bböp

You were indeed dreaming. Hope they were pleasant ones...:-)

Looks like this show is official now. It's on the Wilcoworld shows page, with tickets allegedly on sale Friday at noon EDT. It appears that there will be no presale. Wonder why they waited so long to formally announce it. Perhaps to get the Brooklyn shows close to a sellout first? I know a lot of people hate T5, but I guess it's OK if you're fairly close to the front...

Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that the two were mutually exclusive but I think I was still under the influence of the contact high I got Friday night (cough, cough)... But seriously, though, l was merely judging by the number of puffs I was offered last night (none) versus the night before (three)... But seriously, though, I make no judgements about whatever people do at shows, whether it's toking up; jumping around like a jackass; or being in the front row and taking pictures of themselves and their friends with their backs to the stage during songs. Whatever you gotta do to enjoy the sh

The second night is always better? I guess what a certain someone told me once is true...at least in this case, IMHO. Just seemed like the overall sound mix was much improved, the band's energy was a little better and the crowd in general had (slightly) fewer pot smokers and (somewhat) more "true" fans. At least from my admittedly limited vantage point, and even though a decent portion of the crowd was probably also there on Night 1. Anyway, I clocked last night's show at 2 hours, 16 minutes, give or take a minute or two. As far as variations off the printed setlist, the band audibled ou

They opened up at about 6:30 last night.

Here was the complete setlist, as played, for Night 1 at Red Rocks: One Sunday Morning> Poor Places> Art Of Almost I Might Side With The Seeds Spiders (Kidsmoke) (acoustic arrangement) Impossible Germany Born Alone Open Mind Handshake Drugs Whole Love I Must Be High I'm Always In Love Heavy Metal Drummer> I'm The Man Who Loves You Dawned On Me A Shot in the Arm -------------------------------- Via Chicago Remember The Mountain Bed California Stars (w/Punch Brothers on mandolin, fiddle, acoustic guitar, banjo and upright bass and taking all solos) -------------------------------- The

I'm sure somebody would point this out if I didn't—and I'm not trying to be a jackass here—but if we're going to have an Official John Stirratt Appreciation thread, we should probably make sure to spell his name right. So once and for all...two Rs and two Ts! I remember at one of the Tipitina's shows back in '08 in that were filmed for the Ashes DVD, some guys had yellow T-shirts made that said "John Stirot's Fan Club" or something like that. Maybe they had signs, too. But during the show, one of them held a sign or shirt up and Jeff kindly pointed out that if they really wanted to form a f

Some cool pictures -- especially a good one of Jody Stephens -- though I don't think I see any Wilco members in them. But anyway...it looks like it was a cool venue. I didn't realize that Primavera happened at both outdoor and indoor venues.

From another YouTube video, here's the list of everyone on stage for TYF: Jody Stephens, Chris Stamey, Ken Stringfellow, Jon Auer, Charles Cleaver, Mitch Easter, Mike Mills, Norman Blake, Django Haskins, Jeff Tweedy, Pat Sansone, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Alexis Taylor, Skylar Gudasz, Sharon Van Etten, Brett Harris, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley.

Always great to hear Thank You Friends! I recognize most, but not all, of the people who take a turn on vocals. Jeff, John and Pat, obviously, as well as Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer of the Posies/Big Star. Then there's Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo and Sharon Van Etten (I think). Who else?

Coincidentally, Mr. Richman is playing a free show here in Chicago tomorrow night! I doubt he'll be sporting that jumper, however. Unfortunately.

