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    Wilco -- 9/18/11, Montreal QC

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Words fail, but I can tell you one thing for sure - this is a new Wilco.

     

    This was my 23rd show and I have never seen them bring so much power, so much presence to the party. New songs exploded, old songs reborn. Balls-out wall of sound. Tight, tight, tight. LOUD, LOUD, LOUD. Cool to see different members shine a bit more than usual.

     

    Wonderful, quiet, respectful crowd. I could kiss you all on the mouth! Jeff asked them to say something in French to which he replied "Sexy! I'm blushing... This is me blushing...that's how white I am."

     

    Other banter, for those so inclined: not a ton:

    • Um, chiding Glenn about not wanting to stand on his drums anymore and getting the whole crowd booing and goading him on. "He thinks we're going to be satisfied with the gong..." (I have a small video snippet of this)
    • The bit about "spirit dove" - saying that lyric was the stupidest lyric ever written, but that Glenn started calling him Spirit Dove so he had to leave it. Glenn started making little wing-flapping motions to which Jeff replied "Asshole!" "That's your new nickname - Asshole."
    • Oh, and this: After the opening notes of Rising Red Lung, some guy in the crowd yelled out "Play some rock and roll!" to which Jeff quickly and maybe somewhat angrily retorted "This IS rock and roll!"

     

    We drove 12 hours round-trip for this and it was worth every mile. I had suggested via Twitter that it would be nice of them to play Standing O for my troubles and they totally freaking did. At least I'm going to pretend for the rest of my life that they played it for me. I love that song so much. It reminds me a lot of the music that I lived with and listened to in my early 20's. I just love it. And live? Give me a break. I lost my shit. (Apologies to the staid Canadians around me...)

     

    So, YEAH! I feel so happy for them! They're in a really great place, psychobabbley.

     

    P.S. The light show!

    Wilco -- 9/18/11, Montreal QC

    in After The Show

    Posted

    I'm on the fence about whether I want to hear One Sunday Morning live. It's a good song, but I'm not entirely convinced that a 12-minute folk song is something I want or need to experience at a Wilco show.

     

    How does it sound live?

    I went in feeling similarly, but I was happy to be proven wrong. It was captivating and I was amazed at how they held the room through it. In fact, I think there were more people heading for the bathroom in the beginning of it than towards the end. I don't think it ran the full 12-minutes - I think they shortened the outro a bit.

     

    The song has been slowly growing on me and hearing it live pretty much sealed the deal. It was very cool to see/hear how everyone contributes to it - much more apparent live than on the album, at least to me.

     

    It was fairly stunning, to be honest.

    Wilco -- 9/16/2011, Toronto, ON

    in After The Show

    Posted

    I was amazed and enthralled and surprised last night at Massey Hall. I read someone's observation of the setlist of the first night of the tour that it seemed little was new. That the new tracks start the show and then it was back to the Wilco you know....

    No way, this was Wilco rediscovered, Wilco streamlined and snarling, Wilco at the heart of being Wilco and loving it, Wilco brave enough to hammer away at an audience. There was tension and swagger and frenzy popping up and coming at you.

    Everything soft and cuddly, introspective, observant and shy has been thrown to the side. Nothing from Woody Guthrie.

     

     

    Yowser. You may have just made up my mind. We had been looking forward to a long weekend in Montreal all summer, but a bunch of stuff came up this past week that made an extended trip this weekend impossible. Our only remaining option is to make the 6 hour drive up on Sunday, back on Monday. I had been couching the decision in terms of "Is it crazy to drive 12 hours round-trip, crossing international borders, just to hear Art of Almost?" But you make it sound like we'd be getting so much more, so much more of what we're looking for. I WANNE BE HAMMERED AWAY AT!!! :headbonk

     

    The Wilco you describe is the Wilco I adore. I accept and love all of Wilco, the whole Wilco, but it's the dark, unapologetic, hard-charging, balls out stuff that does it for me, especially live.

     

    I find your BBN theory interesting. It just leaves me wondering why so much of The Whole Love is decidedly NOT that. Why not a whole album in the vein of BBN and AOA? It would make me feel so good. I would buy it ten times.

    Streaming "The Whole Love"

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Ack. Argh. What to do, what to do. I have always been a die-hard hold-out for record release day. Love cutting out of work that morning and rushing to the record store like I'm on a secret mission. Coming home that night for first listen with my baby. There's something magical for me about waiting. The anticippppppation.

     

    (I'll never forget the day YHF was released, still unheard by me. Walked in to the record store first thing that morning and it was playing. It felt like everything in the world.)

     

    But, but, BUT - this time around I have already heard some of the new stuff - at Solid Sound and the Almost trailer that I've watched an unhealthy number of times.

     

    So...

     

    I don't know...

    Brendan Canty making a documentary about Solid Sound

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Does anyone know if this actually happened? Was Brendan Canty at Solid Sound making a documentary?

     

    I found out that the sister of an acquaintance of mine was there working with a filmmaker and that she "interviewed the band for a project that he was working on." That's about all I could get out of her - it might be something different, not sure.

    Highlights from 2011 SSF

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Finally got my Solid Sound flickrs up.

     

    It was another magical weekend. They found ways to improve on last year in ways that I didn't think could be improved. It was chockfull of coolness.

     

    Personal highlight for me - the band doing the Split Enz' "I Got You' with Neil Finn himself. My husband and I nearly lost our minds - it's one of our tunes, and they rocked it. Topped the time we saw Golden Smog do it at Bowery Ballroom.

