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Wilco -- 8/4/12, Columbus, OH (Lifestyle Communities Pavilion)


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I'll let someone else elaborate more on all of the great (and, er, not so great) banter toward the end of the show following what shall go down in Wilco lore as "The Great Moth Incident."

 

But suffice it to say that the band seems ready for a little break before their next jaunt, delivering a loose, fun performance to cap off this leg.

 

Also of note, Jeff sat in with Lee Ranaldo's band for a cool rendition of Neil Young's "Walk On" to close out their opening set. A nice way to finish their two weeks or so of opening for Wilco. Glenn also sat in with Lee's band on a song for the second night in a row.

 

Anyway, here was the complete setlist as played (looks like they simply ran out of time for one last song, as Outtasite was on the printed list to close the show but wasn't played; the venue apparently had a pretty tight 11 p.m. curfew):

 

Art Of Almost

I Might

War On War

Sunken Treasure (electric arrangement; no harmonica)

Hell Is Chrome

Handshake Drugs>

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Kamera

Impossible Germany

Born Alone

Say You Miss Me (dedicated to Michael Brown)

Whole Love

ELT

Via Chicago

Hate It Here

Box Full Of Letters

I'm Always In Love

Dawned On Me

A Shot In the Arm

Hummingbird (started and restarted)

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Passenger Side

Airline To Heaven

Kingpin ("livin' in...Lifestyle Communities Pavilion")

Standing O

Heavy Metal Drummer>

I'm The Man Who Loves You

Casino Queen

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This show was filmed/recorded. While in line before the gates opened, I asked the leader of the camera crew what/who they were filming this for, but he just glared at me and didn't answer. Oh, well... My guess: Promowest (the venue owners) often film concerts in their venues and broadcast snippets locally on Saturday nights after SNL (a week or two after the concerts occur) and on the web. I'll keep my eyes peeled and post links or info if/when I have any.

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Good show and a good time. Although, probably my least favorite of the 3 I saw from the tour. Still had a great time and heard "Say you miss me" for the first time live, (which has been a running joke for my wife and me for about 10 yrs.)...Thanks Wilco!

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I'll let someone else elaborate more on all of the great (and, er, not so great) banter toward the end of the show following what shall go down in Wilco lore as "The Great Moth Incident."

 

But suffice it to say that the band seems ready for a little break before their next jaunt, delivering a loose, fun performance to cap off this leg.

 

Also of note, Jeff sat in with Lee Ranaldo's band for a cool rendition of Neil Young's "Walk On" to close out their opening set. A nice way to finish their two weeks or so of opening for Wilco. Glenn also sat in with Lee's band on a song for the second night in a row.

 

Well, since no one else seems to be jumping in to fill in the blanks, would you kindly do us the honors, bbop? Great Moth Incident? Good/bad/ugly banter? Since we can't all get out to see all the shows, it's those colorful little details that make me happy!

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Wasn't thrilled. I've seen Wilco play live three times before this and this performance was lacking. I felt like Jeff didn't connect with the crowd at all. I'm not from Columbus, but I found the crowd to be really annoying.

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I can help with some of the banter:

At the start of Hummingbird, Mikael stopped playing because a bug flew down his shirt. Jeff ribbed him for a little while, then mentioned he had a spider on his microphone a few days ago. After the song (perhaps a little later), Mikael started handing Jeff parts of the bug, which led to Jeff saying it was just a tiny moth--no reason to stop the show! Later, during Kingpin, when Jeff asked the crowd to scream, he said "scream like you just had a moth fly down your shirt; scream like a girlyman!" It looks more mean-spirited typed than it seemed on stage--it was pretty harmless...everyone was laughing and Mikael hammed it up.

 

Jeff also took plenty of opportunities to make fun of the clunky name of the venue (The Lifestyle Communities Pavilion): "Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?" The other band members cracked up when he crammed the name in really fast to try to rhyme it with Kingpin.

 

Somewhere during the set (maybe right after the moth thing--it's a bit of a blur), he told a story about finding human crap in a revolving door...

