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I do have a question though, does anyone know if this show was taped, I like finding recordings of shows I've been to, and this one is probably my favorite of the four concerts I've ever been to overall.

The show was definitely taped, but it's considered good form to give tapers some time to work on their recordings before asking about them. Some put shows up remarkably quickly, but be patient. Give 'em at least a week before asking for stuff.

I also meant to mention earlier that I'm pretty sure Pot Kettle Black and Hoodoo Voodoo were also on the printed setlist, but not played. Looked like Jeff audibled out of PKB after A Shot in the Arm, for whatever reason. And Hoodoo was listed as the closer, but they didn't wind up doing it. It was already well past 11 at that point, so they might have been running up against a curfew issue (but that's just speculation on my part).

Prior to launching into "Passenger Side," Jeff also mentioned that this was Wilco's first time playing in Rochester. Though he did say that Uncle Tupelo had once driven to Rochester from somewhere specifically to go to a store called House of Guitars. Apparently Jeff and others dropped by the place again yesterday before the show.

Just before the show started, the crew welcomed Glenn back from his one-show hiatus in style by adorning his drum kit with a variety of brightly colored flowers (I saw some carnations and maybe hibiscus in there). And Jeff made several comments about how glad they were to have "the best drummer in the world" back and how he had skipped out on a rock show to play Carnegie Hall, etc. Sincere of course, but also sometimes delivered in a tone of giving Glenn shit which I think everyone enjoys.

Seems like quite a few people made the trek up here for this one because I saw a number of familiar faces in the crowd.

Anyway, setlist as follows:

Forget the Flowers

You Are My Face

Hummingbird

Muzzle of Bees

IATTBYH

Handshake Drugs

War on War

Via Chicago

Jesus, etc.

Impossible Germany

A Shot in the Arm

California Stars

Hate It Here

Walken

I'm The Man Who Loves You

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Poor Places>

Spiders (Kidsmoke)

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Passenger Side

The Late Greats

Heavy Metal Drummer

Kingpin

Monday>

Outtasite (Outta Mind)

I suppose such a fancy event would not allow for tapers!?!

Yeah, I doubt it unless someone was stealthing. They're pretty strict at Carnegie Hall in general, even though Zankel is supposed to be the more casual, avant garde space. No recording and definitely no photos (though I saw a few people snap some at the end when the ushers weren't as hawkish as usual), unfortunately.

i've always wondered what the set list communication was like between these two. tonight i finally watched for it. jonathan starts playing...when tommy hears what's going on, he picks up the appropriate sticks or brushes and joins in.

sounds kinda like another guitar-drums duo we know and that we'll be seeing soon.

glad you made it to the show, e!

He wasn't sick he was at another gig! lol

 

Hope we can get a report from the Kronos show.

That sounds like a fun set in Toronto...definitely memorable anyway. A question for anyone at the TO show: Did the line from "Passenger Side" ("Roll another number for the road") got any sort of special reaction from the Neil crowd?

I went to the Kronos show here in NYC, and Glenn seemed to be in fine health. I think he'll be just fine for the Rochester show on Saturday night. He joined Kronos for the New York premiere of his composition "Anomaly" that was commissioned specifically for (and by?) Kronos. It has seven movements, including one with just handbells. Part of another movement features some handheld "whirly-gig" noisemakers. I thought Glenn's drumming was pretty subtle throughout, providing support and texture; for instance, a couple of times he played the drum with the air-regulating tube that he uses on "Reservations." Zankel Hall, where they played, has great acoustics and it was definitely a treat to get to hear all of the different details that Glenn wove into the piece.

Kronos also closed their show with a performance of George Crumb's composition "Black Angels." It's really a dramatic presentation, with three of the four Kronos members climbing onto black risers at one point and using their bows to play glasses of water. There are also two gongs on stage and the different instruments are suspended in midair at various points during the half-hour piece. If you ever get a chance to see all (or even part) of this program, it's an evening well spent.

Happy, happy! Hope it's not too cold for you back here...

Hey Judy, did you see

Paul has some super shots, which he will hopefully get uploaded soon.

I wouldn't say my photos are super by any means, but a few of them turned out OK.

For instance, here's a closeup of Neil and Pegi during "I Shall Be Released":

And here's Norah Jones and Jeff (and Sasha Dobson) during the show-closing "Comes A Time":

You can find all of my shots from Bridge School here. (They're pretty much all from the second day because we weren't really sitting close enough the first day to get too many decent photos.)

Glad you guys were able to see Gary, Tamala and Joyce! I don't think I've ever managed to see him solo, though I saw the Jayhawks a bunch of times. Excited to hear about some upcoming Jayhawks dates!

new song (yet another one I'd never heard before)

Again, it's tough to give a decent report on the debut of this new song having heard it just once and in a stripped-down arrangement. My first impressions were that it's a mid-tempo number with some pretty evocative lyrics, though definitely not as immediately catchy as the song that was debuted on the first day of Bridge School. Rereading some of the lyrics I managed to scrawl down, the tone seems to be a fairly bleak one: "There's nothing left here/The country has disappeared" and "Hold out your hands/So much you don't understand/Stick as close as you can" and something about "best laid plans."

Moving on, there's a line about "white clouds hanging above you" and something about helicopters. And then the apparent chorus starts off something like, "Every evening we watch from above/Crush the cities..."

