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Wilco — 1/28/12, San Jose, CA (San Jose Civic Auditorium)


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As the band made its return to the Bay Area, it was one of those nights when it wasn't necessarily what they played but how they played it. The mood, both on stage and in the crowd, seemed very good all night, and the band played well IMHO. Jeff admitted he was pleasantly surprised by how into it the crowd was, which he apparently wasn't expecting based on the number of wine-related Wilco tweets he saw before the show. Haha!

 

Anyway, it seemed like the Civic Auditorium had a pretty tight 11 p.m. curfew. That resulted in a considerable shortening of the planned encore on the printed setlist (which had Via Chicago, Whole Love, You Never Know, Walken, I'm The Man Who Loves You and I'm A Wheel).

 

One final noteworthy item was that apparently Jane Smiley's boyfriend (and Smiley herself) were in attendance. Jeff mentioned them as the band left the stage.

 

Here was the complete setlist, as played:

 

One Sunday Morning>

Art Of Almost

I Might

Bull Black Nova

Side With The Seeds

California Stars

Red-Eyed and Blue>

I Got You (At The End of the Century)

Born Alone

(Was I) In Your Dreams

You Are My Face

Impossible Germany

Box Full Of Letters

I'm Always In Love

Jesus, etc.

Capitol City

Handshake Drugs

War On War

Dawned On Me

A Shot in the Arm

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Whole Love

Walken

I'm A Wheel

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This is the best band going. They were totally on last night. Set list was in some ways very expectable. I can do without Jesus and Handshake and Shot...but it doesn't matter, because they have such an amazing grove that whatever they do is really good and often great.

 

Plus, Jeff was having a great time and really got into the crowd. Lots of young people, everyone paying attention and signing along. I could swear they played "I must be high." Obviously, it was just me.

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