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Wolfgang's Vault just added a 1999 show of Wilco's into their concert vault (Calaveras County Fairgrounds 5/29/1999). It has a strong setlist from the Summerteeth era. It should be some good listening.

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What song is Santana?

 

Jeff Tweedy - vocals, guitars

John Stirratt - bass

Ken Coomer - percussion

Jay Bennett - guitar, piano, backing vocals

 

Captured only two months after their breakthrough 1999 LP Summerteeth was released, this live Wilco concert catches the alt-country heroes at a wonderful time in their career. This exhaustive, 24-song set will especially delight fans of Summerteeth and their 1996 album Being There, as the group draws generously from both discs.

 

Performing in the picturesque Angel's Camp nestled away in Northern California's Gold Country, a laidback Jeff Tweedy leads the band through an energetic, upbeat show. On the two-and-a-half minute opening number, "Forget The Flowers," the group shows off their country-rock roots before slowing it down with a powerful version of the Rabbit Brown-penned, American folk classic "James Alley Blues."

 

Never ones to shy away from a cover song, the group takes on tunes from a diverse array of musicians, such as Santana, the Grateful Dead, and Woody Guthrie. The group also performs "New Madrid," a cut from Tweedy's earlier group, Uncle Tupelo, which is a real treat. The show also serves as another testament to late multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett. Ten years, almost to the date (Bennett passed on May 25, 2009), before the Illinois-native passed away, he sounds great, adding guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals to the Wilco's sound. Sadly, Bennett's run with the group would only last or two more years, but this performance shows the special contribution he made to the group during his seven-year run.

 

Wilco was formed in 1994 after the break-up of frontman Jeff Tweedy's highly influential alt-country band Uncle Tupelo. After the split, Tweedy was able to retain the services of all the group's members, except vocalist Jay Farrar, who went on to for the excellent Son Volt. The group released their first album, A.M. in 1995, and, though while it wasn't a huge seller, it opened the door for the group to release their stellar 1996 follow-up, Being There.

 

From there, Wilco cemented their status as one of the great American bands of the era, scoring big with 1999's Summerteeth and 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot—which was viewed by many publications as one of the best albums of the decade. Though their next three albums sold well and were mostly well-received, they could never quite match the splendor of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

 

The band has also faced myriad line-up changes during their 15-plus year career, with only Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt lasting the group's duration. The group also crafted two albums with English folk singer-songwriter Billy Bragg. Though Wilco has evolved considerably since their inception, they continue to write, record, tour, and remain an extremely popular act.

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Cool.

 

Thing is I thought I have just about every show that has been out there on my hard drive...guess what? I dont have this show.

 

I wonder if it will get FLACED and put on Dime?

 

I don't think so. It would be a transcode. And I think most reputable BT sites would know better than to allow shows from there to be put up. This also has to do with the fact that Wolfgang's Vault now sells hundreds of shows.

 

I am guessing they were given permission to stream the show by Wilco, but not sell the tracks in Mp3 or FLAC form.

 

I just looked at Dime A Dozen's banned list. I did not see Wolfgang's vault mentioned on there. That surprises me.

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no, but I can. Is it free to d/l?

 

You may not want to mess with it - due to the fact that it takes some configuring to work with your disc drive. Or, at least it use to take some configuring. I don't know if it does now or not, as I have not bothered to grab a new version.

 

It's no big deal. The show will appear somewhere at some point.

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Wolfgang's Vault just added a 1999 show of Wilco's into their concert vault (Calaveras County Fairgrounds 5/29/1999). It has a strong setlist from the Summerteeth era. It should be some good listening.

 

excellent. thank you.

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What song is Santana?

 

Jeff Tweedy - vocals, guitars

John Stirratt - bass

Ken Coomer - percussion

Jay Bennett - guitar, piano, backing vocals

 

Captured only two months after their breakthrough 1999 LP Summerteeth was released, this live Wilco concert catches the alt-country heroes at a wonderful time in their career. This exhaustive, 24-song set will especially delight fans of Summerteeth and their 1996 album Being There, as the group draws generously from both discs.

 

Performing in the picturesque Angel's Camp nestled away in Northern California's Gold Country, a laidback Jeff Tweedy leads the band through an energetic, upbeat show. On the two-and-a-half minute opening number, "Forget The Flowers," the group shows off their country-rock roots before slowing it down with a powerful version of the Rabbit Brown-penned, American folk classic "James Alley Blues."

 

Never ones to shy away from a cover song, the group takes on tunes from a diverse array of musicians, such as Santana, the Grateful Dead, and Woody Guthrie. The group also performs "New Madrid," a cut from Tweedy's earlier group, Uncle Tupelo, which is a real treat. The show also serves as another testament to late multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett. Ten years, almost to the date (Bennett passed on May 25, 2009), before the Illinois-native passed away, he sounds great, adding guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals to the Wilco's sound. Sadly, Bennett's run with the group would only last or two more years, but this performance shows the special contribution he made to the group during his seven-year run.

