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Wilco — 7/24/12, Brooklyn, NY (Prospect Park Bandshell)


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Well, Brooklyn celebrated (and was celebrated)... :thumbup

 

By my count, the band came on at 8:16 and finished a couple minutes past curfew at 10:33. A relatively quiet opening third of the show eventually developed into a fun, loose and rockin' second half.

 

The complete setlist, as played, for Night 2 at Prospect Park (a *much* lovelier night weather-wise, btw, than Night 1):

 

I Might

Misunderstood

Side With The Seeds

Pot Kettle Black

Hummingbird

Black Moon

Spiders (Kidsmoke) (acoustic arrangement)

Impossible Germany

Born Alone>

Wishful Thinking

Laminated Cat (aka Not For The Season) (electric arrangement)

Say You Miss Me

I Must Be High

Whole Love

Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)

Radio Cure

Art Of Almost

Dawned On Me

A Shot in the Arm

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Via Chicago

Airline To Heaven

Walken

I'm The Man Who Loves You

Monday>

Outtasite (Outta Mind)

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Kingpin ("livin' in Brooklyn")

Hoodoo Voodoo (w/ bass/guitar/keyboard tech Josh on cowbell)

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Livin in Brooklyn! Kingpin was fantastic! Say You Miss Me was also a great treat. Those two were easily the highlights of this show. Nice to see a show where they left out most of the "hits" (IATTBYH, Jesus, Handshake Drugs, Heavy Metal Drummer), and still no W(TA) is fine by me. Jeff noted that it still smelled like bacon. Also of note, both nights, there were people running back and forth in the photographer area b/w the stage and the crowd, bringing food to the VIP area on stage left, and Jeff noted that it "was like the Ho Chi Min trail... man i'm hungry". He looked like he was having a really fun time tonight, letting the audience sing parts of lots of songs, including outtasite and hummingbird.

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Show was Amazeballs! ha ha :twitchsmile

 

been waiting forever to hear Say You Miss Me and Wishful Thinking live (Now I heard everything live off Both being There and Ghost! Huzzah)! Never thought I would hear them both in 1 show! I think maybe the read my post in the last brooklyn thread as no Im trying, Jesus and Heavy Metal :stunned Show was great! Thanks as always Wilco!

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In case anybody cares, here was the Lee Ranaldo Band setlist from last night (I'm really digging their set the more I see it and get to know the songs):

 

Waiting On A Dream

Angles

Off The Wall

Xtina As I Knew Her (w/Nels Cline on electric guitar)

Tomorrow Never Comes (w/Nels Cline on electric guitar)

Shouts (w/Nels Cline on lap steel)

Hammer Blows (w/Nels Cline on electric guitar)

Thank You For Sending Me An Angel [Talking Heads] (w/Nels Cline on electric guitar)>

Fire Island (Phases) (w/Nels Cline on electric guitar)

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In case anybody cares, here was the Lee Ranaldo Band setlist from last night (I'm really digging their set the more I see it and get to know the songs):

 

Waiting On A Dream

Angles

Off The Wall

Xtina As I Knew Her (w/Nels Cline on electric guitar)

Tomorrow Never Comes (w/Nels Cline on electric guitar)

Shouts (w/Nels Cline on lap steel)

Hammer Blows (w/Nels Cline on electric guitar)

Thank You For Sending Me An Angel [Talking Heads] (w/Nels Cline on electric guitar)>

Fire Island (Phases) (w/Nels Cline on electric guitar)

Is Nels playing with him on a regular basis on this tour?

I dug/dig Sonic Youth, but...for example, I'm a much, much bigger fan of Yo La Tengo...I'm glad to see Lee Renaldo, but seeing him open for 4-5 shows after NYC led me to take it easy yesterday & take the person I'm staying with in NYC out to dinner...it was still humid (though not as hot & oppressive at the day before for the opener- most of which I caught), so we just got there late & listened in the background & strolled about in the shade...

She's a huge Nels fan & was a little bummed when I told her about this this morning...not too bummed though, as she was originally only going the first two nights (her first live Wilco gigs), but was so blown away that she got a tickets for night #3 last night.

I'm good catching him a few times on this tour, but...if Nels is sitting in on a regular basis, then I'd try to catch all of his opening sets for those 4-5 (& let's be honest, it almost certainly going to be 5) remaining shows for me.

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A few other nerdy show notes that I remembered after shaking out the cobwebs this morning:

 

*During the intro to Monday, Nels put a couple of "Ban Fracking Now" stickers on himself (and later one on his guitar). Obviously it's a cause that he feels strongly about — along with his wife and a lot of their friends — so that was cool to see.

*Jeff broke a string on Laminated Cat from, er, vigorous strumming. He used to break strings all the time, but I can't remember the last time he did it.

*As I think I noted a few days ago, it seems like they've very subtly rearranged Arline To Heaven a bit so that Nels is playing electric guitar throughout and no lap steel. I might be in the minority (or just among the few who noticed) but I sort of miss that twangy touch that the lap steel adds to the song. We'll see how long this particular arrangement lasts.

*I didn't get a look at a printed setlist, but they definitely audibled out of something at the start of the second encore. I think it might have been A Magazine Called Sunset based on the combination of guitars they originally had out. I heard that the encores were at least somewhat different than what was on the printed list (for example, I heard Dreamer In My Dreams was on there), but perhaps someone who got a setlist can chime in on that.

