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Somewhat the opposite, actually. Jeff decided to try the unplugged approach early on seemingly to see how the talkers would react to an unamplified number. They piped down for a little while, but when it started to get louder again, Jeff's only recourse was to play, as he put it, "songs where I shout." He showed us his cheat sheet with those aforementioned songs and another cheat sheet with like 80 percent of the songs blacked out because, as Jeff explained, they were just too quiet for this type of venue and crowd. My personal favorite jackass of the night was the guy toward the front who k

Tonight was the first show on this tour that I've gotten to see with Scott McCaughey opening, and since I haven't really seen a lot written about Scott's opening sets, I figured I'd at least post what he played tonight. It was a treat to hear some songs off the Down With Wilco record, especially Daggers Drawn. And it was totally awesome to hear his version of So Much Wine. Apparently Scott's been playing with different local people each night, so his sets have been changing at least a little bit from night to night. At tonight's show, he had Joe Adragna (of a New Orleans band called The Juni

Here was tonight's setlist: Spiders (Kidsmoke) Remember The Mountain Bed IATTBYH Airline to Heaven The Ruling Class New Madrid Radio King Someone Else's Song (w/o p.a. system) Theologians California Stars Hesitating Beauty Heavy Metal Drummer The Late Greats ELT Jesus, etc. -------------------------------- A Shot in the Arm I'm The Man Who Loves You -------------------------------- Passenger Side Gun Pecan Pie Dreamer In My Dreams (w/o pa) Acuff-Rose (w/o pa)

Something tells me that you might have some company.

Here's the picture of the inside of Liberty Hall that I snapped with my cell-phone camera. I literally stuck my phone just inside the door and snapped, so this really is the whole venue. Here's one of my other favorite cell-phone pictures from the weekend. It's Marfa's one real stoplight (they also had a blinking yellow, but I'm not counting that one): And just so Kris' mind is fully at peace, I did make it back to NYC in plenty of time for my 3-6 p.m. class yesterday! I'm on the weekend travel plan for the time being, but the Marfa show was--thank goodness--on a Sunday!

In my haste, I omitted The Ruling Class in the above setlist [edit: I added it in my original post, but obviously someone correct me if I'm wrong]. I'm pretty sure it came after Blasting Fonda, but it's 4:45 a.m., I'm sitting in the Midland airport and I'm not 100 percent certain. Hopefully someone else can confirm... It was definitely played, though.

Just the setlist for now (go blackberry!) Patient With Me Remember The Mountain Bed IATTBYH Black Eye You Were Wrong Blasting Fonda [The Ruling Class?]--see post below One By One Bob Dylan's 49th Beard Gun (without p.a. system) Via Chicago Muzzle of Bees Radio King How to Fight Loneliness New Madrid ------------------- Theologians Jesus, etc. I'm The Man Who Loves You [Jeff designated the last two songs as his second encore, though he never actually left the stage] Dreamer In My Dreams (w/o p.a.) Acuff-Rose (w/o p.a.)

It's actually called Lullaby for Rafters and Beams.

I totally echo Tualla on this--go see these guys! They're super nice and have a great sound, to boot. Just wish they were coming to the East Coast...

I believe that one Jeff Tweedy has said in the past that "the second night is always better." Not just talking about his own band, but pretty much any band. FWIW.

From what I know about it (and from looking at my copy), it was a two-disc promo set put out by Warner Music Canada to promote Summerteeth. Disc 1 is basically an advance copy of the record. Disc 2 (the "and sum aren't" part of the title) is a mish-mash of album tracks and some live cuts. Here's the tracklisting--I'm sure this exists somewhere else, but I'm too lazy to go searching around for it: 1) I Must Be High (album version) 2) Pick Up The Change (album version) 3) Passenger Side (album version) 4) Monday (demo version) 5) I Got You (At The End of the Century) (album version) 6) Hot

I think the series has been really good so far and the credit really has to go to Ronen for having the idea and then putting it together. Glenn and Nels and company were great as always and Andrew Bird last week (it was last week, wasn't it?) was a huge treat! Looking forward to the next show in January...

Have a tremendous, stupendous, totally rad b-day, B! See ya soon!

Have a terifically awesome birthday, U! Here's to more of everything Heidi mentioned earlier, and to canyon hiking and setlist-book compiling and all-night writing and on and on...

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The only thing I can think of adding at this point is that it was really great to see the electric Sunken Treasure again. After seeing it done acoustically so much at Jeff's solo shows, I had almost forgotten the different arrangement the song gets when done with electric guitars. And it's always nice to see Poor Places work its way back into the set. I noticed that Nels played exclusively lap steel for at least the first half of the song. If memory serves, I think he had played at least some of his part on the Jazzmaster in previous renditions. First time hearing Let's Not Get Carried Aw

Wish I had been there to see the "mayhem" for myself. I have to say that whatever Jeff did, I'm sure it was for good reason. You can't have people jumping up onstage whenever they feel like it. You don't know what they're going to do, for one. It's unlikely that the guy meant Jeff any harm, but at the very least, somebody getting on stage and being a dope is completely distracting to the performer and the audience, IMHO.

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Yo Jeff, Can't add much that hasn't already been said, but thanks for all the work over the years. Enjoy retirement, play some golf, drink some pina coladas and all that jazz. And above all, don't be a stranger... Paul.

Mine was just in the plastic.

Those pictures look twangy.

I'm with you! If Wilco was to ever play in Idaho, I'd *so* find a way to be there.

Well, the last time the band played New York City proper was the New Year's Eve 2004 show at Madison Square Garden. Nothing really happened, other than much alcohol consumption and revelry. The only time anything has really "happened" in NYC was back in 1996 at Irving Plaza when they wound up playing after Johnny Cash -- you can read about that episode in Greg Kot's book. But whoever mentioned something "happening" earlier in this thread was just being dumb. As for the Irving Plaza rumor, seeing as how the club is already pretty booked for the rest of October, I kinda doubt it.

Hope you have an awesome birthday, Bridget!