My first time...

[Nonlinear Nonfiction]

Saturday, August 21, 1999

Midway Stadium, St. Paul, MN

 

No setlist available

 

The first time I saw Wilco in concert was their Summerteeth tour. They opened for REM at the minor league ballpark where the St. Paul Saints play. Thankfully my older brother forced me to go early and get close so that Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett, John Stirratt and Leroy Bach could turn my world upside down. Wilco rocked, then REM came out and the rain fell. My brother and I dried off in one of the dugouts and discussed our new love for Wilco. August 21, 1999 was the beginning of my addiction to Wilco.

 

When did it start for you?

[Analogman]

I bought AM not long after it came out - I think. I did not get to see them for the first time until:

 

Band/Artist: Wilco

Date: 06/21/03

Venue: Point State Park

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Opening band:

Notes: Three Rivers Arts Festival

 

1. Ashes Of American Flags

2. Muzzle Of Bees

3. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

4. Kamera

5. War On War

6. At Least That's What You Said

7. How To Fight Loneliness

8. Via Chicago

9. Jesus, Etc.

10. Heavy Metal Drummer

11. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

12. Pot Kettle Black

13. I'm The Man Who Loves You

14. Poor Places

15. Reservations

Encore 1:

16. One By One

17. Forget The Flowers

18. California Stars

Encore 2:

19. Misunderstood

20. Red-Eyed And Blue

21. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

22. Kicking Television

23. Casino Queen

24. Outta Mind (Outta Sight)

[froggie]

became a fanb when Mermaid avenue came out (thanks to california stars on the radio)... heh, it was promoted as billy bragg's new album, with wilco as his back up band (and what song was flogged on the radio?... why, a tweedy one!)

 

the one and only show i;ve seen was

 

2003-01-26 Wilco The Palace Melbourne, Australia

1. Poor Places

2. Sunken Treasure

3. Less Than You Think

4. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

5. War On War

6. Kamera

7. Pot Kettle Black

8. She's A Jar

9. A Shot In The Arm

10. Jesus, Etc.

11. Heavy Metal Drummer

12. How To Fight Loneliness

13. Not For The Season

14. I'm The Man Who Loves You

15. Red-Eyed And Blue

16. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

17. Airline To Heaven

18. Hesitating Beauty

19. When The Roses Bloom Again

20. California Stars

21. New Madrid

22. We've Been Had

23. Passenger Side

24. Misunderstood

25. The Lonely 1

26. Monday

27. Casino Queen

28. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

[loldoctor]

For me I started getting into that whole "indie" / Pitchfork Media scene--listening to Modest Mouse, Postal Service (before they became super-popular and when I thought they were indie), Nick Drake, The Shins, etc. All those bands that are psuedo-popular now but never played on the radio.

 

Anyway, I had always heard 'Man you've got to listen to Wilco they're the best!' but I never gave them a shot until one day I took YHF off my brother's computer and put it on my iPod so I could listen to it on the way to school.

 

I listened to it every day for at least a month, then I moved on to A Ghost is Born, then Summerteeth and Being There. Finally I bought Kicking Television and it was done--I was in love with Wilco, both as a listener and as an amateur songwriter who could enjoy Tweedy's extremely simple yet complicated melodies and song structures, his amazing lyrics, and his insistence that it's all fake and he isn't actually a poet.

 

My first and only concert was just a few weeks ago--Tweedy alone in Champaign, IL. It was a great performance, had me reeling for the next week and unable to write music (I can usually chug out around 1-3 songs a week just for fiddling with, maybe 1 in 10 actually being good). It was a great concert and changed my life (not hugely, only in the area of music). I'm going to see Wilco on the 25th live in Chicago so that should be amazing beyond all measure. Super-pumped for it.

 

A great band with great music--Jeff Tweedy is one of the few true musicians of our musical era. I don't care what you say, Jeff, there's some kind of treasure rumored to be locked inside that chest of yours--even if it isn't sunken.

 

Here's the setlist:

 

Foellinger Auditorium

U of I

10/27/06

 

Spiders

IATTBYH

Cars Can't Escape

Instrumental

Sunken Treasure

Was I in your dreams

Lullaby for Rafters and Dreams (I think)

The Ruling Class

Radio King

*new song ?? (Be Patient with Me?)

