pfox7

I own the red A.M. record, in the clear sleeve. I bought it around 2000-2001. I have played it maybe once.

I couldn't be more excited about this, as a tulsan and a wilco/guthrie fan. the archives are going to be amazing. GKFF, as we call them here, has played a huge and significant role in the revival of downtown tulsa, and in the preservation of our cultural institutions. I know Jeff and the boys love playing Cain's Ballroom, and now they have another reason to love Tulsa... it would be great to have them come to Tulsa for Woody's 100th birthday celebration: http://www.woody100.com/

Yea.... i bet you are right. somewhere in rural oklahoma is probably more hardcore than brooklyn, san francisco, boston, **everywhere**

Rural.

Tulsa has 1,000,000 people living there.

While trying to pick up some tickets for friends to the Cain's show in Tulsa I was wondering, outside of Chicago or maybe St Louis could Cain's be the toughest venue to get a ticket to a wilco show? I have been lucky enough to see wilco/jt solo there and lucky to have tickets to the upcoming show in May and love the whole atmosphere of this venue, but it seems like it sells out quicker than most other venues. I have always been able to pick up tickets in Dallas, OKC and Austin. But Cain's is always a challenge.

I don't know, but I haven't found a ticket for the Cain's show for less than 125.00....

I am so stupid. I blew off the pre-sale, and Tulsa sold out in less than a day. I desperately need two tickets...They are going for ridiculous sums on the secondary market. Don't mind paying above face value, but 200+ a ticket is excessive. Hoping to find some help!

Thanks....

pfox7

patrickmfox@gmail.com

Great show... Thanks again to Cain's Ballroom for getting great artists like Wilco and M. Ward to come to Tulsa...

Played tons from Post-War, and quite a few from the new album. I guess he is a real 50's rock and roll fan...he played Rave On of course, but also Chuck Berry (Roll Over Beethoven), and an old Don Gibson tune. He rocked it a little more than I expected, which was cool to see. And the dude can play guitar...great show, great time.

Don't have a set list, but will post if I find one.

Don't know if this was posted...

 

 

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/smokings...lco-doc-ash.php

But because I was at the show when Jeff made the comment about the show needing an "astrisk" because he was on steroids, I feel compelled to say they got that wrong. That was at the Tulsa show! Unless he recycled that banter from the earlier Nashville show. Which is possible, I guess. Not important in the grand scheme of things, but still kind of irritating.

I have listened to both Nashville and Tulsa, he only says the steroid comment in Tulsa. I was at the show in Houston the night before Tulsa and his voice was really bad! Good show none the less.

It's definitely the Cain's show in Tulsa. I remember reading VC reviews of the Houston show (the day before) where fans said his voice was ailing and they were wondering if his voice would hold out in Tulsa. Plus, the doctor who gave him the shot was at the show. The trailer editing makes it look like it's at the Ryman since the full stage shot comes right after the closeup of the steroid comment (assuming that's the venue with the balcony -- sadly I've never been there). In Tulsa, he also gave a funny flex to show off his chemically-enhanced physique ...

 

 

 

 

 

I am glad I am not the only one this bugged. I'll get over it.

I started a new thread...sorry for the repeat.

They made Cain's look just as awesome as it is, FWIW.

I thought it was a bad edit, too. I also wish they would have included more on the history of Cain's, like they did with Tipitina's. And they didn't show any crowd shots in Tulsa like they did with other venues. Guess we were too ugly? But hey, still an awesome DVD.

I wouldn't go that far. The entire opening sequence was of Cain's/Tulsa. Rewatch that soundcheck of Ashes... I thought it was an incredible tribute to the place. I just noticed that small edit. Otherwise...I thought it was excellent. The bonus material was great too...the Woody Guthrie/Oklahoma connection... We love you in Tulsa Wilco!

Even though you are forcing me to step foot in OKC this spring to see you...

maybe he said that comment at both shows?

I'll listen to the Tulsa bootleg...but I am pretty sure it was the exact quote. Maybe someone who has heard the Ryman show could weigh in?

Edit: Just checked. It is from the Tulsa show. Between Impossible Germany and Handshake Drugs.

Sorry if this came off wrong. I love the DVD...love the performances shown...

As a Tulsan...I am proud as hell that Wilco chose Cain's as one of the venues to memorialize their performances....I was there. It was an amazing show..the best Wilco show I've been to anywhere.

The only thing that disappointed me about the DVD, and only those at the Tulsa show would know it, is that the quote Jeff makes about being on steroids was at the Tulsa show, not the Nashville show, and the DVD is edited to make it look otherwise. I wouldn't care normally, but it was a somewhat of a highlight moment in terms of banter... The doctor examining Jeff during the film is doing so in the back room of Cain's.

Nitpicky, I know...I know how film editing works, and it worked for the narrative of the overall film...but I just had to put it out there.

Otherwise, an insightful overview of the band at that moment in time, and, clearly, some amazing performances in all of the cities shown.

Any word on the DVD???

The show was definitely taped...I saw a mic stand dead center, 40 feet back from stage.

