going to have to make an effort NOT to do every song in the regular catalog. With roughly 60 open spots left in these last two shows...after double checking another person's post  (mus2009) here...counting some (not all) Mermaid Ave. sessions were looking at only about 27 songs to go that haven't been played yet. But there's plenty of great songs left to go!!!! And...

They could easily play everything they haven't & still have a full shows (33 or so slots) worth of material to either go out there & repeat whatever they want, play covers, do the different version of something (acoustic vs. electric), play yet more rarities/oddities ("Alpha Mike Foxtrot" & beyond type of material)..

So they could spend half a show picking off what they haven't done yet (and there's plenty of prime real estate left there) & you'd still get half a shows worth of the best known & most likely to be repeated material, other arrangements of stuff done before, covers & oddities. I don't think there's much to worry about as far as there being great shows.

There are plenty of choice cuts still out there...From the earliest works- especially "Casino Queen", "I Thought I Held You", "That's Not The Issue" & "Far Far Away"...from their mid-period "In A Future Age", "We're Just Friends", "My Darling" & "Reservations"...and the most ample choice material from the later era- "Sky Blue Sky" & "Please Be Patient With Me", but I think the most prime real estate that's left comes from their latest two albums- all 3 remaining unplayed songs left from "Wilco (the Album)"- "Solitaire", "Sonny Feeling" & "Everlasting Everything", and all 5 songs left from "The Whole Love"- "Black Moon", "Open Mind", "Capitol City", "Rising Red Lung" & the one song from their regular catalog that they've yet to do live as a full band, the elusive & great "Sunloathe".

The other choice material still out there is a trio of well loved, & often performed songs from the "Mermaid Ave." albums- "Hoodoo Voodoo", "Christ For President" & "Remember The Mountain Bed". And there's still material from the those sessions that came out in the box set (my fave being "When The Roses Bloom Again") & as I mentioned before plenty of other oddities & rarities to choose from.

"A.M." (5)

Casino Queen

Pick Up the Change

I Thought I Held You

That's Not the Issue

Should've Been in Love

"Being There" (4)

Far Far Away

Someone Else's Song

Was I In Your Dreams

Why Would You Wanna Live

"Summerteeth" (3)

We're Just Friends

My Darling

In a Future Age

"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (1)

Reservations

"A Ghost Is Born"

DONE

"Sky Blue Sky" (3)

Sky Blue Sky

Please Be Patient With Me

Leave Me Like You Found Me

"Wilco (The Album)" (3)

Solitaire

Sonny Feeling

Everlasting Everything

"The Whole Love" (5)

Sunloathe

Black Moon

Open Mind

Capitol City

Rising Red Lung

"Mermaid Ave. Vol. I & II"(3-?)

Hoodoo Voodoo

Christ For President

Remember The Mountain Bed

(Joe DiMaggio Done It Again)

(She Came Along To Me)

(*Material from Vol. 3 Box Set - "When The Roses Bloom Again", "Listening To The Wind That Blows", "The Jolly Banker", etc.)

What I could muster so far that's left:

 

Casino Queen

Pick Up the Change

I Thought I Held You

That's Not the Issue

Should've Been in Love

Far Far Away

We're Just Friends

My Darling

In a Future Age

Someone Else's Song

(Was I) In Your Dreams

Why Would You Wanna Live      

Reservations

Sky blue sky

Please be patient with me

Leave me like you found me

Solitaire

Sonny feeling

Everlasting everything

Sunloathe

Black moon

Open mind

capitol city

rising red lung

hoodoo voodoo

 

Get's iffy with stuff like outtakes, uncle tupelo & from mermaid ave.

Man they are going to have to make an effort NOT to do every song in the regular catalog. With roughly 60 open spots left in these last two shows...after double checking, you were pretty much right on here...counting some (not all) Mermaid Ave. sessions were looking at only about 27 songs to go.

So they could play everything & still have a full shows (33 or so slots) worth of material to either go out there & repeat whatever they want, play covers, do the different version of something (acoustic vs. electric), play yet more rarities/oddities ("Alpha Mike Foxtrot" & beyond type of material)..

"A.M." (5)

Casino Queen

Pick Up the Change

I Thought I Held You

That's Not the Issue

Should've Been in Love

"Being There" (4)

Far Far Away

Someone Else's Song

Was I In Your Dreams

Why Would You Wanna Live

"Summerteeth" (3)

We're Just Friends

My Darling

In a Future Age

"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (1)

Reservations

"A Ghost Is Born"

DONE

"Sky Blue Sky" (3)

Sky Blue Sky

Please Be Patient With Me

Leave Me Like You Found Me

"Wilco (The Album)" (3)

Solitaire

Sonny Feeling

Everlasting Everything

"The Whole Love" (5)

Sunloathe

Black Moon

Open Mind

Capitol City

Rising Red Lung

"Mermaid Ave. Vol. I & II"(3-?)