Summerteeth

Gun

Theologians

I am the Man who Loves You

 

Bob Dylan's Beard

What light

In a Future Age

Wishful Thinking

Walken

Is that the Thanks I get

 

(yeah, that's right--he played a brand new song!)

[deepseacatfish]

My dad read an article about Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in the Star Tribune when it first came out and told me that I should get the album because I would like it since the article made comparisons to Radiohead, the only other contemporary band I liked at the time. I bought the album and loved it.

 

I've seen Wilco once, Tweedy once. Both times were great:

 

Auditorium Theater: October 30th, 2004

1. Hummingbird

2. At Least That's What You Said

3. Radio Cure

4. Muzzle Of Bees

5. Company In My Back

6. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

7. Pot Kettle Black

8. A Shot In The Arm

9. Jesus, Etc.

10. Handshake Drugs

11. Heavy Metal Drummer

12. Theologians

13. I'm The Man Who Loves You

14. Poor Places

15. Reservations

16. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

 

Encore 1:

17. War On War

18. In A Future Age

19. Kingpin

20. The Late Greats

21. I'm A Wheel

 

Encore 2:

22. Another Man's Done Gone

23. Ashes Of American Flags

24. Passenger Side

25. Be Not So Fearful

 

University of Iowa: February 19th, 2006

1. Sunken Treasure

2. She's A Jar

3. Blasting Fonda

4. Pieholden Suite

5. Please Tell My Brother

6. Black Eye

7. One By One

8. Bob Dylan's 49th Beard

9. Muzzle Of Bees

10. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

11. Summer Teeth

12. (Was I) In Your Dreams

13. The Ruling Class

14. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

15. Forget The Flowers

16. Airline To Heaven

17. Theologians

18. new song (Is That The Thanks I Get?)

 

Encore 1:

19. Not For The Season (with Glenn on drums)

20. The Late Greats (with Glenn on drums)

21. War On War (with Glenn on drums)

22. Far, Far Away (with Glenn on drums)

23. Heavy Metal Drummer (with Glenn on drums)

24. A Shot In The Arm (with Glenn on drums)

25. I'm The Man Who Loves You

26. Acuff-Rose

[tapmyglass]

Wilco has been a part of mylife as long as I can remember, myparents loved them and would play them on car trips, my early memories involve remembering them only as the band who played the same song twice on one album (outtasite outtamind) then when YHF came out, I was at the right age to actually apreciate music on my own and it blew me away. The first time I saw them was in 04 right after they added Nels, Mike and pat. I've seen wilco three times and tweedy twice, but that first show was my favorite

 

Wilco

2004-10-26

The Orpheum Theatre

Minneapolis, MN

 

1. Poor Places

2. At Least That's What You Said

3. Muzzle Of Bees

4. Hell Is Chrome

5. Hummingbird

6. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

7. I'm Always In Love

8. Handshake Drugs

9. A Shot In The Arm

10. Radio Cure

11. War On War

12. Jesus, Etc.

13. Theologians

14. I'm The Man Who Loves You

15. Less Than You Think

16. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (maybe the most important ten minutes of my musical life)

 

Encore 1:

17. A Magazine Called Sunset

18. The Late Greats

19. Kingpin

20. I'm A Wheel

 

Encore 2:

21. Heavy Metal Drummer

22. California Stars

23. Be Not So Fearful (amazing)

[aricandover]

1995-06-07 Graffiti Pittsburgh, PA

 

no setlist for this show, and all I really remember from it was the "Listen to Her Heart" cover. I didn't dig it at all. I saw a Golden Smog show at the same club in 1996, and that's when things turned around for me. unfortunately, Wilco didn't come back to Pittsburgh (propper) til this show:

 

1999-11-08 Metropol

 

1. Via Chicago

2. Candyfloss

3. Summer Teeth

4. I'm Always In Love

5. I Must Be High

6. How To Fight Loneliness

7. Hotel Arizona

8. Red-Eyed And Blue

9. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

10. Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)

11. She's A Jar

12. A Shot In The Arm

13. We're Just Friends

14. Misunderstood

15. My Darling

16. Hesitating Beauty

17. Christ For President

18. Passenger Side

19. Can't Stand It

20. Forget The Flowers

21. New Madrid

22. California Stars

23. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

 

this was a fun show, but it it had a strange vibe to it, with Jeff being overly antagonistic with certain audience members as well as the guy running the lights.

