hinko Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 All I can say is damn, that was a show! I don't have the set list, im not that organized! I'm sure Paul will have that posted soon (thanks for that). Awesome show, great song requests and it had a great flow. Night 1 was good, I've never seen a bad solo or Wilco show. I know Jeff thought it wasn't his best but as always the show was special. I heard some haters on the way out criticising last night's show. I don't think they get Jeff and these shows. Anyway, Jeff if you read this, you did your best and you're a man with great talent! And regarding the hater you mentioned tonight... You did look like you wanted to be there last night! You're the best. BTW, it was great seeing some of you nice people again and meeting others! Steve Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Be-Ah Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 It really was a great show. Can't remember the last time I smiled so much. Cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Landog Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 I went to last night's show and loved it so much that I snatched a ticket off of craigslist to come see him again tonight. While both shows were really really great (I'd never been to a solo tweedy show before), I honestly think that I preferred the first night. Sure it was rough at times (at quite a lot of times I guess) but I dunno, it had a more intimate quality to it- more banter, more stuff happening on the fly, etc. It also lasted a good 30 minutes longer than tonight's. And he played Pot Kettle Black, which was what I would've requested had I been able to. I thought the cover of 'I'm Only Sleeping' was lovely. Tonight was wonderful too though, songs definitely sounded more rehearsed. I can't remember the whole setlist off the top of my head but I'll give it a shot...this'll be very out of order: Via Chicago, Hummingbird, Poor Places, Hotel Arizona, Art of Almost, Somewhere Soon, The Late Greats, Airline to Heaven, Sky Blue Sky, I'm The Man Who Loves You, Monday, Passenger Side, Can't Stand It, She's a Jar, One By One, Casino Queen, Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down, Acuff-Rose...and I guess 12 more that I've already forgotten. I'm new here, I'm sure you have someone that can do a better job than me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bböp Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 All I can say is damn, that was a show! I don't have the set list, im not that organized! I'm sure Paul will have that posted soon (thanks for that). Awesome show, great song requests and it had a great flow. Here you go...this was the complete setlist, as played, for Night 2 of this year's scholarship benefit gigs (and I agree, tonight was a great evening): Via ChicagoHummingbirdPoor PlacesPlease Tell My BrotherI Wanna Be Your Dog [The Stooges]She's A JarHenry and the H-Bombs [Mott The Hoople]Art of AlmostOne By OneSky Blue SkySatan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down ("...for the new pope")Nothing Up My SleeveListening To The Wind That BlowsWhen The Roses Bloom AgainBlasting FondaHotel ArizonaCountry DisappearedCan't Stand ItSomeday Soon (started and restarted three times)We've Been HadPassenger SideMondayGunThe Late GreatsAirline To HeavenI'm The Man Who Loves You (dedicated to Susan Miller Tweedy)---------------------------------The Community Song (sung four times)Casino Queen ("LouFest" arrangement)Acuff-Rose (performed at edge of stage without PA system) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hinko Posted March 15, 2013 Author Share Posted March 15, 2013 Thanks for posting the setlist! I really enjoyed that rendition of Casino Queen, very cool. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bleeinternets Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 I'm never ever disappointed with the Jeff solo shows, and tonight was great again (my fourth straight year making at least one night; didn't make it Wednesday though) Gotta say, I'm a little disappointed nobody in line picked Pecan Pie in honor of Pi Day (or Pieholden Suite [thanks Paul]) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bleeinternets Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 But really though, so many highlights tonight! Even though there was something I wanted to hear (side note: If I really wanted to year it I should have gotten there earlier) but it would be hard to sub one of the other songs out. Very strong top to bottom. Jeff also took the time to mention some of the covers that people asked him to play, but I missed a lot of those. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Whenever I hear this song like this, or that French video a while back, I love it, but somehow I can't listen to the version on the album ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
H.Stone Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 These are always some of my favorite shows of the year, and last night was no different. With the intimacy of the venue and paying for tickets for two of us, we often opt for GA tickets vs. Golden Circle. However, i think next year the extra $75 per ticket will be worth it so I don't have to experience the show behind 25+ glowing rectangles. And as if the glow of the screens isn't bad enough, people are also quite comfortable shooting photos and videos with their interrogation-style flashes on full power. Here's a new question for Jeff: Do you think one audience could agree to put their electronic devices away for an entire show and survive? This a noble challenge, people. Let's try it. /endrant I had great time--Jeff was fantastic. Thanks to Susan and everyone else who has a part in organizing these each year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gewee Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Some random observations Great great show last night... guitars were all tuned up and really great playing and singing. Wonderful to hear Blasting Fonda, Please Tell My Brother, and Passenger side. Loved hearing Country Disappeared and Art of Almost acoustically. I love hearing the newer songs done in a raw state. I "get" them better that way, I guess. Agree with you on the flash photography. Was up front and both nights the guy behind me had the flash going as well as the fake camera sound, volume to 11, with each shot. Ugh. Oh, and fun to see Spencer and Sam hawking the T-shirts. The boys have