Seems like this has been a particularly active trip to Barcelona for the band, between their own set at Primavera and yesterday's in-store set. And here's video of Jeff's guest vocals on "Blue Moon" from the Big Star Third performance:

Interesting article by Mr. Prophet in the Independent (UK), naming the members of his "fantasy band." His comment on Jerry Garcia is pretty funny... http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/my-fantasy-band-chuck-prophet-7545926.html

Very cool that Chuck drew a good-sized crowd! It's always kind of mind-boggling to me that guys like him and Steve Wynn—and countless others I can't think of right now—aren't better known and don't get more publicity and/or better bookings. Not saying anything about Cafe Nine, which I haven't been to, but whenever Chuck is in the Chicago area, for instance, it seems like he always plays FitzGerald's or SPACE, which technically aren't even in the city. Why isn't he playing at Schuba's or Lincoln Hall or Old Town or Park West, I wonder? Maybe it's his choice, I don't know, but it seems to me a r

According to Wilcoworld, the Jackson poster was designed by Justin Shultz. If you Google that name (and poster), you come up with a site for a Justin Shultz Design. I have no idea if it's the same guy, but I suppose you could try contacting him via the info on that site and maybe you'll be able to track that poster down. Otherwise, I guess check eBay? Good luck!

If I'm not mistaken, it was 9/19/06 at the Vic in Chicago. I wasn't there, unfortunately, but I know it was the last date of a brief tour supporting the "Another Fine Day" record. I saw the New York show on that run, but I think Jeff only sat in for the Chicago date. Here's the VC thread about that show.

A beautiful evening on the banks of the Mississippi to close out this brief run of shows. After what I thought was a relatively subdued start, the band really picked it up toward the end of the main set and finished with a very fun second encore, complete with guest appearances... Here was the complete setlist, as played: Via Chicago> Art Of Almost I Might War On War She's A Jar Handshake Drugs Spiders (Kidsmoke) (acoustic arrangement) Impossible Germany Born Alone Laminated Cat (a/k/a Not For The Season) (electric arrangement) Standing O Jesus, etc. Whole Love Too Far Apart I'm Alway

Some more comments when I get a chance, but definitely some nice changeups in the set tonight as compared with the rest of the tour so far. I mean, Laminated Cat/Not For The Season and acoustic Spiders is always great for me personally, but it's nice to get some relative curveballs every once in a while and they definitely came tonight, starting with a very early A Shot in the Arm. More to come, but for now, the complete setlist as played: One Sunday Morning> Poor Places> Art Of Almost I Might A Shot in the Arm Side With The Seeds Country Disappeared War On War Impossible Germany Bor

I can confirm the above setlist, though the quotations interspersed makes it a little tough to follow, IMHO. But at least it's accurate, as far as the songs played and the order. They audibled out of I Must Be High at the start of the first encore, and added Walken. Those were the only differences from the printed list...

Oh, it's the real thing.

Apparently this was the first time Wilco has played in Jackson, which I guess is mildly surprising in that they've probably played just about every other city of that size in the South at least once by now. That, and the fact that one of the band members—Mr. Sansone—is from just down the road (and proudly displayed that by sporting a t-shirt from the Music Emporium, a longtime record store in Meridian, Miss., that closed in 2010 ). The fact that the venue was a seated civic auditorium-type of place with a covered orchestra pit that separated band from audience by at least 20 feet didn't nec

Yeah, it was definitely Laminated Cat (and not Not For The Season)! But anyway, it was particularly good last night, I thought. It seems to be getting better and better as they play it more, so hopefully it continues to be a mainstay on setlists for a while. After that song last night, Jeff did his usual mid-set check-in with the crowd to ask whether they were still having a good time. "Good," he said, "because I bet a lot of people didn't have a good time here." The unique setting gave Jeff some other fodder throughout the show. Anyone who's seen a concert at Sloss knows that a train ofte

Well, that was something. You can tell how much the band enjoys playing at this unique venue, and it showed in their 2-hour, 21-minute performance tonight. It started off pretty intense, from my vantage point, and then got progressively goofier as the show went on, culminating in Kingpin (which, c'mon, might be one of the silliest songs ever as it is...and that's before the various shenanigans that often go on when it's played) before coming to a great, rocking conclusion. I'm sure plenty of folks — myself included — will be able to add more details so for now, let me just post the complete

Yeah, exactly. You don't want to give it, but then someone asks and so you're almost obliged. I will not be giving any Wilco H&P reports, rest assured...

Nice Facebook detective work!