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Guitar Notes: I noticed Jeff was playing a (seemingly) really small Rickenbacker with 3 pickups for I Must Be High that i had never seen him play before (might have been a ric 370). He seems to be liking those, Jeff's using rickenbackers for more and more songs recently. Nels also was using a Gibson Firebird for a few songs, which I had never seen him use before.

 

And for the second encore, it looks like they had Nels 12 string and Jeff's acoustic set up before switching them out for the guitars they used for Kingpin. As Jeff said "We're only playing this one 'cas it rhymes". Definitely seemed like an audible.

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In case anybody cares, here was the Lee Ranaldo Band setlist from last night (I'm really digging their set the more I see it and get to know the songs):

I really enjoyed the Lee Randaldo Band, too. They reminded me a lot of REM circa Fables of the Reconstruction - especially Lee's voice. The songs had a lot of darkness and melancholia mixed in with the rock. I went as far as buying the CD and it's holding up okay. Bonus that it reminds me of Wilco in all last week's glory.

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It's not a Firebird. It's his Bilt Norton Wisdom guitar...

 

Nah, it was different from the Norton Wisdom guitar. Brown Firebird (non-reverse maybe?), you can sort of see it in this cell phone video somebody posted of I Must Be High, it's on youtube, just search must be high prospect park

 

EDIT: Looks like it could be the same model as this one: http://www.guitarcenter.com/In-Store-Used-USED-2006-GIBSON-CST-SHOP-NON-REVERSE-FIREBIRD-VINTAGE-SUNBURST-WC-107966886-i2627231.gc?&source=4WWRWXGP&cagpspn=pla&=

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I couldn't be more blown away! That trio of NYC shows is something that I hope will be a precedent. Like the five they did last December in Chicago. I hope these are half as much fun for them as they are for the die-hard faithful, & I hope it continues...words fail, so I'll let the list of songs they performed do the talking...I count 63 different songs (with some performed more than once, but not that many)...let me know if I missed any, miscounted or otherwise messed up & I'll jump in & edit & correct it... but otherwise, here, appears to be that list...

 

"I could spend three nights, and sixty-three songs, on a Riot 'O Rock 'n' Roll yeah, of ultimate Wilco-ness!"

 

 

List Of Songs All The 63 (I think) Different Songs Played at NYC Gigs:

Dawned On Me

War On War

I Might

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

Muzzle of Bees

Born Alone

You Are My Face

Impossible Germany

Sunken Treasure

I’m Always In Love

Jesus, Etc.

Handshake Drugs

Whole Love

Box Full Of Letters

Hate It Here

Heavy Metal Drummer

I’m the Man Who Loves You

A Shot in the Arm

Poor Places

Art Of Almost

Standing O

California Stars

The Late Greats

Red-Eyed and Blue

I Got You

Outta Mind (Outta Sight)

I’m A Wheel

Misunderstood

Side With The Seeds

Pot Kettle Black

Hummingbird

Black Moon

Spiders (Kidsmoke) (acoustic arrangement)

Wishful Thinking

Laminated Cat (aka Not For The Season) (electric arrangement)

Say You Miss Me

I Must Be High

Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)

Radio Cure

Via Chicago

Airline To Heaven

Walken

Monday

Kingpin ("livin' in Brooklyn")

Hoodoo Voodoo (w/ bass/guitar/keyboard tech Josh on cowbell)

One Sunday Morning

At Least That's What You Said

She's A Jar

Kamera

Can't Stand It

Too Far Apart

What's The World Got In Store

Capitol City

Summer Teeth

Theologians

Passenger Side

Casino Queen

Candyfloss

Hesitating Beauty

A Magazine Called Sunset

Kicking Television

Dreamer In My Dreams

The Lonely 1

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There was definitely an audible in the encores section. They went directly according to the script until the first encore break. After that, the printed setlist had:

___________________

Via

Airline

Magazine

Walken

Man

___________________

Passenger

Kingpin

Dreamer

 

I loved seeing the Hoodoo Voodoo finish, so the tradeoff was worth it for me.

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Guitar Notes: I noticed Jeff was playing a (seemingly) really small Rickenbacker with 3 pickups for I Must Be High that i had never seen him play before (might have been a ric 370). He seems to be liking those, Jeff's using rickenbackers for more and more songs recently. Nels also was using a Gibson Firebird for a few songs, which I had never seen him use before.

 

And for the second encore, it looks like they had Nels 12 string and Jeff's acoustic set up before switching them out for the guitars they used for Kingpin. As Jeff said "We're only playing this one 'cas it rhymes". Definitely seemed like an audible.

I'm almost certain that it was a Fireglo (cherry sunburst in Rickenbackerese) Rickenbacker 350 (the full length version of the old stalwart Rickenbacker 325 made famous by John Lennon), & it had f-hole cutout, rather than a cat's eye one (the f-hole cut-outs usually came on British versions- at least way back when & I much prefer the cat's eye cut outs myself) & it was a 3 pick-up version (which is why I'm betting you were betting on a 370)

I remember taking notice myself...seeing Wilco borders on guitar porn...tons of guitar changes, but if any band deserved to do that, it's them...and it makes it more fun, both visually & sonically...don't think I saw this guitar at any other time on this tour, except this night, on this song...

This thread has some similar pics...

http://www.rickresource.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=192202&start=210

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