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he told a story about finding human crap in a revolving door...

 

yes, after the month incedent and before Hummingbird was restarted, Jeff told us a story about him retrieving something from the bus while staying in Rochester NY the other night. When he went to the hotel lobby there was a human turd circling in the revolving door which led to smearing. After he told us this, he turned to Glen as if he did it and announced to us that it was Glen's.

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This may be the end of the hanging ghost towels that we have all become accustomed to the last year. Michael Brown had his last show with us for awhile, and reading John’s tweet, he is going back to his gig in Grizzly Bear. Jeff said he requested Say You Miss Me and mentioned this was egotistical of him to think :lol Later he refered to him as sweet, when he wants to be.

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Best show of the three that I have seen this summer, Geneva and Louisville. The Geneva show was one I didn't think could be beat but I had a great time at the LC. I even had some asshole in front of me that wanted to hold his camera above his head and record most of the show and I still had a great time. They played a good mix of songs and I felt that they had a good time on stage. The crowd maybe didn't pick up on a lot of the sing alongs like they did in Chicago but I don't think that dampened the mood any. As hot as it was we were all pretty damp.Alot of the people I talked to was attending their first Wilco show anyway. Only my fourth show and I felt like a seasoned vet although I know I am only getting started. How many I can get to next year? As many as I can.

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I was about one person back from the stage in front of John and Pat, and the energy from the band and crowd seemed pretty good from there. The band looked overheated like the rest of us, but they were all smiling and clowning around, and everyone in the crowd that I could see looked like they were having a good time. There were a few jerks who barged up front for the last half hour of the show (one sweaty couple came through and annoyed almost everyone, knocking into people, spilling their drinks, slapping strangers' backs in time with the music and doing that pointing at the band on the beat thing) but I still had some amazing moments: A Shot in the Arm with everyone around me singing along gave me chills, Sunken Treasure was very cool, Glen at the beginning of I'm the Man Who Love you cracked me up, and they played the two songs that got me interested in Wilco in the first place, Kamera and I'm Always in Love, my two requests. Even better than the last two shows I attended (Indiannapolis & Detroit), I didn't have to drive three or more hours to get home afterwards! I have no complaints about the show!

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The venue is relatively near some recently built high-priced condos and apartment buildings, so I imagine it's probably a noise thing. My view on all these curfews near concert venues: if you don't wanna hear noise from concerts at night, don't buy a condo near an outdoor concert hall/shed!! I'm sure there are venues that were built after the condos went up, but that is definitely not the case in Columbus. The LC (or the Promowest Pavilion, as it used to be known) has been there since there was nothing around except some train tracks and some bars and restaurants.

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This may be the end of the hanging ghost towels that we have all become accustomed to the last year. Michael Brown had his last show with us for awhile, and reading John’s tweet, he is going back to his gig in Grizzly Bear.

 

I really loved the hanging ghosts! I'm ready to see them go in lieu of something different, but they were great. First enjoyed them at Solid Sound (can't remember --was it the first or second year?) and at the summer shows this year. Cool with the lights on them and the different videos running across them (although mostly I was too close to get the full effect of that). Wonder what they'll come up with for next time around?

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We had a great time, except for the heat and the two zuds next to us who left for more beer halfway through and never came back, thank god. The band was amazingly energetic.

 

Best non-turd banter: Jeff announced that the venue smelled like root beer, then recalled that Brooklyn smelled like bacon. "Like a Morrissey anxiety dream", he explained.

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Why was there a curfew at the show?

This seems to be the case with outdoor shows...be it 10:00 or 11:00, there usually seems to be a curfew about how long the music can go.

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Gotcha. Thanks. I think I prefer Wilco indoors.

Me too! For me...better sound= better show. I do have to say that outdoor shows are fun, & that Wilco has the best sound mix/sound system that I've ever heard for dealing with the outdoors...but I'd take indoors over outdoors in a second...

Also...I would say that this show had the best sound of all the outdoors shows that I saw this tour...

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