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Lol, Wolf Of Wall Street. I just hope that it's not some rich d-bag and/or some sort of corporate gig because either would be terrible for Jeff. At least they built in some "protection" for themselves (by requiring travel and accommodations for Jeff and two guests). Not enough, probably.

Well, they agreed to do three shows at the Second City live event the other week. So a total of four. Crazy how much the online one went for, though! I figured it would hit the stratosphere once they opened it up online, but this even exceeds my expectations. There are some people with crazy dough out there. Great for the organizers and the charity, though. They might end up raising more than a quarter of a million, just this year. Amazing how far it's come!

I guess we don't find out (at least not on the Charitybuzz page) how much the show finally went for. Once it closes, it seems, the amount disappears. I saw that it was up to $43,500 with about five minutes left, though. Wonder if it got up to $50,000, but in any case, the four shows they agreed to do next year will wind up raising well over $125,000(!). It's amazing how much these shows pull in, year after year, and amazingly generous of the Tweedys to keep doing them. They are the best.

Yeah, made the clarification. Thanks! Just as a point of discussion, I found it interesting that you said you enjoyed this setlist much more than the annual Vic shows. Just because you're probably someone who's seen a fair number of solo shows at this point, so I'd think you'd want to hear Jeff play songs that he almost never does (and which typically only happens at the Vic shows). I don't know. I guess I just don't really feel like songs like The Ruling Class or Pecan Pie are really "deeper cuts" at this point, certainly not to someone who's more than a casual fan. Those, to me, are just

Thanks for the clarifications. I wasn't sure whether the guy who played with Dowd was the same as the New Riders guy, but when I looked up the name, there it was. Would have been a weird coincidence, but I've seen weirder. Anyway. As far as right vs. ripe, I take your word for it. I heard the former, obviously, but I think the sentiment was similar. Too bad we live in an age of camera phones, lack of etiquette and the like because I think it does preclude hearing new material and/or songs in development the way we used to.

Glad to be in the plus column, haha. Nice to see you as well! Poor guy to drive up all that way with the winter weather rolling in only to have to endure a lot of that nonsense. FYI, I added some more details to my initial post above so thanks for helping recount some of those (and definitely capturing better than me the feeling of Jeff being genuinely uncomfortable up there when that lady had snuck on stage during the encore break). I realized I didn't really offer anything from Banter Corner, though there were just too many little moments —especially involving the weird crowd interaction

The only good thing about that "Residual Kids" guy was that he unwittingly led Jeff to reveal the title of a new song that he's been working on: Normal American Kids. Despite a few audience shouts for him to play it, Jeff said he wasn't going to because it wasn't right for the situation. And yeah, I felt pretty badly for Gerald Dowd (who is a very respected musician locally, drumming for Robbie Fulks, Justin Roberts and many others, and putting out a well-regarded solo record last year). The din of crowd chatter during his set, which he performed with guitarist Dave Nelson (who I had no idea

Take some relatively affluent suburbanites, give them a healthy amount of booze and put them in a venue that's too accessible but doesn't have very good security and that's maybe what we should've expected out of tonight's benefit show for the Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry. Still, even I was little taken aback by just how embarrassingly bad a lot of the crowd was. Aside from the stage jumper (sidler?) who tried — and failed — to negotiate Jeff leading an audience singalong of Happy Birthday to her husband in exchange for making a donation to the charity, there was the drunk woman in the

Basically the main Chicago NPR (radio) outlet. Thanks for the link, as always, sir!

A guy I know from these here parts posted a link to this informative piece... http://www.ibtimes.com/fargo-showrunner-noah-hawley-explains-snagging-wilcos-jeff-tweedy-song-cover-2177943

I've seen like five or six shows this year and still haven't heard Big Decisions live, which is kinda funny because it was the first "single" for The Waterfall, wasn't it?

Good to know! P.S. I'm waiting for the Brazilians to riot, btw.

I guess, but damn I've never been a fan of bands announcing (and selling tickets) for shows more than a year in advance. I guess that's somewhat par for the course in most of the world, though. It's starting to get that way over here, too.

Yikes, bloody hell! I see a date at the Volkshaus in Zurich for 15 November *2016*, btw. Wtf? Hard to believe they won't do some other (earlier) Spanish dates at least around that already-announced fest, but still... Here's a link for the Zurich date, fwiw (and in German): http://www.allblues.ch/Wilco/1822

Oh no...you're my only hope! (J/k, hope you feel better soon!) Well I don't know who this "LouiieB" is, but he seems awfully cranky. B)Seriously, though, I understand what you mean about not being able to (or interested in) support every charitable thing Jeff/Wilco does. We all have to pick our battles. It'll be interesting to hear (if we ever find out) how long and what Jeff plays.

Maybe ask her to keep a setlist and/or report back?

Just wondering if anyone on here is going to make it to this? I was told that it's sold out, so I guess it's good that 826CHI is getting some $$$ out of it.

Sad news. I always loved the Phil and Quill album on Prestige. Didn't realize he had done the sax solo on Billy Joel's Just The Way You Are (or married Charlie Parker's widow, for that matter). The NYT had a good obit, written by Nate Chinen... RIP, indeed.

Atticus: VIP or prisoner? Haha. Well, in the lengthy annals of Wilco, these two nights at Stubb's might not be remembered with quite as much nostalgia as the band's previous "Evening with" ACL Festival pre-show there in 2013 not to mention a number of other memorable performances over the years, but they were still two more chapters in an enduring relationship the band has had with this venue (and this city). What Stubb's makes up for in comfort and acoustics — there is apparently no other way for the band to get to its dressing room other to cross the stage, for example — it more than make

More details to come, but for now, here was the complete setlist – as played – for the final Wilco show of 2015: More... Random Name Generator The Joke Explained You Satellite Taste The Ceiling Pickled Ginger Where Do I Begin Cold Slope> King Of You Magnetized Handshake Drugs> Art of Almost Via Chicago A Magazine Called Sunset I'm Always In Love Hummingbird Theologians I'm The Man Who Loves You Jesus, etc. Born Alone Passenger Side Airline To Heaven (with William Tyler on electric guitar) Impossible Germany The Late Greats --------------------------------- Let's Not Get Carried Away Ki

Gotta be a benefit, right?

Oh, good lord.

Just for the record, I found out Stubb's has a hard curfew of 10:30 on weeknights. So I was a bit off on my projected set times. Now figure William Tyler 7-7:30, Wilco 8-10:30. Sorry.

Opener is William Tyler; he should play from 7:30-8 and Wilco will probably be on by about 8:20 or so, if I had to guess.

So this was the surprise acoustic in-store performance at the venerable Waterloo Records, and it was cool to hear Jeff reminisce about playing one of Wilco's earliest-ever shows at Waterloo (and naming the exact date: March 18, 1995); about Uncle Tupelo recording Give Back The Key To My Heart with Doug Sahm not far away from where they were standing; and about discovering Daniel Johnston through Waterloo in the early 1990s and buying all of Johnston's cassettes, which Jeff said he still has. All in all, it was a pretty generous and intimate 35-minute performance before about 275 or so who ha