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Lake Street Dive anyone? would be sweet to see them there

Spiders acoustic - nice but not nearlllly as fun as the album version

ITMWLY - Live version so much better I can't even listen to the album version anymore

Pot Kettle Black - nice ending in the live version

KINGPIN - live version is super rocking, one of my favorites to see, studio version makes me cringe - it just sounds like a hokey country song

 

Thanks for posting that photo - I was struggling to remember the order. Yes, Jesus, etc. got cut, but that rendition of Tomorrow Never Knows was worth it. Wow.

 

Despite the awful heat, we had a great time. Got up there early and met some really nice people who were there largely to see Dylan. They'd never seen Wilco, but they certainly picked a great night to do so. We were told that only about 5,000 tickets had been sold, and the huge number of empty seats made it easy to believe.

 

Anyway, after waiting for a little while, a venue employee emerged and warned us that a violent thunderstorm was minutes away. He was not kidding. We all took shelter next to the front doors while the storm passed. It broke the heat for about an hour, then it got gross again.

We eventually got in and headed down to the pit. Easily the best view I've ever had at a Wilco show. We were on the rail at Newport last year too, but there was a much bigger space between the barrier and stage, and the stage itself was very high. Not here. The stage was shoulder level and I could have reached over and touched it.

 

I'd never heard Ryan Bingham, but he was good. Kinda southern/country rock. He played to a mostly empty house as fans trickled in.

 

My Morning Jacket...My first time seeing them. They started off ok, then went on an incredibly long, boring slow jam thing in the middle of their set (with the thin, still trickling audience it was hard not to make a Spinal Tap "free-form jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd" parallel). Just as I was starting to write them off and think "at least I still have the albums" they suddenly bounced back and killed for the last few songs. Weird set.

 

Wilco was great as ever. It was a great set list. Remember The Mountain Bed, Muzzle of Bees and Less Than You Think were particularly beautiful. Via Chicago was a highlight too, and it was fun to see the confusion on the faces of Wilco virgins during the chaos. The band seemed happy. There wasn't much in the way of banter, but Jeff was all smiles.

 

We left after Wilco. We've both seen Bob before (at the same bad show years before we met!) and been unimpressed, but mostly we just needed to get home to kids & dogs. I'm pretty bummed that I missed Desolation Row, though.

I am a huge Wilco fan, been to 2 solid sounds, a few other shows etc and loved all of them.  I love pretty much all their music too.  On the flip side I don't know any My Morning Jacket at all, but I thought that their set was so much better than the Wilco set.  It just had so much more energy!  I was actually getting kind of bored with the Wilco set, and thats definitely never happened to me before.  I thought the jam in the middle of MMJ's set was awesome! At least around me the crowd was really loving it!  Anyway I enjoyed the Wilco set (especially Less Than You Think, impossible germany and I got You), just thought the MMJ was way better.

In case you missed it, the roadcase has recordings of both Solid Sound nights available

? I don't see them?

This might be the wrong place to ask this.. but has anyone ripped the stream of saturday night off the website?  I would love to get my hands on audio that quality.

this probably won't get approved to run as a separate gallery for my coverage I was on assignment for, so i'll post it here...on day 2 i got the idea to try to catalog the different Wilco shirts I saw around the festival...here they are!

 

http://photos.tinnitus-photography.com/wilco_tshirts

I'm in there! I'm the one wearing the shirt that says WILCO (the shirt)! It's actually my brothers, but I took it!

Anyway I thought the Wilco show on saturday night was great.  At least from where I was, it looked like the crowd was having a great time and enjoying the mellower songs just fine.  It was probably the most fun I have ever had at a show, but that might be ust because I haven't seen Wilco since last solid sound.

The only bad part was when this group of women came over and stood right behind me and just wouldn't stop talking.  It didn't sound like they were paying attention at all.  In the middle of One Sunday Morning, me and my friend just kinda stared at them until they stopped talking, so at least that song was peaceful!