DoctorDetroit8

Here's The Waiting

Thanks for taking this. Wilco just posted another fan-shot video on their Facebook page, but yours is in HD, which is nice. The band isn't coming back to my area for several months, so this is probably the only way I'll be able to see them perform it. Thanks again,

I'm showing tonight and can try and snag one. Reach out at my handle name at gmail.

 

Hey thanks! Just sent you an email

Hey all, if anyone here is going to any of the next 3 shows, would someone be willing to buy me one of the $50 5-Night Residency Wilco posters? I can PayPal/Venmo you the $50 beforehand, and pick it up before or after the end of the show outside the venue.

I tried to buy one last time after the end of the show and it sold out. Apparently, they only release 50 residency posters total per night, so you have to buy them before the show instead of at the end. (The merchandise booth provides a plastic slip cover bag and rubber bands so you can just set it on the ground.) I called The Fillmore to see if I could enter just to buy a poster and then leave, or give a Fillmore staff member money to buy it for me while I wait outside, and they said no. If not, I guess I'll see you all at the Sound Summit on Mt Tam!   

I *have* to ask: Were smartphones allowed or strictly prohibited?

I was in the 2nd row center, with all the longtime fans, and almost everybody took pictures/video with their phone/camera during some point during the show. Usually, it was timed to when the picturesque wooded backdrop set changed lighting: Spring, Fall, Winter, Sunrise, Sunset, Night, etc. Everybody took pictures/video discreetly (didn't hold the camera high up in air with 2 hands, for example), although a few accidentally forgot to turn off their flash, lol.

Security appeared to be perfectly fine with fans using their cameras in this discreet manner. Interestingly, when Wilco performed 'Impossible Germany', dozens of fans in the front rows put their cameras up to take full video in full view of Security and also the band, and nothing was said to them. Perhaps because it's such a popular song that they don't mind, lol.

The fans in the front rows were very friendly/chill, and also in general, as previously pointed out. There were no evil eyes given out or snide comments made to fans taking photo/video. Everyone was nice.

Let me know if you have any other questions! Hope this helps,

Thanks for the reports. Looking forward to seeing them Saturday and Sunday. Was there a Fillmore poster handed out after the show and does anybody have a pic they can post? 

No problem! I was in the 2nd row.

BTW, they are also selling a different Wilco poster for every night ($40). And as you can see below, it looks like The Fillmore is also producing a different free poster every night(!). Usually, with other residencies, The Fillmore only produces one poster with all the dates on it. No Schmilco CDs are available for sale yet.

With that, if anybody can get me an extra free poster for any other of the dates (reward offered), I'd be very appreciative! Thanks! 

One of my favorite parts was after the end of Impossible Germany which had the crowd loudly cheering for an extended time, Jeff Tweedy mused ~"Now that we've got you warmed up... we're going to play the slowest of the slowest song on Schmilco ('Happiness')... a dirge, actually..."

After that song, a fan playfully shouted "Set Nels Loose!"

The comment made everybody laugh, as Nels went from his famous guitar solo in Impossible Germany to just slowly strumming on Happiness. Jeff then joked that Nels actually chose to play that song and that the fan should set his mind loose.

Several songs later, when Nels switched to his double-guitar, Jeff revisited the comment, laughing "Set Nels Loose... Look at that guitar! Does he seem oppressed?"

Tweedy: We had a Schmilco listening party at Amoeba today... (~5 fans loudly clap) Glad to see it was a success!

Jeff also poked fun of a fan who shouted "Thank you Wilco!" as if he was a Town Crier. Jeff opened up an imaginary scroll and mimicked the fan's voice. Great show!

*bump*

 

A parking pass, people!  C'mon, you know you want it...

 

(I just really don't want to see these go to waste.  Seriously, make me an offer, any offer.)

I'm decently certain I can go now, but I only need 1, not 2... and I'm more inclined to take the shuttle bus to save on parking. I'm sure you probably want to sell them as a pair, though. Well, good luck anyways... maybe I'll see you at one of the 5 shows at the Fillmore SF next week! Trying to go to them all.