My first time...

[fickerson]

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 almost flew home a day early from a month in south america to go to that show. incidentally, i did not, and my first show was not until almost a year later - summerfest in milwaukee, 7.3.03

[alison the wilca]

a friend of mine loved mermaid ave and influenced me to buy it. california stars really hooked me- i was speechless. a couple months later, i got my hands on a copy of yhf from a friend who got it from someone at columbia records when the record was being shopped around. i was insane about u2 at the time so i didnt really pay TOO much attention to it- i loved yhf but it didnt sink in until i saw them in hob anaheim. 20 bucks! those were the days. you could even still get the front row 10 minutes before they went on. one thing i recall about the show is that i thought jeff tweedy was totally scary. his cigarette was barely hanging onto his lip and i thought he looked mad.

 

Wilco

2002-03-13

House of Blues

Anaheim, CA

 

1. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

2. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

3. War On War

4. She's A Jar

5. Kamera

6. Radio Cure

7. A Shot In The Arm

8. Ashes Of American Flags

9. Jesus, Etc.

10. Heavy Metal Drummer

11. Pot Kettle Black

12. Not For The Season

13. I'm The Man Who Loves You

14. Hesitating Beauty

15. How To Fight Loneliness

16. California Stars

17. Reservations

18. I'm Always In Love

19. Red-Eyed And Blue

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

21. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

22. Misunderstood

[Dr. Steve Brule]

My actual first:

 

Wilco

1999-08-24

Molson Amphitheatre

Toronto, ON, Canada

 

1. California Stars

2. Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)

3. Misunderstood

4. A Shot In The Arm

5. I'm Always In Love

6. Monday

7. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

 

I only had Summerteeth and wasn't really into them.

 

Headlining, this was my first:

 

Wilco

2000-11-16

Barrymore Theater

Madison, WI

 

1. Airline To Heaven

2. Feed Of Man

3. Christ For President

4. Secret Of The Sea

5. Remember The Mountain Bed

6. Hesitating Beauty

7. How To Fight Loneliness

8. Hotel Arizona

9. Reservations

10. I'm Always In Love

11. She's A Jar

12. A Shot In The Arm

13. Misunderstood

14. Red-Eyed And Blue

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

16. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

17. Colon Song

18. California Stars

19. Casino Queen

[froggie]

Headlining, this was my first:

 

Wilco

2000-11-16

Barrymore Theater

Madison, WI

 

 

aww, you missed Kamera by a couple of days, but you got the colon song instead. dont know which is better

[mchchef1]

Brown theater Louisville Ky 7/21/02

first time played Handshake Drugs

 

Singletary center UK Lexington Ky. 4/22/03

2nd ever full band Company in my back (has not ROCKED that hard since)

the only New Madrid I've Heard

 

Alabama theater Birmingham AL. 02/13/05 Meh

 

Palace Theater Louisville Ky. 6/30/05 MMJ back in there home town in the best venue in downtown

Fell in love

since:

Ryman

Knoxville

IU Bloomington

Chapel Hill

Iriquios (louisville)

Ashville

Jeff Solo NCMA

Tall Stacks

next:

Barcelona???

[WilcoFan]

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.

 

They opened with Via Chicago on 11/17/1999. Jay just wailed out on the intro guitar hook. You just knew they were up to no good. They were awesome!

[Edie]

While I had heard Wilco on 'XRT many many times and liked them greatly (as well as UT before them), I had never seen the band live until 2004:

 

Wilco

2004-10-30

Auditorium Theatre

Chicago, IL

 

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

 

However, while I enjoyed the show a lot (and it had many of my future favs, including Pot, Cure, Ashes and Fearful) I did not fully get the power and magnificence until I happened to go to the Jazz Fest in NO the following year and they played the night before at the Palace Theatre. I stood right behind bbop and didn't know it. I think I fell in love with the band somewhere around Hell is Chrome

 

Wilco

2005-04-21

State Palace Theater

New Orleans, LA

 

1. Muzzle Of Bees

2. At Least That's What You Said

3. Hummingbird

4. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

5. Kamera

6. Company In My Back

7. Hell Is Chrome

8. Handshake Drugs

9. A Shot In The Arm

10. Jesus, Etc.

11. War On War

12. Theologians

13. I'm The Man Who Loves You

14. Poor Places

15. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

 

Encore 1:

16. Misunderstood

17. Ashes Of American Flags

18. The Late Greats

19. I'm A Wheel

20. Kingpin

 

Encore 2:

21. Monday

22. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

23. Passenger Side

24. Something In The Air

 

If someone somewhere knows where I might get a copy of this show, I would be forever grateful

[Analogman]

Look on Etree/dime a dozen/bootcity - there are several Wilco shows there.

