Brian F.

In my continuing effort to share personal Wilco-related information that doesn't seem to be of interest to anyone else, I've gone back and figured out which songs I've never seen Wilco perform live. (Fortunately, I have my own records for many of these shows, so I don't have to completely rely on online sources that have mistakes, some of which I have fixed as I've come across them.) A few have never been performed live. Most have been performed fewer than five times. (Some I've seen Jeff perform solo.) The biggest chunk of the ones that have been played a decent number of times come from Ode

You mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4vWbuuRGCg

Your parents must have loved hearing their three-year-old screaming, "I'd like to thank you all for nothing!," not to mention singing about the cigarettes tasting so good.

I hate that tagline. We didn't "all commit" this crime. I never downloaded anything illegally, and neither did most Americans.

O.K., the original post got crickets so perhaps there's no interest in this kind of stuff (or maybe you were all just annoyed that it got posted four times for some reason), but I'll post something else here anyway and see if anyone likes it. The items attached below are from Wilco's show at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island on October 28, 1995, a year and a day before the release of Being There. This show started very late, at around 11 p.m. I know this because I watched the entire World Series game (in which the Atlanta Braves clinched the title with a 1-0 win o

The what not is always especially beautiful this time of year...

Well, contrary to the email they sent the other day, today I received a digital FOTF ticket for SSF.

I didn't have my reading glasses on when I saw this in the paper today and I totally missed the Wilco content.

They sent an email out to Friend of the Festival ticketholders that confirms that this is the record that is included as part of that package.

That's good to hear. I tried to say that I couldn't speak for XRT since I don't live in Chicago, and my comment is reflecting the rock stations in my market.

Wait, what?! Jeff actually said that about the "You Never Know" of 2024? The funny thing is, when I posted about "You Never Know" in the thread from Night One, they had already played it on Night Two and I didn't even realize it. I wrote the post, and then went and looked at the set list for Night Two. When I saw they had played "Meant to Be," I added a footnote to that effect to my post but didn't even notice "You Never Know" on the set list a few songs above it. Anyway, wow. I'm so excited at the prospect of this song returning to the repertoire that all I can say is "Synthesizer Patell!"

I'm hoping for mostly "album tracks" for the Deep Cuts set but, for what it's worth, the songs Jeff has been teasing on his Substack have been a mix of album tracks and non-album tracks. (I know these aren't necessarily the songs the band will end up playing in North Adams, but they are at least indicative of what Jeff has been practicing, and they have included "Message from Mid-Bar," "When the Roses Bloom Again" and "Bob Dylan's 49th Beard," among others.) Regarding the disappearance of "Meant to Be," it puts me in mind of the fact that "You Never Know" is the only Wilco song eve

Those guys hung out in my dorm when they were just Gus. (They changed their name after another band named Gus compained.) They played my college a few times circa 1993-97. Nice guys.

The other two songs are also from the same 10/27/04 show. By the way, if someone owns the vinyl version of Alpha Mike Foxtrot but does not own the CD version that has many more tracks, then they're not really a completist. (No judgment, just an observation.)

What if you have a bad back that makes sitting uncomfortable? If I ever get to the point where I am physiologically unable to stand at a show, I will sit, and I will not yell at anyone around me to sit down. The thing about the sitters-versus-standers debate is that it's generally not people who are physically unable to stand who are yelling for others to sit down. It's usually people who only want to stand for the songs that they know. I've been to quite a few shows where I've been yelled at for standing while the band plays new songs that I am very familiar with and e

Mr. Kidsmoke has bugged me on a few occasions to share some ephemera on the site, and today seems as good a time to start as any as it's the anniversary of the first time I ever saw Wilco. It was June 9, 1995, at Tramps in New York City. Despite the fact that I was 19 years old and had already lived away at school for a year (and had ridden the subway every day to go to high school before that and was hardly sheltered), my parents were very insistent that my dad should pick me up after the show so I wouldn't have to ride the subway home to Brooklyn late at night. Being naive about shows-- this

Nice. Thanks for sharing. John is the best, and I'm not just saying that because he agrees with me that "Sunlight Ends" is a high point of the Wilco catalog. (O.K., he didn't exactly say that, but he did single it out for praise among the tracks on Cousin.)

One of the perks of the "Friend of the Festival" pass for Solid Sound was, if I recall correctly, a 10-inch with unreleased Wilco tracks. I'm assuming this is that.

In what has to be a high-water mark for any person who has ever been a member of Wilco, Glenn Kotche will reach No. 12 on the Hot 100 for the week ending May 4, 2024, with his song "loml" (featuring Taylor Swift). Glenn will also chart ten other songs on the Hot 100, including "Clara Bow" at No. 21.

From someone who was there, thanks for all of the reviews this week. I am still scrambling to catch up from having been out of town the week before the shows, and then from the long days in line at the shows, and then Holy Week for Pearl Jam fans, so I have not had a chance to add some thoughts about these shows. Hopefully, I will get around to that some time this week. In the meantime, I just want to say that Jeff was totally going to play "Sunlight Ends" when I requested it-- he actually said something like, "O.K., I'll try that one," and started to tune it up-- until he was spun around by t

Thanks. For what it's worth, I thought I heard the new lyric as, "Is your heart higher than your mind?" Since I was standing in line outside Largo all day yesterday and not privy to any news, I actually first learned of the death of O.J. Simpson from the crowd interaction described here. Speaking of death and Wilco, I came across an item the other day that I've been meaning to post on the board so I'll mention it here. From the July 1996 Music Issue of Details, in an article about the death of the great Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon, who died on the band's tour bus: "The body stayed

Like I said, "mostly" moved on. Having witnessed the ironclad "Mother"/"Country" early-set bloc about ten times in October, I'm keenly aware that this is primarily how they are choosing to represent that outstanding, sprawling double-album (with the occasional tailless bird and "Falling Apart" sprinkled in). I'm just glad I got to see "The Empty Condor" at Solid Sound because that one may never appear again. (And, really, how could I die in peace without witnessing that syllable-stretching opus?) Of the four one-play wonders from Cruel Country, I feel like "Tonight's the Day" has a

I really find it works best on paper.

I know my opinion is an outlier among a fan base that is content to hear Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ad infinitum, but I would be disappointed in these sets if I were at these shows. Cousin isn't even six months old, and they're down to two songs from it at the March 7 and March 8 shows. Wilco seems to be moving on from it almost as fast as they mostly moved on from Cruel Country.

Thanks. The good thing about this is that the shows are spread out, and two of them are in my city, so it's much less of an undertaking than it would be if I were going from city to city. I don't really like to be away from home and this allows me to keep coming home. I'll be in Vancouver for three days at the beginning, in Vegas for three days in the middle and in Seattle for three days at the end, but the other shows will each be less than 24-hour commitments. I've been to Seattle a couple of times and really enjoyed it. I actually saw Pearl Jam there in 2009 when Backspacer came