The other fragment I jotted down was something about "this is love to some."

Not a very coherent report, I'm afraid. I will say that this was the first of the new songs I've heard that I didn't get into right away, but again, it's hard to say if what we heard is still evolving or close to a finished product. It's been nice to get a couple sneak peeks the past couple of days, in any case.

I thought today's set was, overall, probably a little better than the first day. Even though Jeff stumbled a little bit during "What Light" (nice recovery!), I thought the band as a whole seemed more comfortable than yesterday. And "I Shall Be Released" with Neil and Pegi was a neat moment. Jeff had a big smile on his face throughout. Hopefully we'll get to see this collaboration at least a couple times on the December tour.

Okebo's setlist was almost right, just switched Jesus and Cali Stars.

The correct order was:

Hummingbird

new song-I'll Fight For You (?)

Forget the Flowers

Jesus, etc.

California Stars

The Late Greats

War on War

The new one wasn't the one Jeff played at his solo shows in Spain last month, based on the YouTube clips I watched. I hesitate to describe a new song after hearing it once -- and in an all-acoustic performance, no less -- but it's definitely got a catchy chorus that starts off the song. (Can that even be properly described as a chorus? I'm not sure.) Anyway, it goes something like "I'll go, I'll go/I'll fight for you/I'll kill, I'll kill for you/I will, I will." I wouldn't say it's a poppy arrangement like "Sunny Feeling" by any means, but that refrain definitely worked for me as a hook. On first listen, it seemed to me to be another work in progress, and who knows how the final version will turn out? This much is certain -- it's got some lyrical depth to go along with the aforementioned "chorus" that needs some more listens to fully sort out. One jarring line toward the end of the song went something like "I'll die alone like Jesus on the cross." Hopefully we'll get to hear it again tomorrow...later today, actually.

For those interested in Neil's set(s), he started the entire show off with a couple of songs played solo:

I Am A Child

Sugar Mountain

Then to close out the show, he came out with his touring band and did:

new song-Just Singing A Song Won't Change The World

Oh, Lonesome Me

Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)

The Needle and the Damage Done

Unknown Legend

Heart of Gold

Old Man

Get Back to the Country

A Day in the Life [The Beatles]

Comes A Time [w/ensemble]

*Neil also came out and played and sang with Cat Power during her set-closing rendition of "Fortunate Son."

Oh, and more random Canadiana: Neil was wearing a Louis Riel t-shirt.

Qui est-ce? (Actually I Googled it, but just wanted to type something en francais so maybe you'd think I was from Quebec or something. )

Glad you and Doug had fun, Judy!

PS What'd you think of Everest and/or Death Cab?

Have a happy happy day, Senor Frog! Hope the weather Down Under is mighty fine (is it ever not?).

Seriously? Has it come to this?

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psst: nick lowe could actually equal: nick lowe + paul bryan + jay bellerose.

 

just saying.

 

also: am going to be in la seeing swell season. unless i book this hotwire ticket to detroit to see mmj on saturday.

aaahhh, crazy rock tourism. i love it!

p.s. jay is the drummer in robert plant and alison krauss' band (at least when i saw them at ACL last weekend), so if they have a full band there, i imagine he will be there.

I bet this show will be filmed and/or recorded and sold as a dvd/cd.

That is what the Pitchfork article said.

Pronto is great...Go check 'em out!

(P.S. To any NYC peeps, is it just me or do you always get confused by Union Pool and Union Hall?)

You sure there isn't any Ratatat merch?

Seriously, it was really fun slinging all those T-shirts. Even though I don't live in Chicago, I guess I've been there enough over the years to get to know some of the people in the Chicago music community; to me, there's so much more of a community feel there as opposed to New York. And that's really epitomized by Tim and Katie and the Hideout. So it was great to get to hang and drink for free and see a lot of familiar faces all weekend. Sign me up for next year...

Total crazy mofos...

Monotonix fits that description pretty well, too.

Just in case anyone was curious (I didn't feel like starting a whole new thread in After The Show), the setlist for the reunion show last night was:

Narcolepsy

Don't Change Your Plans (w/four-piece horn section)

Mess

Magic

Hospital Song

Army (w/horns)

Your Redneck Past

Your Most Valuable Possession (Dean Folds on spoken word )

Regrets

Jane

Lullabye (w/horns)

[in other words, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner in its entirety]

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Jackson Cannery

Eddie Walker

Selfless, Cold and Composed

Battle of Who Could Care Less

Where's Summer B.?

Julianne

Song For The Dumped

The guys sounded great, even from the balcony; it was like old times. Only disappointment was they didn't come out for a second encore after a rousing ovation. I think they probably were out of songs they had time to relearn. Ah, well.

Uh oh. Does this mean no Wilco for Toronto night 2? (OK, clearly it does. Shit.)

Replacement drummer! All-acoustic set! Who knows?

Unfortunately, I don't think Wilco's playing with Neil at Allstate on Dec. 9 so I guess take that into consideration in relation to ticket prices...

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes!

Another year older, but not too much wiser I'm afraid...

Did Jeff play a solo set early in the day? This is from the rollingstone.com article about the show

Unless Jeff somehow slipped in a couple covert songs before the Animal Liberation Orchestra rocked the house ( ), that Rolling Stone account of the show probably should have read Sunday closer or something--although technically that wouldn't have been right either.

Anyway, no, Jeff didn't play a solo set.