[JSpill]

I heard Casino Queen on the radio (WRAX Birmingham, AL) back in 1995 or 96, I guess it was. I really liked the song, so I got AM. I liked it alright at the time but it didn't make that huge an impression on me. I had discovered another band that really hooked me...Son Volt. I spent the next several years being a Son Volt fan and, while I knew who Wilco was, I didn't pursue their records or anything. Then, at some point, I worked backwards and found Uncle Tupelo. I didn't realize that Jay Farrar had been in a band wit that guy from Wilco. I remembered that I had kind of liked Wilco in the AM era, so I thought I would try something else from them. This was about the time that YHF came out, so I got it and I was blown away. It sounded nothing like the Wilco that I knew from AM and nothing like the Tweedy stuff from UT. I rounded out the collection and finally, on Oct. 9, 2006, I saw them live in Huntsville, AL. I have come to appreciate them in so many different ways. They are lyrically and musically superior to so much of the garbage that's passed off as music these days. I am so glad that I discovered and rediscovered them. Farrar and Tweedy are truly the Lennon and McCartney of our time and it's sad that neither of them gets the accolades he deserves.

[Preferred B]

The first time I heard Wilco was sometime around Being There coming out, but the first time I saw them was:

 

7/31/02

Orpheum Theatre

Madison, WI

 

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

War On War

Kamera

Radio Cure

A Shot In The Arm

Pick Up The Change

Via Chicago

Sunken Treasure

She's A Jar

Ashes Of American Flags

Pot Kettle Black

Jesus, etc.

Heavy Metal Drummer

I'm The Man Who Loves You

Not For The Season

Reservations

 

Encore 1:

Bob Dylan's Beard

California Stars

I'm Always In Love

Misunderstood

Far Far Away

 

Encore 2:

I'm A Wheel

Red-eyed And Blue

I Got You

Outtasite (Outtamind)

 

I liked my first show a lot, but I wasn't absolutely blown away. I next saw Jeff (and the rest of the band) at the Vic on 1/9/03, and I most certainly was absolutely blown away.

[ansheld]

I found Wilco on Napster back in early 2000, when it was free and everyone was stealing music. Although, my first Wilco experience was from uncopyrighted material: I downloaded a Jeff solo acoustic version of "I'm Always in Love" (which I later identified as an Abbey Pub bootleg). Still love that version. I bought Being There a few months later and went on from there.

 

My first Wilco live experience was 3-8-2001, Jeff solo at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Of course, this was a great show, documented in the Wilco Movie:

 

1. Not For The Season

2. Sunken Treasure

3. A Shot In The Arm

4. Hesitating Beauty

5. Remember The Mountain Bed

6. How To Fight Loneliness

7. I'm Always In Love

8. Pick Up The Change

9. Heavy Metal Drummer

10. Wait Up

11. New Madrid

12. She's A Jar

13. Ashes Of American Flags

14. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

15. I'm The Man Who Loves You

16. Passenger Side

17. Please Tell My Brother

18. Should've Been In Love

19. Acuff-Rose

20. California Stars

 

I've been to 11 shows since.

[summertweedy]

my friend insisted i listen to summerteeth based on the other music i liked...that was in 2000, and i was hooked. first time seeing them live was QUITE the experience...new year's eve!!!

 

1. Less Than You Think

2. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

3. Hummingbird

4. Handshake Drugs

5. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

6. A Shot In The Arm

7. At Least That's What You Said

8. Jesus, Etc.

9. Theologians

10. Poor Places

11. Auld Lang Syne

12. Happy Birthday (to Glenn Kotche)

13. Livin' After Midnight

14. Love Will Keep Us Together

15. Political Science

16. I Shall Be Released

17. Something In The Air

18. Heavy Metal Drummer

19. Kingpin

20. I'm The Man Who Loves You

21. The Late Greats

22. I'm A Wheel

23. (Don't Fear) The Reaper

24. Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy

25. Comment (If All Men Are Truly Brothers)

 

i also met monica lewinsky that night, who was sitting in front of us. i wished her a happy new year and then some dude in her row was trying to get by her with a tray of beer which he tripped and doused her with. i hate to say it, but it was kinda funny.

