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Nobody wants to be a mother****** The crowd was totally into it before they came on stage. I think it was the end of IATTBYH - John looked at Jeff and nodded, as if to say "good crowd tonight". This was a great great great show. The best I have seen I think. I met Kalle. He really exists. I got him to put his hand up in front of his face to prove his identity. And we managed to get prime spots. Jeff came right out over the crowd during Hummingbird and I could have head-butted him in the groin (not that I would). Near the end of the main set, some guy tried to climb up on stage. Luckily some fast thinkers in the crowd pulled him back but the look on Jeff's face was pretty scary. Met most of the band after the show and as always they were very accomodating and charming. Jeff signed and had pictures taken with everybody out there. Nels was so nice to everyone. And he was a monster last night. Just a great show. People keep saying how great this lineup what is scary how much better they keep getting. Just wow. Well worth the drive.

As he left the stage after the main set, Jeff called out for security to get the guy out. I happened to be standing next to the guy and tapped him on the shoulder and told him "Say good-bye". He was so drunk, he smiled, thinking I was complimenting him. He had no clue what was going to happen next when security escorted him out. When Jeff came back for the first encore, he commented how different the crowd was this year standing up at the stage and how the band preferred it. I thought it was great how Jeff bounced back and didn't let that crazy ruin a terrific vibe with the crowd.

When all is said and done...this will be an important album. It's a testament to the songwriting that its difficult to chose a favourite song. I feel like this is Wilco's White album.

I wanted to hold out from the webcasts and streamings to hear the album for the first time in tact. Just listened to the first 5 songs in my car coming into work...and felt emotion welling up inside of me as I listened, starting off with Either Way. I don't know if its Jeff's voice, the anticipation of waiting for the album to come out, the melodies, the beautiful instrumentation and arrangements, the maturing of the band, or the feel of music that I listened to when I was alot younger...but I am so thankful to have Wilco around in my life.

It was a high energy show...much better than Toronto's in every way, better and brighter sound, crowd atmosphere, lighting was awesome, the band looked great... thank you Wilco for playing Monday on Monday night!

Is it only me..but Jeff sounded like Bob Dylan tonite when he sang What Light, even Forget the flowers and Airline to heaven.

First of all, for setlist purposes (and no one else probably cares about this besides Rob), the newest song that I had been calling "There's a Light" should probably be switched to "What Light," which is how the band has it written on its setlists. I guess I had been slightly mishearing the chorus, which goes, "There's a light, what light/There's a light, what light/Inside of you." I thought it had been "one light."

 

The coolest thing about What Light tonight was the way Jeff kept singing the chorus as he backed away from the microphone, and that ended up being how the song faded out. It sounded pretty awesome.

 

What else of note from tonight? Well, somewhat to my chagrin, the Canadian "Wilco is cock" flag from the other night traveled with the band from London to Montreal and was draped over Mike's keyboard stand the whole night. Fortunately no additional comments were made about it.

 

More notable was that, just to show that some of the new songs are still definite works in progress, a slightly different rendition of Impossible Germany emerged. Apparently in soundcheck, the band decided to flip Nels' solo and the subsequent jam with the second verse, so that now the solo and jam comes in the middle of the song and then Jeff closes it out with the second verse. Who knows if that's how it will end up?

 

Oh, and they did the fade-out ending to Spiders for the first time since the beginning of the tour. I liked the fakeout ending, but I think there's also something to the fade out.

 

Seems like Jeff's getting tired of explaining the whole Kingpin screaming routine, so for the second show in a row, he had someone from the audience come up on stage and explain to the rest of the crowd exactly what to do. I sense this will become pretty routine.

 

Jeff has been very good with singing the right words, but he flubbed a couple of lyrics tonight. Including accidentally switching the lines in Monday -- singing "He's waiting for a postcard" the first time through and "with the left arm tan." Haha.

 

All in all, a pretty fun show -- maybe the last real club show for a while?

It was a high energy show...much better than Toronto's in every way, better and brighter sound, crowd atmosphere, lighting was awesome, the band looked great... thank you Wilco for playing Monday on Monday night!

No Faggy. Maybe one of those others we were discussing...

 

As for the new song, it's definitely on the ballad end of things. But I liked it. I don't know how else to put it, but to me it had a "bright" melody and that goes along with the lyrics. I guess you could say Beatlesque, which is obviously a pretty generic description. There's no big solos or anything by Nels, just mostly Jeff on an acoustic with the other guys supporting him. Like some of the other new ones, if this makes any sense, I'm maybe more impressed by their arrangements than the actual songs themselves at this point. Whatever you might think of the lyrics or the tempo, I think they just *sound* great with the whole band interacting and playing off one another.

 

I tried to scrawl down some lyrics, but just caught a few of them...

 

The first verse is something like:

 

You try to sing a song

Sing what you feel

Don't let anyone say it's wrong

You try to paint a picture

Not sure which colors belong

Paint what you feel

Don't let anyone say it's wrong

 

And then the chorus starts off something like:

 

There's a light, one light

There's a light, one light

Inside of you

 

I'm probably butchering the lyrics, but I was caught a little off guard by it being the very first song, so like Impossible Germany, once I get another listen to it, I'll have a better idea. Maybe tomorrow night...

I was caught off guard too last nite...they got on stage and moved into the song right away. The song is gorgeous and rich in sound moving in and out of minor keys. I liked it right away...reminds me when I first heard Muzzle of Bees for the first time. I can't wait to hear it again. I keep pinching myself that Wilco can continue to write beautiful songs.