Hoodoo Voodoo

Christ For President

Remember The Mountain Bed

(Joe DiMaggio Done It Again)

(She Came Along To Me)

(*Material from Vol. 3 Box Set - "When The Roses Bloom Again", "Listening To The Wind That Blows", "The Jolly Banker", etc.)

I'd bet on a fair amount of those being performed, but the real question - Sunloathe, come on guys, play it!! 

Ha!!! I keep waiting for the first full band go 'round with that one too. I've even requested it before (obviously to no avail), & did so for these gigs too!! Still two nights to go, & they've done a couple of others for the first time live!!!

And, for the record, I think there's loads of great material still left that they haven't played yet. I know they aren't looking to make sure that they hit every song they've recorded, but I'm betting that- 1) They'll get pretty close to playing them all, or at least a large majority of them & 2) they are, clearly, so far at least, making a pretty big effort to offer almost no repeats...or if they repeat they are being done in a different way (electric vs. acoustic arrangement etc.)...and with roughly 60 song slots still open, there's plenty of love & music to go around yet!!

Live from the Fat Cat(!)...here was the complete setlist as played for Winterlude Night 1:

 

Via Chicago

Whole Love

I Must Be High

Handshake Drugs>

Wishful Thinking

Hotel Arizona

Either Way

Childlike & Evergreen (Jeff solo acoustic)

Country Disappeared

Forget The Flowers

Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)

Hummingbird

On and On and On

One By One

A Magazine Called Sunset

Camera (yes, the capital C version)

How To Fight Loneliness

Theologians

I'm Always In Love

Heavy Metal Drummer

I'm The Man Who Loves You

Dawned On Me

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Hate It Here

Kingpin

Just A Kid

Outtasite (Outta Mind)

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Outta Mind (Outta Sight)*

Art Of Almost (original arrangement)*

The Thanks I Get*

California Stars*

 

* — performed hootenanny style with Jeff and John on acoustic guitars, Pat on banjo, Nels on dobro and Mikael on melodica, Glenn on percussion

Hoping for some help/clarification here...someone on the Steve Hoffman Forum is wondering exactly what the "original arrangement" in the encore version of "Art Of Almost" here refers to?

 

I put together a list of six things that I would like to see over the course of the six shows. Regardless, these shows are going to kick some major ass!

 

WISHFUL THINKING: Six wishes for Wilco’s Winterlude in Chicago

 

uhfr just posted in "After The Show" for the 4th night of Winterlude talking about making a comp CD-R of all the acoustic encores... between the Port Chester shows & the Winterlude run that should be pretty much a virtual live unplugged Wilco show!!! One of your wishes I believe it was #5... that makes only part of #3 & #2 left out there & let's see how much of "Being There" gets done...it might not be a straight run through, but you might manage the virtual version, like with the acoustic show that just happen to unfold over 9 shows...

I can't wait to make a playlist of all the acoustic mini-sets when this run is over, and basically have a double-disk acoustic wilco live album.

Brilliant call!!! Between the Port Chester shows & Winterlude it'll be a pretty formidable set list!!!

Mascis is a natural local pick. Malkmus would rule.

 

 

How about Mission of Burma?

 

 

 

or going back to the Tweedy video w/ the cameo of Steve in it, a Shellac set would be awesome.

There are some great names being tossed around...and I've gotta say Television & The Replacements are topping my list of what I've heard so far, & they are real possibilities...

Another person, who they repeatedly jammed with on the AmericanaramA tour (I got to see two of those shows with RT), & who would be amazing is Richard Thompson- in either electric or acoustic incarnation...but making sure that he's packing a Strat (or that Wilco's brought one for him) so he & Nels can rip it up again...

My dark horse hopeful choice is Donna The Buffalo...

Just wanting to put out there that Jeff did clarify tonight that they never said that there wouldn't be any repeats or that they were going to play every song they recorded and/or put on an album.

 

That said, the show tonight kicked some major ass.  

Although he never said that (don't know if I read anywhere that anyone said he did) that's what some folks were hoping for...whatever we get will be amazing...it already has been. It'll most likely be pretty few repeats, & most of the recorded catalog with a nice helping of oddities/rarities/cover versions/acoustic & electric different arrangements of particular songs etc., etc. . These 20th Anniversary Roadcase releases from the Port Chester, NY & Chicago Winterlude runs/residencies are truly something special indeed.

My next great hope is that they break with tradition & do all 3 days of Solid Sound...or at least 2 Wilco shows & then a Tweedy/Jeff Tweedy show!!

Don't know any details about this, but it was posted in the "After The Show" section thread about this show... looks like, until the Roadcase gets released, at least the broadcast is out there (as expected)...wish it was archived somewhere...
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=576746&edited=1

Either Sunday (according to the headline) or Saturday (according to the body of the article), WXRT will be live streaming audio.