[SarahC]

I first saw Wilco live last year, though I have been a fan since 2000 when my awesome teacher let me borrow all his Uncle Tupelo, Wilco and Son Volt records. The show was at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, NC on 10/14/05, and not only was the set list comprised of almost EVERY song I had hoped to hear(even Magazine Called Sunset), but Jeff also said hi to me on stage. I fell over backwards in shock.

 

Also, thanks to some wonderful folks, I got to go backstage and meet the band. Nels even gave me guitar pick

 

Here's the set list:

Wilco

2005-10-14

Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

Asheville, NC

 

1. Misunderstood

2. Hell Is Chrome

3. Handshake Drugs

4. Muzzle Of Bees

5. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

6. Company In My Back

7. A Shot In The Arm

8. At Least That's What You Said

9. War On War

10. Via Chicago

11. Jesus, Etc.

12. Hummingbird

13. Walken

14. I'm The Man Who Loves You

15. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

 

Encore 1:

16. She's A Jar

17. One By One

18. The Late Greats

19. Kingpin

 

Encore 2:

20. A Magazine Called Sunset

21. I'm A Wheel

22. Monday

23. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

24. Something In The Air

[muller]

First show was in June 2004 at the Birmingham Bar Academy. Really small room, maybe 600 people max. Met Pat, John and Nels after the show too. Which was nice.

 

Setlist:

 

Wilco

2004-06-22

Academy

Birmingham, England

 

1. Company In My Back

2. Hummingbird

3. Ashes Of American Flags

4. At Least That's What You Said

5. Hell Is Chrome

6. Handshake Drugs

7. Muzzle Of Bees

8. One By One

9. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

10. War On War

11. A Shot In The Arm

12. Jesus, Etc.

13. Theologians

14. The Late Greats

15. I'm The Man Who Loves You

16. I'm A Wheel

 

Encore 1:

17. Sunken Treasure

18. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

 

The band was also to have played I'm Always In Love, California Stars and Dash 7 except for the venue putting up the house lights at curfew time.

[LouieB]

Bought AM, saw the second night of the Being there tour at Lounge Ax....

 

LouieB

[WilcoFan]

My buddy lent me Summerteeth. I fell in love with after about 6 notes. My first show was

 

1999-11-17 - Recher Theatre, Towson, MD

 

No setlist found on WilcoBase but I can tell you that they rocked. I was at that concert formally a huge Wilco fan. Jay Bennett played awesome and the band was wild. I think the Old 97's opened for them. I became a fan of theirs too that night.

[SarahC]

My buddy lent me Summerteeth. I fell in love with after about 6 notes. My first show was

 

1999-11-17 - Recher Theatre, Towson, MD

 

No setlist found on WilcoBase but I can tell you that they rocked. I was at that concert formally a huge Wilco fan. Jay Bennett played awesome and the band was wild. I think the Old 97's opened for them. I became a fan of theirs too that night.

 

And God what I would give to see a show on that tour!

 

Rhett said that one night Jay Bennett kept talking to him (drunk off his ass) and saying how his sister is a huge 97's fan, and how "Jagged" is the song of the year and on and on and on...

[chisoxjtrain]

my first wilco concert was august 12, 2000 at chicago's rock the river. i was a ripe old age of 12 and i did not want to go. my dad basically dragged me to see them, and ever since that night, i was hooked. about 5 1/2 years later, at the living room concert in barrington, my dad talked to jeff tweedy on my cell phone, telling him how he had to drag me to see them. thanks dad.

 

2000-08-12

Wilco

Chicago Tribune - Rock The River Chicago, IL

 

1. Airline To Heaven

2. Feed Of Man

3. Christ For President

4. California Stars

5. Secret Of The Sea

6. Remember The Mountain Bed

7. Red-Eyed And Blue

8. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

9. Someone Else's Song

10. How To Fight Loneliness

11. Hotel Arizona

12. I'm Always In Love

13. She's A Jar

14. A Shot In The Arm

15. Misunderstood

16. I'm The Man Who Loves You

17. Casino Queen

18. Hoodoo Voodoo

19. Outta Mind (Outta Sight)

[Mr. Heartbreak]

1999-08-31

Jannus Landing

[thejokeexplained]

Saturday, August 21, 1999

Midway Stadium, St. Paul, MN

 

August 21, 1999 was the beginning of my addiction to Wilco.