     

    Can't wait 'til next year! Right?

    Wilco @ NOLA Jazzfest 2011

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Wilco and Lucinda and Willie and Wyclef all in my favorite city? I must find a way. Unfortunately (and fortunately) I had planned on being there earlier in April for rebuilding work. And then there's Solid Sound.... Too much Wilco and not enough scratch.

    Wilco to return to MASSMoCA for Solid Sound #2

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Perfectly said.

    Thanks :), but I think I said it better here:

     

    ~~

     

    It’s just like if Wilco invited you over to their house to hang out on a sunny late summer afternoon. You know it would be some cool, funked out industrial playground of a space. Art everywhere. Their generous and fun-loving spirit would make you feel right at home but at the same time you’d be awestruck at your dumb luck. Nels would be stringing together some noisy loop of pedals in the basement and he’d let you play with them. Glenn would be tricking out these crazy drum heads and would want to show you how they work. You’d eat falafel and drink beer. Mikael would tell jokes and tinkle around on the piano, filling the space. You’d wander into a room and find John strumming and singing pretty melodies. At some point, Pat would whip out his photo albums and show you his beautiful Polaroids. There'd be new music to explore - record players, headphones, stacks of vinyl. They'd be psyched to turn you on to their new favorite bands. You'd watch old movies. There'd be ice cream. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, Jeff would lure everyone out into the backyard and turn the hose on ‘em – all for a good cause, of course. Then, as the afternoon turned to dusk and the blue sky faded to a purple bruise, they would gild this lily of a day by rocking your socks off. You’d be totally blissed out, realizing you fell in love with the right band, a band that loves you back, a band that makes you feel like you belong right there with them. Then you’d get to sleep over, top bunk, and do it all again the next day. And at the end of it all, you’d have no idea how to thank them for showing you the time of your life.

     

    ~~

    Wilco to return to MASSMoCA for Solid Sound #2

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    That's funny, I thought the Tweedy set was a *perfect* way to end the weekend, a cloudy, lazy summer Sunday afternoon with Tweedy, all his acoustic guitars and friends. I felt perfect walking out of there. Not that I had "had enough" by any means, but I remember feeling quite nice.

    Oh believe you me, I felt very nice. Everything was perfect. There was just such a sense of collective awe and wonderment from all involved, bands and participants and volunteers, about how amazingly cool it all was. How could it possibly have been so perfectly cool? I walked floated away with a shimmer and a shit-eating grin, realizing I had just experienced something very special, that we all did. I think maybe I just felt like I needed to be debriefed about it all or something. Maybe a tattoo parlor on the way out is what I'm looking for.

    Wilco to return to MASSMoCA for Solid Sound #2

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    is it fair to assume that the wilco shows will fall on friday and saturday, and jeff would play solo on sunday? i'm incredibly excited for SSF2, and plan on buying tickets on friday. i wish they'd announce a few additional bands-- it seems a bit strange to begin selling tickets to a festival without announcing any accompanying bands. then again, most of us will be attending regardless :thumbup

    I would think so. If the countdown clock is accurate, the festivities begin Friday at 5:00. Seems like that would be in line with a Friday night Wilco show. While the Tweedy show solo was so beautiful last year, it was kind of a weird way to end such an extravagant weekend. It felt odd to just walk away from all that. I hope they do something this year to put some closure on things, iike maybe a group hug or something. Something to help us come down from it all.

    Wilco to return to MASSMoCA for Solid Sound #2

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I almost just posted this....

     

    Did you find it via the Wilcoworld link?

     

    I'm hoping for some more band announcements today, but I'm thinking this is all that we are going to get today.

     

    Edit: Wait a minute. Let me read that again. (reads first two sentences) Two headlining concerts by Wilco. (shits pants) :stunned

    Sorry, it was here.

     

    I do believe they had initially announced two Wilco spots last year, too. I hope they hold to it this year! And :rock

    Wilco to return to MASSMoCA for Solid Sound #2

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival – an intimate three day celebration of music, comedy, art and community – returns to MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA June 24 – 26. Envisioned by Wilco and presented in collaboration with MASS MoCA, America’s largest center for contemporary art, this year’s festival boasts two headline concerts by Wilco, a comedy cabaret hosted by John Hodgman, the new Solid Ground tent site for nearby camping, a Euclid Records pop-up store, a wide array of all-ages programming and much more. Tickets are on sale 11am EST this Friday, Jan. 21 through the festival’s official website SolidSoundFestival.com, through the MASS MoCA box office and through massmoca.org. See below for complete details on tickets, including early-bird pricing, single-day tickets, free and reduced-fee ticketing for children and more.

     

    Tickets for Solid Sound 2011 are on-sale 11am EST this Friday, January 21 through solidsoundfestival.com, massmoca.org and the MASS MoCA box office. Prices listed below include admission to festival, museum fees and service fees.

     

    3-Day Pass

    “Early Worm” Price = $99.50 (limited quantity available)

    Regular = $124.50

     

    Single-Day “Early Worm”

    Friday = $65

    Saturday = $78

    Sunday = $65

     

    There are a limited number of single-day tickets available at special “early worm” pricing. Should any of these allotments sell out, there’s no guarantee more will become available.

     

    Children 6 & under are free at Solid Sound. As a special offer this year, weekend festival passes for kids ages 7-10 are $50 and ONLY AVAILABLE at the Solid Sound Box Office, starting Friday, June 24. They will be available throughout the entire weekend.

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