Jump to content

2/24 Shubert Theater - New Haven, CT


Recommended Posts

Great night. While I do not have an exact setlist some highlights included: Pick up the Change, You are my Face, Radio Cure, Hotel Arizona, Misunderstood, Red Eyed>I Got You, Monday, Outtasight. I made a recording tonight, but was excited to be up close (4th row) made a beginner mistake and missed the first couple songs - ouch. Obviously still in recovery from the Riv run.

 

Cool little theater - just under 1600 seats. The sound system (Meyer) was small but was tuned perfectly by Stan and sounded great.

Link to post
Share on other sites

many highlights

 

Impossible Germany was great -

so was On And On And On

 

so was just about everything

 

crowd was so stoked, they cheered the line

 

"When all you touch turns to lead" during Misunderstood, which Jeff commented on later - charming

 

the band is on fire

Link to post
Share on other sites

set list was tremendous, pat left with the band during the encore break, and they band returned minus pat to play hate it here, and 30 secs or so into the song tweedy goes "were missing someone" and it was a running joke during the song, cause nobody could find him i guess?? im hoping someone will provide answers!!!

Link to post
Share on other sites
Great night. While I do not have an exact setlist some highlights included: Pick up the Change, You are my Face, Radio Cure, Hotel Arizona, Misunderstood, Red Eyed>I Got You, Monday, Outtasight.

 

 

Here ya go, buddy:

 

Remember the Mountain Bed

California Stars

Company In My Back

Pot Kettle Black

A Shot in the Arm

Radio Cure

You Are My Face

Side With The Seeds

Pick Up The Change :wub

Hotel Arizona

I'm Always in Love

Impossible Germany

Jesus, etc.

Misunderstood

Airline To Heaven

Theologians

Walken

I'm The Man Who Loves You

On and On and On

----------------------

Hate It Here

Heavy Metal Drummer

Red-Eyed and Blue>

I Got You (At The End of the Century)

Monday>

Outtasite (Outta Mind)

 

Funniest part of the show, easily, was when they came back on for the encore and launched into Hate It Here. Before too long Jeff realized that they were sans Pat. Somehow Pat just never made it back on stage, but they continued playing the song and looking at each other quizzically. Finally, about two-thirds of the way through (coincidentally, right after his "I check the phone" cue), Pat returned to a big ovation. Haha. :lol

 

Also happened to notice, from a setlist that a girl was holding, that Casino Queen was slated to be the closer. But they were running very short on time, so Outtasite made more sense at that point.

 

A solid, workmanlike show, though it seemed like the crowd energy was a little muted tonight -- at least on the floor (except for the guy next to me who was rocking out so intently that he dropped his cell phone, which smashed into several pieces). Most people stood up for most of the show, so I don't know if it was just the room or what, but it seemed like there was never that huge roar. Or at least few of them.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Seeing Mountainbed 2 nights in a row makes me think of the 6/8/04 show when someone shouts out for it & Jeff goes, "I just got out of the hospital, man, I'm not playing Mountainbed....lot of words" (or something close)

 

Thanks for keeping the Residency going through your little Northeast Weekend. 11 tunes tonight that weren't played last night!!!! Can't ask for more than that. A whole weekend without Spiders and Late Greats was a welcome change!!! Being There finale was stellar & the overall sound up close was ridiculous.

 

1st time I'd seen Pick Up The Change and Hotel Arizona live :wub and they were back to back....Whadda weekend :thumbup

Link to post
Share on other sites

The show was incredible!!! I sat right in front of Jeff...*sigh* We had a few bits of conversation here & there so that was cool, too!

 

I was really psyched about all the old stuff they pulled out for us!!! My friend who knows of them but is not a huge fan was quite impressed with them tonight and said she has a new-found respect for them. She was completely mesmerized by Nels!!!

 

I agree the crowd on the floor was sort of mellow at times but it's hard in a small seated venue. I was up front but tried to be respectful as much as possible of others behind me. If it was JUST up to ME, I would've been standing, dancing and shaking the WHOLE time!!!

 

And yes, the set list I grabbed said they were closing w/ Casino Queen but for whatever reason they changed their minds. Other than that, they did stick to it.

 

We hung out a bit at the end and got to meet John, Nels and Glenn!!! :D Jeff had skipped on by early, so we missed him :hmm

 

I saw Walken and finally got to meet raspberryjam :wave

Link to post
Share on other sites

i love the sets that are getting played! airline -> theologians sounds like a terrific pairing. :dancing

 

i got a call tonight during "always in love." man oh man, it was good to be there, if only over the phone. :love

Link to post
Share on other sites

What a great setlist! Always in Love :wub

 

Too bad they all have other lives--I'd love it if they'd just keep touring and touring and touring and touring...

Link to post
Share on other sites

I agree a bit about the low energy but that was only for about the first 4 or 5 songs. I really thought things picked up from there. I think it may have had somethig to do with a seated venue.

 

First Wilco show and let me say that Glenn and Nels are monsters. Both played stunningly. I was in the mezz as well (third row) and was amazed how close we were.

 

We went to Bar before the show and had a really good white clam pie. At one point I looked a few booths over and swear that I saw Nels sitting there with some folks. We left at 8:05 and he was still there, We walked to the show, sat down and then Nels came out to play a song with John Doe's band. So...I don't think it was him at the restaurant but someone who looked exactly like him (except with big black glasses.) It was weird.

 

Song of the night was "Misunderstood."

Link to post
Share on other sites

Great time. It was my first seated venue and it was pretty much what I expected. Good setlist for the room. It sounded great, and Jeff commented on that halfway through. The crowd was a little mellow at the beginning, lots of sitting down, standing up, sitting down, etc. It didn't seem to matter so much with the band, professionals all the way through. They rocked at the end. I would love to get a recording.

 

VERY NICE crowd where I was.

 

Happy to meet YOU, WW!

 

I went ahead and bought the poster, so nice.

 

Pat being MIA was hilarious. I video'd the whole thing.

 

Between the line for swag and using the bathroom, we caught Jeff getting on the bus, just in time to get a photo of his back.

 

All in all, it was awesome! Best band touring, imo.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Very envious of my peers on the East Coast. Amazing setlists - I'd love to hear the likes of "Mountainbed", "I'm Always on Love" and "Hotel Arizona". It sounds like the band will only play a few festivals after the Australian tour. Fingers crossed that they might play "Sasquatch" in May in Eastern Washington or "Bumbershoot" in Seattle in September.

Link to post
Share on other sites
Isn't this the third night in a row that's happened? Do you think they're purposely listing more songs than they can play, and then picking/choosing from those? Or do they need someone who's good at math to step in and take charge? (Uyen?)

 

I think they're probably optimistic that they can get to everything, then the clock starts ticking and adjustments have to be made. (I don't know for sure, but I think it gets fairly expensive when a band goes too far over curfew, so that has to be adhered to pretty closely.)

 

BTW, remember when they used to have those setlists that had what I dubbed "the bonus box" on them? Basically a list of songs at the side that they could choose to substitute in or not depending on time/the crowd/etc. I guess they don't need that now since, technically, they know everything in the catalog. :ninja

Link to post
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...