 

When did it start for you?

 

 

I got you by a week! i stumbled into the Gypsy Tea Room right after i got into taping and Wilco happen to be the band playing that night. I was just there to practice my new found hobby. I had never hear one tune by the band until the first notes of their opening tune "I'm Always in Love" were played that night.

 

Jeff was a bit pissed off at their gear and sound as a few times during the gig the band pauses trying to get things worked out and bitch.

 

It was one of the only times in my life after hearing a band play live before any other exposure or heads up has cause me to collect their back catalogue the next week.

 

August 14 1999

Gypsy Tea Room

Dallas, Tx

 

1.

[Sir Stewart]

My buddy lent me Summerteeth. I fell in love with after about 6 notes.

 

my friend insisted i listen to summerteeth based on the other music i liked...

 

Same here.

My first two shows:

April 23, 1999 - Boston

1. I'm Always In Love

2. Via Chicago

3. How To Fight Loneliness

4. Hotel Arizona

5. Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)

6. Red-Eyed And Blue

7. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

8. My Darling

9. She's A Jar

10. A Shot In The Arm

11. We're Just Friends

12. Hesitating Beauty

13. Christ For President

14. Passenger Side

15. Can't Stand It

16. Monday

17. In A Future Age

 

Encore 1:

18. Summer Teeth

19. When You Wake Up Feeling Old

20. New Madrid

21. Forget The Flowers

22. California Stars

 

Encore 2:

23. ELT

24. Casino Queen

25. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

26. Hoodoo Voodoo

 

My second show, November 11, 1999, has the exact same setlist at wilcobase, but I know it was different...one of those shows they opened with Via Chicago, I swear.

[Atticus]

2002-09-26

Wilco

Gypsy Tea Room

Dallas, TX

 

1. Misunderstood

2. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

3. War On War

4. Kamera

5. A Shot In The Arm

6. Sunken Treasure

7. Jesus, Etc.

8. Heavy Metal Drummer

9. I'm The Man Who Loves You

10. Red-Eyed And Blue

11. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

12. I'm Always In Love

13. Ashes Of American Flags

14. Reservations

15. Hesitating Beauty

16. California Stars

17. We've Been Had

18. Monday

19. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

20. Casino Queen

21. Immigrant Song

22. Casino Queen

[froggie]

The band was also to have played I'm Always In Love, California Stars and Dash 7 except for the venue putting up the house lights at curfew time.

 

 

dash 7 with the band!

[Lammycat]

8-28-97, Red Rocks

A very good friend (whom I had known for only 2 years at the time) was good friends with their stage manager, John Parker ("JP"). Wilco was opening for Sheryl Crow and he gave us a couple of all-access/backstage passes. We got to hang on the stage and down in the bowels of backstage Red Rocks, which was a treat in itself. I had heard a bit about the band at the time but the show solidified the life-long love for what they do....

 

 

1. Misunderstood

2. Red-Eyed And Blue

3. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

4. Someone Else's Song

5. Forget The Flowers

6. That's Not The Issue

7. Someday Soon

8. New Madrid

9. Why Would You Wanna Live

10. I Must Be High

11. Passenger Side

12. Hotel Arizona

13. Kingpin

14. Outta Mind (Outta Sight)

15. Box Full Of Letters

16. Casino Queen

[Preferred B]

Randomly: the acoustics at Red Rocks are such that from the women's bathroom, you can hear things (at least, last-minute soundcheck type things) going in the bowels of backstage. Ah, Red Rocks.

[Dreamin']

2000-07-26

The Fabulous Commodore Ballroom

Vancouver, BC

 

Unfortunately, no setlist or recording has surfaced. Some idiot in the audience tried to grab Jeff from the edge of the stage during "Misunderstood", so Jeff thanked him "for nothin' at all" by kicking him in the solar plexus. Me = I think they opened with "Airline to Heaven" and I definitely remember the "Immigrant Song" during the encore. I also remember a fun little jam that morphed into "Woman From Tokyo" and/or "Hot Blooded."

 

Awesome show!