And the show was amazing. Best Wilco show I have seen, and I said that the last time they played Cain's. Totally rocked out the second half of the show...Jeff with his Roses suit. Light on Banter, likely due to the voice issues, but they little that was there was nothing but complimentary and reverent to the venue, which is truly one of the greats anywhere. And the crowd was great... He took a steroid shot from some Doctor in Tulsa...apparently it was some sort of miracle drug, cause he was screaming like he always does during Wheel... of course the doc had been given tickets and was in the front row shaking his head, saying "this is why you have no voice"...

I am still listening to it....and still loving it.

It definitely has a different (70's? I don't think so.) vibe. Peaceful...Hopeful...like "We can make it better".

All in all a very natural record...obviously it lacks the discord the last two did, probably because it is the first record Jeff has made since he has been "clean". I suspect that is translating in the final product, and was probably indicative of the recording process.

Anyway, I think it is an easier record to listen to, which is different than we've become accustomed to. Music doesn't have to be challenging (i.e. ten minutes of reverb/noise) to be enjoyable.

The official review from the Tulsa World:

Quiet riot

By MATT GLEASON World Scene Writer

1/23/2007

 

Jeff Tweedy lost control of his Tulsa audience but gave an incredible show

 

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy stood alone at the mike wondering aloud if this night -- a Friday night solo show at the Cain's Ballroom -- was actually happening, or if, perhaps, it was all just an anxiety dream he could soon wake from.

 

He was awake, all right, and the rowdy crowd in front of him was ready for another acoustic ditty.

 

At that, Tweedy joked, "Are there any psychiatrists in the audience?"

 

He was lighthearted about the fact, but Tweedy had lost control of his audience -- and he knew it.

 

He could see that this lot of Okie revelers weren't the sort to stand quietly and observe his fantastically enjoyable one-man show.

 

At one point, he actually kidded the fans that they reminded him of an audience he once knew in Springfield, Mo.

 

"I killed somebody," he said. "Have you seen that one on YouTube? I ripped his head off. I reached inside his body, ate his heart and then finished the song."

 

Later, he'd joke that he'd like to beat up the designated "alpha male" in the audience just to prove his dominance over the crowd. Then he changed his mind; he'd rather someone fight the bloke for

 

him by "proxy."

 

Maybe the fans didn't know Tweedy is not the sort to tolerate noisiness -- as is clearly evident in an impassioned rant he gave on his new concert DVD -- but the Tulsa fans meant no disrespect, Jeff. They simply wanted to talk to their pals and maybe even yell WHOO! as they admired the way you stripped down your songs to their barest, most revealing forms with nothing but an acoustic guitar and the occasional lonesome wail of a harmonica.

 

Luckily, Tweedy accepted the noise and moved on, giving an incredible performance that was sprinkled with hilarious stories, like the one about his 7-year-old's awe-inspiring . . . um . . . well, let's just say it involved a toilet and a camera.

 

The roughly 90-minute performance, including two encores, culled tunes spanning the singer-songwriter's entire career, beginning with his alt-country outfit Uncle Tupelo's "Gun," "Screen Door" and "Acuff-Rose."

 

Then there were glimpses into Wilco's early days with selections from its first three albums: "Blue-Eyed Soul," "Sunken Treasure," "ELT" and "A Shot in the Arm."

 

Of course, there were a bevy of tracks off of Wilco's seminal 2002 offering "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot": "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," "I'm the Man Who Loves You," "Heavy Metal Drummer" and "Jesus, Etc."

 

The only songs off Wilco's last record, "A Ghost Is Born," were "Theologians" and "The Late Greats."

 

As for side-project tunes, he played Loose Fur's "The Ruling Class" -- that brotha' can whistle -- and Golden Smog's "I Can't Keep From Talking."

 

Of the new material, he brought out the tender "Be Patient With Me," and the feisty "Is That the Thanks I Get," the latter which had the crowd singing along to its anthemic line, "We can make it better."

 

Tweedy was in Oklahoma -- Woody Guthrie territory -- so he paid homage to the folk legend with "Airline to Heaven" and, one of the several highlights of the evening, the gorgeous "Remember the Mountain Bed."

 

For his final song of the night, Tweedy made good on a promise he had made five songs into the show: To stand on the edge of the stage and play without any amplification.

 

So there he was, a man who hates playing to noisy crowds, about to test just how quiet a rowdy bunch of Okies could get.

 

The song was "Acuff-Rose," a song that goes, "Early in the morning, sometimes late at night/Sometimes I get the feeling that everything's all right."

 

I got that feeling myself once I heard the sweet sound of a man singing and playing a guitar finally get what he wanted: The audience shutting up and listening.

i have a huge confession to make. that little fat guy putzing with the cell phone is me. i was actually taking a picture of jeff so that when i awakened in the morning i would have some documentation that i was really 5 feet away from tweedy while he was tearing through acuff-rose. even while i was taking the picture i was thinking, put down the f-ing phone and just take in the moment. i'm actually pretty embarrassed that the photo caught that, because i would have thought the same thing that everyone else is saying about some jackass on the front row messing with his phone.

Levon,

I knew what you were doing! No worries mate

I was just cropped out of that pic... holding up the wasted hippy who had squeezed to the front for Acuff.

Any mention of the Tulsa shows?

Thoughts and prayers...

Nikka Costa