 

Wilco was formed in 1994 after the break-up of frontman Jeff Tweedy's highly influential alt-country band Uncle Tupelo. After the split, Tweedy was able to retain the services of all the group's members, except vocalist Jay Farrar, who went on to for the excellent Son Volt. The group released their first album, A.M. in 1995, and, though while it wasn't a huge seller, it opened the door for the group to release their stellar 1996 follow-up, Being There.

 

From there, Wilco cemented their status as one of the great American bands of the era, scoring big with 1999's Summerteeth and 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot—which was viewed by many publications as one of the best albums of the decade. Though their next three albums sold well and were mostly well-received, they could never quite match the splendor of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

 

The band has also faced myriad line-up changes during their 15-plus year career, with only Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt lasting the group's duration. The group also crafted two albums with English folk singer-songwriter Billy Bragg. Though Wilco has evolved considerably since their inception, they continue to write, record, tour, and remain an extremely popular act.

 

It appears in the middle of the "Casino Queen" breakdown they toss in some of "Black Magic Woman."

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The email I got this morning from Wolfgang's Vault is for the Laguna Seca 5-25-96 show, which I am listening to right now. The Vault has no concert summary for this show.

 

Wolfgang's Vault just added a 1999 show of Wilco's into their concert vault (Calaveras County Fairgrounds 5/29/1999). It has a strong setlist from the Summerteeth era. It should be some good listening.

Isn't there video of this show? I recall seeing Lesh do Box of Rain with them.

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The email I got this morning from Wolfgang's Vault is for the Laguna Seca 5-25-96 show, which I am listening to right now. The Vault has no concert summary for this show.

 

 

Isn't there video of this show? I recall seeing Lesh do Box of Rain with them.

 

Concert Summary

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Jeff Tweedy - vocals

Jay Bennett - guitar, keyboards, vocals

John Stirrat - bass, vocals

Ken Coomer - drums

Max Johnston - guitar, banjo, dobro, fiddle, mandolin, vocals

Before Jeff Tweedy published poetry, and before experiments like Yankeee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco was still just a Chicago rock & roll band on the brink when they played this show at the Laguna Seca Days festival in 1996. Forming in 1994 out of the shards of Uncle Tupelo, at the time of this show, the band (who then consisted of Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett, John Stirratt, Ken Coomer and Max Johnston), had released its 1995 debut album A.M. but had not yet finished its 1996 breakthrough, Being There.

Noting that it was their second show of 1996 (even though it was already nearly six months into the year), frontman Tweedy joked, "We were supposed to practice and didn't." Facts were, Wilco had been playing in the studio, holed up for the winter recording Being There while Tweedy was at home and off the road, adjusting to life as a new father, which he also explained to the crowd.

Opening with the unrushed groove of "Kingpin" and running down about 15 songs, the band immediately slip into their comfortable rock & roll shoes for "I Must Be High," the opening song from A.M. They move into the companion pieces from Being There, "Red-Eyed and Blue," and "I Got You (At the End of the Century)", foreshadowing the songs' order on the record while revealing in fact the two were a pair, long before they were ever released.

"Shouldn't Be Ashamed" dabbles in ramshackle rock, while "Hotel Arizona" from the forthcoming Being There features Jay Bennett on keyboards. "Sunken Treasure" is more downbeat and "(Was I) In Your Dreams" provides a little time to cool down, though they fire things up again for "Someday Soon." There are times when the band rambles, trucks and rocks much like the good old Grateful Dead did in its folk-rock heyday, and like the Dead, you can sense that the players are having fun. By time they get to their anthemic road tune "Monday," "about a bad trip to Florida" says Tweedy, and the riff-rockin' "Outtasite (Outta Mind)," they sound to be having a grand old time, and yet the audience is politely subdued.

"I feel like I'm playing at Pebble Beach," says Tweedy, noting the "smattering" of applause," following "The Lonely 1." "Nice putt, Jeff," he says. And still, not much reaction from the crowd.

"Passenger Side" one of their wild "odes to the road" fails to ignite the crowd. They follow with "Casino Queen," another from that early period, when they were transitioning from the more country-orientated styles of Uncle Tupelo to the more rockin' Wilco (though "We've Been Had," originally recorded for Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne album, is one that survived the band's make-over). Closing out the show, they leave with the fever and fervor of "Dreamer In My Dreams."

Wilco was still very much a straight-up Americana band--all wailing guitar leads, riffs and tight harmonies--trying to find its way at this point, but anyone in love with 'Wilco-now' would surely be interested in checking this slice of 'Wilco-then': soon enough they'd turn down the twang and turn up the more expansive and experimental stuff. Things would get a lot more complicated for Wilco as the years wore on; the projects became more intense and ambitious, the members would fail to see eye to eye, and ultimately they moved apart. And yet on this night, they're young, they're wild and they're loose, like a group of friends enjoying the laidback and lazy atmosphere on the cusp of summer during the Laguna Seca Days.

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