 

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/123454/Couch-Tour-Alert-Wilco-Live-From-Chicago-This-Sunday

Looks like it's Saturday... (& thanks for the heads up!!) - http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/2014/12/01/xrt-concert-exclusive-hear-wilco-live-from-the-riviera-this-saturday/

Streaming live either Sunday (headline) or Saturday (body or article)

 

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/123454/Couch-Tour-Alert-Wilco-Live-From-Chicago-This-Sunday

Looks like it's Saturday... (& thanks for the heads up!!) - http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/2014/12/01/xrt-concert-exclusive-hear-wilco-live-from-the-riviera-this-saturday/

Linclink, you are missing out if you're not the West Coast Publicity Man or whatever. I hope whatever they do in Chicago is exactly what they want to do. I completely trust their instincts and integrity and value that so much more than seeing a statistical analysis of setlist variety. I'm always amazed at how many different ways there are to appreciate music.

Ha!! Certainly the bottom line is the magic that's made & shared, & honestly I just enjoy the however of whatever unfolds at any given show.

I'm just guessing with double the amount of shows, that there will be even more unique songs played than in Port Chester- whether they repeat some or not, it hardly matters. What's coming up is the continuation of a pretty huge 20th Anniversary celebration. I feel Blessed to have gotten to take part in my second trifecta of NYC area shows as part of that celebration (got to hit the two Ohio shows in September as well).

What's hitting the home town soon is something I look very forward to hearing when they come out as Roadcase releases... which happily, should be right around Xmas & certainly sometime during the Yule season. They take place between 12/5 & 12/12 & get released 2-3 weeks after. Happy Merry & Merry Happy indeed!

I have two complaints about the port Chester shows.

1. No Sunday Morning

2. Don't really care about the Dead, and the audience only version of Ripple feels like a poor finale compared to the rest of the Set.

 

So much amazing on this set of shows though. I couldn't even count how many times I got goose bumps

Wait for the Chicago Winterlude shows... I'm doubting that there will be many wishes ungranted, or stones unturned & turns unstoned by the time those 6, count 'em 6, shows are over & the Roadcases from them released. Who knows what exactly is being cooked up in The Loft, maybe as I type, for the fortunate few who will soon embark on the 20th Anniversary odyssey to exceed even the wonders of the trio at Port Chester!!

Yes. I was the one who organized it (you can check the thread in the tab section). They were gonna start charging money so I took it down. It is my plan to move to another hosted wiki that is free. 

Cool & thanks!!!

...well, you know the line, although I'm not sure Sgt. Pepper had anything to do with it.

 

Twenty years ago today, Wilco played their very first show. Their live debut was on November 17, 1994 to a capacity crowd at Cicero's Basement Bar in St. Louis, Missouri. That night they called themselves "Black Shampoo", but thankfully this soon was replaced by the name Wilco.

 

This seems like a good day to pause and reflect a little on all the wonderful music and shows and friends and magical moments that have been a part of their long wild ride, and ours as fans. I want to say to Jeff and company, Thank you so much for everything you've brought to my life! Thanks to Wilco, I have so many songs running in my head, not just from Wilco themselves but also from bands I've been introduced to through them. I have so many friends who have  enriched my life, met through Wilco. I have traveled and had experiences in those travels that I would never have had, without being a fan of this band. It's kind of amazing when you stop to consider the way it all spirals out, and out.

 

 

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING AND CONGRATULATIONS ON 20 YEARS OF GREAT MUSIC, WILCO!!!

Apparently, & ironically, when they played, albeit briefly, under the name Black Shampoo, all the members carried the end name "Black Shampoo" (in tribute to The Ramones...was it the last name was "Black Shampoo", or the middle name "Black" & the last name "Shampoo"? We may never know...) &, in tribute to The Beatles, each member had a first name based on a character from a Beatles song, with Jeff's being, you guessed it, none other than...Sgt Pepper! So it actually WAS 20 years ago today that Sgt. Pepper (albeit technically Sgt. Pepper Black Shampoo) taught the band to play!!! Starting the night with "I Must Be High" & ending with the final encore song "Listen To Her Heart".

Although it's well known amongst more hardcore Wilco/Black Shampoo fans that Jeff Tweedy kept his Sgt. Pepper Black Shampoo moniker for a little while to come, there's varying reports about the names the other band members used- Father McKenzie, Bungalow Bill, Mean Mr. Mustard, Rocky Raccoon, Billy Shears, Maxwell Edison, Desmond Jones & even Sexy Sadie and Polythene Pam have all been bandied about as possibilities. While the exact details may be lost to history, it does appear that, thanks to a recent historical 20th Anniversary band hypnosis session, John Stirratt was able to positively identify himself as none other than Dr. Robert Black Shampoo!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILCO!!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY WILCO!!!

VIVA THE KAY-SETTES STARRING BUTCHER'S BLIND!!

VIVA BLACK SHAMPOO!!