gotten big. And JT is right, He was asked what book he's read recently that he liked. Tenth of December by George Saunders. It's PHENOMENAL. If you are looking for a good new read, check it out. Thanks Jeff and Sue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shoesgetcold3 Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 This was my 11th straight year of attending a Jeff benefit show (from Gary Scheppers to tsunami victims, sue's temple, academic scholarships, etc) and they never get old. One of the highlights is seeing the evolution of songs. For example Jeff used to avoid hummingbird solo before working through it and coming to this beautiful and simplistic version. I also love stripped down versions of some of the more produced songs on record and full band shows. Art of almost and can't stand it immediately come to mind. Sky blue sky and country disappeared are gorgeous solo and the emotion in ITMWLY is as real and earnest as you find from a performer on stage this side of Daniel Johnston. A passenger side sing along is a blast. Two songs I did not know (nothing up my sleeve and listening to the wind that blows) and a personal highlight of I wanna be your dog for the first time since the ann arbor folk fest a few years back. (which ranks as one of my favorite memories of all the solo shows I've attended) But tonight will be remembered my be as the Casino Queen night!!! To say this version blew me away would be an understatement. Wow. It had a Dylan protest song era vibe but also twanged country. (which makes no sense but I still have not totally wrapped my head around its amazingness). The fact that you can come to these shows and be blown away by the minutia is what keeps me coming back year after year. Jeff and sue please keep this up forever even if it is the same people inching slowly closer and scarier to you the more you present yourselves as such real people. It is the accessibility and closeness we feel that make us think about your hair and dying in car crashes while listening to you. Or your son knowing that a 2t is the next size above the onesie which makes us feel like you guys are our friends. It is a real sense of community (beyond knowing the words to a song from an istitutuion that I have nothing to do with outside of these shows) you have created and for that I am eternally greatful. See you next year! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 That's a good point about one of the sad but true benefits of being way up front. I wasn't aware of cellphones and cameras (i did get the gold tickets) so there's no annoying distraction between you and the artist. I agree, though, that we ought to self police better. Maybe Jeff can help us out by starting to call out the offenders like he used to. Maybe he's just thrown in the towel on this issue? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hinko Posted March 15, 2013 Author Share Posted March 15, 2013 people are also quite comfortable shooting photos and videos with their interrogation-style flashes on full power. Here's a new question for Jeff: Do you think one audience could agree to put their electronic devices away for an entire show and survive? This a noble challenge, people. Let's try it. I completely agree! I thought is was terribly poor etiquette to use the flash. Really... you either don't know how to turn it off in which case you have no business using it or you just have no respect others at the show. I was kind of surprised Jeff never said anything. I was in front so it was all behind me. I remember being at a show farther back and all you see is the screens of everyone phones etc. Very annoying. BTW, those crappy little flashes really do no good anyway and besides, you don't shoot concerts with a flash!!! I'm a photographer and would love to shoot a show but unfortunately I don't work for a publication. Tried to get a press pass once with no luck. I've always wanted to shoot shows, maybe I can beg a publication to do some pro bono work and get a press pass one day. Well I digress. I will admit to taking a quick photo or video with my iPhone, but I cover the screen with my hand and rarely do it. Would have been a bit more pleasant with out all the flashing for sure! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pennyghael Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Last night was just so much smoother compared to the first. Maybe down to the songs or just "Geoff" shrugging off his cobwebs. Quite a respectful audience apart from the aforementioned comments re cameras with flash and shutters. My favourite are tapers who set up there equipment in the circle and then proceed to chat, drink ice filled drinks knowing they're sitting near to another taper. Being from the UK, attending shows in the US is a totally (todally?) different experience from an audience point of view. We're just too stiff in the UK, we never get excited about anything. Jeff could announce to a UK audience that tonight's money will donated to whatever charity or cause and he'd be more or less met with a wall of indifference. We can't even join in with Kingpin, so it was nice to be amongst a warm and enthusiastic crowd for the last two nights. Big, big thanks also go out to Sue, Spencer, Stan & Warner for enabling me to get my bag into the venue after security wouldn't allow it. Grateful at first that I could at least place it at the merch stall with Spencer which was far more agreeable than, "leave it the local liquor store," as was suggested by the chief doorman. A final shout for the VCers I met, hung and observed with over the last 2 days. Pennyghael loves ya! (Brit starts to loosen up a little) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Be-Ah Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 And as if the glow of the screens isn't bad enough, people are also quite comfortable shooting photos and videos with their interrogation-style flashes on full power. Here's a new question for Jeff: Do you think one audience could agree to put their electronic devices away for an entire show and survive? This a noble challenge, people. Let's try it. This. 1000x this. It seemed like there was more flash/shutter sounds at last night's show. It's really frustrating and distracting to sit next to someone who hasn't quite figured out how to use their cell phone camera. Let's all just sit back and enjoy and not obsess over posting a picture to Facebook / Twitter / Instagram, etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Preferred B Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 I would assume that for these benefit shows Jeff might let things go re: camera flash and video that he otherwise would not. I certainly don't condone the behavior and it drives me as batty as it does everyone else, but there's the whole "expensive ticket" element, and at least part of the audience for these shows are parents and teachers from the school. I imagine it would be awkward for all concerned to yell at someone and then figure out it's a person you know. I love the benefit shows every year, and Jeff does his best to please everyone he can within the request parameters. This year everyone in the first 30 was asked to give a selection of two songs, but I think as many first choices were played as Jeff could reasonably deliver on. I'm really grateful that he opted for "Nothing Up My Sleeve" over a more familiar second choice last night. (Sorry for going obscure!) For the record, I don't think any verses were left out. I missed some of the usual suspects who couldn't swing travel for mid-week shows, but it was nice to meet some new folks too. (Hello Keeeeron!) I'm not sure what will happen with these shows once the Tweedys' younger son is in high school, but as long as they are going on, I'll make every effort to attend. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
H.Stone Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Maybe Jeff can help us out by starting to call out the offenders like he used to. Maybe he's just thrown in the towel on this issue? That's a great idea except there will never be 100% compliance, so then he's left feeling angry and frustrated because now people are not only taping and photographing, but they're doing it after he expressly asked them not to. I can see how that would be equally distracting--for everyone. A couple of years ago at one of these shows he agreed to play one of the new songs off of the Mavis album (You Are Not Alone). He said, "You have to promise you won't record this, though. I'm trusting you. *pause* I know I can't trust you." He started the song, and the person in front of me immediately started recording on his iPhone and nudged his buddy next to him, pointing out with a snicker that he was taping it anyway. I tapped him and said, "Why are you doing that?" to which he shrugged, turned back around, and went back to his taping. I was irritated by that all night, so I can only imagine the compounded impact something like that could have on Jeff if he had to try to police everyone all night. Probably the most effective method was when venues posted signs of the policy ("If you are taking photos, we will take your phone/camera.") and then security enforced it for the duration of the show. ETA: I guess more than a solution to the problem, I'd like people to be different. Is that too much to ask? We're all swine... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rlrs Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Some one asked Jeff what his request would be and he said Smile by Charlie Chaplin and sang half a verse. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down ("...for the new pope")Nothing Up My SleeveListening To The Wind That BlowsWhen The Roses Bloom AgainBlasting Fonda THAT IS AWESOME! Wish I could have seen this! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rodion Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 I also get annoyed with the flashes and the recording, but at the same time, maybe we should try and take a page out of Jeff's book. Ranting on this site (and I'm guilty of it as well) about people who do that sorta thing is ... well ... I guess it's just to get a load off. They're not reading this, and even if they do they won't change. We all need to sing the Community Song to ourselves a little more, and maybe we'll all be a little less annoyed. On a side note, I had a great time at both shows, from meeting everyone in line, to nearly getting hit by a car as I fetched a box out of the Tweedy's trunk, to passing out during the first night and rebounding for the 2nd, it was nice to be part of a larger group of Jeff Tweedy fans. Can't wait to see some of your again at SSF and then at the benefit shows next year. On another side note, I can't wait to request more Uncle Tupe! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pennyghael Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Hey Perfect B! You missed an e or 2 in name. You's no better than than Geoff Tweedale fella. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
H.Stone Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Don't be such a cranky Brit. Sincerely,Chummy 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hinko Posted March 15, 2013 Author Share Posted March 15, 2013 to nearly getting hit by a car as I fetched a box out of the Tweedy's trunk, to passing out during the first night and rebounding for the 2nd, it was nice to be part of a larger group of Jeff Tweedy fans. Can't wait to see some of your again at SSF and then at the benefit shows next year. Right when I looked over and saw you running across the street I thought for sure you where going air-bound or maybe under the car! At first I was horrified, then I thought well, that might make a memorable show! Just kidding... kinda! A near death experience will certainly cause a guy to drink, sounds like a rough one. I've been pretty well in the bag a few times but never passed out, at least that I can remember. There's a reason why I no longer drink! Glad you're not dead and you did better the second night. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Be-Ah Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 ...from meeting everyone in line, to nearly getting hit by a car as I fetched a box out of the Tweedy's trunk, to passing out during the first night and rebounding for the 2nd, it was nice to be part of a larger group of Jeff Tweedy fans. Can't wait to see some of your again at SSF and then at the benefit shows next year. You were a delight. Have fun at SSF and see you next year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 You were a delight. Have fun at SSF and see you next year.Yes he was and so were you and so were all the rest of the crazy line buddies. All the stars aligned to make this a memorable couple of days! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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