[jhc]

First heard them in SF when KFOG played Monday. Bought Being There and AM shortly afterwards, then saw this show for my first time:

 

1997-05-09 Wilco The Fillmore San Francisco, CA

1. Misunderstood

2. Far, Far Away

3. Forget The Flowers

4. That's Not The Issue

5. Someday Soon

6. New Madrid

7. The Lonely 1

8. Red-Eyed And Blue

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

10. Someone Else's Song

11. I Must Be High

12. Passenger Side

13. Hotel Arizona

14. Monday

15. Kingpin

16. Outta Mind (Outta Sight)

17. Sunken Treasure

18. Casino Queen

19. We've Been Had

20. Casino Queen

21. Dueling Banjos

22. I Wanna Be Sedated

23. Color Me Impressed

24. Box Full Of Letters

25. The Long Cut

26. Immigrant Song

 

I saw another from the Being There tour, one with two Passenger Sides but I forget that date. I wasn't really sure what to make of Summerteeth when it first came out - thought it was way overproduced, and aside from Jeff & Jay at the Mountain Aire Festval, I didn't see them again until I moved to Chicago and say them for free in Grant Park.

[Iglesia]

My first was 11/22/1999 Vogue Theatre Indianapolis, IN--last time Wilco played Give back the Key to My Heart and True love will find you in the End, and I don't even remeber them. I was hooked after this barnyard stompin' show. High, High energy.

 

 

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. Misunderstood

14. My Darling

15. Hesitating Beauty

16. Christ For President

17. Passenger Side

18. Can't Stand It

19. Give Back The Key To My Heart

20. Forget The Flowers

21. New Madrid

22. California Stars

23. Casino Queen

24. True Love Will Find You In the End

25. Outta Mind (Outta Sight)

26. Kingpin

27. Hoodoo Voodoo

28. Immigrant Song

[Edie]

Look on Etree/dime a dozen/bootcity - there are several Wilco shows there.

 

I was born in the morning but not yesterday morning.

 

I have looked on eTree -- bldad does not have this one either (at least last time I asked). If you can find it I'll..... something.

[Nonlinear Nonfiction]

Edie - don't know about a recording of the show but I just noticed that the Nuci auction features an autographed poster from that show!

 

Nuci auction for Wilco poster (New Orleans, April 21, 2005)

[So Long]

My girlfriend got me into Wilco with "How to Fight Lonliness". Since then, I've seen Wilco twice (and counting). Brown University in Providence, RI4/20/06, and Pines Theater in Florence, MA 7/16/06. Front row, center for both, got Jeff's set list and pick in the last.

[oceanman]

I swear it was 8-3-95,but can't find a setlist?

[yankhotelfox]

Pines Theater in Florence, MA 7/16/06. Front row, center for both, got Jeff's set list and pick in the last.

 

 

My first show was 8-6-04, Portland, ME. I had a chance to go 6-24-03 but ended up being out of town. They were supposed to open for Sonic Youth, who didn't show up, so they played a much longer set than anticipated. I was also at the Pines Theater this July.....very good show. Nels was great.

 

2004-08-06 Wilco State Theatre Portland, ME

1. At Least That's What You Said

2. Company In My Back

3. Muzzle Of Bees

4. Hummingbird

5. Jesus, Etc.

6. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

7. A Shot In The Arm

8. Ashes Of American Flags

9. War On War

10. I'm The Man Who Loves You

11. Theologians

12. Handshake Drugs

13. California Stars

14. Poor Places

15. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

 

Encore 1:

16. The Late Greats

17. I'm A Wheel

18. I'm Always In Love

 

Encore 2:

19. Hell Is Chrome

20. Via Chicago

21. The Lonely 1