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Fwiw, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists did a cool cover of one of their songs a few years back --

Geez, that's some really bad luck! Glad to hear that everyone walked away without any serious injuries...

Really missed seeing everyone, but it sounds like it was a splendid evening. Say You Miss Me sounded great on the radio, so whoever was responsible for that inclusion on the setlist...thanks. Too bad about Red-Eyed/I Got You and especially Dreamer, but after all, there were fireworks to set off! And speaking of, were they Wilco-themed, as I thought was supposed to be the case? And if so, what made them so? I kept picturing, like, each of the band members' faces emerging in colored lights or various Wilco "logos" or something... Re: Bird's "new" bass player, his name is Alan Hampton and i

Why is that hard to believe?

Yeah, that sucks. Typical corporate radio. Perhaps I'm ignorant, but what difference does it make to just open up the feed to all regardless of location?

Sam, I like that you've become an expert Twitter user! ;-)

I figured they must have cut a decent chunk of the second encore, almost certainly due to time reasons. Seemed a little abrupt just to do Dreamer and then be done. I'll bet the Adler had an 11 p.m. curfew. As far as some of the banter I alluded to earlier, as usual Jeff had a few choice, er, "sound bites." The first came after Country Disappeared when a couple of (I think) women in the front row were talking a little bit too loudly during that relatively quiet number, to the point where you could actually see Jeff get distracted mid-song. Jeff called them out afterward, semi-jokingly telling

For anyone interested in the opening set by Kelly Hogan and her band, here's what they played: We Can't Have Nice Things [Jack Pendarvis/Andrew Bird] I Like To Keep Myself In Pain [Robyn Hitchcock] Daddy's Little Girl [M. Ward] Sleeper Awake [John Wesley Harding] Plant White Roses [The Magnetic Fields] No True Love [The Dixie Cups] Ways Of This World [Vic Chesnutt] Golden Haunted [Jon Langford] Sing Your Tune [Chris Scruggs] It was a little surprising and disappointing, to me anyway, that we didn't get some sort of Wilco/Hogan collaboration on Open Mind (which she has been performing live

Thankfully there were no apparent fights at the Adler this time around, unlike the show there five years ago when some fisticuffs on Nels' side of the stage cast a little bit of a dark cloud over the gig. Wilco's 2012 performance, it can be said, proved to be just a solid all-around show, one that even featured a couple of songs from Wilco (The Album) (!)...so I guess we can let the recent discussion of the band not playing anything off that record go for now. Jeff had some choice banter during the show that I'm too tired to detail now, but will mention later if someone else doesn't do it f

Didn't necessarily start off that way, but what a wacky, awesome setlist for tonight's show! If I'm not mistaken, this was the first indoor show in a little while so I'm not sure if that had anything to do with the rarities. Or perhaps it had more to do with the fact that the band seems to play Rochester relatively frequently and, as Jeff said, was trying to play some songs it hadn't done here before. Jeff asked the crowd midway through the main set, "Do we come here more than any other band?" Someone yelled out, "Bob Dylan." To which Jeff replied, "Well, we're probably at least in the top

Really? I never knew that Tom Skilling and "LouieB" were one and the same!

An absolutely gorgeous night for an early evening rock show in far-off — well, for me — Duluth. I clocked the show at just over two hours (2:04, to be exact). Of note...Jeff had some funny banter about a fence separating the front section from the rest of the crowd. It was called a "VIP section" in the front, but it really was just people who had bought reserved seats as opposed to, I guess, the GA lawn. The reserved seats hardly mattered anyway, as people just filled the front section up to the rail as if it were a GA show. No one seemed to mind. What else? I'm sure there will be ample Yo

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