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Midway through the final night of a three-night run at the Beacon Theatre, during one of his sporadic audience check-ins, Jeff got interrupted by some louder-than-usual song requests shouted from the crowd. He has, by now, perfected his method of dealing with rogue requests, telling the requesters that they must fill out the “requisite forms” on Wilco’s Web site. “I think it’s a pretty good way to do it,” Jeff said. “We’ll get to all the songs some of you want to hear.” What was clear — and I think Jeff himself even said at one point, if not in so many words — was that

Guess we just saw different things or had different expectations. While I didn't see any obnoxiously drunk folks or blatant talkers or anything of that sort, I saw a fair amount of what I would call blasé or disinterested-looking folks. There was a couple in front of me where the female half sat for almost the entire show and looked like she would rather have been anywhere else. There were also two women seated to my right who barely made it through a quarter of the show before leaving for refills of their drinks and snacks and then, a few songs later, left for good and never returned. During

vern on the Green in Central Park? Unfortunately it's a bit rich for my blood...

Great shots as usual, Charles (especially the candid of my man, Ashwin)! Nice to get a sense of the setup at the front of the stage there. So was it reserved seating? Or GA seated? I seem to remember there not being that stanchion/barrier thing across the front last time and them letting people actually sit on the steps of the stage, but that could be a faulty memory. I also remember someone tossing an empty beer can that hit John and Jeff not being happy about it.

Thanks to VCer Nalafej for posting a link to the setlist for this PRIVATE gig. I don't expect any reports from this one — although if anyone happened to be lucky enough to go, by all means please chime in with details — but just starting a thread as a matter of record keeping since we at least know what was played. It's not unprecedented for Jeff and Co. to play the occasional corporate and/or private/invitation-only gig. I'm sure they were very well compensated. Here was the setlist, according to a photo of the printed setlist posted online (can't verify if there were

Given all the social media posts and various tributes of late, you might have expected Jeff to say something or at least somehow acknowledge today’s 20th anniversary of the release date of what more than a few people consider to be one of his band’s career-defining records, A Ghost Is Born. But in all the years I’ve been going to Wilco shows, I’ve rarely known Jeff to be sentimental — at least outwardly so — about things like specific anniversary dates for his own work, and I don’t think he’s about to start now. So it wasn’t much of a surprise, then, that on the second night of a t

Ha, no I only posted right before I left before Night 2 because the site was being super glitchy for me earlier.

Less than 24 hours after leaving the stage in a pastoral setting outside our nation’s capital, the men of Wilco were back on one in the big city — in the heart of the Upper West Side, at one of New York’s most famed music venues, to be exact — to kick off a three-night run leading into next week’s Solid Sound Festival. The contrast between the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park For The Performing Arts and the Beacon Theatre is certainly palpable, though I think both venues share some of the same drawbacks for those of us who prefer to enjoy a rock show in a certain way. Assum

I heard it was a 90-minute set, fwiw. Which makes sense under standard contract terms.

Nice. I guess that blasted setlist.fm does have its uses from time to time.

Are you aware of any details regarding that gig? I was aware of it, but don’t really know any specific details…

Ah, the large-scale summer show at a venue like the venerable Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park For The Performing Arts. So pleasant, so chill, so made for the maximum enjoyment of the maximum number of people. Is it an indoor show? An outdoor show? Would you call it a shed? I don’t know exactly how to describe it, to be honest. I just know I’m glad that I don’t have to see all the artists I like at places like that… Nothing against Wolf Trap — I’m going to use its common moniker — of course, or places like it such as Ravinia outside of Chicago or Tanglewood outside of Bosto

Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it down for this show, but in the interest of recordkeeping, if nothing else, I figured I should at least crosspost the setlist over here as posted by the good folks at Wilcoworld. If anyone was at the show, please chime in with some thoughts/reports/etc. For now, here was the setlist as played, according to Wilcoworld: Infinite Surprise Handshake Drugs War On War At Least That's What You Said I Am My Mother Cruel Country I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Meant To Be Company In My Back Cousin

Is that really an aricandover sighting? After all this time? Hey Jim!

He was just referring to the song Falling Apart (Right Now), which he said they had played during their set(s) at Carol’s and was pretty much made for Carol’s.